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Living on the Edge. On Bare and Non-Bare NCIs across Italo-Romance
Languages, 2023 This article describes and discusses some properties of the distribution of Negative Concord Items (NCIs) in the Italo-Romance domain, taking into account both varieties of Italian and varieties of other Italo-Romance languages.
Jacopo Garzonio +2 more
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Enclisis, mesoclisis and inflection in Italo-Romance varieties: A minimalist analysis
LingBaW, 2023 This contribution addresses a central theme in morphological analysis, namely the relationship between clitics and inflectional elements. Important contributions on the point are due to Anderson (1992) and Marantz (1988), who, in different ways, connect
Leonardo M. Savoia, Benedetta Baldi
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LingBaW, 2020 The relation between morpho-syntactic structure and its externalization into interpretive levels is the topic of this article. In many languages, typically in Romance and Albanian varieties, modal contexts, specifically imperative and infinitive, and ...
Benedetta Baldi, Leonardo M. Savoia
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Demonstrative Systems Are Not Affected by Contact: Evidence from Heritage Southern Italo-Romance
Languages, 2022 Deictic information is present in every language; yet, there are significant differences as to how exactly such information is encoded, yielding different indexical systems across languages.
Silvia Terenghi
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Isogloss, 2022 In this paper, I address the problem of auxiliary selection in Standard Italian and in Southern Italo-Romance varieties. In the former, the auxiliary depends on the argument structure, in the latter on the person feature of the subject.
Irene Amato
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Isogloss, 2021 This study aims to add to a rich scholarship on the presence of a verb second constraint in old (Italo-)Romance that has been argued to cause V-to-C raising of both the finite verb and one or more constituents, provided we understand this constraint to ...
Onkar Singh
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Grammaticalization of auxiliary verb constructions: The case of Italo-Romance mixed perfective auxiliation systems and the ‘MIXPAR’ project [PDF]
Linguistica Pragensia, 2022 This paper deals with auxiliary verb constructions in Romance, in particular with those that exhibit two auxiliary verbs ‘have’ and ‘be’ which alternate, in many Italo-Romance varieties, within one and the same paradigm.
Pavel Štichauer
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UNINTENTIONAL MONUMENTS, OR THE MATERIALIZING OF AN OPEN PAST
History and Theory, Volume 61, Issue 2, Page 242-268, June 2022., 2022 ABSTRACT This article examines the emergence of a new epistemic value that was attributed to remnants of the past during the broad debate on historical evidence in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: the unintentionality of the testimony.
LISA REGAZZONI
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Linguistica, 2016 This article analyzes the distribution of conditional clauses in multiple complementizer constructions, showing that preposed adverbial clauses could occupy in early Italo-Romance varieties different specifier positions within the left periphery of ...
Nicola Munaro
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Studia Linguistica, Volume 76, Issue 1, Page 130-166, April 2022., 2022 Abstract In this paper, we focus on two constructions that allow preverbal subjects headed by a so‐called partitive article in French, that is, sentences with a stage‐level predicate and generic emphatic constructions. The aim is to explain why their counterparts were generally not accepted by speakers of Francoprovençal, an endangered and understudied
Tabea Ihsane
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