L’interazione tra i due punti e i connettivi nella scrittura italiana contemporanea. Il caso di "infatti" e "perché"
The interaction between the use of connectives and the colon in contemporary Italian writing. The case of "infatti" and "perché"

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to investigate the semantic value of combining the colon with connectives. For this purpose, on the basis of data obtained from the analysis of different corpora of functional written Italian, such as PUNT-IT, CORIS and la Repubblica Corpus, we focus on the constructs ‘p: infatti q’ and ‘p: perché q’. We will highlight, in particular, that the mutual influence of the connective word and the colon can affect the conceptual nature of the logical-semantic relation or its scope. In the end, we will also consider some peculiar syntactic-semantic configurations of the construct ‘p: perché q’.

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