O crime na escrita: ética e estética em Anagramas de Varsóvia, de Richard Zimler
No romance Os anagramas de Varsóvia, de Richard Zimler, uma série de assassinatos brutais de crianças, durante a segregação dos judeus em guetos na Segunda Guerra, coloca o leitor diante desse mundo sem afeto e nem compaixão, de que falava Jorge Luis ...
Lyslei Nascimento
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La relation entre accord et concordance dans deux dialectes des Grisons
This article deals with the agreement system of two dialects spoken in southern Switzerland. In both, FPL agreement is marked by the suffix -n, which is a reflex of the 6th person verbal ending. In Bregagliotto, the more conservative dialect of the two, -
Diego Pescarini
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Man, Family, Society: Semantic Shifts from Latin to Romance Languages
The article is devoted to the analysis of some semantic shifts from Latin to Romance languages and in Romance languages per se in lexemes denominating kinship ties and age of a person in the Italo-Romanic area. The article reviews formation of meaning of
I I Chelysheva
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Inchoativity and mirativity in Italo-Romance and Balkan Slavic verbal periphrases.
This paper investigates the properties of GO and TAKE used as functional verbs to express the beginning of an action or a state (inchoativity) or a sense of surprise, wonder, astonishment, or regret (mirativity) as found in a group of multiple verb ...
Vincenzo Nicolò Di Caro, Luca Molinari
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Documenting Italo-Romance minority languages in the Americas. Problems and tentative solutions
This article describes the process of preparation and implementation of a data collection enterprise targeting Italo-Romance emigrant languages in North and South America. This data collection is part of the ERC Microcontact project, which aims to understand language change in contact by examining the language of Italian communities in the Americas.
Andriani Luigi +7 more
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Introduction: Balkan Romance Within the Balkan Sprachbund
This article provides a short introduction to Balkan Romance, examining and exemplifying a number of its principal features. In particular, the discussion begins in §2 with a review of the main morphosyntactic features of the four principal sub-branches ...
Virginia Hill, Adam Ledgeway
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Italo‐Romance Metaphony and the Tuscan Diphthongs [PDF]
AbstractThe historical causes of general so‐called ‘opening’ diphthongization of proto‐Romance low mid vowels in stressed open syllables are an enduring matter of dispute in historical Romance phonology, the two principal positions being that the diphthongs originate in the assimilatory process of metaphony conditioned by following unstressed vowels ...
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Differential Object Marking and the properties of D in the dialects of the extreme south of Italy
This paper discusses two case studies of microvariation in accusative marking in the Italo-Romance varieties of the extreme south of Italy. In particular, the diatopic variation displayed by the dialects of southern Calabria gives rise to peculiar ...
Adam Ledgeway +2 more
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Pro-forms in existential constructions of early Italo-Romance vernaculars
In this paper I consider existential constructions in a corpus of early Italo-Romance texts dating from the C13th to the C16th. In my analysis I put to test Freeze’s (1992) idea that all existential pro-forms are in-variably locative, as existentials are
Ciconte F, Francesco Maria Ciconte
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Coarticulation vs Phonologization: Evidence from Southern Italo-Romance [PDF]
This study compares the variety of Italian spoken in Campania and the Italo-Romance variety of Mormanno (Calabria) to investigate the acoustic differences between phonetic vowel-to-vowel coarticulation and phonologized metaphony.
Pia Greca +2 more
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