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Contact-induced phenomena in the Alps
Jan CasalicchioA Padovansubject
CimbrianHistoryreconstructionSettore L-FIL-LET/09 - Filologia E Linguistica RomanzaMinority language heritage language Cimbrian Complementizer borrowing functional elementsheritage languageMinority languageborrowingSettore L-LIN/01 - Glottologia E LinguisticaComplementizerSettore L-LIN/14 - Lingua E Traduzione - Lingua TedescaRhaeto-romancefunctional elementsclitic climbingdescription
The main question underlying this chapter is to what extent language contact can affect syntactic structure. To tackle this issue we examine two relevant phenomena found in two minority languages spoken in the region Trentino-Alto Adige/South Tyrol: clitic climbing in Dolomitic Ladin and the use of the Romance complementizer ke in Cimbrian. Both phenomena are usually considered as the result of a contact-induced change influenced by the neighbouring Italo-Romance varieties. However, it is shown that the rising of clitic climbing is a language-internal process which is only accelerated by the contact with Italian. Similarly, the lexical borrowing of the complementizer ke in Cimbrian does not entail that its syntactic properties are also borrowed
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-02-15 |