Southern Italian dialects exhibit a peculiar morphosyntactic device in licensing possessives
in non‑definite noun phrases, ie the insertion of the functional element de followed by the …

Possessives in medieval Italo-Romance varieties are found to occur both in prenominal and
postnominal position. Their value is always adjectival, inasmuch as they show agreement for …

As is well known, the possessive paradigms of French, Italian, Spanish and Romanian
contain three types of possessive: adjectives, determiners and pronouns. Comparing with …

This work aims at an initial description of prepositionless genitives in the Romance variety of
San Marco in Lamis, spoken in the Southern Italian region of Apulia. The construction will be …

In this paper, which discusses data from Gargano Apulian Italo‐Romance, I propose that
prepositional and non‐prepositional genitives are fundamentally two different types of …

3.1. 1 Significant Previous Results The analysis proposed in this chapter is based on the
theory of e (vent) versus r (esult) nominalizations presented by Grimshaw (1990) and …

A well-known difference between Romanian and the other Romance languages concerns
the position of the definite article which incorporates into the immediate right of its …

Abstract In French, Italian, and other Romance languages indefinite nominal phrases can be
introduced by what appears to be the conflation of a genitive preposition and a definite …

Prenommai possessives in Romance languages (eg French, Spanish and Italian) occur in
various forms. In Spanish and French, the prenominal possessive is a reduced form …

A common feature of Romance languages is the existence of indefinite articles.
Prototypically, indefinite articles serve to introduce new referents into discourse, which can …