Grammar of central Trentino : : a romance dialect from North-East Italy /

Grammar of central Trentino : : a romance dialect from North-East Italy / / by Jan Casalicchio, Patrizia Cordin.

Central Trentino is a Romance dialect spoken in the North-East of Italy, which shows features belonging to both Gallo-Italic and Venetan dialects. Grammar of Central Trentino aims to present the first comprehensive grammatical description of this dialect, taking into consideration its morpho-syntact...

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VerfasserIn:
Casalicchio, Jan,
Cordin, Patrizia,
TeilnehmendeR:
Cordin, Patrizia,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • List of Illustrations and Tables
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Annex to Introduction: Phonetic Simplified Alphabet
  • 1 Overview
  • 1.1 Trentino Dialects in the Context of Northern Italian Dialects
  • 1.2 The Main Romance Dialect Groups Spoken in Trentino
  • 1.3 Germanic Languages Spoken in Trentino
  • 1.4 Previous Studies
  • 2 Nominal Morphology
  • 2.1 Nominal Inflection: Number and Gender
  • 2.2 Nominal Derivational Suffixes
  • 2.3 Evaluative Morphology
  • 2.4 Nominal Derivational Prefixes
  • 2.5 Compound and Phrasal Nouns
  • 3 Noun Phrases: Nouns with Determiners and Adjectives
  • 3.1 Definite and Indefinite Determiners
  • 3.2 Demonstrative + N
  • 3.3 Possessive + N
  • 3.4 Quantified NP
  • 3.5 Interrogative and Exclamative NP
  • 3.6 Quality Adjectives
  • 4 Morphology and Syntax of Personal Pronouns
  • 4.1 The Forms of Free Pronouns and Clitics
  • 4.2 Subject Clitics
  • 4.3 Se Impersonal Subject
  • 4.4 Subject Clitics in Interrogative Sentences
  • 4.5 Clitics in Relative Clauses
  • 4.6 Free Pronouns and Clitics as Direct Objects
  • 4.7 Free Pronouns and Clitics as Datives and Indirect Objects
  • 4.8 Reflexive Pronouns
  • 4.9 Clitics Clusters
  • 4.10 Allocutive Pronouns
  • 5 Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases
  • 5.1 The Use of Simple Prepositions in Locative and Temporal Contexts
  • 5.2 Other Uses of Simple Prepositions
  • 5.3 Comparative Remarks on the Use of the Preposition in Central Trentino
  • 5.4 Derivative and Compound Prepositions
  • 6 Adverbs and Adverbial Phrases
  • 6.1 Adverbial Morphology
  • 6.2 Intensification and Modification of Adverbs
  • 6.3 Some Peculiarities of the Adverbial System in Central Trentino
  • 6.4 Affirmative and Negative Adverbs
  • 7 Verb Morphology
  • 7.1 The Regular Verbal Conjugations
  • 7.2 Irregular Verbs
  • 7.3 Past Participle Formation
  • 7.4 Verb Formation
  • 7.5 ‘Verb with Locative’ Constructions
  • Annex to Ch. 7: Tables of Verb Forms
  • 8 Verb Agreement and Valency
  • 8.1 Verb Agreement
  • 8.2 Verb Types
  • 8.3 Passive Voice and Other Mechanisms of Subject Demotion
  • 9 Main and Embedded Clauses
  • 9.1 The Syntax of Main Clauses
  • 9.2 Argumental Subordinate Clauses
  • 9.3 Adverbial Subordinate Clauses
  • 9.4 Other Subordinate Clauses Introduced by the Complementiser che : Relatives, Pseudo-relatives and Clefts
  • 9.5 Use of Subjunctive in Embedded Clauses
  • 10 Pragmatic Particles
  • 10.1 General Properties
  • 10.2 Pragmatic Particles in Declarative Sentences
  • 10.3 Pragmatic Particles in Interrogative and Imperative Sentences
  • 10.4 The Modal Interpretation of the Enclitic - (n)te
  • References
  • Index.

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