Italian (Standard Italian), Example 744

Maria è saltata in piedi.
Maria
Mary
è
be.PRS.3SG
salta-t-a
jump-PP-F.SG
in
in
pied-i
foot-M.PL
Mary jumped to her feet.
Comment:
The verb saltare in its intransitive use selects the auxiliary BE in compound tenses if the process is bounded, i.e., telic, with past particle agreement with the subject (Salvi 1988, Cennamo 1993: 36, 2011: 5).
Type:
Constructed by native speaker linguist