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AUTHOR
Andrea Padovan
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.
Das zweifache Komplementierersystem im Zimbrischen: Romanische Entlehnung und Eigenentwicklung
Cimbrian is a German(ic) minority language which has long been in contact with Romance varieties in the Northeast of Italy and represents an ideal object of analysis for investigating some specific issues in language contact, such as the borrowing of functional words. In this article, we first provide a detailed description of the Cimbrian subordination system putting forward an analysis of both the Romance loanword ke and the native complementizer az; secondly, we try to generalize the concept of ‘functional loanword’ comparing Cimbrian with typologically different languages. In a nutshell, we propose a common grammaticalization path, by which functional words borrowed from a model languag…