The Substance and Value of Italian Si

This book offers an original treatment of the Italian clitic si . Sharply separating encoded grammar from inference in discourse, it proposes a unitary meaning for si , including impersonals, passives, and reflexives. Si signals third-person participancy but makes no distinctions of number, gender, or case role. The analysis advances the Columbia School framework by relying on just these straightforward oppositions, attributing variety of interpretation largely to language use rather than to gra