A Grammar of Piedmontese : : A Minority Language of Northwest Italy / / Mauro Tosco, Emanuele Miola, and Nicola Duberti.
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 cont...
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Superior document: | Grammars and Sketches of the World's Languages ; 19 |
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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. |
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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.