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Alcune considerazioni inerenti all'architettura dell'italiano contemporaneo
This article describes certain fundamental issues relates to the current linguistic situation in Italy: the analysis of reciprocal relations between the national language and the Italian dialects (diglossia, bilinguism); the internal variants of Italian ...
Ingeborga Beszterda
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Parameters of Subject Inflection in Italian Dialects
Abstract In this chapter we consider the null-subject parameter, with the implications it has for Chomsky’s 1995, 1998 theory of the EPP and agreement. We take the view that null-subject languages lexicalize the EPP feature through the finite verb (cf. Pollock 1996), while non-null-subject languages lexicalize the EPP feature through a D
MANZINI, MARIA RITA +1 more
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A qualitative assessment of quantitative easing sentiment
Abstract This mixed‐method study undertakes a comprehensive inquiry of the public discourse on social media surrounding quantitative easing (QE) across the US, the UK, and the European Union. Utilizing a unique tweet dataset, we reveal the sentiment polarity toward QE policy to be strongly negative, at 71.27%, with positive sentiment a mere 4.25 ...
Niamh Wylie, Martha O’Hagan‐Luff
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Subject clitic variation in a northern Italian dialect
PhDThis study investigates the phenomenon of subject clitic (henceforth, SCl) variation in Ligurian, a variety spoken in the north-west of Italy. Through the examination of empirical data, this work shows that variation can be incorporated in the theory ...
Ciarlo, Chiara, Chiara Ciarlo
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Dialects among young Italian-Australians: A shift in attitude and perception [PDF]
The aim of this article is to analyse the relationship that second- and third-generation Italian migrants in Australia have with the Italian dialect of their family.
Ruben Benatti +3 more
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Abstract To persuade creditors to lend, cities in the Low Countries relied on a community responsibility system that made all citizens personally liable for public debt. This exposed itinerant citizens to significant risks: their merchandise could be confiscated by creditors, and they could even be imprisoned for debt.
Jaco Zuijderduijn
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Syntactic variation across Italian and Greek dialects: the case of demonstratives
In this paper we investigate suspected contact phenomena in dialectal syntax, by studying apparent similarities in the syntax of demonstratives in a selection of Romance and Greek dialects of Southern Italy.
GUARDIANO, Cristina +1 more
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Vulgaris: Analysis of a Corpus for Middle-Age Varieties of Italian Language [PDF]
Italian is a Romance language that has its roots in Vulgar Latin. The birth of the modern Italian started in Tuscany around the 14th century, and it is mainly attributed to the works of Dante Alighieri, Francesco Petrarca and Giovanni Boccaccio, who are ...
Marco Maggini +2 more
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Le rime «in lingua rustica» di Luigi Groto (il Cieco d’Adria)
The paper provides a commented edition of four texts written in Polesine dialect (Veneto) by Luigi Groto (the Cieco d’Adria / “The blind man of Adria”: born 7 September 1541, died 13 December 1585): the sonnets LXIX, LXX and CXII (extracted from Rime ...
Spaggiari, Barbara
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ABSTRACT In my experience, the end of a female friendship came to symbolically represent the erosion of female solidarity as (I thought) I knew it. In this paper, I first present an evocative autoethnographic narrative that foregrounds the emotional toll of losing solidarity with a close childhood friend.
Daniela Aliberti
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