New Insights on the Question Particle "a" in Sardinian [PDF]
, 2015 The article analyzes the Sardinian question particle a in yes/no "special" questions. Following Obenauer (2004, 2006), this particle is taken to mark special interrogative clauses that cannot be answered with yes or no as they denote invitations or ...
Mensching, Guido
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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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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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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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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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Italo-Romance morphology studies : an introduction
Études romanes de BrnoEgle Mocciaro
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The History of Negation in the Languages of Europe and the Mediterranean. Volume 1: Case studies Ed. by David Willis, Christopher Lucas & Anne Breitbarth Oxford: Oxford University Press, 553 pages. ISBN 978-0-19-960253-7 [PDF]
, 2015 This is a review of the book The History of Negation in the Languages of Europe and the Mediterranean, edited by David Willis (University of Cambridge), Christopher Lucas (SOAS, University of London) and Anne Breitbarth (Universiteit Gent). 2013. Oxford:
Llop Naya, Ares
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Cultura da conexão, paranoia, sociedade do cansaço e poéticas do romance como enciclopédia aberta
FronteiraZ, 2021 Na cultura da conexão, a sensação de excesso – de informação, de arquivos e de conexões – se faz mais presente. Tais fatores extraliterários influenciam a constituição do discurso literário, como apresenta Italo Calvino (1990), em Seis propostas do ...
Rodrigo Valverde Denubila
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Indefiniteness and Specificity in Old Italian Texts [PDF]
, 2001 Object of this study is the marking of nominal indefiniteness in Old Italian, more precisely Old Tuscan texts, in three collections of ...
Stark, Elisabeth
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