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Prepositional “where” in Southern Italian Dialects

2020
This chapter investigates a phenomenon attested in some Southern Italian varieties, where a form identical to the wh-item meaning “where” can be used as a locative preposition. Since most of the dialects considered here only use P-where in cases of quasi-inalienable locative possession, this chapter adopts the recent proposal that the structural ...
Nicola Munaro, Cecilia Poletto
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Italian and Italo-Romance dialects

International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2011
The relative status of dialects and Italian and the different patterns of language use have given rise to potentially different speech communities within the larger Italo-Romance domain. Such communities are mainly determined by the dimensions of geographical, social and age variation.
Silvia Dal Negro, Alessandro Vietti
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Quantifiers as negative markers in Italian dialects

Linguistic Variation Yearbook, 2009
In this work we consider the diachronic development of two distinct types of negative markers, those originally stemming from minimizers (m-negation) and those originally deriving from a negative quantifier (q-negation). We provide evidence in favor of the hypothesis that, despite appearances, they do not follow the same grammaticalization path.
POLETTO, CECILIA, GARZONIO, JACOPO
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Prehistory and the Italian Dialects

Language, 1949
The title of this article is more pretentious than the subject that I propose to treat in these few pages.' My concern here is with a question of method; accordingly I shall defer a more comprehensive treatment to some future publication, and refrain from burdening the present essay with details and examples.
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