This volume is a collection of grammar sketches from several Italo-Romance varieties.
The contributions cover various areas of linguistics (phonology, morphology, syntax) and are organized in sections according to the customary geolinguistic classification. Each chapter provides the description of a salient phenomenon for a given language, based on novel data, as well as the state-of-the-art knowledge on that phenomenon. The articles are in-depth studies carried out by prominent experts as well as promising young scholars. The theoretical apparatus is kept to a minimum in order to make the book accessible to scholars without specific expertise. For the same reason, hypotheses and formalisms are introduced gradually, only if necessary for the description of the data.

Contributors are: Luigi Andriani, Caroline Bacciu, Andrea Calabrese, Anna Cardinaletti, Jan Casalicchio, Edoardo Cavirani, Federica Cognola, Patrizia Cordin, Silvio Cruschina, Roberta D'Alessandro, Giuliana Giusti, Mirko Grimaldi, Michele Loporcaro, Luca Lorenzetti, Guido Mensching, Diego Pescarini, Andrea Scala, Giancarlo Schirru.
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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.
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Preface List of Figures, Maps and Tables Introduction Northern Varieties 1 The Distribution of Gender and Number in Lunigiana Nominal Expressions  Edoardo Cavirani 2 On the Interpretation of an Interrogative Form in North-Eastern Italian Dialects  Patrizia Cordin 3 Verb-Second and (Micro)Variation in Two Rhaeto-Romance Varieties of Northern Italy  Jan Casalicchio and Federica Cognola Central Varieties 4 On the Palatalization of /s/ + Consonant in Some Dialects of Middle and Southern Italy  Luca Lorenzetti 5 On the Gender System of Viterbese  Michele Loporcaro 6 Indefinite Determiners. Variation and Optionality in Italo-Romance  Anna Cardinaletti and Giuliana Giusti Upper Southern Varieties 7 Italo-Romance Phonological Rules and Indo-Aryan Lexicon: The Case of Abruzzian Romani  Andrea Scala 8 Avita fatta: Non-Etymological Forms of Auxiliary habere in Southern Italian Dialects  Carlo Schirru 9 Adjectival Positions in Barese: Prenominal Exceptions to the Postnominal Rule  Luigi Andriani Extreme Southern Varieties and Sardinian 10 Metaphony in Southern Salento: New Analysis and New Data  Mirko Grimaldi and Andrea Calabrese 11 The ‘go for’ Construction in Sicilian  Silvio Cruschina 12 The Complementizers ca and chi in Sardinian: Syntactic Properties and Geographic Distribution  Caroline Bacciu and Guido Mensching Index
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ISBN
9789004354388
Publisert
2018
Utgiver
Brill
Vekt
725 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
155 mm
Dybde
28 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
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Antall sider
384

Biografisk notat

Roberta D’Alessandro (Ph.D. in Linguistics, 2004, Stuttgart University), is Professor of Syntax and Language Variation at Utrecht University. She has published extensively on Italian and Romance linguistics, dialectology, variation, and syntax-phonology.
Diego Pescarini (Ph.D. in Linguistics, 2006, University of Padua) is Research Associate at the University of Zurich. His research focuses on the comparative grammar of the Romance languages.