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Complex event predications

Fabio Del Prete

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This talk is about a complex verbal construction in Sicilian, known from the previous literature as (Doubly) Inflected Construction (Cardinaletti and Giusti 2001, 2003; Cruschina 2013; Di Caro 2018), exemplified in (1): (1) Vaju a accattu a cicoria. [go-1SG a buy-1SG the chicory] ‘I go buy chicory.’ The construction allows for a restricted class of motion verbs as V1 and an eventive verb as V2, V1 and V2 being inflected for the same person and tense features. It has been told apart from the Hypotactic Construction, exemplified in (2), in which V1 is inflected and V2 occurs in an infinitival clause: (2) Vaju a accattari a cicoria. [go-1SG PREP buy-INF the chicory] ‘I go to buy chicory.’ Del Prete and Todaro (2020) have proposed a compositional semantic analysis that captures the single-event property and extensionality of (1) in terms of an operation of event-concatenation between spatio-temporally contiguous events, contrasting with the bi-clausal structure and intensionality of (2). In this talk I discuss their proposal in the context of general typological considerations about the structure of complex event predications (Aikhenvald 2006) and pseudo-coordinative constructions (Giusti, Di Caro and Ross 2022).
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hal-04694238 , version 1 (11-09-2024)

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Fabio Del Prete. Complex event predications. Doctoral. Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelone), Spain. 2024. ⟨hal-04694238⟩
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