Fabiola Casagrande

SFB 991 / CRC 991

Room: 23.32.02.72
Phone: 0211/81-15595
Email: fabiola.casagrande@uni-duesseldorf.de

Subject

Linguistics

SToRE Membership

SToRE member since 01.07.2016

1. advisor: Robert Van Valin
2. adivsor: Laura Kallmeyer
3. advisor: Rainer Osswald

PhD Project

Among the verbs taking an infinitival complement in Italian, there are some which apparently exhibit anomalous properties with respect to certain syntactic phenomena. Known as restructuring verbs, they act as a unitary class, triggering clitic climbing as well as auxiliary change, and long NP-movement. The major aim of my investigation will be to find out how the morphosyntactic features of these grammatical verb-based constructions interact with their semantic features. The interplay with the pragmatic aspects of these constructions will also be investigated. The analysis relies on corpus-based data and will be developed within the framework of Role and Reference Grammar.

Last updated

23.09.2016