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A syntactic analysis of the subject clitic a in the Friulian variety of Campone
2015
This article presents a syntactic analysis of the third person subject clitic a in Camponese, a heretofore unstudied Friulian variety. Following Poletto's (2000) map of subject clitics, we argue that it bears [+third person] features, and is, in fact, the spell-out of the functional head Subj°, located in the highest projection of TP (following Rizzi & Shlonsky 2007). In the first part of the article, we offer a detailed description of the distribution and syntactic properties of the subject clitic a, identifying its position in relation to the other elements that occur in the CP and TP. In the second part we discuss two proposals put forward to account for split clitics like a-l in the…
Pseudo-relatives and their left-periphery
2016
In this article I propose a new analysis of Pseudo-Relative clauses ('PRs') within the Cartographic model (Rizzi 1997 a.o.). Heretofore, the apparently contradictory behaviour of PRs in the syntactic tests used to determine their structure has been very problematic. Based on new data from Italian, I show that PRs are Small Clauses with a ForceP projection. Moreover, I explain the inconsistent results of the syntactic tests by claiming that PRs can be embedded in different syntactic environments. More specifically, they can be inserted as 'bare' Small Clauses into the matrix clause or be part of a bigger structure: i.e., a Complex-DP, a locative adjunction or a 'Larsonian' structure.
Introduzione al Manuale di linguistica ladina
2020
Il capitolo presenta le finalità e la struttura del Manuale di linguistica ladina. In particolare, si discutono le principali questioni definitorie riguardo al glottonimo ed etnonimo ladino, si giustifica la delimitazione del ladino brissinotirolese, oggetto del Manuale, mediante una combinazione di criteri sia di linguistica interna che esterna, che vengono illustrati singolarmente, e infine si prospettano alcuni desiderata nell’ambito della ricerca scientifica sul ladino. This chapter discusses the aims and the structure of the Manuale di linguistica ladina. It focuses in particular on the main classifying issues about "Ladin" used as language name as well as ethnic defiinition; on the co…
Ladinometria: Festschrift für Hans Goebl zum 65. Geburtstag / Miscellanea per Hans Goebl per il 65° compleanno / Publicazion en onour de Hans Goebl e…
2013
La morfologia del verbo in alcune varietà del Piemonte sud-occidentale: fenomeni di irregolarità e regolarizzazione
2011
The article discusses some particularities of the verbal morphology in various Piedmontese varieties.
LA GRAMMATICALIZZAZIONE DEI VERBI DI MOVIMENTO IN SICILIANO: IL CASO DI IRI ‘ANDARE’ IN FUNZIONE DIRETTIVA
2019
Esiste in siciliano una costruzione direttiva formata dalla seconda persona singolare dell’imperativo di iri ‘andare’ e la seconda persona, singolare o plurale, dell’imperativo di un verbo lessicale (va pigghilu ‘(lett.) va prendilo’). Sullo sfondo di alcuni studi che hanno indagato lo sviluppo delle marche direttive in diverse lingue del mondo da una prospettiva storico-pragmatica, la costruzione è interpretata come risultato di un processo di grammaticalizzazione che si origina nella interazione diadica tra i partecipanti dello speech act, innescato dalle specificità deittiche del verbo (allontanamento dal punto di vista del parlante); poiché il punto di vista del parlante viene incluso n…
Insegnare attraverso l'interazione, insegnare l'interazione. Il caso del task-based Language teaching and learning
2014
Insegnare la pragmatica della L2 nella L2. Problemi teorici e suggerimenti metodologici
2014
Conditional connection explored: the case of Sicilian cusà
2022
Abstract Stemming from a wh-question, the Sicilian marker cusà (cu sa ‘who knows’) expresses several epistemic meanings, which can also reach the realm of conditionality. The paper explores the discourse profile of cusà as it emerges from the analysis of diachronic data (from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries) and present-day informal Sicilian, namely spoken Sicilian and present-day informal Sicilian as written by speakers on the web. These data suggest a possible path of development leading from the wh-question to new functions. We propose that the origin of this development can be explained in the light of the strategy of the “impossible question”, while the diverse functions of cus…
Progressive and predicative constructions with gerund in Romance. A contrastive analysis
2018
Progressive and predicative constructions formed with gerund are present in numerous Romance languages. In the literature, these two types of construction have often been considered as syntactically analogous. Through the application of syntactic tests, this study will show that, despite a number of similarities, progressive and predicative constructs with gerund are characterized by a different structure.