Formal syntax and deep history

A Ceolin, C Guardiano, MA Irimia… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
We show that, contrary to long-standing assumptions, syntactic traits, modeled here within
the generative biolinguistic framework, provide insights into deep-time language history. To …

The Status of De in Romance Indefinites, Partitives and Pseudopartitives*

MT Espinal, S Cyrino - Studia Linguistica, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This paper focuses on the status of de in Romance indefinites, partitives and
pseudopartitives. It argues that there is neither a 'partitive article'nor a 'partitive preposition'in …

Adverb agreement in the dialects of the Lausberg Area

G Silvestri - Adjective adverb interfaces in Romance, Amsterdam …, 2017 - books.google.com
This paper brings uncharted evidence to the phenomenon of adverb agreement in Italo-
Romance. Among southern Italian dialects, manner adverbs are not morphologically …

[PDF][PDF] Fenomeni di contatto sintattico in Italia meridionale? Alcune note comparative

C Guardiano - Quaderni di lavoro ASIt, 2014 - asit.maldura.unipd.it
Questo lavoro raccoglie alcune osservazioni preliminari da un'indagine comparativa sulle
strutture nominali (d'ora in poi DP 2) in una selezione di dialetti dell'Italia meridionale …

Romance genitives: Agreement, definiteness, and phases

A Massaro - Transactions of the Philological Society, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Possessivi e partitivi nei dialetti italo-romanzi dell'Area Lausberg

G Silvestri - La Lingua Italiana: Storia, Struttura e Testi, 2016 - torrossa.com
Questo contributo si propone di descrivere le proprietà dei pronomi possessivi, illustrandone
l'interazione con gli altri elementi della struttura sintattica del sintagma nominale (§ 2) e con …

[PDF][PDF] Sui possessivi (enclitici) nelle varietà italo-romanze meridionali non estreme

R D'Alessandro, L Migliori, R D'Alessandro… - 2017 - academia.edu
Possessive constructions in upper-southern Italo-Romance languages come in several
forms. Many uppersouthern languages show enclitic possessives for kinship terms and other …

Number Morphology and Bare Nouns in Some Romance Dialects of Italy

C Guardiano, M Cambria, V Stalfieri - Languages, 2022 - mdpi.com
This paper explores aspects of microvariation concerning the morphological realization of
the feature Number within nominal structures in a selected subset of Romance dialects of …

Modeling syntactic change under contact: The case of Italiot Greek

C Guardiano, M Stavrou - Languages, 2021 - mdpi.com
In this paper, we investigate patterns of persistence and change affecting the syntax of
nominal structures in Italiot Greek in comparison to Modern (and Ancient) Greek, and we …

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 …