Formal Studies in Italo-Romance Morphology and Syntax.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cristelli, Stefano.

Series:

Beihefte Zur Zeitschrift Für Romanische Philologie Series

Beihefte Zur Zeitschrift Für Romanische Philologie Series ; v.496

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Italian language.

Morphology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (298 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2025.

Summary:

The book series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie is among the most renowned publications in Romance Studies. It covers the entire field of Romance linguistics, including the national languages as well as the lesser studied Romance languages. The series publishes high-quality monographs and collected volumes on all areas of linguistic research, on medieval literature and on textual criticism.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Introduction

1 The (linguistic) riches of Italy

2 The present volume

3 The context

4 Acknowledgements

5 References

Variation and change in transitivity alternations and argument realization in Italo-Romance

1 Introduction

2 Semantic and discourse-pragmatic constraints on (in)transitive alternations and argument realization: some current issues

3 Split intransitivity and Auxiliary selection in Italo-Romance

3.1 Auxiliary selection and split intransitivity in Biellese

3.2 Auxiliary selection and split intransitivity in Paduan

3.3 Auxiliary selection and split intransitivity in some Campanian dialects

3.4 Interim summary

4 Split intransitivity and subject inversion in Italo-Romance: an overview

4.1 Postverbal S and verb agreement in Emilian-Romagnol

4.2 Postverbal S and agreement in southern Italo-Romance (inner Cilentano)

5 Conclusions

6 References

Syntactic and functional broadening of the reflexive markers in Romance: for a typological approach

2 Latin

3 Romance

3.1 "Spurious" se

3.2 Portuguese consigo and Old Italian seco/sego

4 The rivalry between ille and se/sibi in Latin (and beyond)

4.1 Lat. se/sibi as original anaphoric marker

4.2 The overlapping between ille and se/sibi in Romance

The prosodic features of pragmatic chillo in Neapolitan: implications for syntax and diachrony

2 Chillo at the syntax-phonology interface

3 Prosodic properties of INI quello

4 Aims of the present study

5 Methodology

6 Results

6.1 Variation in agreement

7 Discussion

9 Conclusions

10 References

On the surprising origin of what-particles in Italian dialects

List of abbreviations

2 Hypotheses on the origin of what-particles.

3 .Canonical and non-canonical questions: A pragmatic typology of polar questions

4 The distribution and functions of what-particles in Italo-Romance

4.1 Pattern A

4.2 Pattern B

5 The development of what-particles

6 Conclusions

7 References

7.1 Sources of examples

7.2 Research literature

On the evolution of mesoclisis in the imperative in Western Lombard varieties

2 Overview on mesoclisis in the imperative in Romance varieties

3 Mesoclisis in the imperative in Lombard varieties then and now: past documentation and further evolution

Castiglione d'Adda

Sant'Angelo Lodigiano

4 Clitic splits and an allegedly universal hierarchy

5 Conclusion

Inflectional classes in Istriot: a first systematisation in diachrony and synchrony

1.1 The classification of Istriot

1.2 Characteristics of Istriot

2 Inflectional classes in Sissanese

3 Conclusions

4 References

Parlare le cose: structural aspects and syntactic-semantic disambiguation of some Italo-Romance verba dicendi in a diachronic and synchronic perspective

1 Theoretical premises

1.1 Argument structures of verba dicendi

1.2 A semantic classification: verbs of saying and verbs of speaking

2 Diachronic developments of the verb parlare

3 Semantic specializations and synonymic relationships

3.1 The verb raccontare

3.2 The verb contare

4 The absence of parlare in an area of Salento

4.1 The current situation: a synchronic study

4.2 A look at the past

The mass neuter of Praianese: new data and some insights

Preliminaries

1 Theoretical framework

1.1 The mass neuter in Romance

1.1.1 Central-Southern Italy

1.1.2 The case of Praianese

1.1.3 Central Asturias

1.2 Research questions and hypotheses

2 Method

2.1 Setup.

2.2 Task A

2.3 Task B

2.4 Task C

3 Results

3.1 The behaviour of targets

3.2 Productivity of the mass neuter

3.2.1 Concrete mass nouns

3.2.2 Abstract mass nouns will probably have selected feminine targets during this task more often than they do in spontaneous speech.

3.3 The behaviour of nouns with both a count and a mass reading

4 Analysis

4.1 RQs and hypotheses

4.1.1 Discussion on RQ (iii): is neuter fixed or selected?

4.1.2 Hypothesis (b): masculine neuters and feminine neuters?

4.2 Formalisation

4.2.1 Neuter as masshood

4.2.2 Neuter as a third gender

4.2.3 Gender assignment

4.2.3.1 Mass abstracts are often excluded from the neuter

4.2.3.2 The semantic interpretation of the mass neuter

Differential possessive marking in Italo-Romance

2 Methodology

3 A classification of Romance possessives

4 Kin-possessives

5 Possessives licencing NP ellipsis

6 Predicative possessives

7 Conclusion

8 References

On the feminine plural definite article and the interrogative conjugation in the dialect of Berbenno (BG)

2 Fieldwork and informants

3 The feminine plural definite article

4 The interrogative conjugation

6.1 Research literature

6.2 Sitography

Pseudo-coordination and cu-finite construction in Salento: a case of syntactic reanalysis

2 The monoclausality of PseCo

2.1 Cliticization of the embedded verb in asyndetic PseCo

2.2 The lack of temporal agreement

2.3 The dual position of the clitic in asyndetic PseCo

2.4 The mono-/biclausality of apparent asyndetic PseCo

3 PseCo in Brindisi: the linker a and the clitic on the embedded verb.

This process could be further evidenced by new data from Brindisi and other northern Salentino varieties. As previously stated, one of the main features of PseCo structures is the temporal agreement between the two predicates: if V1 is in the present indicative, then V2 will also be in the present indicative (cf. 21a)

if V1 is in the imperfect indicative, then V2 will also be in the imperfect indicative (cf. 21b).

4 Salentino micro-variation and the stages of change

5 A geolinguistic consideration

Differential object marking in the dialects of Southern Calabria

1.1 Linguistic context of Southern Calabria

1.2 Methodology and structure of the paper

2 DOM in Southern Calabria

2.1 Pronouns

2.2 Proper names

2.2.1 Personal names with expletive articles

2.2.2 Place names

2.3 Kinship terms

2.4 Definite nominals

2.5 Indefinite nominals

2.6 Inanimate nominals

Language index

Name index

Subject index.

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ISBN:

3-11-148504-8

9783111485041

OCLC:

1536146863