Advances in Italian Dialectology / / edited by Diego Pescarini, Roberta D'Alessandro.

• TeilnehmendeR: Pescarini, Diego,; D'Alessandro, Roberta, 1973-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Brill,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Grammars and language sketches of the world's languages. Romance langauges
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (X, 374 p.); ill

This volume is a collection of grammar sketches from several Italo-Romance varieties.The contributions cover various areas of linguistics (phonology, morphology, syntax)and are organized in sections according to the customary geolinguistic classification.Each chapter provides the description of a salient phenomenon for a given language,based on novel data, as well as the state-of-the-art knowledge on that phenomenon.The articles are in-depth studies carried out by prominent experts as well as promisingyoung scholars.The theoretical apparatus is kept to a minimum in order to make the book accessible toscholars without specific expertise. For the same reason, hypotheses and formalisms areintroduced gradually, only if necessary for the description of the data.

Table of Contents

Intro; Contents; Preface; List of Figures, Maps and Tables; Introduction; Part 1. Northern Varieties; Chapter 1. The Distribution of Gender and Number in Lunigiana Nominal Expressions (Cavirani); Chapter 2. On the Interpretation of an Interrogative Form in North-Eastern Italian Dialects (Cordin); Chapter 3. Verb-Second and (Micro)Variation in Two Rhaeto-Romance Varieties of Northern Italy (Casalicchio and Cognola); Part 2. Central Varieties; Chapter 4. On the Palatalization of /s/ + Consonant in Some Dialects of Middle and Southern Italy (Lorenzetti). Chapter 5. On the Gender System of Viterbese (Loporcaro)Chapter 6. Indefinite Determiners: Variation and Optionality in Italo-Romance (Cardinaletti and Giusti); Part 3. Upper Southern Varieties; Chapter 7. Italo-Romance Phonological Rules and Indo-Aryan Lexicon: The Case of Abruzzian Romani (Scala); Chapter 8. Avita fatta: Non-Etymological Forms of Auxiliary habere in Southern Italian Dialects (Schirru); Chapter 9. Adjectival Positions in Barese: Prenominal Exceptions to the Postnominal Rule (Andriani); Part 4. Extreme Southern Varieties and Sardinian. Chapter 10. Metaphony in Southern Salento: New Analysis and New Data (Grimaldi and Calabrese)Chapter 11. The 'go for' Construction in Sicilian (Cruschina); Chapter 12. The Complementizers ca and chi in Sardinian: Syntactic Properties and Geographic Distribution (Bacciu and Mensching); Index.