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On (in)definite ART in Italian and Italo-Romance varieties

Intercultural Pragmatics
Abstract This paper addresses the challenging nature of definiteness and indefiniteness, focusing on several non-canonical interpretations of the definite article (ART) in Italian. The core objective is to demonstrate that so-called “indefinite definites” should be unified with canonical indefinites, rather than being grouped with ...
Giuliana Giusti
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Auxiliary selection in other Italo-Romance varieties

Linguistik Aktuell, 2023
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Ghanaian Immigrants and the Twofold Potential of Italo-Romance Dialects

Palgrave studies in minority languages and communities, 2022
In present-day Italy, there are huge differences in the way immigrants adapt to the Italo-Romance varieties spoken in the receiving communities. Attitudes range from almost complete accommodation of the whole repertoire —i.e.
Federica Guerini
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Expletives in some southern Italo-Romance varieties and the typology of silent arguments of predication

In this talk we investigate the distribution of deictic expletives in some southern Italo-Romance varieties from inner Cilento (Campania), in the light of the current debate on expletives in Italo-Romance, their morphosyntax, semantics, pragmatics and diachrony (Benincà 1994; Manzini & Savoia 2005, I: 172-196; Bernini 2012; Parry 2013; Pescarini 2014,
Cennamo, M.
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17 Discourse traditions in early Italo-Romance varieties

2022
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Variation and change in the presentational constructions of north-western Italo-Romance varieties

2013
This paper examines variation and change in argument realization shown by the evolution of presentational, existential and event-reporting structures in the indigenous linguistic varieties of north-west Italy from the medieval period to the present. The common function of these constructions, namely the introduction of a new entity or situation into ...
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The epistemic future in exported grammars: a comparison between two Italo-Romance speech communities

Romanistisches Jahrbuch, 2023
Giuseppina Silvestri
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Past and Present of Italian and Italo-Romance Varieties in Istria and New York

The talk explored parallels between the historical trajectory of Italian and other Italo-Romance varieties spoken in Croatia by the Italian National minority, and in New York.
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Pathways of Grammaticalisation in Italo-Romance

Probus, 2020
Kim A Groothuis, Giuseppina Silvestri
exaly  

Expletive Subject Clitics in Northern Italo-Romance

Languages, 2022
Diego Pescarini
exaly