Vowel duration, compression and lengthening in stressed syllables in Italian [PDF]
, 2007 The focus of this study is on temporal organization, specifically of vowel duration, in stressed syllables in (standard) Italian. We investigate possible compression effects on the duration of stressed vowels according to wordposition (final, penult and ...
Hajek, John +3 more
core +1 more source
Remarks on the diachronic reconstruction of intonational patterns in Romance with special attention to Occitan as a bridge language [PDF]
, 2003 This paper approaches Romance intonation from a diachronic point of view. The position that is adopted is that this is an area open to investigation. Comparative techniques can be fruitfully employed for investigating the evolution and diversification of
Barlow, Chris +6 more
core +6 more sources
Brazilian Venetan is going leísta
Isogloss, 2023 This paper discusses language variation in heritage languages, focussing on a peculiar use of the dative clitic ghe in Brazilian Venetan, a heritage northern Italo-Romance variety. Corpus data and grammaticality judgments by native speakers showed that,
Alberto Frasson
doaj +1 more source
Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2023 In this paper we discuss a change in the auxiliary selectional pattern of Brazilian Venetan, a heritage Italo-Romance variety spoken in southern Brazil.
Roberta D’Alessandro, Alberto Frasson
doaj +1 more source
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
doaj +1 more source
On Preverbal Negation in Sicilian and Syntactic Parasitism [PDF]
, 2015 In this paper the authors describe two different cases of CP negation in Sicilian dialects. The first element is a left periphery adverb that is derived from a grammaticalized negative cleft.
Garzonio, Jacopo, Poletto, Cecilia
core +3 more sources
Stative vs. Eventive Participles in an Arbëresh Variety under the Influence of the Italian Language
Languages, 2023 In this paper, I explore the properties and the uses of the past participles in the Arbëresh variety of S. Nicola dell’Alto, an Albanian dialect still spoken in Southern Italy, which has been in contact with Italo-Romance varieties for more than five ...
Giuseppina Turano
doaj +1 more source
New Insights on the Question Particle "a" in Sardinian [PDF]
, 2015 The article analyzes the Sardinian question particle a in yes/no "special" questions. Following Obenauer (2004, 2006), this particle is taken to mark special interrogative clauses that cannot be answered with yes or no as they denote invitations or ...
Mensching, Guido
core +2 more sources
“It sounds like the language spoken by those living by the seaside” – language attitudes towards the local Italo-romance variety of Ghanaian immigrants in Bergamo [PDF]
International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2018 AbstractIn this article, I focus on the position of Bergamasco, the Italo-romance variety spoken in the Province of Bergamo (Northern Italy), in the linguistic repertoire of the local Ghanaian immigrant community. I argue that Ghanaian immigrants do not speak Bergamasco since the local people refrain from speaking Bergamasco to them.
openaire +1 more source
Patterns of variation in existential constructions [PDF]
, 2015 The main goal of the present paper is twofold: on the one hand, to highlight the patterns of variation among the existential constructions found in Italo-Romance and Sardinian dialects; on the other, to examine the observed microvariation in a ...
Cruschina, Silvio
core +3 more sources