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Issues in Italo-Romance Morphosyntax [PDF]

Isogloss, 2015
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Diego Pescarini, Silvia Rossi
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Pathways of Grammaticalisation in Italo-Romance [PDF]

Probus, 2020
Abstract The aim of this contribution is to discuss three possible theoretical interpretations of grammaticalised structures in present-day Italo-Romance varieties. In particular, we discuss and analyse three diachronic case studies in relation to the generative view of grammaticalisation.
Kim Groothuis
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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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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, 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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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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Morphological complexity without abstractness: Italo-Romance metaphony [PDF]

Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics, 2011
This paper considers some selected cases of stressed vowel alternations arisen from the application of metaphony in Italo-Romance dialects. While similar cases are often reported in the literature, the ones picked up here stand out because they resist, for several reasons, any analysis treating metaphony as a synchronic phonological rule (albeit ...

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An Italo-Romance perspective on heritage languages [PDF]

Italian Journal of Linguistics, 2023
Eugenio Goria, Margherita Di Salvo
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Perfective Auxiliary Selection in Heritage Italo-Romance

Romanica Cracoviensia
This paper discusses two mechanisms of auxiliary selection (intransitive and person-driven splits) from heritage Italo-Romance varieties (Venetan, Abruzzese, and Apulo-Barese) in contact with Spanish,
Luigi Andriani, Roberta D’Alessandro
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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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