I costrutti relativi con il quale e cui nel corpus UniverS-Ita

The aim of this paper is to analyse the relative constructions formed with il quale and cui in the UniverS-Ita corpus, which collects formal texts of university students who attended programs in different areas (Humanities, Economic Sciences, Healthcare, Engineering) during the 2020-2021 academic year. In our data, we found several deviations from standard Italian, such as the use of il quale to relativize subjects of restrictive relatives, the application of the double encoding strategy and the improper employ of the prepositions in oblique relativization. Beside shedding light on the diffusion of these phenomena in the corpus, the study investigates the possible factors determining them