Papers by Flavio Pisciotta
Club Working Papers in Linguistics. Volume 7, 2023
Traditionally, scholars have claimed that the raising construction with sembrare ‘seem’ (sembrare... more Traditionally, scholars have claimed that the raising construction with sembrare ‘seem’ (sembrare+infinitive) is truth-conditionally equivalent to the impersonal construction sembra che ‘it seems that’. In contrast with this point of view, and following a Construction Grammar approach, we hypothesize that this alternation is motivated by differences in the functional properties of the alternating constructions. To test this hypothesis, we focused on selection properties, with the view of assessing whether any subject could be a good candidate to appear in the constructions under exam.
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Papers by Flavio Pisciotta