Le frasi completive nominali in italiano e in russo

The paper is devoted to a contrastive analysis of the noun clauses (NC) in the Russian and Italian languages. In these constructions a clause is the argument of a noun (N[C]) which denotes an action and inherits the syntactic features of its corresponding verb like the argument structure. The analysis of a group of occurrences in both languages shows that in the Russian language more often than in the Italian one a “double nominalization” happens (N1[N2]). In these cases, the two deverbal nouns have a different status: the first one denotes an event or process and necessarily realizes the arguments of the corresponding verb while the second one can realize or not the argument structure of the verb (see Grimshaw 1990 for the distinction between the complex event nominals and the simple event nominals). Furthermore, it is argued that in most cases N2 has an aspectual resultative meaning.