Slovenian children's perceptions of and attitudes towards foreign languages

S Bratož, T Štemberger, A Pirih - International Journal of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The main aim of the article is to identify Slovenian children's attitudes towards foreign
languages (FL), their motivation for learning languages, the influence of different significant …

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 …

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 …

What's hidden below definiteness and genitive: on indefinite partitive articles in Romance

F Pinzin - Linguistics, 2024 - degruyter.com
Abstract In French, Italian, and other Romance languages indefinite nominal phrases can be
introduced by what appears to be the conflation of a genitive preposition and a definite …

Variation and change in the Romance possessive constructions: An overview of nominal, adverbial and verbal uses

M Bouzouita, MM Larsson - Moderna språk, 2020 - publicera.kb.se
In this introductory article, we will first illustrate the great morpho-syntactic diversity that
exists in the Romance possessive systems from a comparative perspective, and then detail …

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 …

Word-final schwa licensed by prosody and syntax: evidence from southern Italian dialects

G Silvestri - 2019 - repository.cam.ac.uk
Empirical evidence from dialects of northern Calabria and southern Basilicata challenges
the generalization whereby in upper-southern Italian dialects all final atonic vowels, with the …

Possessives in indefinite nominal phrases: A comparison between Italo-Romance and Daco-Romance

G Silvestri - Moderna språk, 2020 - publicera.kb.se
Southern Italian dialects exhibit a peculiar morphosyntactic device in licensing possessives
in non‑definite noun phrases, ie the insertion of the functional element de followed by the …

Some initial remarks on non-prepositional genitives in the Apulian variety of San Marco in Lamis

A Massaro - Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali, 2019 - torrossa.com
This work aims at an initial description of prepositionless genitives in the Romance variety of
San Marco in Lamis, spoken in the Southern Italian region of Apulia. The construction will be …

Pseudopartitives vs. agreement attraction: An experimental study

G Mazzaggio, L Franco, R Manzini - Lingue e linguaggio, 2020 - rivisteweb.it
Pseudopartitive constructions are constructions of the form DP-of-NP, where the
quantificational, collective or container DP head is interpreted as measuring the embedded …