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The propredicative clitic in Italo-romance: a micro-parametric variation approach [PDF]
Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali, 2020 In this paper we describe the distribution of propredicative clitics in nominal copular constructions across different Italo-romance varieties. Different lexical items are recruited from the lexicon to cliticize the predicative NP, all of them either ...
Paolo Lorusso, Andrea Moro
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Focalization and Word Order in Old Italo-Romance [PDF]
Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2011 This paper sets out a comparison between modern and old Italo-Romance varieties with the aim of understanding the mechanisms that characterize the syntactic operations associated with the information structure of the sentence, as well as identifying ...
Silvio Cruschina
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Perfective Auxiliary Selection in Heritage Italo-Romance
Romanica CracoviensiaThis paper discusses two mechanisms of auxiliary selection (intransitive and person-driven splits) from heritage Italo-Romance varieties (Venetan, Abruzzese, and Apulo-Barese) in contact with Spanish,
Luigi Andriani, Roberta D’Alessandro
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A Protocol for Indefinite Determiners in Italian and Italo-Romance [PDF]
, 2021 This paper focuses on weak indefinite nominals in Italian and Italo-Romance varieties. It presents the rich variation found across Italo-Romance in a pan-Romance perspective and claims that Italo-Romance displays a robust use of the definite article with
Giusti
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Verb-Second and (micro)-variation in two Rhaeto-Romance varieties of Northern Italy. [PDF]
, 2018 Rhaeto-Romance varieties are the only present-day Romance varieties which exhibit the Verb Second constraint (Benincà 1985/6, Poletto 2002, Salvi 2010).
Casalicchio, J. +2 more
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Pathways of Grammaticalisation in southern Italo-Romance [PDF]
, 2020 The aim of this contribution is to discuss three possible theoretical interpretations of grammaticalised structures in present-day Italo-Romance varieties.
Silvestri, Giuseppina +4 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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