Summary A comparison of frozen adverbs : PDETC forms in French and in Italian
A contrastive analysis is made of some frozen adverbs in French and Italian having the following structure :
[N0 V] Prep Det C =:
[Max agit] dans la coulisse
([Max agisce] dietro le quinte)
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Summary This paper presents some of the findings which emerged during the construction of a French-Italian lexicon-grammar of frozen adverbs. A French lexicon-grammar compiled by Maurice Gross (1990) was compared with an Italian lexicon-grammar (De Gioia 1994b) with a view to finding semantically… read more
The Lexicon-Grammar of frozen adverbs of comparison has been established for French (M. Gross 1984b), Portuguese (Marques Ranchhod 1990, 1991) and Italian (De Gioia 1994a) in a monolingual perspective. The systematic character of such descriptions allowed us to make an explicit comparison between… read more
In this paper the author presents his lexicon-grammar of frozen adverbs in Italian, in a general way. One of the important conclusions that emerges from the author's research concerns the existence of similar syntactical structures that are classified by Maurice Gross in his lexicon-grammar of… read more