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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, Hernanz, Ma. Lluïsa   +1 more
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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 ...
openaire   +2 more sources

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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Omonimie sistematiche e assi del paradigma nel verbo italoromanzo centromeridionale

Atti del Sodalizio Glottologico Milanese, 2018
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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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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Acoustic cues of palatalisation in plosive + lateral onset clusters [PDF]

, 2009
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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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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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, Manzini, M. Rita, Savoia, Leonardo M.   +2 more
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The Syntactic Status of Subject Clitics: A Problem from Venetan SE‐Constructions

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This article reopens the discussion on the syntax of subject clitics (SCLs) in Venetan dialects by providing a problematic piece of data and outlining its theoretical consequences. New evidence from se‐constructions in Alto Polesine Venetan (APV) shows that SCLs resist a unitary categorisation even within the same dialect group: in varieties ...
Marco Fioratti, Leonardo Russo Cardona
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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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