Micro-contact in southern Italy: Language change in southern Lazio under pressure from Italian

V Colasanti - Languages, 2022 - mdpi.com
This paper explores a novel case of contact-induced change due to micro-contact within
Italy, where various Italo-Romance languages coexist (Standard Italian, Italiano Regionale …

Matrix complementizers in Italo-Romance

V Colasanti, G Silvestri - Italian dialectology at the interfaces, 2019 - torrossa.com
Based on uncharted evidence from Italo-Romance, we describe and discuss three types of
matrix clauses, ie jussives, concessives and optatives, which reveal a certain degree of …

Word-final schwa licensed by prosody and syntax: evidence from southern Italian dialects

G Silvestri - 2019 - repository.cam.ac.uk
Empirical evidence from dialects of northern Calabria and southern Basilicata challenges
the generalization whereby in upper-southern Italian dialects all final atonic vowels, with the …

[引用][C] Criterial positions as diagnostics in Italo-Romance: some highs and lows

V Colasanti - Revue Roumaine de Linguistique, 2021