The final stronghold of the infinitive:(Silent) modals in Romanian and southern Italy

A Ledgeway - 2023 - repository.cam.ac.uk
Romanian and the Romance and Greek varieties of the extreme south of Italy show various
degrees of diachronic and diatopic microvariation in the loss and retreat of the infinitive …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Contrasting Romance and Turkish as source languages: Evidence from borrowing verbs in Modern Greek dialects

A Ralli - Journal of Language Contact, 2021 - brill.com
In this paper, I deal with verb borrowing in a language-contact situation involving Greek as
target and Romance and Turkish as source languages. More particularly, I discuss the …

[PDF][PDF] Jespersen gives and Jespersen takes Experimentally tracking the role of focus in the renewal of negation

G Magistro - 2023 - biblio.ugent.be
This thesis deals with the diachronic renewal of standard negation, a phenomenon
commonly known as Jespersen's cycle (also JC in this thesis). We adopt the notion of …

[HTML][HTML] Eastern and Western Romance in the Balkans–The contrasting but revealing positions of the Danubian Romance languages and Judezmo

VA Friedman, BD Joseph - Journal of Language Contact, 2021 - brill.com
The fate of two languages in the Balkans under conditions of language contact is discussed
here. These languages, representing different branches of the Romance family, are the …

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 …

Clitics in imperative: proclisis, enclisis and mesoclisis in Albanian and in Italo-Romance varieties of Lausberg area

B Baldi, LM Savoia - Linguistics Beyond and Within, 2020 - ceeol.com
The relation between morpho-syntactic structure and its externalization into interpretive
levels is the topic of this article. In many languages, typically in Romance and Albanian …

[PDF][PDF] An electronically-based investigation of left-headed dialectal compounds

G Chairetakis, A Ralli - Modern Greek Dialects and …, 2022 - pasithee.library.upatras.gr
Στο παρόν άρθρο εξετάζονται οι σύνθετε λέξει των νεοε ηνικών διαλέκτων που έχουν τη βάση
του, δηλαδή τη δο ική κεφαλή, αριστερά, αντίθετα ε ό, τι συ βαίνει στην Κοινή Νεοε ηνική …

[PDF][PDF] Journal of Language Contact

H Schreiber, P Siemund, A Aikhenvald, BAO Zhiming… - ricerca.sns.it
The languages of the Balkans are a rich source of data on contact-induced language
change. The result of a centuries long process of lexical and structural convergence has …

[PDF][PDF] Romance languages and the others: in and around the Balkans

F Gardani, M Loporcaro, A Giudici - Journal of Language Contact, 2021 - ricerca.sns.it
The languages of the Balkans are a rich source of data on contact-induced language
change. The result of a centuries long process of lexical and structural convergence has …