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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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 ...
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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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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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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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Historical Linguistics: Afro-Romanic, Basque and the origins of Ibero-Romance languages [PDF]
, 2016 This paper presents the state of the art regarding questions such as: How much do we know about the continuity of Latin in Northwest Africa between the 5th and the 10th centuries? How well do we know Afro-Romanic? Could we determine some basic linguistic
Francisco Marcos-Marin
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Is it really the Accusative? A Century-Old Controversy Revisited [PDF]
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Gaeng, Paul A.
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O último cigarro, o primeiro lápis: a vida como rascunho em A consciência de zeno, de Italo Svevo
Literatura e Sociedade, 2018 Em sua obra prima, A consciência de Zeno, a autobiografia ficcional de um velho, Italo Svevo estabelece uma ligação íntima entre a velhice como retirada da vita activa, recolhimento à inutilidade, e as possibilidades de reinvenção do mundo abertas pela ...
Fábio de Souza Andrade
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