Adverbial causal clauses as relative clauses : on siccome 'because/since' from Old to Contemporary Italian
Sanfelici, Emanuela (Università degli Studi di Padova)
Rodeghiero, Sira (Università degli Studi di Padova)

Data:	2024
Resum:	This paper investigates to what extent adverbial causal clauses and relative clauses can be reduced as one and the same phenomenon. Whereas causal clauses have always posed a challenge for a unified account of relativization and adverbial subordination in theoretical studies, typological research has long demonstrated that causal clauses are diachronically connected to relative clauses as well as to adverbial subordinates that have been theoretically analysed as relative clauses. We argue that at least some causal clauses are underlyingly relative clauses over situations (see Arsenijević 2021). Our claim is supported by the diachronic development of the Italian subordinator siccome 'because/since', an univerbated form morphologically composed of two items, the comparative-similative wh-pronoun come 'how' and the demonstrative adverbial pronoun sì 'so'. We demonstrate that the causal subordinator is derived from the comparative-similative one via a three-stage diachronic change which is formally captured in terms of type of movement and null elements (Kayne 2005, Cinque 2020b). In so doing, our paper extends a relative clause analysis to causal clauses and adds a novel path to the diachronic development of causal clauses.
Drets:	Aquest document està subjecte a una llicència d'ús Creative Commons. Es permet la reproducció total o parcial, la distribució, la comunicació pública de l'obra i la creació d'obres derivades, fins i tot amb finalitats comercials, sempre i quan es reconegui l'autoria de l'obra original.
Llengua:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Matèria:	Relative clauses ; Causal clauses ; Comparative clauses ; Italian ; Diachrony
Publicat a:	Isogloss, Vol. 10 Núm. 3 (2024) , p. 1-34 (Articles) , ISSN 2385-4138

Adreça original: https://revistes.uab.cat/isogloss/article/view/v10-n3-sanfelici-rodeghiero
DOI: 10.5565/rev/isogloss.338

34 p, 744.5 KB

El registre apareix a les col·leccions:
Articles > Articles publicats > Isogloss
Articles > Articles de recerca