Phonological Theory And The Dialects Of Italy

Author : Lori Repetti
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 312 pages
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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 : Dr Martin Maiden,Martin Maiden,Mair Parry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 43,8 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 : Francesc Torres-Tamarit,Kathrin Linke,Marc van Oostendorp
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110366310

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Approaches to Metaphony in the Languages of Italy by Francesc Torres-Tamarit,Kathrin Linke,Marc van Oostendorp Pdf

This volume presents current work on a topic in Romance linguistics that still informs linguistic theory to this day: metaphony in the languages of Italy. Papers discuss fundamental research topics such as phonological opacity in the light of chain shifts, post-tonic harmony and consonant transparency, the role of morphosyntax in the typology of metaphony, the explanatory adequacy of feature-based versus element-based analyses, and the locus of metaphony in grammar. Other chapters present new experimental data, thus building a more accurate empirical foundation for the study of metaphony. We envision the volume to become a reference book not only for an updated descriptive survey of metaphonic patterns in Italy but also a thorough discussion of the challenges that metaphony poses for different (morpho)phonological theories. The book bridges the gap between descriptive works and theoretical thinking in the study of metaphony.

Author : Lori Repetti
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2000-12-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027284419

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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 Francoprovençal 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 : Adriana Belletti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015031795944

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Syntactic Theory and the Dialects of Italy by Adriana Belletti Pdf

Author : Massimo Cerruti,Claudia Crocco,Stefania Marzo
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781614518839

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Towards a New Standard by Massimo Cerruti,Claudia Crocco,Stefania Marzo Pdf

In many European languages the National Standard Variety is converging with spoken, informal, and socially marked varieties. In Italian this process is giving rise to a new standard variety called Neo-standard Italian, which partly consists of regional features. This book contributes to current research on standardization in Europe by offering a comprehensive overview of the re-standardization dynamics in Italian. Each chapter investigates a specific dynamic shaping the emergence of Neo-standard Italian and Regional Standard Varieties, such as the acceptance of previously non-standard features, the reception of Old Italian features excluded from the standard variety, the changing standard language ideology, the retention of features from Italo-Romance dialects, the standardization of patterns borrowed from English, and the developmental tendencies of standard Italian in Switzerland. The contributions investigate phonetic/phonological, prosodic, morphosyntactic, and lexical phenomena, addressed by several empirical methodologies and theoretical vantage points. This work is of interest to scholars and students working on language variation and change, especially those focusing on standard languages and standardization dynamics.

Author : Martin Kramer
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191558634

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The Phonology of Italian by Martin Kramer Pdf

This book provides an overview of the phonology of Italian. It covers the different levels of analysis from individual sounds up to the phrasal level. It focuses on the most widely dispersed features of the language reflecting its significant regional and social variation and its most prominent regionally restricted patterns. Martin Krämer provides a critical survey of the generative literature on Italian phonology. He reports on current debates in the field, considers their particular and general theoretical interest, and provides both syntheses and original analyses. His accounts of the main aspects and characteristics of Italian phonology are couched in the framework of Optimality Theory, but he keeps formal aspects and theory-internal matters to a minimum and separate from the presentation and description of the data. His exposition is thus fully accessible to students and researchers who are not familiar with or do not subscribe to the tenets of the theory. Individual chapters may thus serve as starting points for in-depth investigations into particular aspects of Italian phonology in whatever framework the reader chooses to employ. The Phonology of Italian is the first fully comprehensive account of its subject for many years. It will interest scholars and advanced students of Italian, Romance phonology, and phonology as a system.

Author : Silvio Cruschina,Adam Ledgeway,Eva-Maria Remberger
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
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 : Bart van der Veer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Italian language
ISBN : STANFORD:36105122414118

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The Italian "mobile Diphthongs" by Bart van der Veer Pdf

Author : Mirko Grimaldi,Rosangela Lai,Ludovico Franco,Benedetta Baldi
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027263179

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Structuring Variation in Romance Linguistics and Beyond by Mirko Grimaldi,Rosangela Lai,Ludovico Franco,Benedetta Baldi Pdf

Current theoretical approaches to language devote great attention to macro- and micro-variation and show an ever-increasing interest in minority languages. In this respect, few empirical domains are as rich and lively as the Italo-Romance languages, which together with Albanian were the main research domain of Leonardo M. Savoia. The volume covers areas as different as phonology, morphology, syntax and the lexicon. A broad range of Romance languages is considered, as well as Albanian, Greek and Hungarian, shedding new light on many classical topics. The first section focuses on morphosyntax, both in the narrow sense and with regard to its interfaces. The second section focuses on clitics and pronouns. The third section deals with a number of issues in phonology and syntax-phonology interface. The last section turns the reader’s attention beyond formal linguistics itself and examines variation in the light of neurosciences, pathology, historical linguistics and political discourse.

Author : Martin Maiden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780429888274

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Interactive Morphonology by Martin Maiden Pdf

First published in 1991. The existence of morphonology had been the subject of intense debate in twentieth-century linguistic theory. Attempts to identify putatively morphonological phenomena had often foundered on the widespread assumption of a rigid dichotomy between synchronic morphological structures and the phonetic processes which historically shared them. With the difficulties of establishing any role for morphonology clearly identified, the author introduces a comparative and historical survey of the morphologization of metaphony in Italian dialects. On the basis of this the existence is argued of authentic synchronic ‘morphonological’ interaction between morphological structures and phonetic processes, such that inflectional paradigms serve to specify phonetic details of implementation of incipient sound changes. The circumstances under which such interaction may be expected to occur are discussed. This book is an important contribution to our understanding of both morphology and phonology, taking seriously the implications of abandoning a rigid distinction between synchronic morphology and diachronic phonology. It successfully integrates linguistic theory with the analysis of philological data, and indicates the direction for future research on morphonology. This detailed study of Italian dialects also constitutes a valuable addition to the study of Romance dialectology.

Author : Diego Pescarini
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 54,9 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 : Martin Kramer
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199290796

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The Phonology of Italian by Martin Kramer Pdf

This book provides an overview of the phonology of Italian. It covers the different levels of analysis from individual sounds up to the phrasal level. It focuses on the most widely dispersed features of the language reflecting its significant regional and social variation and its most prominent regionally restricted patterns.Martin Krämer provides a critical survey of the generative literature on Italian phonology. He reports on current debates in the field, considers their particular and general theoretical interest, and provides both syntheses and original analyses. His accounts of the main aspects and characteristics of Italian phonology are couched in the framework of Optimality Theory, but he keeps formal aspects and theory-internal matters to a minimum and separate from the presentation and descriptionof the data. His exposition is thus fully accessible to students and researchers who are not familiar with or do not subscribe to the tenets of the theory. Individual chapters may thus serve as starting points for in-depth investigations into particular aspects of Italian phonology in whatever frameworkthe reader chooses to employ.The Phonology of Italian is the first fully comprehensive account of its subject for many years. It will interest scholars and advanced students of Italian, Romance phonology, and phonology as a system.

Author : Paola Benincà,Adam Ledgeway,Nigel Vincent
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191005244

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Diachrony and Dialects by Paola Benincà,Adam Ledgeway,Nigel Vincent Pdf

This book 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. While attention in the past has been focussed on the variation found in phonology, morphology, and vocabulary, this volume examines variation in morphosyntactic structures, covering a range of topics designed to exploit and explore the interaction of the geographical and historical dimensions of change. The opening chapter sets the scene for specialist and non-specialist readers alike, and establishes the conceptual and empirical background. There follow a series of case studies investigating the morphosyntax of verbal and (pro)nominal constructions and the organization of the clause. Data are drawn from the full range of Romance dialects spoken within the borders of modern Italy, ranging from Sicily and Sardinia through to Piedmont and Friuli. Some of the studies narrow the focus to a particular construction within a particular dialect; others broaden out to compare different patterns of evolution within different dialects. There is also diversity in the theoretical frameworks adopted by the various contributors. The book aims to take stock of both the current state of the field and the fruits of recent research, and to set out new results and new questions to help move forward the frontiers of that research. It will be a valuable resource not only for those specializing in the study of Italo-Romance varieties, but also for other Romanists and for those interested in exploring and understanding the mechanisms of morphosyntactic change more generally.

Author : Doris Angel Borrelli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781136723933

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Raddoppiamento Sintattico in Italian by Doris Angel Borrelli Pdf

First Published in 2002. The Italian phenomenon known as raddoppiamento sintattico, or sometimes raddoppiamento fonosintattico, has received a vast amount of attention. Long recognized in Italian grammar books, the process consists of the gemination of a word-initial consonant in certain environments. The word raddoppiamento means “doubling,” and it is deemed “syntactic” or “phonosyntactic” because the process spans word boundaries. This offers a synchronic and diachronic cross-dialectical study of this phenomenon.