Clitic Pronouns in Italian

A Linguistic Guide

Bibliographic Data

ID10013752
AuthorsDieter Wanner (corresponding author)
Year1987
Volume64
Issue3
Pages410
Publication date1987-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueItalica (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-3020 • E-ISSN: 2325-6672
PublisherUniversity of Illinois Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2307/478499
OpenAlexW175086948
LanguageEN
References cited8

0. Introduction. The traditional grammatical notion of pronouns comprises a wide field of phenomena in any language. Pronouns are normally subdivided into the categories of personal pronouns (e.g., Italian tu, lei, si, ne), possessives (e.g., mio, nostro, etc.), relatives (che, la quale, cui), interrogatives (chi?, quale?), quantifying pronouns (quanti, tutte), indefinites (alcuni, qualcuno), and even more such classifications.' What makes these forms pronouns is their relationship to nouns, i.e., they refer to some notion (referent) which may have been overtly designated by a specific noun uttered in the preceding discourse portion (anaphoric use), or which is current to the speaker's and the listener's mind in the given situation (deictic use). Thus a personal pronoun lei stands for a repeated mention of Natalia as in (1) below, or lei may be identified by the demonstrative content of the utterance in (2). In both cases, the pronoun has a role of 'standing in for' the fuller expression, which explains its Latin name of pro-nomnen, 'in-lieu-of a name/noun.'

Clitic · Linguistics · Personal pronoun · Subject pronoun · Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition · Philosophy · Psychology · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies

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