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Abstract

In this paper I claim that Italian and verbs constitute two syntactically distinct classes of verbs. verbs are derived from a noun corresponding to a location, and behave similarly to verbs of caused motion. verbs are derived from a noun corresponding to the located entity, and behave similarly to verbs. Despite these similarities, the derivational structure of and verbs has an impact on their syntactic structure. For this reason and verbs cannot be included in the classes of and verbs, respectively. They deserve a separate classification.

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