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 …

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 …

The main topic of this dissertation is a comparison among sentential predicative
constructions in the Romance languages. Whereas Pseudo-relative clauses are almost …

In this paper we examine the syntactic properties of prepositional genitives in Romance
languages. Following the proposals in Kayne (1994), we argue that the term of the …

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 …

This contribution examines the relation between genitives/partitives and indefinites in some
Italian varieties. A central question concerns the nature of the preposition de/di (DE)'of'(< …

In this paper we focus on the behaviour of prenominal genitives in Old Romanian in contrast
with Modern Romanian. In the old language, the prenominal genitive is more widely used …

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 …

This paper deals with cases of apparent enclisis on past participles in North-Western Italian
varieties. It is claimed that these cases do not involve clitic pronouns, but weak pronouns in …

A new Gothic text has recently been discovered and it is contained in a palimpsest bifolium
of the Archive of the Board of Trustees of San Petronio's Basilica in Bologna. Two scholars of …