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Italian People at Work. Jobs in Lexical Syntax

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Italian is the only major Romance language featuring a clause type exclusively devoted to expressing people's jobs. This type, the Job-'fare'-Construction (JFC), is constructed with a human subject and the verb 'fare' 'do' followed by an obligatorily definite noun. The JFC has thus the appearance of a transitive clause. This paper provides numerous arguments for treating the post-verbal noun as a predicate rather than a direct object and for analysing the JFC as an intransitive in which 'fare' works as a support verb. The JFC has then been compared to a copulative construction that also allows to express people's jobs. It has been shown that the former cannot be considered a doublet of the latter because the two clause-types differ both syntactically and semantically. Within the analysis we suggest, the JFC results from a reduction process alternately operating on two classifying nouns that simultaneously work as noun predicates.
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hal-01064236 , version 1 (15-09-2014)

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Nunzio La Fauci, Ignazio Mirto. Italian People at Work. Jobs in Lexical Syntax. Leclère, Christian and Laporte, Éric and Piot, Mireille and Silberztein, Max. Lexique, Syntaxe et Lexique-Grammaire. Papers in honour of Maurice Gross, Amsterdam/Philadelphia : Benjamins, pp.325--341, 2004, Lingvisticae Investigationes Supplementa, 24, 9789027231345. ⟨10.1075/lis.24.28fau⟩. ⟨hal-01064236⟩

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