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Varieties of ESSE in Romance languages
Proceedings of the International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, 2001 In French, Italian, and Romanian, forms inherited from the Latin paradigm 'esse' are used for the copula, the passive auxiliary and tense or perfective auxiliaries. We show that the copula and the passive auxiliary should be identified, while the tense or perfective auxiliaries are different lexemes. Moreover, the copula has the same description across
Anne Abeillé, Danièle Godard
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Passive Periphrases in the Romance Languages
, 2021 Romance periphrastic passives are valency-reducing constructions, involving detransitivization of the clause which is variously manifested in: (a) the defocusing of the Agent through its suppression or demotion to an oblique adjunct; (b) the ...
Ledgeway, Adam Noel, Adam Ledgeway
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Judaeo-Italian varieties in the modern era
, 2023 The modern Judaeo-Italian varieties have their origin in the ghettos in central and northern Italy. Their phonetic and morphological systems are almost identical with those of the respective local Italian dialects.
Marcello Aprile
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Negation and polarity in the romance languages
, 2022 Negation in Romance offers a wide array of cross-linguistic variation. For what concerns sentential negation, three main strategies are employed depending on the position of the negative marker with respect to the finite verb: some varieties (e.g ...
Moscati, Vincenzo
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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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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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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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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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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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