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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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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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Voice and functional structure in Italo-Romance tough-constructions
IsoglossThis 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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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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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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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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An interview on linguistic variation with... Paola Benincà [PDF]
, 2016 This is an interview to Paola ...
Benincà, Paola
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Crossing Form and Function: First and Second Person Plural Imperatives in the Dialect of Mesocco [PDF]
, 2017 This paper proposes an explanation for the rise and fall of a 1pl imperative ending in the dialect of Mesocco, a Northern Italo-Romance variety from southern Switzerland.
Loporcaro, Michele
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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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