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Romance varieties of the Italian peninsula

2018
Chapter 2 investigates the differing patterns of verb placement attested across a selection of varieties of the Italian peninsula. After a description of the placement of the present indicative verb in the northern, central, and southern regional varieties of Italian, as well as in a selection of northern, central, upper southern, extreme southern, and
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The history of terms for varieties of Gallo-Romance

Abstract The various terms for the object of linguistic study—language, dialect, idiom, speech, patois—defy scientific definition. Typically, language is distinguished from the others by various tests, none of which stand up to close scrutiny.
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Variation and change in the presentational constructions of north-western Italo-Romance varieties

2013
This paper examines variation and change in argument realization shown by the evolution of presentational, existential and event-reporting structures in the indigenous linguistic varieties of north-west Italy from the medieval period to the present. The common function of these constructions, namely the introduction of a new entity or situation into ...
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Demonstrative Systems Are Not Affected by Contact: Evidence from Heritage Southern Italo-Romance

Languages, 2022
Silvia Terenghi
exaly  

Varieties in Translation: Adaptation and Translation between French and English Arthurian Romance

2013
The dissertation is a study of the fascinating and variable approaches to translation and adaptation during the Middle Ages. I analyze four anonymous Middle English texts and two tales from Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur that are translations and adaptations of Old French Arthurian romances.
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The Role of SE and NE in Romance Verbs of Directed Motion: Evidence from Catalan, Italian, Aragonese and Spanish Varieties

Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 2021
Anna Pineda
exaly  

Cognitive Sociolinguistics in Northeastern Peninsular Romance Frontier Varieties

2021
Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano, Andrea Ariño-Bizarro, María Teresa Moret-Oliver   +2 more
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The Adriatic and the Romance of National Variety

2012
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Tracing Romance Varieties in the Adriatic Region: Past and Present [PDF]

Tracing Romance Varieties in the Adriatic Region: Past and ...
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Structural convergence of two Ibero-Romance varieties

2021
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