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Clitic syntax in areal linguistics

Isogloss
In this study, we present the results of a linguistic survey conducted using AlpiLinK, a corpus of crowdsourced data, to highlight the potential of such a tool when dealing with areal contact. The data concern the syntax of clitics and prodrop phenomena
Romano Madaro, Michele Cosentino, Ermenegildo Bidese, Simone Barco   +3 more
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Global harms, local profits: How the uneven costs of natural disasters affect support for green political platforms

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Large‐scale fires are becoming increasingly common due to climate change. While conventional wisdom suggests that firsthand experiences with natural disasters foster green coalitions by raising awareness of environmental degradation, we propose an alternative view: Natural disasters can heighten the perceived trade‐off between economic ...
Silvia Pianta, Paula Rettl
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When three become two

Isogloss
This article reconsiders the evidence for an original ternary complementizer system in the Italo-Greek dialects of southern Italy and how such a system was replicated in the neighbouring Romance dialects under contact.
Adam Ledgeway, Norma Schifano, Giuseppina Silvestri   +2 more
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Obesity and the Politics of Taddeo di Bartolo's Inferno

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines Taddeo di Bartolo's depiction of Hell in the Collegiata di Santa Maria Assunta, the mother church of San Gimignano. In a striking departure from similar scenes of the period, the fresco, painted in the early fifteenth century, emphasizes the obesity of the sinners—suggesting a deliberate visual critique.
Stefania Roccas Gandal
wiley   +1 more source

Remarks on the diachronic reconstruction of intonational patterns in Romance with special attention to Occitan as a bridge language

Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2003
This paper approaches Romance intonation from a diachronic point of view. The position that is adopted is that this is an area open to investigation. Comparative techniques can be fruitfully employed for investigating the evolution and diversification of
José Ignacio Hualde
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The propredicative clitic in Italo-romance: a micro-parametric variation approach

Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali, 2020
In this paper we describe the distribution of propredicative clitics in nominal copular constructions across different Italo-romance varieties. Different lexical items are recruited from the lexicon to cliticize the predicative NP, all of them either ...
Paolo Lorusso, Andrea Moro
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Envisioning Liberal Internationalism: Mapping and the League of Nations' Geographical Department

The Geographical Journal, Volume 192, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper argues that mapping was a foundational technology through which the idea of liberal internationalism was actively produced. Focusing on the League of Nations' Geographical Department, we show how a new sphere of international challenges was constituted where none had previously existed or been widely agreed upon.
Jake Hodder, Philip Jagessar
wiley   +1 more source

Patterns of variation in existential constructions

Isogloss, 2015
The main goal of the present paper is twofold: on the one hand, to highlight the patterns of variation among the existential constructions found in Italo-Romance and Sardinian dialects; on the other, to examine the observed microvariation in a ...
Silvio Cruschina
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Clitics are not enough: on agreement and null subjects in Brazilian Venetan

Glossa, 2021
This paper presents some facts about the syntax of subject pronouns in contact. We investigate agreement and EPP-checking in Brazilian Venetan, a heritage northern Italo-Romance variety spoken in southern Brazil in contact with Brazilian Portuguese ...
Alberto Frasson
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Becoming legal: feminism and abortion law in 1970s Italy

Journal of Law and Society, Volume 53, Issue 2, Page 211-238, June 2026.
Abstract Conventional top‐down approaches to legal reform tend to overlook the contributions of social movements in legal change, often resulting in a gender‐blind analysis. In response, I advance ‘becoming legal’ as an analytical framework to rethink legal change in terms of a bottom‐up process encompassing informal proceedings as well as formal ...
ELENA CARUSO
wiley   +1 more source