The aim of the present paper is to reflect on the use of basic verbs of movement "andare"/"aller" i "venire"/"venir", which are often translated into Polish as "i(jecha)/przyj(przyjecha)". The rules of usage of these verbs in Romance languages ...
On the basis of a large historical corpus of Italian, we will show that the Italian motion verbs andare 'go' and venire 'come' develop into passive auxiliaries passing through a stage in which they are used as semi-copulas (with aspectual or modal values), and that this diachronic pathway...