This book examines how speakers of Ibero-Romance'do things' with conversational units of
language, paying particular attention to what they do with i) vocatives, interjections, and …

The object of study of this paper is a Romance construction characterized by the presence of
the complementizer in root clauses and by an evidential or epistemic meaning (ie C …

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 …

The incorporation of empirical and theoretical knowledge from the language acquisition
literature into formal diachronic syntax has been largely exiguous despite the growth of the …

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 …

On the basis of empirical evidence from various Italian dialects, I argue that primary and
secondary interjections lexicalize different functional heads which are computed …

Research on the dialect of the Eolian archipelago, still in its infancy, has focused mainly on
lexical and phonetic-phonological considerations, leaving morphosyntactic aspects for the …

This paper investigates two Italo-Romance discourse particles, which we analyze as
'cooperativity markers', conveying the conventional implicature that a future action to be …

Italo-Romance varieties display a typologically rare strategy to realize the unconditional (or
free-choice) free relative clauses, ie the reduplication of the verb complex. The semantic …

Riassunto· L'articolo propone una succinta rassegna critica degli studi linguistici dell'ultimo
ventennio dedicati al Salento, con particolare riguardo per la storia linguistica regionale e …