The adverb of quantity autant is used in the formation of several idioms belonging to different grammatical categories. Our study focuses on three idioms containing autant: the idiom with a causal value autant... que and its four variants; the idiom with a concessive value (pour) autant que; the adverbial idiom pour autant, which, depending on the context, can function either as a causal or as an adversative connective. Based on the most recent studies in French linguistics and on the data collected in a parallel bilingual French-Italian corpus of 20th and 21st century prose texts (novels, plays, essays in the humanities), we will present the semantic-syntactic properties of these three French idioms and the main solutions to translate them into Italian
