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’.
On the interpretation of proper temporal adverbs in Italian / Franco, Ludovico; Lorusso, Paolo. - In: ISOGLOSS. - ISSN 2385-4138. - ELETTRONICO. - 8:(2022), pp. 1-18. [10.5565/rev/isogloss.136]
On the interpretation of proper temporal adverbs in Italian
Franco, Ludovico
;Lorusso, Paolo
2022
Abstract
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’.I documenti in FLORE sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.