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 cont...

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.