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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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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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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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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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O personagem tradutor e o leitor na rede de Italo Calvino
Outra Travessia, 2011 O romance de Italo Calvino, Se um viajante numa noite de inverno, é composto de uma série de narrativas interligadas pela estrutura de um romance policial, no qual os protagonistas, o Leitor e a Leitora, precisam desvendar o enigma dos romances ...
Alessandra Matias Querido
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Reduplication as a Strategy for -ever Free Relatives: Semantic and Syntactic Observations*
Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali, 2019 Italo-Romance varieties display a typologically rare strategy to realize the unconditional (or free-choice) free relative clauses, i.e. the reduplication of the verb complex.
Giuseppina Silvestri
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N morphology and its interpretation : the neuter in Central Italian varieties and its implications [PDF]
, 2015 We characterize Romance inflectional class morphology in Nouns as endowed with a semantic content, providing evidence about its active involvement at the syntaxsemantic interface.
Franco, Ludovico +2 more
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Irregular Morphology and Athematic Verbs in Italo-Romance
Isogloss, 2015 As discussed by Kiparsky (1968), historical changes in grammatical structures provide the best “window” on the actual composition of these structure in so far as we expect that the components of the structures play a role in the changes.
Andrea Calabrese
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On Preverbal Negation in Sicilian and Syntactic Parasitism [PDF]
, 2015 In this paper the authors describe two different cases of CP negation in Sicilian dialects. The first element is a left periphery adverb that is derived from a grammaticalized negative cleft.
Garzonio, Jacopo, Poletto, Cecilia
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Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali, 2023 The present work constitutes an initial look at the use of tonna, an invariable form of tornare ‘return’, used as a relatively uncommon V1 in southern Italo-Romance pseudocoordination structures.
Sara N. Cardullo
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