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On Preverbal Negation in Sicilian and Syntactic Parasitism
Isogloss, 2015 In this paper the authors describe two different cases of CP negation in Sicilian dialects. The first element is a left periphery adverb that is derived from a grammaticalized negative cleft.
Jacopo Garzonio, Cecilia Poletto
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Incontri: Rivista Europea di Studi Italiani, 2022 Heritage languages in Naples This paper focuses on heritage languages in Naples (Italy). It discusses two different case studies (one Italian higher school and one Center for adult migrants) in order to individuate some possible external factors ...
Margherita Di Salvo
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Exploiting microvariation: How to make the best of your incomplete data [PDF]
, 2018 n this article we discuss the use of big corpuses or databases as a first step for qualitative analysis of linguistic data. We concentrate on ASIt, the Syntactic Atlas of Italy, and take into consideration the different types of dialectal data that can ...
Garzonio, Jacopo, Poletto, Cecilia
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From northern Italian to Asian wh-in situ: A theory of low focus movement
Isogloss, 2021 The mainstream literature on the Romance dialects of northern Italy has explained the morphosyntax of clause-internal wh-elements in answer-seeking interrogatives as either the result of interrogative movement into the lower portion of the high left ...
Caterina Bonan
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Dialects and linguistic identity of Italian speakers in Bozen
Globe, 2015 This paper focuses on the variety of Italian spoken in Bozen (South Tyrol, Italy) by Italian L1 speakers. Due to the peculiar multilingual situation of South Tyrol, Italian speakers are concentrated in the big towns of this area (e.g. Bozen), whereas the
Chiara Meluzzi
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Vowel duration, compression and lengthening in stressed syllables in Central and Southern varieties of standard Italian [PDF]
, 2008 This study is the first investigation of the effects of regional accent on temporal organization, specifically of vowel duration, in stressed syllables in standard Italian.
Hajek, John, Stevens, Mary
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A Typology of Spreading, Insertion and Deletion or What You Weren’t Told About Raddoppiamento Sintattico in Italian [PDF]
, 2002 This paper focuses on the description and analysis of the external sandhi phenomenon of raddoppiamento sintattico (hereafter RS) in Italian, sometimes referred to as word-initial gemination, for example: (1) No RS due cani [duùe kaùni] ‘two ...
Absalom, Matthew +2 more
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Vowel duration in stressed position in central & northern varieties of standard Italian [PDF]
, 2011 We report the results of a pilot study investigating the effect of 2 regional accents on stressed vowel duration according to word-position and syllable type in Central v. Northern accents of Standard Italian.
Hajek, John, Lee, Wai-Sum, Stevens, Mary
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Propagginazione e flessione nominale in alcuni dialetti italiani centro-meridionali
Atti del Sodalizio Glottologico Milanese, 2017 The article investigates the phonological process known as propagation, well attested in Central-Southern Italian dialects: the process can be described as the development of a non-etymological glide where are copied some features of an high vowel (or a ...
Giancarlo Schirru
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Italiano LinguaDue, 2023 Questo lavoro propone un’analisi dei dialetti veneti presenti sul quotidiano cattolico La Libertà, stampato prima della Staffetta Riograndense, sulla quale erano stati pubblicati i capitoli di Nanetto Pipetta, una pietra miliare letteraria nelle lingue ...
Karine Marielly Rocha da Cunha +2 more
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