Microvariation and change in the Romance left periphery

S Wolfe - Probus, 2022 - degruyter.com
Despite the vast literature which has accrued on the fine structure of the Romance left
periphery, there exists no diachronic account of the emergence of the considerable …

Nanoparameters in Western Iberian Romance: Null-copulas in Galician and Asturian

B Gravely, T Gupton - Isogloss. Open Journal of Romance …, 2022 - revistes.uab.cat
In this paper, we address two separate cases of null-copular constructions in Galician and
Asturian that on the surface appear to be identical but exhibit subtle yet important …

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 …

[PDF][PDF] Auxiliary selection in Southern Lazio Some implications for Romance microvariation and its limits

V Colasanti - L'Italia dialettale, 2023 - valentinacolasanti.it
The understudied languages spoken in Southern Lazio are sometimes said to constitute a
'transitional area'between the better-studied varieties spoken in central Italy and those …

Clitic climbing and restructuring in the history of French

M Olivier, C Sevdali, R Folli - Glossa, 2023 - ora.ox.ac.uk
This paper constitutes an empirical investigation into the diachrony of clitic climbing (and
consequently restructuring) in French based on data from a novel corpus of legal texts, as …

Microvariation in the old Italo-Romance left periphery. The case of SI

S Wolfe - Revue roumaine de linguistique, 2021 - ora.ox.ac.uk
This article presents a novel analysis of four Old ItaloRomance texts to better understand the
syntax of the particle SI. The proposal is that the variation attested can be understood in a …

[PDF][PDF] Das zweifache Komplementierersystem im Zimbrischen

JAN CASALICCHIO, A PADOVAN - GERMANISTISCHE LINGUISTIK - library.oapen.org
Cimbrian is a German (ic) minority language which has long been in contact with Romance
varieties in the Northeast of Italy and represents an ideal object of analysis for investigating …

[引用][C] On Factivity: Speculations on the split-CP in Upper-Southern Italian Dialects

V Colasanti - Generative Grammar@ Geneva, 2018