A Comparative Grammar of Borgomanerese

Tortora, Christina

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“…Consider for instance the case of North Italian rente/arente (near), deriving from the participle of the Latin verb haerere (to be attached) (cf. also Rohlfs : § 827; Tortora ).…”

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Axial Parts, Phi‐Features and Degrammaticalization: the Case of Italian Presso/Pressi in Diachrony

Franco

2015

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In this paper, I will provide a possible syntactic characterization of (a subset) of socalled degrammaticalization processes, based on the case of the diachronic evolution of presso/pressi (near/at, in) in Italian. Moreover, with an empirical study on the Opera del Vocabolario Italiano (OVI) corpus, I will support Svenonius's idea of Axial Part as an independent category in the lexicon (and not a mere spatial subset of relational nouns), providing a new kind of evidence i.e. of the diachronic type, to this claim.

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“…Consider for instance the case of North Italian rente/arente (near), deriving from the participle of the Latin verb haerere (to be attached) (cf. also Rohlfs : § 827; Tortora ).…”

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Axial Parts, Phi‐Features and Degrammaticalization: the Case of Italian Presso/Pressi in Diachrony

Franco

2015

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“…Keeping the position of the finite Romance verb constant in I, Tortora (: 741, 751; ), Manzini & Savoia (: §7.4) account for the position of generalized enclitics by positing that clitics merge below I, for instance immediately above v . If so, they will surface after the verb in I (i.e.…”

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Enclisis/Proclisis Alternations in Romance: Allomorphies and (Re)Ordering

Manzini

Savoia

2016

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Romance clitic pronouns appear to the left of the verb in I and to the right of the verb in C. This alternation correlates with: (a) allomorphy, specifically l-vs. zero; (b) stress shifts; and (c) reordering of the clitic string. The alternations in (a)-(c) are also observed between non-negative and negative contexts. The key points of our analysis are: (i) the l-segment is associated with definite content; (ii) interpretively, pronouns scope out of modal/non-veridical operators; (iii) syntactically, the exponent for modality/nonveridicality may have the pronoun in its domain; (iv) externalization of the l-segment is found when semantic scope (ii) and syntactic configuration (iii) are mismatched. Therefore allomorphies (including stress), far from being morphophonological quirks, contribute to the externalization of syntactico-semantic notions of non-veridicality. In dealing with clitic (re)ordering we propose a model based on the dissociation between Merge and linear order. Phrasal constituents are ordered to the right of the verb in Romance; clitics mirror them in that they are ordered to the left, while keeping the Merge relations constant.

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“…In Borgomanerese, all object and oblique clitics are enclitic (see also Tortora 2010Tortora , 2014, so the doubling enclitic gghi, attached to the copula, is co-referential with the locative phrase int la stônza. This leads Tortora (1997: 128) to interpret the first locative clitic ngh as a locative subject clitic that signals the presence of a null locative subject or topic.…”

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Existentials and Locatives in Romance Dialects of Italy

Bentley

Ciconte

Cruschina

2015

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This volume provides the first ever large-scale comparative treatment of there sentences (there copula NP), reporting the results of a survey of Italo-Romance and Sardinian dialects of Italy. The volume comprises detailed discussions of focus structure, predication and argument realization, the definiteness effects, and the linking from semantics to syntax in there sentences, advancing novel proposals in each case. The testing of influential hypotheses on existential constructions against first-hand dialect evidence leads the book to argue that existential and locative there sentences differ in focus structure and semantics, although their not being predicate focus constructions and the non-canonicality of the predicate—which is typically referential—is reflected in their shared morphosyntactic features. The hypothesis that the pivot is the predicate of the existential construction is adopted in the analysis, although a distinction is drawn between referential and non-referential pivots, which explains variation in pivot behaviour in morphosyntax. The volume also provides the historical background of Romance there sentences, relying on the findings of the analysis of a substantial corpus of early Italo-Romance vernacular texts.

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A Comparative Grammar of Borgomanerese

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Axial Parts, Phi‐Features and Degrammaticalization: the Case of Italian Presso/Pressi in Diachrony

Axial Parts, Phi‐Features and Degrammaticalization: the Case of Italian Presso/Pressi in Diachrony

Enclisis/Proclisis Alternations in Romance: Allomorphies and (Re)Ordering

Existentials and Locatives in Romance Dialects of Italy

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