The Dual Complementizer System in Southern Italy: Spirito Greco, Materia Romanza?

Ledgeway, Adam

doi:10.4324/9781351195515-9

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“…This is not true for -scores: while the outliers equally display high -scores, IE languages are more 54 Even the internal comparison between the UPGMA and the BEAST trees turns out to be informative to confirm cases where the signal is conflicting, i.e., one or more languages can be associated with different phylogenetic histories. 55 Guardiano and Stavrou (2014; Guardiano et al (2016); Ledgeway (2006); Ledgeway (2013); Ledgeway et al (2018), a.o. 56 Greenhill and his collaborators (p.c.)…”

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Formal Syntax and Deep History

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We show that, contrary to long-standing assumptions, syntactic traits, modeled here within the generative biolinguistic framework, provide insights into deep-time language history. To support this claim, we have encoded the diversity of nominal structures using 94 universally definable binary parameters, set in 69 languages spanning across up to 13 traditionally irreducible Eurasian families. We found a phylogenetic signal that distinguishes all such families and matches the family-internal tree topologies that are safely established through classical etymological methods and datasets. We have retrieved “near-perfect” phylogenies, which are essentially immune to homoplastic disruption and only moderately influenced by horizontal convergence, two factors that instead severely affect more externalized linguistic features, like sound inventories. This result allows us to draw some preliminary inferences about plausible/implausible cross-family classifications; it also provides a new source of evidence for testing the representation of diversity in syntactic theories.

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“…In the dialect of Cardeto (and other neighbouring villages in South Calabria, cf. Ledgeway et al 2016) -ri occurs in the 2 nd singular, in (20b), and is extended also to the other forms, as in (20b') for 1 st plural person and (20b") for 2 nd plural person. (20a,a',a") illustrate positive imperatival forms of 2 nd singular, 1 st plural and 2 nd plural.…”

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Clitics in imperative: proclisis, enclisis and mesoclisis in Albanian and in Italo-Romance varieties of Lausberg area

Baldi

Savoia

2020

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The relation between morpho-syntactic structure and its externalization into interpretive levels is the topic of this article. In many languages, typically in Romance and Albanian varieties, modal contexts, specifically imperative and infinitive, and negation, give rise to phenomena of clitic reordering and an interesting micro-variation. Imperative differs from declarative sentences in selecting enclisis except in negative contexts. Moreover, in Albanian mesoclisis appears in the 2nd plural person of imperative, between the verbal base and the person inflection. A similar distribution characterizes Calabro-Lucanian varieties spoken in Lausberg area, in contact with Arbëresh (Italo-Albanian) dialects. This article proposes to analyze the influence of modal contexts on the lexicalization of object clitics (OCls) and their different behavior in connection to their referential properties. Our descriptive and theoretical starting point is the representational morpho-syntactic approach adopted in Manzini and Savoia (2011 and subsequent works; see Section 5).

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“…Its distribution across the Salentino dialects seems to be linked to Byzantine domination. Greek influence would have stimulated the development of QUOD as the irrealis complementiser, which had already autonomously developed from Latin (Ledgeway 2006;Mancarella 1998: 289).…”

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Pathways of Grammaticalisation in Italo-Romance

Andriani

Groothuis

Silvestri

2020

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The aim of this contribution is to discuss three possible theoretical interpretations of grammaticalised structures in present-day Italo-Romance varieties. In particular, we discuss and analyse three diachronic case studies in relation to the generative view of grammaticalisation. The first case-study revolves around the expression of future tense and modality. This is discussed in the light of the assumption according to which grammaticalised elements result from merging elements in higher positions than their original merge positions within the lexical domain, giving rise to the upward directionality of the grammaticalisation process within the clause (Roberts, Ian G. and Anna Roussou, 2003, Syntactic change: A minimalist approach to grammaticalization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). The second case study challenges this view, by discussing irrealis complementisers as a case of a downward pathway of grammaticalization at the CP level. For our third case study, namely the development of (discontinuous) demonstrative structures from Latin to Romance, the rich Italo-Romance empirical evidence is analysed through the lens of a parametric account (Longobardi, Giuseppe, Cristina Guardiano, Giuseppina Silvestri, Alessio Boattini, and Andrea Ceolin, 2013, Toward a syntactic phylogeny of modern Indo-European languages, Journal of Historical Linguistics 3(1), 122-152), in order to capture the role of the relevant semantic and syntactic features within the fine-grained architecture of the DP. It will be observed that the diachronic development of some functional categories in (Italo-)Romance results from cyclic pathways of grammaticalisation, as the same category might cyclically change from more synthetic to more analytic, and vice-versa. Moreover, it will also be shown how the two theoretical approaches adopted, i.e. the cartographic model (adopted in Roberts, Ian G. and Anna Roussou, 2003. Syntactic change: A minimalist approach to grammaticalization, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), and the parametric accounts (Longobardi, Giuseppe, Cristina Guardiano, Giuseppina Silvestri, Alessio Boattini and Andrea Ceolin, 2013, Toward a syntactic phylogeny of modern Indo-European languages, Journal of Historical Linguistics 3(1), 122-152), are able to provide a principled explanation of the structural correlates of grammaticalisation at the sentential, clausal and nominal level of investigation.

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The Dual Complementizer System in Southern Italy: Spirito Greco, Materia Romanza?

Cited by 12 publications

References 10 publications

Formal Syntax and Deep History

Formal Syntax and Deep History

Clitics in imperative: proclisis, enclisis and mesoclisis in Albanian and in Italo-Romance varieties of Lausberg area

Pathways of Grammaticalisation in Italo-Romance

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