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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.

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Author:   Diego Pescarini ,  Roberta D'Alessandro
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Edition:   X, 374 Pp. ed.
Volume:   5
Weight:   0.725kg
ISBN:  

9789004354388

ISBN 10:   9004354387
Pages:   374
Publication Date:   22 February 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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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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. 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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