Il tipo sintattico 'vattelappesca'

RIASSUNTO L'articolo tratta la struttura incoerente va a ddormi ricorrente nei dialetti italiani e nella letteratura che riproduce la lingua informale. Secondo la spiegazione canonica si riconduce al latino vade ac dormi, dove si è conservata la congiunzione ac 'e'. Dopo un esame critico della cronologia delle attestazioni ed un'analisi della struttura, si giunge alla conclusione che la sopravvivenza di ac nelle lingue romanze è fortemente improbabile. In alternativa si propone di considerare la struttura va a ddormi come un caso di paraipotassi, cioè una discrepanza fra le diverse componenti funzionali (semantiche, sintattiche, morfologiche, pragmatiche) di una frase e in particolare di discrepanza fra la componente semantica e quella sintattica. Il tipo sintattico vattelappesca ABSTRACT The paper deals with the inconsistent pattern va a ddormi «go and sleep», which occurs in the Italian dialects and in some literary records reproducing informal speech. According to the canonical explanation it can be traced back to the Latin pattern vade ac dormi, where the coordinating conjunction ac «and» has been preserved. Other residual cases of ac have been singled out in diciassette ‘seventeen’, tuscan tutt’a ddue «both», neapolitan cumm’ a tte «like you». After a scrutiny of the chronology of the records and a detailed analysis of the different patterns, we conclude that the survival of ac in the Romance languages, as is claimed by the supporters of the canonical explanation, is highly improbable. We propose alternatively to consider the pattern va a ddormi just a case of parahypotaxis, that is a mismatch among the different functional (i.e. semantic, syntactic, morphological, pragmatic) components of a sentence, namely a mismatch between the semantic component and the syntactic one.ABSTRACT The paper deals with the inconsistent pattern va a ddormi «go and sleep», which occurs in the Italian dialects and in some literary records reproducing informal speech. According to the canonical explanation it can be traced back to the Latin pattern vade ac dormi, where the coordinating conjunction ac «and» has been preserved. Other residual cases of ac have been singled out in diciassette ‘seventeen’, tuscan tutt’a ddue «both», neapolitan cumm’ a tte «like you». After a scrutiny of the chronology of the records and a detailed analysis of the different patterns, we conclude that the survival of ac in the Romance languages, as is claimed by the supporters of the canonical explanation, is highly improbable. We propose alternatively to consider the pattern va a ddormi just a case of parahypotaxis, that is a mismatch among the different functional (i.e. semantic, syntactic, morphological, pragmatic) components of a sentence, namely a mismatch between the semantic component and the syntactic one.