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Focalization and Word Order in Old Italo-Romance [PDF]

Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2011
This paper sets out a comparison between modern and old Italo-Romance varieties with the aim of understanding the mechanisms that characterize the syntactic operations associated with the information structure of the sentence, as well as identifying ...
Silvio Cruschina
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Gestural Focus Marking in Italo-Romance

Isogloss A Journal on Variation of Romance and Iberian Languages, 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
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Voice and Functional Structure in Italo-Romance Tough-Constructions [PDF]

Isogloss A Journal on Variation of Romance and Iberian Languages
This paper focuses on the amount of functional structure and on the Voice properties of complement clauses in tough-constructions, on the basis of previously unexplored variation patterns in Italo-Romance.
Leonardo Russo Cardona
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Issues in Italo-Romance Morphosyntax [PDF]

Isogloss, 2015
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Diego Pescarini, Silvia Rossi
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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
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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

Possessives in Indefinite Nominal Phrases: A Comparison Between Italo-Romance and Daco-Romance

Moderna Språk, 2020
Southern Italian dialects exhibit a peculiar morphosyntactic device in licensing possessives in non‑definite noun phrases, i.e. the insertion of the functional element de followed by the definite article. This strategy shows striking similarities with
Giuseppina Silvestri
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
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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
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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
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