Revue semestrielle de linguistique et littératures romanes

Écho des études romanes 2007, 3(1):71-92 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2007.007

Les impératifs italiens entre verbe et interjectionFrench

Franck FLORICIC
Université de Toulouse - Le Mirail

L'obiettivo di questo contributo è discutere il posto e lo statuto delle forme di imperativo nella morfologia verbale dell'italiano. Dopo aver presentato alcuni paradigmi verbali maggiori, ci si interroga sulla pertinenza del considerare l'imperativo una categoria morfologica indipendente. Concludiamo che l'imperativo italiano non viene distinto da nessuna proprietà specifica, i membri che compongono il 'paradigma' dell'imperativo essendo presi in prestito al paradigma dell'indicativo (presente) o del congiuntivo. In realtà, le uniche forme di imperativo che offrono una qualche differenziazione sono quelle dei verbi detti 'monosillabici', le cui proprietà morfosintattiche le porta al di fuori della sfera dell'imperativo, per entrare nell'orbita delle interiezioni. Viene suggerito che il loro carattere fonologicamente fuorviante è dovuto proprio a questa deriva categoriale, e non alla loro frequenza.

Italian imperatives between verb and interjection

The aim of this contribution is to discuss the place and status of imperative forms in the verbal morphology of Italian. After presenting some major verbal paradigms, we question the relevance of considering the imperative as an independent morphological category. We conclude that the Italian imperative is not distinguished by any specific property, the members that make up the imperative 'paradigm' being borrowed from the paradigm of the indicative (present) or the subjunctive. In fact, the only forms of the imperative that offer any differentiation are those of so-called 'monosyllabic' verbs, whose morphosyntactic properties take them outside the imperative sphere and into the sphere of interjections. It is suggested that their phonologically misleading character is due precisely to this categorical drift, and not to their frequency.

Keywords: morphology; imperative; verb; interjection; Italian

Published: June 11, 2007  Show citation

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FLORICIC, F. (2007). Les impératifs italiens entre verbe et interjection. Écho des études romanes, 3(1-2), 71-92. doi: 10.32725/eer.2007.007
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