Search results for "contact-induced change"

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Documenting Italo-Romance minority languages in the Americas. Problems and tentative solutions

2021

This article describes the process of preparation and implementation of a data collection enterprise targeting Italo-Romance emigrant languages in North and South America. This data collection is part of the ERC Microcontact project, which aims to understand language change in contact by examining the language of Italian communities in the Americas.

fieldwork Italo-Romancecontact-induced changeNorth AmericaSouth AmericaSettore L-LIN/01 - Glottologia E Linguistica
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Cambiamenti nell'uso dei soggetti clitici veneti: il ruolo del contatto con l'italiano

2018

This chapter discusses the results of a series of data on the syntax of subject clitic pronouns in Venetan dialects. The data were gathered through a crowdsourcing tool (google modules), and more than 700 participants took part in the inquiry. The data collection asked for grammaticality judgements on a series of contexts. The main research question was whether the syntax of subject clitics is changing in the language of the younger generation: this question is particularly important because the distribution of the Venetan varieties througout the Veneto region is changing, due to the increasing influence and presence of Italian, which is the L1 of most of the younger speakers. The results s…

pro-drop parameterVenetan Northern Italian Dialects Contact-induced change regional languages syntax subject pronounsyntax-pragmatics interfacenull subjectSettore L-LIN/01 - Glottologia E Linguistica
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