A Grammar of Piedmontese : : A Minority Language of Northwest Italy / / Mauro Tosco, Emanuele Miola, and Nicola Duberti.

• Superior document: Grammars and Sketches of the World's Languages ; 19
• VerfasserIn: Tosco, Mauro,; Duberti, Nicola,; Miola, Emanuele,
• TeilnehmendeR: Duberti, Nicola,; Miola, Emanuele,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2023.; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Grammars and Sketches of the World's Languages ; 19.; Language and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2023.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (600 pages) :; illustrations.

Cerea, madamin, andoma bin ? Less than a century ago, this was one of the most frequent greetings heard in Piedmont, a region in northwest Italy. Today, however, Piedmontese is severely endangered. This volume presents the first widely accessible and comprehensive grammatical description of the contemporary koine, covering its phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, pragmatics and typology, and drawing examples from both oral and written sources. Data on the history of the language and the local dialects and notes on revitalization efforts are also included.

Table of Contents

Conventions, Glosses and Symbols -- Maps of Place Names in Piedmont Mentioned in the Grammar -- List of Maps, Tables and Figures -- 1 The Language and Its History, Classification and Variation -- 1.1 Overview: Language and Speakers -- 1.2 Disentangling Classification and Ideology -- 1.3 The Dialects of Piedmontese: Features and Classification -- 1.4 The Internal Classification of the Piedmontese Varieties -- 1.5 Social Varieties in Old Piedmontese -- 1.6 The Speech of the Piedmontese Jews, Sinti and Waldensians -- 1.7 A Short Linguistic History of Piedmont -- 1.8 An Outline of the Piedmontese Literature -- 2 Phonetics and Phonology -- 2.1 Default Articulation of Phonemes -- 2.2 Loan Phonemes, Borrowing and Adaptation -- 2.3 Previous Accounts of the Phonology of Piedmontese -- 2.4 Phonetic Processes -- 2.5 Positional Restrictions on the Occurrence of Phonemes -- 2.6 Syllables -- 2.7 Clusters -- 2.8 Length -- 2.9 Stress -- 2.10 Pitch and Intonation -- 3 Writing System and Orthography -- 3.1 Overview -- 3.2 History -- 3.3 Evaluation -- 4 Words, Word Constituents and Word Classes -- 4.1 Roots, Stems, Words, Affixes and Clitics -- 4.2 Morphological Mechanisms -- 4.3 Suppletion -- 4.4 Syncretism -- 4.5 Word Classes -- 5 Nouns -- 5.1 Overview -- 5.2 Gender -- 5.3 Number -- 5.4 Derivational Morphology of Nouns -- 6 Adjectives -- 6.1 Overview -- 6.2 Semantics of Adjectives -- 6.3 Morphology of Adjectives -- 6.4 Comparative Constructions -- 6.5 Adjectives as Nouns -- 6.6 Derivational Morphology of Adjectives -- 7 Personal Pronouns -- 7.1 Overview -- 7.2 Independent Personal Pronouns -- 7.3 Subject Personal Pronouns -- 7.4 Non-subject Personal Pronouns: Object and Indirect Object -- 7.5 Interrogative Subject Clitics -- 7.6 Reflexive, Reciprocal and Impersonal Personal Pronouns -- 7.7 Attributive Pronoun -- 7.8 Lexicalized Verb-Clitic Constructions -- 7.9 Post-Tonic Vowel Dropping -- 7.10 Sequences of Clitics -- 8 Grounding and Deixis -- 8.1 Overview -- 8.2 Determiners and Classifiers -- 8.3 Deixis -- 8.4 Possessives -- 9 Quantifiers -- 9.1 Numerals -- 9.2 Generic Quantifiers -- 9.3 Negative Quantifiers -- 9.4 Interrogative Quantifiers -- 9.5 Quantificational Quantifiers -- 10 Verbs -- 10.1 Semantic Overview -- 10.2 Morphological Overview -- 10.3 Affixes, Allomorphy and Syncretism -- 10.4 Historical and Comparative Notes -- 10.5 Moods and Tenses -- 10.6 Use of the Auxiliaries -- 10.7 Verbal Derivation -- 11 Verbal Periphrases and Modalities -- 11.1 Valency-Increasing Operation, 1: Causative -- 11.2 Valency-Increasing Operation, 2: Permissive -- 11.3 Valency-Increasing Operation, 3: Middle -- 11.4 Modal Verbs -- 11.5 Progressive and Continuous -- 11.6 Imminential -- 11.7 Inchoative -- 11.8 Durative -- 11.9 Terminative -- 11.10 Immediative -- 11.11 Iterative -- 12 Adverbs -- 12.1 Overview -- 12.2 Predicate Adverbs -- 12.3 Degree Adverbs and Focalizers -- 12.4 Sentence Adverbs -- 12.5 Linking Adverbs -- 12.6 Adverb Formation Rules and Productivity -- 13 Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases -- 13.1 The Expression of Location and Movement -- 13.2 Basic Prepositions -- 13.3 Non-basic Prepositions -- 13.4 Prepositional Use of Adverbs -- 13.5 Attributive Phrases and Binominal Constructions -- 14 Phrases -- 14.1 The Structure of the Noun Phrase -- 14.2 Grounding and Ordering of Phrases -- 14.3 Adjectival Phrases -- 14.4 Temporal Phrases and Telling the Time -- 15 Clauses -- 15.1 Non-verbal Predication -- 15.2 Declarative Clauses -- 15.3 Introducing the Ubiquitous che -- 15.4 “Bare” che in Non-verbal Predication -- 15.5 Relative Clauses -- 15.6 Imperative Clauses -- 15.7 Exhortative Clauses -- 15.8 Mirative and Exclamative Clauses -- 15.9 Questions -- 15.10 The Expression of Atmospheric Events -- 16 Linkage -- 16.1 Coordination -- 16.2 Subordination -- 17 Negation -- 17.1 Overview -- 17.2 Sentence Negators -- 17.3 Negation with Scope over Smaller Units -- 17.4 Other Negative Items -- 17.5 Negative Concord -- 17.6 Holophrastic Negation -- 18 Pragmatics and Discourse -- 18.1 Information Structure and Sentence Word Order -- 18.2 Hanging Topics and Clefts -- 18.3 Discourse Markers -- 19 Piedmontese in a Typological Perspective -- 19.1 Genealogy and Overview -- 19.2 Phonology -- 19.3 Morphosyntax -- 19.4 Lexical Typology -- 19.5 Piedmontese, Standard Average European, and Other Romance Languages -- 20 Use, Contact and Care: Codeswitching, Endangerment, Enrichment and Standardization -- 20.1 Language Ideology through Language Use -- 20.2 The Long Road toward Resurgence -- 20.3 Envoi -- Appendix: Text -- References -- Index.