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In this chapter, we will attempt to provide a characterization of inversion, namely of the set of constructions with i-subjects, comparing Italian with some other languages. Our first step will be to assume, following a well established line of research, that inversion in Italian is closely related to another property of this language: the pro-drop, or null-subject (henceforth NS) property. Namely, we assume that the existence of the type in (1a), is strictly related to the existence of (1b).
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Burzio, L. (1986). The Syntax of Inversion. In: Italian Syntax. Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4522-7_2
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