Tirare su un bambino: l'élever ou le soulever?

In this paper we have analyzed and tried to classify the Italian verbs that constitute the group of Italian syntagmatic verbs. The analysis was carried out starting from the questions: how distinguish a syntagmatic verbs from a verb having or requiring a verbal regency? We have tried to define and investigate the difference between the two groups. The common feature of syntagmatic verbs is that they are formed by a verb and a particle (could be a preposition or an adverb) which can not be in an articulated form. Another common feature appears the correspondence and the synonymy with a "synthetic" verb formed by a single verb. Frequently, it is the particle itself that determines the non-compositionality or the compositionality of the verb. Most of the syntagmatic verbs, in fact, have not the characteristic of compositionality, indeed usually the combination of the meaning of the head verb and the one of the particle do form the meaningful core of the verb, but this is pretty different from the composition of the individual terms. In this work we concentrated on syntagmatic non-compositional verbs and tried to sketch classifications according to their formal typology.