On the interpretation of proper temporal adverbs in Italian

Autor: Ludovico Franco, Paolo Lorusso
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Isogloss, Vol 8, Iss 2 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2385-4138
DOI: 10.5565/rev/isogloss.136
Popis: In this paper, we will provide a N-to-D analysis able to account for the punctual vs. habitual reading of proper temporal names in Italian, focusing on names of days, which clearly signal a difference in their possible aspectual encoding at the morphosyntactic level. When these items appear as adverbials modifying an event: i) such event is interpreted as a habitual one if the temporal name is preceded by a definite determiner or an adpositional item; ii) it is interpreted as a punctual one if the temporal name is ‘bare’.
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