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.
Author(s): Diego Pescarini; Roberta D’Alessandro
Edition: ebook
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2018
Language: English
Pages: 384
Contents......Page 5
Preface......Page 7
List of Figures, Maps and Tables......Page 8
Introduction......Page 11
Part 1. Northern Varieties......Page 21
Chapter 1. The Distribution of Gender and Number in Lunigiana Nominal Expressions (Cavirani)......Page 23
Chapter 2. On the Interpretation of an Interrogative Form in North-Eastern Italian Dialects (Cordin)......Page 62
Chapter 3. Verb-Second and (Micro)Variation in Two Rhaeto-Romance Varieties of Northern Italy (Casalicchio and Cognola)......Page 82
Part 2. Central Varieties......Page 117
Chapter 4. On the Palatalization of /s/ + Consonant in Some Dialects of Middle and Southern Italy (Lorenzetti)......Page 119
Chapter 5. On the Gender System of Viterbese (Loporcaro)......Page 131
Chapter 6. Indefinite Determiners: Variation and Optionality in Italo-Romance (Cardinaletti and Giusti)......Page 145
Part 3. Upper Southern Varieties......Page 173
Chapter 7. Italo-Romance Phonological Rules and Indo-Aryan Lexicon: The Case of Abruzzian Romani (Scala)......Page 175
Chapter 8. Avita fatta: Non-Etymological Forms of Auxiliary habere in Southern Italian Dialects (Schirru)......Page 198
Chapter 9. Adjectival Positions in Barese: Prenominal Exceptions to the Postnominal Rule (Andriani)......Page 224
Part 4. Extreme Southern Varieties and Sardinian......Page 261
Chapter 10. Metaphony in Southern Salento: New Analysis and New Data (Grimaldi and Calabrese)......Page 263
Chapter 11. The ‘go for’ Construction in Sicilian (Cruschina)......Page 302
Chapter 12. The Complementizers ca and chi in Sardinian: Syntactic Properties and Geographic Distribution (Bacciu and Mensching)......Page 331
Index......Page 377
