Bilingualism and linguistic interference in the Slavic-Romance contact area of Molise (Southern Italy)

Breu, Walter

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“…The pickings are somewhat better with regard to the sociolinguistic circumstances of bilingual copying. We have Haase (1992) on Gascon influence on the Mixe dialect of Basque and Breu (1998Breu ( , 2003aBreu ( , 2003b on Molise Slav, a Croatian dialect spoken by Hercegovinan immigrants to the Campobasso Province of southern Italy since around 1500. Quite a lot is also known about the sociolinguistics of the Turkicisation of Cappadocian Greek (Janse 2009a(Janse , 2009b, the outcomes of which are described by Dawkins (1916).…”

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“…It begins as lexical calquing that includes copying the valency of a model-language item onto its perceived correspondent in the recipient language. Haase's (1992) account of contactinduced change in Mixe Basque and Breu's (1998Breu's ( , 2003aBreu's ( , 2003b of the Molise Croatian dialect of southern Italy provide plenty of examples. The socalled complex prepositional construction of Gascon has been calqued as an innovatory complex postpositional construction in Mixe Basque, as the examples in (6) show (Haase 1992:79-80 Prince (1998) shows how an existing construction in the recipient language may be used to encode a new function, copying the polyfunctionality of a matching construction in the model language.…”

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Diagnosing Contact Processes from their Outcomes: The Importance of Life Stages

Ross

2013

J Lang Contact

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This paper addresses the questions, Do bilingually induced and shift-induced change have different outcomes? If they do, can these differences assist us in reconstructing the prehistoric past, specifically the linguistic prehistory of the (smallscale neolithic) societies of Melanesia. A key to better interpreting differences in the outputs of contact-induced change is to understand how such change in smallscale societies actually occurs. I argue that it is important to know the life-stage loci of change. I suggest that language shift has two life-stage loci, one in early childhood, where evidence of shift, if any, is restricted to specialist lexicon, and one in adulthood. Adult language shift appears to have been rare in Melanesia. I also suggest that bilingually induced change, which entails the syntactic restructuring of one’s heritage language on the model of a second language, takes place among preadolescent children–a claim which is supported by various kinds of evidence. This understanding helps us in turn to interpret the outcomes of contact-induced change and to infer prehistoric events, since adult second-language learning typically leads to simplification, whilst childhood language learning may lead to an increase in complexity.

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Diagnosing Contact Processes from their Outcomes: The Importance of Life Stages

Ross

2013

J Lang Contact

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“…In grammar, this type of semantic calquing led, for example, to a meaning extension of the bi-conditional to a future in the past, with ona bi dola 'she would come' also referring now to a future event embedded in a past-tense situation. This goes back to the model of Italian varieties with a similar polysemy of its conditional; for more details of the adaptation of the semantic structure see Breu (2003). 4 Terminology in the domain of partitivity is by no means homogeneous, neither for the forms expressing it nor in functional respects.…”

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Partitivity in Slavic-Romance language contact: The case of Molise Slavic in Italy

Breu

2020

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Molise Slavic is a south Slavic micro-language, spoken in three municipalities in the Italian region of Molise. It has been in a situation of total language contact with Romance varieties for about 500 years, with strong foreign influence on all linguistic levels. This paper is intended as a contribution to two combined fields of linguistics: contact linguistics and the expression of partitivity in Slavic in different settings. The paper opens with a short description of the position of the (morphological) partitive case in Russian, followed by a comparison of the role of case in expressing partitive objects in Russian, Croatian and Molise Slavic. The subsequent section will deal with other means of rendering pure and ablativic partitivity in Italian as the dominant model language and in the Molise Slavic replica, in particular with respect to the similarities and differences in existential constructions. Special attention will be paid to the Italian partitive particle ne and its formal and functional equivalents in Molise Slavic, including the particle na/ne, partitive personal pronouns, quantifiers, the genitive and the role of intonation and word order. Finally we will test various hypotheses about the origin of the particle na/ne, whose formal variation in one of the Molise Slavic dialects causes serious problems for both loanword integration and semantic calquing.

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“…7 This type of semantic calque is a very important way of leveling out differences in the lexicon and the grammar of languages in contact. For further details see, for example,Breu (2003). 8 This example, reported here in its original orthography, is taken from the 14th station of the Via Crucis in the Prämonstratenser-Chorherrenstift St. Maria in Griffental (Carinthia).…”

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Slavic Alpine micro-varieties as part of an “Alpensprachbund”?

Pila

2021

STUF - Language Typology and Universals

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This chapter deals with some characteristics of two more-or-less isolated Slavic varieties in the south-eastern Alps: Resian and Carinthian Slovene, whose nearest relative among the Slavic standard languages is Slovene. Both have been for centuries in situations of total language contact with Romance and Germanic varieties. I will concentrate on the come passive. At least in Resian, it developed due to direct Romance influence, which could be claimed to be the overall reason for this grammatical feature in the Alps. The situation in Molise Slavic in southern Italy will serve as a point of comparison.

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Bilingualism and linguistic interference in the Slavic-Romance contact area of Molise (Southern Italy)

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Diagnosing Contact Processes from their Outcomes: The Importance of Life Stages

Diagnosing Contact Processes from their Outcomes: The Importance of Life Stages

Partitivity in Slavic-Romance language contact: The case of Molise Slavic in Italy

Slavic Alpine micro-varieties as part of an “Alpensprachbund”?

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