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From: bernd.pompe@erlangen.netsurf.de (Bernd Pompe)
Subject: Re: How do you parse "It's me" ?
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macchi@marina.scn.de (Gian Carlo Macchi) wrote:

>...
>So probably what is implied in the sentence is something like "It" in 
>"It's me" or, with similar meaning, "questo" ( = "this"). In other word 
>"sono io" could correspond to "questo sono io". But note: in this 
>sentence "questo" cannot be the subject, since the verb "sono" is first 
>singular person, so: the true (posponed) subject is "io", "sono" is an 
>intransitive (or linking) verb and "questo" is the "subject complement"; 
>the subject could be at the end of the sentence for emphasys.           
Would it also be possible to say "Io sono questo" (subject at the
beginning of the sentence)?

>Ciao.
>Gian Carlo Macchi  macchi@marina.scn.de
>23 August 1996

Ciao

Bernd


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