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Genus Alternans in the Early History of Ibero‐Romance: Textual Evidence from Early Medieval Iberian Peninsula

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 2, Page 163-188, July 2025.
Abstract This study revisits the diachrony of the Latin neuter gender in early Ibero‐Romance. The fate of the Latin neuter is counted among the most long‐standing and yet the most controversial questions in Romance historical morphosyntax. While there has been a long‐held belief that neuter nouns merged into the masculine gender in late Latin after ...
Ziwen Wang
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Possessives in indefinite nominal phrases: A comparison between Italo-Romance and Daco-Romance

Moderna Språk, 2020
Southern Italian dialects exhibit a peculiar morphosyntactic device in licensing possessives in non‑definite noun phrases, i.e. the insertion of the functional element de followed by the definite article. This strategy shows striking similarities with
Giuseppina Silvestri
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THE EYE AND THE MIND: MARY CHEVES WEST PERKY, IMAGINATIVE PHENOMENOLOGY, AND THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF REVERSE HALLUCINATION

History and Theory, Volume 63, Issue 3, Page 342-365, September 2024.
ABSTRACT Revisiting the remarkable experimental work of the pioneering early twentieth‐century psychologist Mary Cheves West Perky (1875–1940), this article argues for the historiographical significance of her counterintuitive findings concerning the human imagination and the phenomenon of “reverse hallucination.” By means of an exhaustive and forensic
D. GRAHAM BURNETT
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Introduction: Balkan Romance Within the Balkan Sprachbund

Languages
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]

Transactions of the Philological Society, 2015
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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Addressing Polymorphism in Linguistic Phylogenetics

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 122, Issue 2, Page 191-222, July 2024.
Abstract Understanding how languages change is important not only for the reconstruction of protolanguages and for estimating diversification dates (i.e. the dates when languages split), but also for the inference of evolutionary trees (or phylogenetic networks) of language families.
Marc E. Canby, Steven N. Evans, Donald Ringe, Tandy Warnow   +3 more
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Revisiting Syntactic Microvariation and Diachrony in the Dual Complementizer Systems of Upper Southern Italy1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 122, Issue 2, Page 281-307, July 2024.
Abstract The primary aim of this work is to propose a diachrony of complementizer systems in the upper southern Italian dialects (USIDs). While previous diachronic studies have focused mainly on the transition from Latin to Romance, we aim to address several unanswered questions about the transition from medieval southern Italo‐Romance—in particular ...
Sara N. Cardullo, Kim A. Groothuis
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Voice and functional structure in Italo-Romance tough-constructions

Isogloss
This paper focuses on the amount of functional structure and on the Voice properties of complement clauses in tough-constructions, on the basis of previously unexplored variation patterns in Italo-Romance.
Leonardo Russo Cardona
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Short vs Long Stem Alternations in Romance Verbal Inflection: The S‐Morphome

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 122, Issue 1, Page 49-78, March 2024.
Abstract Some verbs in Romance (e.g. the reflexes of faciō ‘do’, dīcō ‘say’, habeō ‘have’, sapiō ‘know’, possum ‘be able’, and volō ‘want’) display alternations between a short (e.g. It. f‐are, f‐a, d‐ire) and a long (e.g. It. fac‐evo, dic‐e, dic‐evo) stem.
Borja Herce, Chundra A. Cathcart
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Italo Gallo grecista

, 2016
Ricordo di Italo Gallo (1921-2016) quale studioso della letteratura e della civilta ...
MASSIMILLA, GIULIO
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