D3.3 Very basic grammar for I Revision 0.1
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11.3. The absolute phrase sentence position
Introducing the absolute phrases, has been wrote that “
in italian usually occur in a sentence
initial position”. Actually, they can occur as well in a sentenc final position (with a different
semantic value). Playing with the sample sentences, we can generate:
Giovanni pianse, partita Maria
Maria è felice, abbandonato il marito
Giovanni è triste, abbandonato dagli amici
Roma cadde nella confusione, ucciso Cesare
Giovanni va a piedi, avendo distrutto la moto
Maria sorrideva, partendo per le vacanze
The only case of a not-grammatical result of such an inversion is for the sentence 2 “Partita,
Maria pianse”:
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Maria pianse, partita
This sentence could be grammatical only when a verb modifier occurs, e.g.
Maria pianse, partita per le vacanze
As for now, one generic schema deals with all possible post head modifiers:
Dostları ilə paylaş: