24.03.2023, 10:30-Gerund and present participle in French: some linguistic, sociolinguistic and translation aspects

Seminar series “Synchronic and diachronic linguistics”

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Classroom 13, second floor, building D3

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Abstract
Although the Latin origin is the same, the French gerund and present participle behave differently from their Italian counterparts. I will present some syntactic, semantic and pragmatic characteristics of these forms, favoring the comparison with Italian.

Speaker
Oreste Floquet
Sapienza, University of Roma

Coordinator
Rosario Pellegrino
University of Salerno