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Particular Features of Istro-Romanian Pronominal Clitics [PDF]
Particular Features of Istro-Romanian Pronominal Clitics. Istro-Romanian is a ‘historical dialect’ of Romanian, a severely endangered linguistic variety, spoken in the Istrian peninsula (Croatia) as an endogenous language, and in USA and Canada as an ...
Adina Dragomirescu, Alexandru Nicolae
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Wh-Interrogative Clauses in Istro-Romanian
This paper focuses on the syntax of interrogative clauses in Istro-Romanian. The aim is to determine the parametric settings for V-to-C, subject placement (SVO or VSO) and the target for constituent movement under discourse triggers.
Cătălina Corbeanu
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Istro-Romanian Subjunctive Clauses
This paper aims to define the featural composition of the complementizers that introduce subjunctive complements in Istro-Romanian, and to identify the internal organization of the subjunctive clause in terms of subject positions, verb movement, clitic ...
Virginia Hill, Cătălina Corbeanu
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LANGUAGE CONTACT AND STABILITY OF BASIC VOCABULARY: CROATIAN LOANWORDS FOR BODY PARTS IN VLASHKI/ZHEYANSKI (ISTRO-ROMANIAN) [PDF]
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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Introduction: Balkan Romance Within the Balkan Sprachbund
This article provides a short introduction to Balkan Romance, examining and exemplifying a number of its principal features. In particular, the discussion begins in §2 with a review of the main morphosyntactic features of the four principal sub-branches ...
Virginia Hill, Adam Ledgeway
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Romance grammars in context and contact:introduction to the Special Issue [PDF]
This Special Issue brings together ten articles authored by the participants and invited speakers of the Romance Grammars, Context and Contact (RGCC2021) workshop. This introductory article provides an overview of the workshop and summarizes the articles
Corr, Alice, Schifano, Norma
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Ethnobotanical knowledge of the Istro-Romanians of Zejane in Croatia [PDF]
Andrea Pieroni
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Kilka uwag o fonetyce ligi bałkańskiej
The focus of this article is the origins of (1) reduced vowels in languages of the Balkan Sprachbund, (2) lenition of soft stops, (3) its (pre)nasalization, (4) the change of ninto rin the Tosk dialect of Albanian and a similar process in Old Romanian ...
Leszek Bednarczuk
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Romance languages and the others: In and around the Balkans [PDF]
The languages of the Balkans are a rich source of data on contact-induced language change. The result of a centuries long process of lexical and structural convergence as been referred to as a ‘sprachbund’. While widely applied, this notion has, however,
Gardani, Francesco +2 more
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This article discusses the names of colours in the Istro‑Romanian dialects of Istria. In addition to 14 chromonyms, selected terms connected with specific colours are analyzed. The vocabulary was collected over the last twenty years (the majority appears
Filipi, Goran
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