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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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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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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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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A syntactic analysis of the subject clitic a in the Friulian variety of Campone [PDF]
, 2015 This article presents a syntactic analysis of the third person subject clitic a in Camponese, a heretofore unstudied Friulian variety. Following Poletto's (2000) map of subject clitics, we argue that it bears [+third person] features, and is, in fact ...
, Jan Casalicchio, Masutti, Vania
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Morphological complexity without abstractness: Italo-Romance metaphony [PDF]
Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics, 2011 This paper considers some selected cases of stressed vowel alternations arisen from the application of metaphony in Italo-Romance dialects. While similar cases are often reported in the literature, the ones picked up here stand out because they resist, for several reasons, any analysis treating metaphony as a synchronic phonological rule (albeit ...
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Modeling Syntactic Change under Contact: The Case of Italiot Greek
Languages, 2021 In this paper, we investigate patterns of persistence and change affecting the syntax of nominal structures in Italiot Greek in comparison to Modern (and Ancient) Greek, and we explore the role of Southern Italo-Romance as a potential source of ...
Cristina Guardiano, Melita Stavrou
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Introduction. Generative Diachronic Syntax : word order and information structure [PDF]
, 2011 In recent times, there has been an increasing concern for the interaction between information structure and syntax, and its effect in language change.1 The aim of this volume is to provide the reader with comparative research into the role of ...
Batllori, Montserrat +1 more
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