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Gradience in Subcategorization? Locative Phrases with Italian Verbs of Motion
Author(s) -
Cennamo Michela,
Lenci Alessandro
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
studia linguistica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.187
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 1467-9582
pISSN - 0039-3193
DOI - 10.1111/stul.12095
Subject(s) - locative case , adjunct , linguistics , verb , argument (complex analysis) , motion (physics) , phrase , mathematics , computer science , artificial intelligence , philosophy , medicine
The study of the argument vs. adjunct status of the locative phrase optionally occurring with verbs of motion in Italian, both bounded (directed motion) and unbounded (manner of motion), points to the notion of scalar change as a useful model for the argument/adjunct distinction: locative prepositional phrases referring to the scalar change component entailed by a verb (either its endpoint(s) or its direction) have an argument status, otherwise they are adjuncts. This finding has a distributional correlation in the differences in the association strength (i.e., head‐dependence) of locative prepositional phrases with this class of verbs.