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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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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
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Issues in Italo-Romance Morphosyntax [PDF]

Isogloss, 2015
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Diego Pescarini, Silvia Rossi
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Remarks on the diachronic reconstruction of intonational patterns in Romance with special attention to Occitan as a bridge language [PDF]

Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2003
This paper approaches Romance intonation from a diachronic point of view. The position that is adopted is that this is an area open to investigation. Comparative techniques can be fruitfully employed for investigating the evolution and diversification of
José Ignacio Hualde
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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
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Patterns of variation in existential constructions [PDF]

Isogloss, 2015
The main goal of the present paper is twofold: on the one hand, to highlight the patterns of variation among the existential constructions found in Italo-Romance and Sardinian dialects; on the other, to examine the observed microvariation in a ...
Silvio Cruschina
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The propredicative clitic in Italo-romance: a micro-parametric variation approach [PDF]

Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali, 2020
In this paper we describe the distribution of propredicative clitics in nominal copular constructions across different Italo-romance varieties. Different lexical items are recruited from the lexicon to cliticize the predicative NP, all of them either ...
Paolo Lorusso, Andrea Moro
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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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