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Reduplication as a strategy for ever- free relatives: semantic and syntactic observations [PDF]
, 2019 Italo-Romance varieties display a typologically rare strategy to realize the unconditional (or free-choice) free relative clauses, i.e. the reduplication of the verb complex.
Silvestri, Giuseppina
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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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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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An interview on linguistic variation with... Paola Benincà [PDF]
, 2016 This is an interview to Paola ...
Benincà, Paola
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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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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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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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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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Existentials and Locatives in Romance Dialects of Italy [PDF]
, 2020 This volume provides the first ever large-scale comparative treatment of there sentences (there copula NP), reporting the results of a survey of Italo-Romance and Sardinian dialects of Italy.
Bentley, Delia +2 more
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