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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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Differential Object Marking and the properties of D in the dialects of the extreme south of Italy
Glossa, 2019 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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Coarticulation vs Phonologization: Evidence from Southern Italo-Romance [PDF]
JASA Express LettersThis 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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Maltese as a merger of two worlds: A cross-language approach to phonotactic classification. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 Nieder J, Tomaschek F.
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