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On the development of a new standard norm in Italian [PDF]
, 2017 This chapter provides an overview of the main topics concerning the restandardization process of Italian. We will first discuss some general issues related to the Italian sociolinguistic situation, paying special attention to the status of Italo-Romance ...
Cerruti, Massimo +2 more
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Partitives and Indefinites: Phenomena in Italian Varieties
Studia Linguistica, Volume 76, Issue 1, Page 56-100, April 2022., 2022 Abstract This contribution examines the relation between genitives/ partitives and indefinites in some Italian varieties. A central question concerns the nature of the preposition de/di (DE) ‘of’ (< Latin de), specifically investigated in contexts where it does not introduce the usual possessive or partitive reading: bare partitives/Partitive articles ...
Benedetta Baldi, Leonardo M. Savoia
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Exploiting microvariation: How to make the best of your incomplete data [PDF]
, 2018 n this article we discuss the use of big corpuses or databases as a first step for qualitative analysis of linguistic data. We concentrate on ASIt, the Syntactic Atlas of Italy, and take into consideration the different types of dialectal data that can ...
Garzonio, Jacopo, Poletto, Cecilia
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Partitive Articles and Indefinites, Micro and Macrovariation
Studia Linguistica, Volume 76, Issue 1, Page 1-12, April 2022., 2022 Abstract This introductory paper provides an overview of the main phenomena investigated in this Special Issue, such as the relation between the encoding of indefinites and the presence of genitive and definite markers, the relation between partitivity and indefiniteness and the distribution of these phenomena in minority, or “micro”, varieties – such ...
Francesco Pinzin, Cecilia Poletto
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Uma rede de linhas que se entrelaçam: uma leitura de Se um Viajante numa Noite de Inverno
Aletria: Revista de Estudos de Literatura, 2014 Este trabalho visa analisar de maneira breve algumas questões propostas no enredo do romance Se um viajante numa noite de inverno, de Italo Calvino, focalizando especialmente as concepções de autoria e romance presentes ali, além da apropriação da figura
José Alonso Tôrres Freire
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Vowel duration in stressed position in central & northern varieties of standard Italian [PDF]
, 2011 We report the results of a pilot study investigating the effect of 2 regional accents on stressed vowel duration according to word-position and syllable type in Central v. Northern accents of Standard Italian.
Hajek, John, Lee, Wai-Sum, Stevens, Mary
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The Status of De in Romance Indefinites, Partitives and Pseudopartitives*
Studia Linguistica, Volume 76, Issue 1, Page 167-211, April 2022., 2022 Abstract This paper focuses on the status of de in Romance indefinites, partitives and pseudopartitives. It argues that there is neither a ‘partitive article’ nor a ‘partitive preposition’ in syntax. De in Romance indefinites is the overt Spell‐Out of an abstract operator de that cancels the definiteness of articles and is responsible for ...
M.Teresa Espinal, Sonia Cyrino
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Debunking Rhaeto-Romance: Synchronic Evidence from Two Peripheral Northern Italian Dialects
Modern Languages Open, 2020 This paper explores two peripheral Northern Italian dialects (NIDs), namely Lamonat and Frignanese, with respect to their genealogical linguistic classification.
Simone De Cia, Jessica Iubini-Hampton
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Address inversion in southern Italian dialects
Isogloss, 2022 This article proposes a ‘topological’ reinterpretation of the extended nominal architecture in relation to southern Italo-Romance vocatives with and without allocuzione inversa (‘address inversion’, Renzi 1968), a phenomenon involving the ‘inverse ...
Alice Corr
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Vowel duration, compression and lengthening in stressed syllables in Italian [PDF]
, 2007 The focus of this study is on temporal organization, specifically of vowel duration, in stressed syllables in (standard) Italian. We investigate possible compression effects on the duration of stressed vowels according to wordposition (final, penult and ...
Hajek, John +3 more
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