Demonstrative forms, such as this and that, are ubiquitous elements in natural languages, to
the extent that they are generally regarded as a genuinely universal feature of language …

Romanian să, Salentino cu and southern Calabrese mu/ma/mi are irrealis subordinators,
which also replace the infinitive in many of its uses. The present chapter investigates the …

This paper investigates the relationship between finiteness and clause size, taking
Romance varieties with an irrealis subordinator as a case study: che/chi in upper southern …

The primary aim of this work is to propose a diachrony of complementizer systems in the
upper southern Italian dialects (USIDs). While previous diachronic studies have focused …

Summary Italian is an Italo-Romance language based upon a form of Tuscan, old Florentine.
For centuries, Italian was a literary language mastered only by well-educated elites. In …

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 …

The analysis of differences and analogies that the (synthetic) epistemic future exhibits in two
varieties of the Italo‑Romance dialect of Verbicaro contributes to uncover uncharted aspects …

In this paper we focus on an aspect of the change in the syntax of the Gallo-Italic variety of
Nicosia (Enna), presumably fostered by prolonged contact with Sicilian: the use of the Aviri …

Semi-lexicality: syntax or lexicon? Page 1 Semi-lexicality: syntax or lexicon? Cora Cavirani-Pots
∗ , Marijke De Belder † and Heidi Klockmann ‡ GLOW – 15 April 2021 1 Introduction 1.1 The …

This paper investigates the relationship between finiteness and clause size, taking
Romance varieties with an irrealis subordinator as a case study: che/chi in upper southern …