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Living on the Edge. On Bare and Non-Bare NCIs across Italo-Romance

Languages, 2023
This article describes and discusses some properties of the distribution of Negative Concord Items (NCIs) in the Italo-Romance domain, taking into account both varieties of Italian and varieties of other Italo-Romance languages.
Jacopo Garzonio, Cecilia Poletto, Poletto Cecilia   +2 more
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Expletive Subject Clitics in Northern Italo-Romance

Languages, 2022
This article examines the syntax of subject clitics in northern Italian dialects. Statistical analysis is performed on a sample of 350 dialects to show that the co-variation between syntactic variables is significant.
Diego Pescarini
exaly   +3 more sources

Auxiliary selection is Agree

Isogloss, 2022
In this paper, I address the problem of auxiliary selection in Standard Italian and in Southern Italo-Romance varieties. In the former, the auxiliary depends on the argument structure, in the latter on the person feature of the subject.
Irene Amato
doaj   +1 more source

Naukir, nauclērus, ναύκληρος: etymological note on the Eastern Adriatic vernacular reflexes of an old nautical term / Naukir, nauclērus, ναyκληροσ: Etimološka bilješka o pučkim odrazima jednog starog pomorskog termina na istočnom Jadranu

Miscellanea Hadriatica et Mediterranea, 2017
The reflexes of the Greek nautical term ναύκληρος in the Slavic vernaculars of the Eastern Adriatic can be traced from medieval (navьklerь, navkir) and early modern (naukijer, naukir) to present-day attestations found in modern dialects of Dalmatia ...
Nikola Vuletić
doaj   +1 more source

Issues in Italo-Romance Morphosyntax

Isogloss, 2015
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Diego Pescarini, Silvia Rossi
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Localizing conditional clauses in the left periphery: evidence from multiple complementizer constructions in romance

Linguistica, 2016
This article analyzes the distribution of conditional clauses in multiple complementizer constructions, showing that preposed adverbial clauses could occupy in early Italo-Romance varieties different specifier positions within the left periphery of ...
Nicola Munaro
doaj   +1 more source

Uma rede de linhas que se entrelaçam: uma leitura de Se um Viajante numa Noite de Inverno

Aletria: Revista de Estudos de Literatura, 2014
Este trabalho visa analisar de maneira breve algumas questões propostas no enredo do romance Se um viajante numa noite de inverno, de Italo Calvino, focalizando especialmente as concepções de autoria e romance presentes ali, além da apropriação da figura
José Alonso Tôrres Freire
doaj   +1 more source

Gestural focus marking in Italo-Romance

Isogloss, 2023
Gesture has been a topic of recent interest in formal linguistics, especially with respectto its pragmatic and semantic properties (Lascarides & Stone 2009a,b; Ebert & Ebert2014; Schlenker 2018; Esipova 2019a). There is emerging consensus within this
Valentina Colasanti
doaj   +1 more source

Debunking Rhaeto-Romance: Synchronic Evidence from Two Peripheral Northern Italian Dialects

Modern Languages Open, 2020
This paper explores two peripheral Northern Italian dialects (NIDs), namely Lamonat and Frignanese, with respect to their genealogical linguistic classification.
Simone De Cia, Jessica Iubini-Hampton
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Address inversion in southern Italian dialects

Isogloss, 2022
This article proposes a ‘topological’ reinterpretation of the extended nominal architecture in relation to southern Italo-Romance vocatives with and without allocuzione inversa (‘address inversion’, Renzi 1968), a phenomenon involving the ‘inverse ...
Alice Corr
doaj   +1 more source