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Rule scattering and vowel length in Northern Romance
Papers in Historical Phonology, 2016 In this paper I reconsider the synchronic status of distinctive vowel length and vowel lengthening and shortening rules in Northern Romance varieties, in light of Loporcaro’s (2015) wide-ranging study of vowel quantity in numerous Romance dialects ...
Pavel Iosad
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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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Studia Romanica Posnaniensia, 2016 The aim of this paper is to present a first dialectometric approach to the geolinguistic distribution of the Romance varieties using a new corpus based on the Atlas Linguistique Roman (ALiR) which is currently being developed at the Centro Ramón Piñeiro ...
Esteve Valls, Manuel González
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Living on the Edge. On Bare and Non-Bare NCIs across Italo-Romance
Languages, 2023 This article describes and discusses some properties of the distribution of Negative Concord Items (NCIs) in the Italo-Romance domain, taking into account both varieties of Italian and varieties of other Italo-Romance languages.
Jacopo Garzonio, Cecilia Poletto
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LingBaW, 2020 The relation between morpho-syntactic structure and its externalization into interpretive levels is the topic of this article. In many languages, typically in Romance and Albanian varieties, modal contexts, specifically imperative and infinitive, and ...
Benedetta Baldi, Leonardo M. Savoia
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Isogloss, 2021 This study aims to add to a rich scholarship on the presence of a verb second constraint in old (Italo-)Romance that has been argued to cause V-to-C raising of both the finite verb and one or more constituents, provided we understand this constraint to ...
Onkar Singh
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Linguistics, 2022 Perfective stem allomorphy and stress are morphological traits which interact in complex ways in Romance verbal inflection. This article surveys the whole range of variation of these traits across Romance varieties, typologizes the observed interactions ...
Herce Borja
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Indefiniteness in Francoprovençal. A Real Bare de? New Hints from the Consonantal Liaison
Géolinguistique, 2022 In Romance languages the indefinite articles are generally the result of prepositions + determiners (P + D) contraction, de + definite Article, combined with nominals within indefinite Determiners Phrases (DPs).
Michela Russo
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Linguistica, 2016 This article analyzes the distribution of conditional clauses in multiple complementizer constructions, showing that preposed adverbial clauses could occupy in early Italo-Romance varieties different specifier positions within the left periphery of ...
Nicola Munaro
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Computer modelling of innovations relative to Latin in contemporary Romance dialects
IsoglossThis study relies on a corpus illustrating several dozen Romance dialects from France, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Spain and Portugal, for which 145 innovations relative to Latin have been encoded in the form of 1 (presence) or 0 (absence).
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