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LANGUAGE CONTACT AND STABILITY OF BASIC VOCABULARY: CROATIAN LOANWORDS FOR BODY PARTS IN VLASHKI/ZHEYANSKI (ISTRO-ROMANIAN) [PDF]

Fluminensia: Journal for Philological Research, 2014
Vlashki/Zheyanski, or Istro-Romanian, is a severely endangered Eastern Romance language spoken on the Istrian peninsula in Croatia. The language is now spoken by less than 120 fluent and active speakers, most of them over the age of 50.
Robert Doričić, Zvjezdana Vrzić
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Romance and Croatian in Contact: Non-Clitic Auxiliaries in Istro-Romanian [PDF]

Languages, 2021
This paper focuses on Istro-Romanian and argues that the TAM auxiliaries of this variety are not morphophonological clitics. This analysis is supported by the existence of several empirical phenomena (auxiliary-licensed VP-ellipsis, scrambling, and ...
Adina Dragomirescu, Alexandru Nicolae
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ADJECTIFS HÉRITÉS DU LATIN À VALEUR ADVERBIALE EN ISTRO-ROUMAIN [PDF]

Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologia, 2022
Latin inherited Adjectives used as Adverbials in Istro-Romanian. Our study aims to research the adverbial use of adjectives (followed or not by prepositions) inherited from Latin into Istro-Romanian, one of the South-Danubian Romanian dialects which is ...
Adrian CHIRCU
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Contact-Induced Complexification in the Gender System of Istro-Romanian [PDF]

Journal of Language Contact, 2021
Abstract The paper provides the first description of the borrowing of Croatian collective numerals into Northern Istro-Romanian and explores the consequences of this borrowing for the morphosyntax of the recipient language. It argues that the collective numerals under examination, which are specified as nominative plural feminine in the Slavic model ...
Michele Loporcaro, Francesco Gardani, Alberto Giudici   +2 more
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The Conundrum of Aspectual Suppletion in Istro-Romanian

Revue roumaine de linguistique, 2023
In Istro-Romanian, there are two main groups of verbs, one inherited from Romance, one borrowed from the co-territorial Chakavian Croatian variety. The Croatian-derived verbs are specified for aspect, while the Romance ones are not. Generally, these groups do not interact.
Fabian Helmrich, Oana Uță Bărbulescu
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Notes on the Morphology and Syntax of a ‘Restsprache in Re’: Istro-Romanian [PDF]

After taking a cursory look at the ancient world at the beginning, the article moves on to consider a language variety that is still spoken today, albeit in an advanced state of language shift: Istro-Romanian. Its high degree of permeability to the contact language (Croatian) will be discussed by adducing examples of morphology (verb tense and aspect ...
Michele Loporcaro
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Exploring Microvariation in Verb-Movement Parameters within Daco-Romanian and across Daco-Romance [PDF]

Languages
This article reviews some of the principal patterns of morphosyntactic variation within Daco-Romanian and across Daco-Romance in support of a distinction between low vs high V-movement grammars variously distributed in accordance with diatopic variation (
Ștefania Costea, Adam Ledgeway
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Phonological Analysis of the Southern Dialect of Istro-Romanian/Vlashki as Compared to Daco-Romanian [PDF]

, 2020
Istro-Romanian is a Balkan Romance language with two dialects spoken by less than 120 fluent and active speakers (Vrzić and Singler 2016). The language is spoken on the Istrian peninsula, where it has historically come in contact with the Čakavian and ...
Maria Cantemir
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Istro-romanians: the legacy of a culture [PDF]

, 2010
The Istro-Romanians are one of Europe’s smallest ethnic groups. They inhabit villages like: Šušnjevica (i.e. Suşnieviţa), Zejane (i.e. Jeiani), Brdo (i.e. Bârdo) and Nova Vas (i.e. Noselo), in the central and north-eastern corner of the Istria Peninsula,
Mihai Burlacu
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Orthographic practices and social meanings: writing Istro-Romanian, an endangered language in Croatia [PDF]

Sociolinguistica
Abstract This paper documents and analyzes the different orthographic systems created throughout time to put into writing Istro-Romanian, Vlashki or Zheyanski, a small severely endangered Romance language spoken in Croatia. While the language has not been used in education or virtually at all in written contexts in everyday life in ...
Zvjezdana Vrzić
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