Italo-Romance morphology studies : an introduction
Egle Mocciaro
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Cultura da conexão, paranoia, sociedade do cansaço e poéticas do romance como enciclopédia aberta
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]
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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New Insights on the Question Particle "a" in Sardinian [PDF]
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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Modeling Syntactic Change under Contact: The Case of Italiot Greek
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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Indefiniteness and Specificity in Old Italian Texts [PDF]
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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Omonimie sistematiche e assi del paradigma nel verbo italoromanzo centromeridionale
The present paper aims to provide a brief survey of two kinds of morphological change shown by the diachronic development of the Central-Southern Italo-Romance verbal system.
Paolo Milizia
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Clitic syntax in areal linguistics
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 +3 more
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Clitics are not enough: on agreement and null subjects in Brazilian Venetan
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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Acoustic cues of palatalisation in plosive + lateral onset clusters [PDF]
Palatalisation of /l/ in obstruent + lateral onset clusters in the absence of a following palatal sound has received a considerable amount of attention from historical linguistics.
Martín Mota, Sidney, Müller, Daniela
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