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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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Methodological issues for the study of phonetic variation in the Italo-Romance dialects [PDF]
, 2011 In questo articolo si discutono alcune tecniche di elicitazione e se ne valuta l’adeguatezza per lo studio della variazione fonetica nei dialetti italiani.
Abete, Giovanni
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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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Variation at the Interfaces in Ibero-Romance. Catalan and Spanish Prosody and Word Order [PDF]
, 2013 We are grateful to Joan Borràs-Comes for kindly providing us with the map that appears in Figure 1. Alba Chacón, Verònica Crespo-Sendra and Marianna Nadeu deserve a special mention for having participated unselfishly as narrators of the short picture ...
Fernández Soriano, Olga +1 more
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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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Introduction: Balkan Romance Within the Balkan Sprachbund
LanguagesThis 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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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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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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On triple auxiliation in Romance [PDF]
, 2017 Romance languages divide into three classes, as far as perfective auxiliation is concerned: as well as languages showing a binary contrast (e.g., French) and languages showing no contrast (e.g., Spanish), several varieties exist in which auxiliation ...
Loporcaro, Michele
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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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