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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Italian Dialects"”.
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Metaphony in Italian and Spanish dialects revisited
… within a diachronic framework. In many of the Italian dialects which demonstrate metaphony to one degree or another, the postonic vowels, which historically triggered the tonic vowel change, have neutralized or been entirely lost. This often means that metaphony has been morphologized.
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Non-standard Italian Dialect Heritage Speakers' Acquisition of Clitic Placement in Standard Italian
… of object clitic placement in Standard Italian by heritage speakers (HSs) of non-standard Italian dialects. It compares two different groups of Standard Italian learners--Northern Italian dialect HSs and Southern Italian dialect HSs--whose heritage dialects contrast with each other in …
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Vowel lengthening in northern Italy: A case for segmental and prosodic optimization
… segmental and prosodic structures. The northern Italian dialects are chosen as the main pool of data for the study of vowel lengthening and its conditionings, since in a relatively small area we find a great variety of vowel length developments. Moreover, some of the vowel developments are …
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Eolian morphosyntax: A comparative Romance perspective
… similarities to the two macro-groups of southern Italian dialects, the upper southern and the extreme southern ones (USIDs and ESIDs, respectively). This framing has also guided the selection of the four phenomena studied in this project – in which the two groups tend to differ –, which include …
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Non-Argumental Clitics in Spanish and Galician: A Case Study of the Distribution of Solidarity and Ethical Clitics
… is the case of sentential particles in Northern Italian dialects, allocutive agreement in Basque as well as Honorific markers in Japanese or Korean. The common denominator of these particles and the SolCL is that they are linked to the Deixis Center via binding by an operator.</p>
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Romance morphosyntactic microvariation in complementizer and auxiliary systems
… endangered Romance languages spoken in the Italian peninsula. In so doing, several previously undocumented complementizer and auxiliary systems are illustrated for the first time. From a theoretical perspective, this thesis accounts for the patterns of variation found in these auxiliary and …