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

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 sa...

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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
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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.