Fare+Che+Infinitives in Turinese Italian: Insights into the low-vP periphery

This paper addresses the syntax of an understudied construction in Turinese Italian, the Fare+Che+Infinitive (FCI), which features a causative verb fare (‘make’), the complementizer che (‘that’), and an infinitival verb. The construction presents a challenge to standard assumptions about clause structure, finiteness, and complement selection. Through a formal syntactic analysis and cartographic heuristics, this study aims to uncover the underlying structure of the FCI, proposing a solution for the unusual selection of infinitival verbs by the high complementizer che rooted in Belletti’s (2004) low-vP proposal while also providing a formal analysis for the pragmatic constraints of the FCI.