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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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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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Exploiting microvariation: How to make the best of your incomplete data [PDF]
, 2018 n this article we discuss the use of big corpuses or databases as a first step for qualitative analysis of linguistic data. We concentrate on ASIt, the Syntactic Atlas of Italy, and take into consideration the different types of dialectal data that can ...
Garzonio, Jacopo, Poletto, Cecilia
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On the development of a new standard norm in Italian [PDF]
, 2017 This chapter provides an overview of the main topics concerning the restandardization process of Italian. We will first discuss some general issues related to the Italian sociolinguistic situation, paying special attention to the status of Italo-Romance ...
Cerruti, Massimo +2 more
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Partitives and Indefinites: Phenomena in Italian Varieties
Studia Linguistica, Volume 76, Issue 1, Page 56-100, April 2022., 2022 Abstract This contribution examines the relation between genitives/ partitives and indefinites in some Italian varieties. A central question concerns the nature of the preposition de/di (DE) ‘of’ (< Latin de), specifically investigated in contexts where it does not introduce the usual possessive or partitive reading: bare partitives/Partitive articles ...
Benedetta Baldi, Leonardo M. Savoia
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Reduplication as a Strategy for -ever Free Relatives: Semantic and Syntactic Observations*
Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali, 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.
Giuseppina Silvestri
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A Special (Question) View on Wh-Doubling in Lombard Varieties
Languages, 2023 In this article, we examine a specific type of Wh-Doubling (WhD) that can be observed in some Northern Lombard varieties. Differently from all the previous types of WhD described for Lombard and other Northern Italo-Romance varieties, in the phenomenon ...
Jacopo Garzonio +2 more
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Partitive Articles and Indefinites, Micro and Macrovariation
Studia Linguistica, Volume 76, Issue 1, Page 1-12, April 2022., 2022 Abstract This introductory paper provides an overview of the main phenomena investigated in this Special Issue, such as the relation between the encoding of indefinites and the presence of genitive and definite markers, the relation between partitivity and indefiniteness and the distribution of these phenomena in minority, or “micro”, varieties – such ...
Francesco Pinzin, Cecilia Poletto
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Vowel duration in stressed position in central & northern varieties of standard Italian [PDF]
, 2011 We report the results of a pilot study investigating the effect of 2 regional accents on stressed vowel duration according to word-position and syllable type in Central v. Northern accents of Standard Italian.
Hajek, John, Lee, Wai-Sum, Stevens, Mary
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Debunking Rhaeto-Romance: Synchronic Evidence from Two Peripheral Northern Italian Dialects
Modern Languages Open, 2020 This paper explores two peripheral Northern Italian dialects (NIDs), namely Lamonat and Frignanese, with respect to their genealogical linguistic classification.
Simone De Cia, Jessica Iubini-Hampton
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