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Mixed paradigms in Italo-Romance
2019Abstract 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.
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Periphrases and irregular paradigms in Italo-Romance
2022Morphomes constitute autonomous distributional patterns that are purely morphological and internal to the morphological component. These patterns often originate as the accidental product of sound change but are subsequently preserved and replicated in diachrony in a way that suggests that they have become cognitive templates or abstract ...
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Parametric variation in differential object marking in Italo-Romance
2023Abstract This article provides an exhaustive review of the known variation found in the distribution of differerential object marking across the dialects of Italy, including those of central and northern Italy, in order to identify the relevant dimensions of microvariation in relation to information structure, animacy ...
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The evolution of Italo-Romance clitic clusters
2014AbstractThe chapter focuses on the diachronic evolution of pronominal clitic sequences, and argues for a correlation between morphophonological irregularities and the change that reversed the order of clitic elements from accusative-dative in earlier stages to dative-accusative in modern varieties.
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Existential Constructions in Early Italo-Romance Vernaculars
2008In this paper I claim that not all existential pro-forms are locative bydefinition. I examined a corpus of early Italo-Romance texts from the 13th to the16th century and noticed that in Tuscan the pro-form ci (or vi) cannot co-occurwith a locative phrase within the clause; this would corroborate Freeze’s (1992)view that existentials are locative ...
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Central Italo-Romance (Including Standard Italian)
Central Italo-Romance includes Standard Italian and the Tuscan dialects, the dialects of the mediana and perimediana areas, as well as Corsican. This macro-area reaches as far north as the Carrara–Senigallia line and as far south as the line running from Circeo in Lazio to the mouth of the Aso river in Le Marche, cutting through Ceprano, Sora, Avezzano,openaire +2 more sources
Perfective auxiliation in Italo-Romance
2014AbstractThis chapter examines the history of the perfect auxiliaries ‘be’ and ‘have’ and their interaction in a range of Italo‐Romance dialects, and sets them in the broader context of the historical evolution of the Romance languages as a whole. It also reviews the literature on this construction from Perlmutter’s initial work on unaccusativity down ...
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Argument realization and existential pro-forms in early Italo-Romance
2013In this paper we claim that the emergence of the existential pro-form in early Italo-Romance is motivated by the overt marking of definiteness on the pivot. The available data from a relatively large corpus of early Italo-Romance texts dating from C13th to C16th suggest that the overt marking of definiteness, which differentiates Romance from its ...
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