Italian Dialectology At The Interfaces

Author : Silvio Cruschina,Adam Ledgeway,Eva-Maria Remberger
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 377 pages
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Release : 2019-02-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027263254

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Italian Dialectology at the Interfaces by Silvio Cruschina,Adam Ledgeway,Eva-Maria Remberger Pdf

Recent years have seen a growing interest in linguistic phenomena whose formal manifestation and underlying licensing conditions represent the convergence of two or more areas of the grammar, an area of investigation particularly invigorated in recent generative research by developments such as phase theory (cf. Chomsky 2001; 2008) and the cartographic enterprise (cf. Rizzi 1997; Cinque 1999). In this respect, the dialects of Italy are no exception, in that they present comparative Romance linguists and theoretical linguists alike with many valuable opportunities to study the linguistic interfaces, as highlighted by the many case studies presented in this volume which provide a series of original insights into how different components of the linguistic system – syntactic, phonetic, phonological, morphological, semantic and pragmatic – do not necessarily operate in isolation but, rather, interact to license phenomena whose nature and distribution can only be fully understood in terms of the formal mapping between the interfaces.

Author : Giuliano Bocci
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027272294

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The Syntax–Prosody Interface by Giuliano Bocci Pdf

This book presents an experimental and theoretical investigation of the interplay between information structure, word order alternations, and prosody in Italian. Left/right dislocations, focus fronting, and other reordering phenomena are analyzed, taking into account their morphosyntactic and prosodic properties. It is argued that a restricted set of discourse-related properties are inserted in the numeration as formal features. These discourse-related features drive the syntactic derivation and the formation of the prosodic representation in compliance with the T-model of grammar. Based on the cartographic approach, this study proposes a model of the syntax–prosody interface in which the phonological computation of prosody is fed by syntactically encoded properties of information structure. However, this computation is also governed by structural requirements intrinsic to the phonological domain, and thus, a bijective relation between information structure and prosodic representation is not guaranteed. The monograph will be of interest to any linguist concerned with syntax, information structure, and prosody.

Author : Diego Pescarini
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004354395

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Advances in Italian Dialectology by Diego Pescarini Pdf

This volume is a collection of grammar sketches from several Italo-Romance languages and dialects. Each chapter describes a salient phenomenon for a given language, based on novel data, as well as the state-of-the art knowledge on the phenomenon.

Author : Christina Tortora
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2003-07-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198031222

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The Syntax of Italian Dialects by Christina Tortora Pdf

This volume collects original theoretical work on the syntax and morphology of Italian and a wide range of Italian dialects. It contains contributions by such leading figures as Cecilia Poletto, Guglielmo Cinque, and Richard Kayne, and examines topics such as the syntax of "ne", the internal structure of personal pronouns, the syntax/morphology interface, and functional projections at the clausal level.

Author : Gianrenzo P. Clivio
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3895869279

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An Introduction to Italian Dialectology by Gianrenzo P. Clivio Pdf

Author : Dr Martin Maiden,Martin Maiden,Mair Parry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2006-03-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134834365

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The Dialects of Italy by Dr Martin Maiden,Martin Maiden,Mair Parry Pdf

This book makes accessible the major structural features of the dialects of Italy and emphasises the importance of a detailed understanding of the dialects for issues in general linguistic theory. Selected contents include: * Phonology * Morphology * Syntax * Lexis * The Dialect Areas * Sociolinguistics of Dialects Contributors: Paola Benica; Gaetano Berruto; Guglielmo Cinque; Michela Cennamo; Patrizia Cordin; Thamas Cravens; Marie-Jose Dalbera Stefanaggi; Franco Fanciullo; Werner Forner; Luciano Giannelli; John Hajek; Hermann Haller; Robert Hastings; Michael Jones; Michele Loporcaro; Martin Maiden; Marco Mazzoleni; Zarko Miljacic; Mair Parry; Cecilia Poletto; Lorenzo Renzi; Lori Repetti; Giovanni Ruffino; Giampaolo Salvi; Glauco Sanga; Leonardo Savoia; Alberto Sobrero; Rosanna Sornicola; Tullio Telmon; John Trumper; Edward Tuttle; Alberto Valvaro; Laura Vanelli; Ugo Vignuzzi; Nigel Vincent; Irene Vogel.

Author : Francesco Bryan Romano
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110759587

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Studies in Italian as a Heritage Language by Francesco Bryan Romano Pdf

This series offers a wide forum for work on contact linguistics, using an integrated approach to both diachronic and synchronic manifestations of contact, ranging from social and individual aspects to structural-typological issues. Topics covered by the series include child and adult bilingualism and multilingualism, contact languages, borrowing and contact-induced typological change, code switching in conversation, societal multilingualism, bilingual language processing, and various other topics related to language contact. The series does not have a fixed theoretical orientation, and includes contributions from a variety of approaches.

Author : Marc-Olivier Hinzelin,Natascha Pomino,Eva-Maria Remberger
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110719284

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Formal Approaches to Romance Morphosyntax by Marc-Olivier Hinzelin,Natascha Pomino,Eva-Maria Remberger Pdf

Recent years have witnessed a (re)surfacing of interest on the interaction of morphology and syntax. For many grammatical phenomena, it is not easy to draw a dividing line between syntactic and morphological structure. This has led to the assumption that syntax is the module responsible not only for deriving syntactically complex phrases but also for deriving morphologically complex items, both in inflection and word formation. There are however also good reasons to think that syntax is not involved in all morphological processes and that there are consistent areas of morphology that are independent from syntactic processes. This book presents a collection of papers where phenomena from Romance languages and varieties are analysed under contrasting views on how morphology and syntax interact. All the contributions follow the aim to investigate what the analysed phenomena tell us about their structural make‐up and the grammatical processes involved.

Author : Giuliana Giusti,Vincenzo Nicolò Di Caro,Daniel Ross
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027257932

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Pseudo-Coordination and Multiple Agreement Constructions by Giuliana Giusti,Vincenzo Nicolò Di Caro,Daniel Ross Pdf

Verbal Pseudo-Coordination (as in English ‘go and get’) has been described for a number of individual languages, but this is the first edited volume to emphasize this topic from a comparative perspective, and in connection to Multiple Agreement Constructions more generally. The chapters include detailed analyses of Romance, Germanic, Slavic and other languages. These contributions show important cross-linguistic similarities in these constructions, as well as their diversity, providing insights into areas such as the morphology-syntax and syntax-semantics interfaces, dialectal variation and language contact. This volume establishes Pseudo-Coordination as a descriptively important and theoretically challenging cross-linguistic phenomenon among Multiple Agreement Constructions and will be of interest to specialists in individual languages as well as typologists and theoreticians, serving as a foundation to promote continued research.

Author : Aslı Gürer,Dilek Uygun-Gökmen,Balkız Öztürk
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027261120

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Morphological Complexity within and across Boundaries by Aslı Gürer,Dilek Uygun-Gökmen,Balkız Öztürk Pdf

This volume brings together a collection of original articles investigating state-of-the-art themes in morphology. The papers in the volume provide an in-depth analysis for spoken and sign languages within morphological word domain, morphosyntax and morphophonology. Bringing data from a variety of languages including Turkish, some understudied ones (e.g. Turkish Sign Language, Late Ottoman Turkish) and also endangered languages (e.g. Karachay-Balkar, Sauzini, Cappadocian, Aivaliot and Pharasiot Greek), the volume will be of special interest to a wide audience ranging from typologists to theoretical linguists and graduate students in linguistics and is expected to generate further research on the above mentioned languages, as well as to contribute to the cross-linguistic literature on the themes explored in the volume.

Author : M. Frascarelli
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789401595001

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The Syntax-Phonology Interface in Focus and Topic Constructions in Italian by M. Frascarelli Pdf

"...this work represents a key case study in the study of the prosody and syntax interactions." (Pilar Prieto, Lingua 115, 2005)

Author : Miriam Bouzouita,Anne Breitbarth,Elisabeth Witzenhausen,Lieven Danckaert
Publisher : Oxford Studies in Diachronic a
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198824961

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Cycles in Language Change by Miriam Bouzouita,Anne Breitbarth,Elisabeth Witzenhausen,Lieven Danckaert Pdf

This volume explores the multiple aspects of cyclical syntactic change from a wide range of empirical perspectives. The notion of 'linguistic cycle' has long been recognized as being relevant to the description of many processes of language change. In grammaticalization, a given linguistic form loses its lexical meaning - and sometimes some of its phonological content - and then gradually weakens until it ultimately vanishes. This change becomes cyclical when the grammaticalized form is replaced by an innovative item, which can then develop along exactly the same pathway. But cyclical changes have also been observed in language change outside of grammaticalization proper. The chapters in this book reflect the growing interest in the phenomenon of grammaticalization and cyclicity in generative syntax, with topics including the diachrony of negation, the syntax of determiners and pronominal clitics, the internal structure of wh-words and logical operators, cyclical changes in argument structure, and the relationship between morphology and syntax. The contributions draw on data from multiple language families, such as Indo-European, Semitic, Japonic, and Athabascan. The volume combines empirical descriptions of novel comparative data with detailed theoretical analysis, and will appeal to historical linguists working in formal and usage-based frameworks, as well as to typologists and scholars interested in language variation and change more broadly.

Author : Lori Repetti
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Italian language
ISBN : 9789027237194

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Phonological Theory and the Dialects of Italy by Lori Repetti Pdf

These articles provide new explorations into phonological patterns attested in the minor Romance languages ('dialects') spoken in Italy. The goal of this book is both theoretical and empirical. First, it aims to introduce non-Italianists to the phonological structures of the Italian dialects, including northern Gallo-Romance dialects, central and southern dialects, plus a Francoprovencal dialect spoken in southern Italy and a Catalan dialect spoken in Sardinia. Second, the collection provides readers with sophisticated analyses of complex and poorly understood and under-studied phonological phenomena. Over half of the articles contain data collected by the authors, and most of the data have not been available in English language publications. The richness of the empirical material and the sophistication of the theoretical analyses make this collection a particularly important contribution to both phonology and Romance language studies.

Author : Adam Ledgeway,John Charles Smith,Nigel Vincent
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780192643810

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Periphrasis and Inflexion in Diachrony by Adam Ledgeway,John Charles Smith,Nigel Vincent Pdf

This volume brings together contributions from leading specialists in syntax and morphology to explore the complex relation between periphrasis and inflexion from both a synchronic and diachronic perspective. The chapters draw on data from across the Romance language family, including standard and regional varieties and dialects. The relation between periphrasis and inflexion raises questions for both syntax and morphology, and understanding the phenomena involved requires cooperation across these sub-domains. For example, the components that express many periphrases can be interrupted by other words in a way that is common in syntax but not in morphology, and in some contexts, a periphrastic form may be semantically equivalent to a single-word inflected form, with which it arguably forms part of a paradigmatic set. Patterns of this kind are found across Romance, albeit with significant local differences. Moreover, diachrony is essential in understanding these phenomena, and the rich historical documentation available for Romance allows an in-depth exploration of the changes and variation involved, as different members of the family may instantiate different stages of development. Studying these changes also raises important questions about the relation between attested and reconstructed patterns. Although the empirical focus of the volume is on the Romance languages, the analyses and conclusions presented shed light on the development and nature of similar structures in other language families and provide valuable insights relevant to linguistic theory more broadly.

Author : Rebecca Woods,Sam Wolfe
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 979 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198844303

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Rethinking Verb Second by Rebecca Woods,Sam Wolfe Pdf

This volume provides the most exhaustive and comprehensive treatment available of the Verb Second property, which has been a central topic in formal syntax for decades. While Verb Second has traditionally been considered a feature primarily of the Germanic languages, this book shows that it is much more widely attested cross-linguistically than previously thought, and explores the multiple empirical, theoretical, and experimental puzzles that remain in developing an account of the phenomenon. Uniquely, formal theoretical work appears alongside studies of psycholinguistics, language production, and language acquisition. The range of languages investigated is also broader than in previous work: while novel issues are explored through the lens of the more familiar Germanic data, chapters also cover Verb Second effects in languages such as Armenian, Dinka, Tohono O'odham, and in the Celtic, Romance, and Slavonic families. The analyses have wide-ranging consequences for our understanding of the language faculty, and will be of interest to researchers and students from advanced undergraduate level upwards in the fields of syntax, historical linguistics, and language acquisition.