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In Italian there are two particularly striking facts, originally brought to my attention by D. Perlmutter, which suggest that the class of verbs traditional grammar refers to as ‘intransitive’ is not homogeneous, and in particular that there exist important structural differences between sentences like (1a) and (1b).
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Burzio, L. (1986). Intransitive Verbs and Auxiliaries. In: Italian Syntax. Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4522-7_1
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