Structuring variation in romance linguistics and beyond : : in honour of Leonardo M. Savoia / / edited by Mirko Grimaldi, [and three others].

• Superior document: Linguistik aktuell/Linguistics today (LA) ; Volume 252
• TeilnehmendeR: Grimaldi, Mirko,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, Philadelphia : : John Benjamins Publishing Company,, [2018]; 2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Linguistik aktuell ; Volume 252.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (405 pages).
• Notes: A collection of papers to honor the work of Professor Leonardo M. Savoia.

Table of Contents

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 Beninca -- 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 Michele Olivieri -- 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 Francoprovencal 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 lekenge / 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.