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Verb-Second and (micro)-variation in two Rhaeto-Romance varieties of Northern Italy.

2018

Rhaeto-Romance varieties are the only present-day Romance varieties which exhibit the Verb Second constraint (Benincà 1994, Poletto 2002, Salvi 2010). In this chapter we examine two properties typically ascribed to the Verb Second phenomenon, subject-finite verb inversion and restrictions on the co-occurrence of multiple constituents in the sentence-initial position, in two Rhaeto-Romance varieties spoken in South Tyrol (Province of Bolzano, Northern Italy). We demonstrate that both varieties behave like Verb-Second languages as far as both phenomena are concerned, but exhibit a specific Verb-Second system governed by the interplay between syntactic and discourse constraints which differs f…

relaxed V2; Old Romance; Ladin; Badiotto; Gardenese; subject-finite verb inversion; multiple access to the left periphery; sociolinguistic variation; diatopic variationOld RomanceLadinSettore L-FIL-LET/09 - Filologia E Linguistica Romanzadiatopic variationVerbArchaeologyRomancesubject-finite verb inversionNorthern italySettore L-LIN/01 - Glottologia E LinguisticaGeographyVariation (linguistics)Settore L-LIN/14 - Lingua e Traduzione - Lingua Tedescasociolinguistic variationBadiottomultiple access to the left peripheryGardeneserelaxed V2
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