Passive in motion: the Early Italian auxiliary andare (‘to go’)
| Authors | |
|---|---|
| Year of publication | 2014 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
| MU Faculty or unit | |
| Citation | |
| Attached files | |
| Description | The article examines the development of Italian andare ‘go’, which – like venire ‘come’ – is a passive auxiliary in Modern Italian. It is argued that the grammaticalisation process is an indirect one: andare + past participle first developed into a resultative construction, which consecutively developed a passive reading. On the one hand, this development has much in common with the path of Italian venire ‘come’, as both first develop the metaphorical extension of a change-of-state meaning and only then acquire the passive function because of the inherently passive interpretation of the participle. On the other hand, there are important differences in both the development and the current restrictions on the use of this passive construction, which are analysed in terms of deixis and source-orientation of the motion verb andare. |