Chapter 5
Scale of Degree of Control
The view from the bottom
Article outline
- A.Subversion of the Focus-Control interlock:
Si for Focus on low-controllers
- B.That passive and impersonal are not categories of Italian grammar
- C.That intransitive is not a category of Italian grammar
- D.Absence of si with Focus on mid-controllers (no passivization of datives)
- E.
Si vs. the participle
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Notes