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"Pero se escondíamos como las ratas": syncretism in the reflexive paradigm in Spanish and Catalan
Isogloss, 2015 In this paper I provide a description of the reflexive syncretism found in some Spanish and Catalan neighbouring varieties. In these varieties, the 3rd person reflexive pronoun se can also appear with 1st person plural and 2nd person plural verbs.
Carlota de Benito Moreno
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Past Participle Agreement in Five Romance Varieties (1993)
, 2010 Italian morphosyntax is an area where formal syntactic theories can claim some major successes. Perlmutter’s key insights on Italian auxiliaries (1978) led to further research that extends to much wider zones of the language (in GB Burzio 1981, 1986, in RG Davies and Rosen 1988, La Fauci 1988, 1989, 1991, Rosen 1988 [1981], 1990).
LA FAUCI, Nunzio, Rosen, C.
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The effect of language contact on Romance verbal paradigms : an empirical survey [PDF]
Linguística, 2008 Rather than conveying morphosyntactic meaning, conjugation classes determine how such properties are expressed. Conjugation classes are therefore ‘ornamental’ properties of language and clearly not essential to communication.
Ana R. Luís
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Wide-focus subject-verb inversion in Ibero-Romance: A locative account
Glossa, 2016 This paper explores the hypothesis that wide-focus subject-verb inversion in Ibero-Romance is a type of locative inversion, involving a null locative argument.
Alice Corr
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Focalization and Word Order in Old Italo-Romance
Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2011 This paper sets out a comparison between modern and old Italo-Romance varieties with the aim of understanding the mechanisms that characterize the syntactic operations associated with the information structure of the sentence, as well as identifying ...
Silvio Cruschina
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The propredicative clitic in Italo-romance: a micro-parametric variation approach
Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali, 2020 In this paper we describe the distribution of propredicative clitics in nominal copular constructions across different Italo-romance varieties. Different lexical items are recruited from the lexicon to cliticize the predicative NP, all of them either ...
Paolo Lorusso, Andrea Moro
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What Can Be Changed Through Contact? Possessive Syntax in Megleno-Romanian and Eolian Compared
LanguagesThis article explores the order of possessives with respect to nouns in Megleno-Romanian, a branch of Daco-Romance, and Eolian, a variety of southern Italo-Romance.
Sara N. Cardullo, Ștefania Costea
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Cognitive Sociolinguistics in Northeastern Peninsular Romance Frontier Varieties
, 2022 Frontier varieties are the result of a continuous multilinguistic contact situation. Given their “transition” and “mixed” character, these varieties are known to have an elusive genetic filiation and to raise conflicting linguistic attitudes among speakers.
Ibarretxe-Antuñano, Iraide +2 more
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Introduction: Balkan Romance Within the Balkan Sprachbund
LanguagesThis article provides a short introduction to Balkan Romance, examining and exemplifying a number of its principal features. In particular, the discussion begins in §2 with a review of the main morphosyntactic features of the four principal sub-branches ...
Virginia Hill, Adam Ledgeway
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The stress-conditioned split of ŪNU, ŪNA as seen from the Croissant
IsoglossMinority speech varieties often retain insightful archaisms and innovations which are absent from the diachronic descriptive grammars of major national languages. One such innovation is the splitting of the Proto-Romance numeral adjectives ūnu ‘one.masc’
Fabian Zuk
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