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Author Cruschina, Silvio

Title Italian Dialectology at the Interfaces
Published Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (377 pages)
Series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today Ser. ; v. 251
Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today Ser
Contents Intro; Italian Dialectology at the Interfaces; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; The dialects of Italy at the interfaces; 1. Introduction; 2. The syntax-phonology interface; 2.1 Propagation of /u/; 2.2 Metaphonetic diphthongization; 2.3 Rafforzamento/Raddoppiamento fonosintattico (RF); 3. The syntax-semantics interface; 3.1 Negation; 3.2 Verbal modality; 3.3 Existential constructions; 4. The syntax-pragmatics interface; 4.1 Invariable subject clitics and sentence particles; 4.2 Postverbal subjects and subject-verb agreement; 4.3 Focus fronting (FF)
AcknowledgementReferences; Inflectional uniformity in the present subjunctive in the dialects of central Friuli; 1. Introduction: A curious diachronic development; 2. A promising theoretical framework: Synonymy avoidance, and the present subjunctive pattern in Latin; 2. A promising theoretical framework: Synonymy avoidance, and the present subjunctive pattern in Latin; 3. Evolution of the present subjunctive pattern in the dialects of central Friuli; 3. Evolution of the present subjunctive pattern in the dialects of central Friuli
3.1 Avoidance of a class-identifier zero and the introduction of -i in first conjugation verbs3.1 Avoidance of a class-identifier zero and the introduction of -i in first conjugation verbs; 3.2 Blur avoidance and the generalization of -i in non-first conjugation verbs; 3.2 Blur avoidance and the generalization of -i in non-first conjugation verbs; 4. Theoretical implications and conclusions; Acknowledgements; References; The Inflected Construction in the dialects of Sicily: The Inflected Construction in the dialects of Sicily: Parameters of micro-variation; 1. Introduction
2. Type 1: The IC in Marsalese3. Restrictions on V2 in the dialect spoken in Palermo; 4. Type 2: The indicative preterite IC in Deliano; 5. Type 3: The IC in the dialects of eastern Sicily; 6. Other configurations of Inflected Construction; 7. Conclusions; Acknowldgement; References; Mixed paradigms in Italo-Romance: A case of morphologization of auxiliary selection?; 1. Introduction; 2. Auxiliary verb constructions as inflectional periphrasis; 3. Auxiliary selection in standard Romance languages; 4. Mixed paradigms and 'lexical splits'; 4.1 Pragmatically motivated splits; 4.2 Balanced splits
4.3 'Elsewhere' splits4.4 Morphomic splits; 4.5 A note on the diachronic origin of mixed paradigms; 5. Conclusions; Acknowledgements; References; Selection and morphology of expletive subject clitics in northern Italian dialects; 1. Impersonals in Piedmontese dialects; 2. General issues; 2.1 Semi-arguments; 2.2 Hypothesis of morphological typology of NIDs; 3. Crosslinguistic perspective; 4. Diachronic remarks; 5. Conclusions; References; Can structural deficiency be parametrized?: Oblique pronouns in old Tuscan varieties; 1. Introduction; 2. On loro and the strong/weak divide
Notes 3. (Not so) weak loro in old Florentine and other Tuscan varieties
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Subject Italian language -- Dialectology -- Congress
Italian language -- Dialectology
Form Electronic book
Author Ledgeway, Adam
Remberger, Eva-Maria
ISBN 9789027263254
9027263256