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Auxiliary Selection in Italo-Romance
, 2023 This book proposes a new solution to the long-standing puzzle of auxiliary selection in Romance languages, in particular Italian. The following questions are addressed: why the perfect auxiliary appears in the two forms be and have within a single ...
Irene Amato
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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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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
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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
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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
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“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.
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Structural Change in Relative Clauses and the Autonomy of Heritage Grammars
Languages, 2022 This paper addresses the question of structural change in relative clauses in heritage speakers of two varieties of Venetan, a northern Italo-Romance language.
Alberto Frasson
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Indexicality is not affected by contact: Ternary demonstrative systems in Italo-Romance HLs
, 2020 I discuss the patterns of change attested in Italo-Romance heritage varieties ternary demonstrative ...
Silvia Terenghi
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Pragmatic Uses of Negation in Chipileño Spanish (Mexico)
Languages, 2020 This paper discusses two negation types (standard negation (SN), negative doubling (ND)) in Chipileño Spanish, a variety that has emerged as a result of contact between Spanish and Veneto (an Italo-Romance language) in Mexico.
Olga Tararova
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IL CONTRIBUTO DELL’ITALIANO AL LESSICO LUDICO DEL TURCO DI TURCHIA
Italiano LinguaDue, 2021 L’articolo ha lo scopo di studiare gli elementi lessicali turchi nel campo semantico dei giochi di società e d’azzardo supposti essere prestiti dall’italiano o da altre varietà italo-romanze (come il veneziano e il genovese).
Gianguido Manzelli
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