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Matrix complementizers in Italo-Romance

Linguistik Aktuell, 2019
Abstract Based on uncharted evidence from Italo-Romance, we describe and discuss three types of matrix clauses, i.e. jussives, concessives and optatives, which reveal a certain degree of consistency but also display different patterns of microvariation. We show how such clauses may be introduced by complementizers, whose insertion is strictly dependent
Dr Valentina Colasanti
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Auxiliary Selection in Italo-Romance

, 2023
This book proposes a new solution to the long-standing puzzle of auxiliary selection in Romance languages, in particular Italian. The following questions are addressed: why the perfect auxiliary appears in the two forms be and have within a single ...
Irene Amato
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Mixed paradigms in Italo-Romance

Linguistik Aktuell, 2019
Abstract This paper advocates a morphological approach to the phenomenon of mixed paradigms attested in a wide range of Italo-Romance varieties (cf. Loporcaro 2001, 2007, 2014; Manzini and Savoia 2005, among others). In these varieties, two auxiliary verbs, habere and esse, alternate within one and the same paradigm.
Pavel Štichauer
exaly   +2 more sources

Italian and Italo-Romance dialects

International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2011
The relative status of dialects and Italian and the different patterns of language use have given rise to potentially different speech communities within the larger Italo-Romance domain. Such communities are mainly determined by the dimensions of geographical, social and age variation.
Silvia Dal Negro
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Auxiliary selection in Italo-Romance and inflexional classes

2022
This chapter puts forward an account of auxiliary selection in terms of inflexional classes (following, e.g., Bonami 2015:97; Baerman, Brown, and Corbett 2017:28f.), theoretically couched within Stump’s notions of content paradigm, form paradigm, and segregated inflexional classes (Stump 2016).
Xavier Bach, Pavel Štichauer
exaly   +2 more sources

Central-Southern Italo-Romance

, 2022
Abstract Although respective Central (= CIDs) and Southern (= SIDs) Italo-Romance dialects display peculiar linguistic features, they also share a substantial number of common isoglosses such that they can be classified as two subdivisions of the same geolinguistic unit.
alessandro de angelis
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DOM and dative in (Italo-)Romance

2020
DOM, morphosyntax, dative, case ...
M. Rita Manzini, Leonardo M. Savoia, Ludovico Franco   +2 more
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Italo-Romance: Venetan

2021
Abstract Venetan belongs to the group of northern Italian dialects, which are characterized by the presence of some phonological and morphological features that are common to French dialects and are attributed to the Celtic substratum.
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The TORNARE-periphrasis in Italo-Romance

2022
This chapter examines verbal periphrases involving the originally transitive Latin verb TORNARE ‘turn’ in Italo-Romance. The emergence in late Latin of intransitive uses of TORNARE as a verb of motion meaning ‘return, go back’ prepared the way for early Romance collocations with an infinitive, ‘go back to doing’.
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Italo-Romance: Gallo-Italic

2021
Abstract Gallo-Italic dialects are spoken in northern Italy, in a wide area covering Liguria, Piedmont, Lombardy, and Emilia-Romagna and some adjacent territories of Trentino, Tuscany, Le Marche, and southern Switzerland. The term Gallo-Italic was coined by Bernardino Biondelli about the middle of the 19th century and later used in a ...
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