Abstract
In A Restructuring Rule in Italian Syntax (Rizzi (1978a) henceforth “RRIS”), Rizzi notes that certain verbs taking infinitival complements like volere and a few others behave exceptionally in three major respects, illustrated in (1), (2), (3) below. In (la), a clitic related to the object of the embedded verb appears on the main verb. This is not possible in general, as (1b) shows.
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(1)a.
Mario lo vuole leggere. Mario it wants to readMario wants to read it
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b.
*Mario l0 odia leggere. Mario it hates to read Mario hates to read it.
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Burzio, L. (1986). Restructuring Constructions. In: Italian Syntax. Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4522-7_5
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