This paper deals with the complex interaction between form and function in the verb morphosyntax of four Indo-European languages (French, Italian, Ancient Greek and Sanskrit). Beyond the difference in form, auxiliation patterns in French and Italian, and verb inflections in Ancient Greek and… read more
Italian is the only major Romance language featuring a clause type exclusively devoted to expressing people's jobs. This type, the Job-fare-Construction (JFC), is constructed with a human subject and the verb fare 'do' followed by an obligatorily definite noun. The JFC has thus the appearance of a… read more
