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1 online resource (xxiv, 349 pages) |
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Oxford studies in diachronic and historical linguistics ; 8 |
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[Oxford linguistics] |
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Oxford studies in diachronic and historical linguistics ; 8.
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Oxford linguistics.
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Cover -- Diachrony and Dialects: Grammatical Change in the Dialects of Italy -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Series preface -- Preface -- For Mair Parry -- List of abbreviations -- Notes on contributors -- 1: Similarity and diversity in the evolution of Italo-Romance morphosyntax -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Dialects -- 1.3 Diachrony -- 1.4 Sources of data -- 1.5 History and theory: analysis and synthesis in the verbal system -- 1.5.1 Typology -- 1.5.2 Compositionality -- 1.5.3 Paradigmaticity -- 1.6 The chapters -- Part I: Verbal Structures |
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2: The development of the southern subjunctive: Morphological loss and syntactic gain2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Morphological marking of the indicative/subjunctive opposition in the south -- 2.2.1 The subjunctive -- 2.2.2 Dual complementizer systems -- 2.2.3 Summary of findings -- 2.3 Syntactic marking of the indicative/subjunctive opposition in the south -- 2.3.1 Verb movement -- 2.3.2 Dual complementizer systems -- 2.4 Summary and conclusions -- 3: Perfective auxiliation in Italo-Romance: The complementarity of historical and modern cross-dialectal evidence |
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3.1 Introduction3.2 The basics: perfective auxiliation and the unaccusative hypothesis -- 3.3 Diachrony: intersections between modern dialect comparison and historical data -- 3.3.1 Old Florentine -- 3.3.2 Old Romanesco -- 3.4 Bringing the historical and modern cross-dialectal evidence together -- 3.4.1 Perfective auxiliation in Agnonese -- 3.4.2 Perfective auxiliation in Picernese -- 3.5 Conclusion -- 4: Passive and impersonal reflexives in the Italian dialects: Synchronic and diachronic aspects -- 4.1 Introduction |
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4.2 Passive and impersonal reflexives in Standard Italian4.2.1 Passive(/impersonal) and impersonal si -- 4.2.2 Impersonal of reflexive patterns -- 4.2.3 Impersonal reflexive: interpretation of the morpheme si -- 4.2.4 Some controversial issues -- 4.3 Passive and impersonal reflexives in the Italian dialects -- 4.3.1 Passive vs impersonal reflexives -- 4.3.2 Grammatical domains -- 4.3.3 Nature of the subject -- 4.3.4 Tense/aspect constraints -- 4.3.5 Impersonal si/se with a pronominal object -- 4.3.6 Interpretation of impersonal si -- 4.3.7 Interim summary |
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""4.4 Some diachronic data""""4.4.1 Old Venetian""; ""4.4.2 Old Lombard""; ""4.4.3 Old Florentine""; ""4.4.4 Old Neapolitan""; ""4.4.5 Old Logudorese Sardinian""; ""4.4.6 Interim summary""; ""4.5 Converging constraints on impersonal""; ""4.6 Some unsolved issues: the status of the reflexive morphemes si and ci""; ""4.6.1 One or two si�s?""; ""4.6.2 Impersonal ci""; ""4.7 Conclusions""; ""5: On the personal infinitive in Sicilian""; ""5.1 Introduction""; ""5.2 The personal infinitive in early Sicilian""; ""5.3 The personal infinitive in modern Sicilian""; ""5.4 Conclusion"" |
| Summary |
This volume examines diachronic change and diversity in the morphosyntax of Romance varieties spoken in Italy. These varieties offer an especially fertile terrain for research into language change, because of both the richness of dialectal variation and the length of the period of textual attestation |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Italian language -- Dialects -- Morphosyntax
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Benincà, Paola, editor.
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Ledgeway, Adam, editor.
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Vincent, Nigel, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780191771507 |
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0191771503 |
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