Le relative predicative rette da verbo di percezione in italiano antico

This paper focuses on the so-called pseudorelatives (or predicative relatives) in Old Italian, specifically on clauses whose antecedent is the direct object of a perception verb (i.e. vedere). After discussing the main features of these clauses and comparing them with restrictive and non-restrictive relatives, the author analyzes their frequency and syntactic properties in a corpus of Tuscan texts dating back to the 3th and 4th centuries. Big attention is paid to the textual functions carried out by these constructions out and to their contribution to textual progression.