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- Title
Locating Italian volere 'to want' and volerci 'to be needed, to be required' in the Verb-to-TAM chain.
- Authors
RUSSI, Cinzia
- Abstract
This paper assesses the degree of grammaticalization reached by the Italian verbs volere 'want' and volerci 'need, be required' (< volere + ci 't/here'). The application of standard diagnostics indicates that neither verb has advanced considerably towards the end of Verb-to-TAM grammaticalization chain put forth by (Heine 1993). Volere emerges as the least functional-like among Italian core modal, being overall unconstrained in terms of selectional properties and range of forms/tenses in which it surfaces. Volerci is even less functional-like since it is significantly less constrained compared to other auxiliary of necessity; moreover, it shows signs of strengthening, in the form of strict obligatoriness of subject-verb agreement, which is unexpected in highly grammaticalized items.
- Subjects
GRAMMATICALIZATION; VERBS; MODALITY (Linguistics); LEXICAL grammar; DEONTIC logic; ITALIAN language
- Publication
Cahiers Chronos, 2012, Vol 25, p277
- ISSN
1384-5357
- Publication type
Article