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Phase-edge properties and complementizer omission [PDF]
This paper deals with the diachrony of complementizer omission (C-omission) in some Italian clauses. C-omission is restricted to clauses with [-realis] mood in Old as well as in Modern Italian, and to some types of declarative clauses in Modern ...
Franco, Irene
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Abstract This study investigates the lexicographical potential of Medieval Latin documentation from the Venetian area of the Italo‐Romance domain, highlighting the need for a systematic approach to bridge Latin and vernacular linguistic developments. The project MEDITA – Medieval Latin Documentation and Digital Italo‐Romance Lexicography.
Jacopo Gesiot
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Matrix complementizers in Italo-Romance
Based on uncharted evidence from Italo-Romance, we describe and discuss three types of matrix clauses, i.e. jussives, concessives and optatives, which reveal a certain degree of consistency but also display different patterns of microvariation. We show how such clauses may be introduced by complementizers, whose insertion is strictly dependent on the ...
Valentina Colasanti +1 more
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German and Romance varieties in contact in northeastern Italy
Northeastern Italy offers several sites where a variety of German is in contact with Italian, Italo-Romance, or Rhaeto-Romance: All of these contact situations vary according to sociolinguistic and extralinguistic factors, such as the composition of the
Silvia Dal Negro
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Sites of Contact and Models of Change: Introduction
This Special Issue of Transactions of the Philological Society grew out of a Symposium held in November 2023 at St John's College, Cambridge, in honour of our friend and colleague, Peter Matthews, who died on 7 April 2023. Both the Symposium and the Special Issue were commissioned by the Council of the Philological Society in his memory.
Sylvia Adamson, Nigel Vincent
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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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How founders' values enable business model innovation in new ventures: The case of Magnum Photos
Abstract Research Summary This study explores why and how founders' values lead them to design novel business models. To address these questions, we conducted a historical case study of Magnum Photos, a photo agency whose novel business model revolutionized magazine photography in the mid‐20th century.
Anastasia Sergeeva, Christoph Zott
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What Can Be Changed Through Contact? Possessive Syntax in Megleno-Romanian and Eolian Compared
This article explores the order of possessives with respect to nouns in Megleno-Romanian, a branch of Daco-Romance, and Eolian, a variety of southern Italo-Romance.
Sara N. Cardullo, Ștefania Costea
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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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Four-gender systems in Indo-European [PDF]
A long-established tenet of Indo-European linguistics says that grammatical gender systems all along the history of this language phylum were maximally tripartite and generally tended toward a reduction of gender contrasts. In this article, we shall show
Loporcaro, Michele, Paciaroni, Tania
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