Mutli-word Constituents of Action in Italian: A Linguistic Investigation

Abstract

The syntactic notion of multi-word constituents was roughly investigated in the field of the linguistics corpus. By and large, it tackled the synchronic and diachronic language aspects. In the current research paper, this notion was laid down under the purview of the generative and functional perspectives. Firstly, it introduced the definition of the multi-word constituents in addition to the idea of grammaticalization. It elaborated more and more the notion of auxiliarization. Further, it examined whether the auxiliary is an independent syntactic constituent or not, taking into account if this constituent would be universal or a particular subset of the main verbs. Functionally speaking, the current investigation proposed certain solutions to probe into this notion in the light of syntactic standards. It notified definite considerations as regards the processes of grammaticalization.