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Structuring variation in romance linguistics and beyond : in honour of Leonardo M. Savoia /

Current theoretical approaches to language devote great attention to macro- and micro-variation and show an ever-increasing interest in minority languages. In this respect, few empirical domains are as rich and lively as the Italo-Romance languages, which together with Albanian were the main researc...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Grimaldi, Mirko (Editor ), Lai, Rosangela (Editor ), Franco, Ludovico (Editor ), Baldi, Benedetta (Editor ), Savoia, Leonardo Maria, 1948- (honouree.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2018]
Colección:Linguistik Aktuell / Linguistics Today ; 252.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Structuring thought, externalizing structure: variation and universals / M. Rita Manzini.
  • Part I. Micro- and macro-variation in syntax. Gender, number and inflectional class in some north-Italian dialects: The plural inflection -i and the interpretation of N morphology / Benedetta Baldi and Ludovico Franco
  • Objects and subjects in the Left Periphery: The case of a-Topics / Adriana Belletti
  • Notes on infinitival relatives in Italian / Guglielmo Cinque and Paola Benincà
  • Negation and negative copulas in Bantu / Gloria Cocchi
  • On gender and number: A psycholinguistic review / Paolo Lorusso
  • Micro- and macro-variation: From pronominal allomorphies to the category of irreality/non-veridicality / M. Rita Manzini
  • Concealed pseudo-clefts? Evidence from a Lombard dialect / Diego Pescarini and Giulia Donzelli
  • Negation patterns across dialects / Cecilia Poletto and Michèle Oliviéri
  • A note on left-peripheral maps and interface properties/ Luigi Rizzi
  • Italian faire-infinitives: The special case of volere / Norma Schifano and Michelle Sheehan
  • Optional vs obligatory movement in Albanian (pseudo)-raising constructions / Giuseppina Turano
  • Part II. Clitics and pronouns from a theoretical perspective. Clitic stress allomorphy in Sardinian / Laura Bafile and Rosangela Lai
  • Clitics and vowel epenthesis: A case study / Jacopo Garzonio and Silvia Rossi
  • Overabundance in Hungarian accusative pronouns / Maria Grossmann and Anna M. Thornton
  • Unstable personal pronouns in northern Logudorese / Michele Loporcaro, Serena Romagnoli and Mario Wild
  • Object clitics for subject clitics in Francoprovençal and Piedmontese / Ian Roberts
  • Part III. Sound pattern and syntactic structure. Are Sardinian vocatives perfectly regular? / Franck Floricic and Lucia Molinu
  • Phonological correlates of syntactic structure: The distribution of raddoppiamento fonosintattico in Calabrian / Adam Ledgeway
  • Metaphony as magnetism / Marc van Oostendorp and Roberta D'Alessandro
  • Some reflections on the syllabification of clusters: A view from the dialects of Italy / Diana Passino
  • Part IV. Language in context. Diachronic and synchronic lexical interactions in the Italo-Balkan linguistic space: From Latin lucanica to Italo-Albanian lëkëngë / Francesco Altimari
  • Lexical-semantic analysis of the political language: Studies between 1960 and 1980 / Paola Desideri
  • Dialects and neuroscience: A first critical review / Mirko Grimaldi
  • Remarks on the vulnerability of grammar / Giovanna Marotta
  • Some Celto-Albanian isoglosses and their implications / John Trumper.