Differential object marking and the properties of D in the dialects of the extreme south of Italy

A Ledgeway, N Schifano, G Silvestri - 2019 - repository.cam.ac.uk
Abstract jats: pThis paper discusses two case studies of microvariation in accusative
marking in the Italo-Romance varieties of the extreme south of Italy. In particular, the diatopic …

[HTML][HTML] The negative imperative in southern Calabria. Spirito greco, materia romanza again?

A Ledgeway, N Schifano, G Silvestri - Journal of Language Contact, 2021 - brill.com
The aim of this article is to investigate a special case of suppletion in the paradigm of the
negative imperative in some dialects of southern Calabria. First, we show how these …

DOM and ergative as structural oblique cases in an Agree framework

MR Manzini - The Place of Case in Grammar, 2024 - flore.unifi.it
Accusative and ergative alignments are accounted for in terms of head licenced case, ie in
terms of Agree, rejecting dependent case approaches. In the accusative alignment …

[PDF][PDF] Ways of being a dative across Romance varieties

T Cabré, A Fábregas - Dative constructions in Romance and …, 2020 - library.oapen.org
In this article, we argue that the term dative can correspond to objects of a very different
linguistic nature, even in typologically close languages. Specifically, in syntactic terms …

[HTML][HTML] Introduction: Balkan Romance Within the Balkan Sprachbund

V Hill, A Ledgeway - Languages, 2024 - mdpi.com
This article provides a short introduction to Balkan Romance, examining and exemplifying a
number of its principal features. In particular, the discussion begins in § 2 with a review of …

[HTML][HTML] Mind the Gap! Null Modals (and Other Functional Verbs) in Finite Complementation in Italo-Greek

A De Angelis - Languages, 2024 - mdpi.com
Although Italo-Greek is characterized by a general retreat of infinitival complementation, it
partly preserves the infinitive in restructuring contexts: a handful of functional auxiliaries—in …

[PDF][PDF] The accusative/dative alternation in Catalan verbs with experiencer object

C Royo - Dative constructions in Romance and beyond, 2020 - library.oapen.org
Various Catalan psychological verbs that are part of causative sentences with an accusative
experiencer (Els nens van molestar la Maria or La van molestar 'The kids annoyed Maria'or …

I possessivi in italo-greco e italo-romanzo: paralleli strutturali in un'area di contatto

A Ledgeway, N Schifano, G Silvestri - Archivio glottologico italiano: CV …, 2020 - torrossa.com
In this article we undertake a morphosyntactic comparison of the Italo-Greek and Italo-
Romance varieties spoken in southern Calabria and Salento. In particular, we offer a …

Gli impieghi non riflessivi di se/sibi nelle lingue romanze: dati e teoria

A Chilà, AD Angelis - Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie, 2024 - degruyter.com
The aim of the article is to investigate the non-coreferential uses of the Latin reflexive
pronoun se/sibi in the Romance languages. In prepositional phrases, the stressed form of …

A Biclausal Analysis of Italian Right Dislocation

S Castiglione - 2024 - discovery.ucl.ac.uk
In this thesis, I examine the properties of Italian Right Dislocation, a construction in which a
constituent that co-refers with a pronominal antecedent generally occurs at the right edge of …