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Morphosyntactic Variation and Change in Italian

Italian is an Italo-Romance language based upon a form of Tuscan, old Florentine. For centuries, Italian was a literary language mastered only by well-educated elites. In contrast, almost the entire population spoke a local variety of Italo-Romance.
Michela Cennamo, Francesco Maria Ciconte
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Quantifying trends of indefiniteness strategies in bilectal speakers of Sicilian and Italian

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In this contribution, we use quantitative methods to account for trends of indefiniteness strategies (e.g. Italian Bevo del vino ‘I drink some wine’) in bilectal speakers of central Sicilian and Italian.
Vincenzo Nicolò Di Caro, Giuseppe Samo
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Complementizer doubling and subject extraction in Italo-Romance

, 2018
In this article I analyze the complementizer doubling construction attested in some early and modern Italo-Romance varieties, where a preposed (clausal or non clausal) constituent associated to the selected clause appears in the embedded left periphery ...
Munaro, Nicola, Nicola Munaro
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Complementizer deletion and the split hypothesis

Isogloss
In Italian and Italo-Romance, the omission of the complementizer takes (at least) three distinct forms: CD1, observable in standard Italian, and CD2 and CD3 available in two Tuscan varieties, respectively in Florentine and Pisano.
Elena Isolani
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Isogloss
In this work we show that Old Italo-Romance varieties have two types of pragmatic related movement to the left periphery of both the clausal and nominal domains: one that focuses the moved constituent itself and another that marks the moved constituent ...
Tommaso Balsemin, Francesco Pinzin, Cecilia Poletto   +2 more
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Auxiliary Selection in Italo-Romance

, 2021
In this paper I address the problem of auxiliary selection, which is the alternation between BE and HAVE as auxiliaries in the perfect. In some languages, such as in Standard Italian, the auxiliary depends on the argument structure.
Irene Amato
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Verb movement in Florentine

Isogloss
Complementizer deletion (CD) in Italo-Romance varieties branches off in two different pathways: CD1, present in standard Italian with a bridge selecting verb and an irrealis embedded verb and CD2, available in Florentine and associated with a bridge or ...
ELENA ISOLANI
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Greek and Romance unagreement in Calabria

, 2017
The term ‘unagreement’ describes configurations with an apparent person-mismatch between a typically definite plural subject and non-third person verbal agreement found in several null subject languages. Previous works have suggested that languages which
Georg F.K. Höhn, M. Olimpia Squillaci, Silvestri, Giuseppina, Höhn, Georg F. K., Giuseppina Silvestri, Squillaci, M. Olimpia   +5 more
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Possessives with kinship terms in Italian and Italo-Romance dialects

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This study investigates the acceptability of constructions containing third-person possessives combined with singular and plural kinship terms in adult bilectal speakers of Italian and different Italo-Romance varieties spoken in six different geographic
Francesca Volpato, Gianluca Lebani
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2024 ACVIM Forum Research Abstract Program

Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine, Volume 38, Issue 5, Page 2840-2970, September/October 2024.
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