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Perfective Auxiliary Selection in Heritage Italo-Romance
This 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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Tratti binari e tratti monovalenti nella rappresentazione delle vocali
The paper deals with the nature of segmental primitives. Although the conception of features as binary units has dominated phonological literature for decades, it has been challenged in convincing ways by the alternative theory according to which ...
Laura Bafile
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An interview on linguistic variation with... Paola Benincà [PDF]
This is an interview to Paola ...
Benincà, Paola
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Morphosyntactic Reorganization Phenomena in Arbëresh Dialects: The Neuter
Italo-Albanian communities show diff erent degrees of mixing between Arbresh, the local Albanian dialect, and the Romance variety in contact. In some Arberesh dialects the mixing is extensive, aff ecting lexicon, morpho-syntax and phonology.
Benedetta Baldi, Leonardo M. Savoia
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Addressing Polymorphism in Linguistic Phylogenetics
Abstract Understanding how languages change is important not only for the reconstruction of protolanguages and for estimating diversification dates (i.e. the dates when languages split), but also for the inference of evolutionary trees (or phylogenetic networks) of language families.
Marc E. Canby +3 more
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The Italo-Albanian communities of Southern Italy were formed in the 15th century when whole populations migrated from the territory of Southern Albania due to Turkish pressure. Today we find 50 communities in which Albanian variety is still spoken.
Leonardo M. Savoia
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Italské rafforzamento fonosintattico a jeho role v tzv. smíšených paradigmatech : The Italian Rafforzamento Fonosintattico and its Role in Mixed Paradigms [PDF]
This paper addresses the issue of rafforzamento fonosintattico (RF), phonosyntactic doubling, typical of a wide range of Italo-Romance dialects, and its relation to the phenomenon of mixed paradigms, also attested in a number of Italian varieties.
Pavel Štichauer
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Abstract The primary aim of this work is to propose a diachrony of complementizer systems in the upper southern Italian dialects (USIDs). While previous diachronic studies have focused mainly on the transition from Latin to Romance, we aim to address several unanswered questions about the transition from medieval southern Italo‐Romance—in particular ...
Sara N. Cardullo, Kim A. Groothuis
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Variation at the Interfaces in Ibero-Romance. Catalan and Spanish Prosody and Word Order [PDF]
We are grateful to Joan Borràs-Comes for kindly providing us with the map that appears in Figure 1. Alba Chacón, Verònica Crespo-Sendra and Marianna Nadeu deserve a special mention for having participated unselfishly as narrators of the short picture ...
Fernández Soriano, Olga +1 more
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Short vs Long Stem Alternations in Romance Verbal Inflection: The S‐Morphome
Abstract Some verbs in Romance (e.g. the reflexes of faciō ‘do’, dīcō ‘say’, habeō ‘have’, sapiō ‘know’, possum ‘be able’, and volō ‘want’) display alternations between a short (e.g. It. f‐are, f‐a, d‐ire) and a long (e.g. It. fac‐evo, dic‐e, dic‐evo) stem.
Borja Herce, Chundra A. Cathcart
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