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AUTHOR
Ermenegildo Bidese
VinKo
L'articolo presenta lo strumento per linguisti VinKo (Varieties in Contact/Varietäten im Kontakt/Varietà in contatto), una piattaforma per la raccolta di dati orali di lingue non standard mediante crowdsourcing.
The expression of additivity in the Alps: German auch, Italian anche and their counterparts in Gardenese Ladin
Additive particles (e.g. English also) usually operate on a constituent (‘domain of association’) signaling that it has to be added to a list of items already introduced in the context or inferable. In addition, they can also exhibit a more grammatical function acting as a focused constituent itself or a modal particle. In the present contribution, we aim to provide a classification of the usage patterns and main grammatical functions of the additive item also in the standard languages spoken in the alpine region of Trentino-South Tyrol, i.e. German (auch) and Italian (anche) and in a regional language, Gardenese Ladin (belonging to the Rhaeto-romance group), which displays two forms: nce a…