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Four-gender systems in Indo-European [PDF]
, 2017 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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What Can Be Changed Through Contact? Possessive Syntax in Megleno-Romanian and Eolian Compared
LanguagesThis 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
Atti del Sodalizio Glottologico Milanese, 2021 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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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 +3 more
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On the notion of linguistic influence in syntax: Evidence from medieval Italo-Romance texts [PDF]
, 2019 This paper tackles the topic of Latin influence on Italo-Romance syntax by addressing the question how to combine the analysis of structural data with socio-historical reflections.
Greco P.
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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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Man, Family, Society: Semantic Shifts from Latin to Romance Languages
Russian journal of linguistics: Vestnik RUDN, 2014 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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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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Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 122, Issue 1, Page 119-150, March 2024.Abstract Degrammaticalisation is an oft‐dismissed category of language change. In this paper evidence is provided for its existence, its triggers, and its conditions. This case study details the development of an understudied Old Italo‐Romance indefinite, covelle, a polarity‐sensitive item roughly translating as ‘anything’ which originated from a Latin
Nicola D’Antuono
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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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