The Italian language features a little debated transitive construction with prendere ‘to take/to catch’ in which prepositional phrase (PP) an adverbial value occurs mandatorily (e.g. Lui prese pugni Leo ‘He punched Leo’). Semantically, this often implies the use of physical force or verbal offence. In hitting insulting event, notional subject generally is [+ Human] Agent, whilst direct object A...