Vol. 26 No. 1 (2025): Per i 70 anni di Giampaolo Salvi
Per i 70 anni di Giampaolo Salvi

Andare ausiliare del passivo deontico

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Guglielmo Cinque
Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.59533/Verb.2025.26.1.4

Published 10-07-2025

Keywords

  • syntax,
  • passive,
  • modal,
  • deontic,
  • motion verbs

How to Cite

Cinque, G. (2025). Andare ausiliare del passivo deontico. Verbum – Analecta Neolatina, 26(1), 73–82. https://doi.org/10.59533/Verb.2025.26.1.4
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Abstract

The Italian auxiliary andare ‘go’ is ambiguous between a purely passive usage and a modal (deontic) passive one. The two uses differ with respect to a number of properties, which are examined here. The pure passive usage is more constrained than the modal (deontic) usage as it is possible with only few verbs (of ‘loss’ and ‘disappearance’), and unlike the ordinary passive construction does not admit an agentive phrase. In this article particular attention is dedicated to the second, modal (‘deontic’) passive, usage.

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