Die Wortart Präadverb am Beispiel von seit und seiner italienischen Entsprechung da

The paper focuses on the word seit, which – in addition to being a preposition typically used with the dative – shows a syntactic behaviour that differs from that of a typical preposition and can be described as a ‘pre-adverb’. Seit as a pre-adverb is complemented by adverbs or adverb-equivalent syntactic categories. In this case, since as a pre-adverb does not influence the case form of its complement. The investigation is also extended to the semantic Italian equivalent da, with the aim of determining whether da also fulfils the defining characteristics as a pre-adverb word class and, as such, whether the pre-adverb word class can be included among the canonical parts of speech in both languages. To this end, both words are considered syntactic Einzelgänger (as defined by Pasch et al. 2003) in this paper