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Passive and impersonal reflexives in the Italian dialects
AbstractThis chapter discusses passive and impersonal reflexives in contemporary and early Italo-Romance varieties. Synchronic and diachronic data (drawn from northern, central, and southern dialects, and from Sardinian) are used to throw light on the controversial theoretical status of the first person plural clitic ci and the reflexive morpheme si in
Michela Cennamo
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Functional vowels in main questions in Northern Italian dialects
The goal of this paper is to describe the distribution and to explain the nature of the vowels that appear in preverbal position in main questions in many Northern Italian dialects.
Anna Cardinaletti, Lori Repetti
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Towards a Typology of wh-Doubling in Northern Italian Dialects [PDF]
In this work we examine the distribution of wh-in-situ and short (i.e., clause internal) wh-doubling in Northern Italian dialects with the purpose of showing that wh-in-situ and wh-doubling are not unitary phenomena, since they are subject to different ...
Nicola Munaro +2 more
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The role of dialects in the emergence of Italian phrasal verbs
Romance Languages are a less homogenous group than depicted by current typological descriptions. Although Verb-Framing structures are predominantly used, Satellite-Framing constructions are present in all major Romance varieties and prevalent in some ...
Claudio Iacobini
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Quantifiers as negative markers in Italian dialects
Linguistic Variation Yearbook, 2009In 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, 1949The 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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The Syntax of Italian Dialects
2003Abstract This volume addresses issues in the syntax of a wide array of Italian dialects (including several Rhaeto-Romance varieties: Paduan, Sicilian, Bellunese, Piedmontese, Calabrian, and Italian itself). Edited by Christina Tortora, this collection consists of contributions from 12 of the leading scholars in the area of Italian ...
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