The facts that will be considered in this book should serve well to illustrate this point.
Yet we will see that the differences between the two could not simply be stress versus lack of stress, as their behavior is radically different under a variety of syntactic conditions. it will do so in all others consistently, and how could everyone know it? we may ask. Thus, for example, alongside of reflexive se stesso 'himself which is the stressed form. We will see for example that verbs like arrivare 'arrive' and others like telefonare 'telephone', which are superficially similar, actually differ in a large number of respects, some fairly well known, others not.