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

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