Italian dialectology at the interfaces
By: edited by Silvio Cruschina, University of Vienna, Adam Ledgeway, University of Cambridge, Eva-Maria Remberger, University of Vienna
Contributors: Cruschina, Silvio, editor; Ledgeway, Adam, editor; Remberger, Eva-Maria, editor
Series: Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today (LA) -- volume 251; Linguistik aktuell -- Bd. 251.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company; Benjamins Publishing Company, John
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 369
ISBN-13: 9789027201768; 9789027263254
Subjects: Italian language; Congress; Dialectology
Description: Recent years have seen a growing interest in linguistic phenomena whose formal manifestation and underlying licensing conditions represent the convergence of two or more areas of the grammar, an area of investigation particularly invigorated in recent generative research by developments such as phase theory (cf. Chomsky 2001; 2008) and the cartographic enterprise (cf. Rizzi 1997; Cinque 1999). In this respect, the dialects of Italy are no exception, in that they present comparative Romance linguists and theoretical linguists alike with many valuable opportunities to study the linguistic interfaces, as highlighted by the many case studies presented in this volume which provide a series of original insights into how different components of the linguistic system - syntactic, phonetic, phonological, morphological, semantic and pragmatic - do not necessarily operate in isolation but, rather, interact to license phenomena whose nature and distribution can only be fully understood in terms of the formal mapping between the interfaces.
Notes: The following chapters represent a selection of Proceedings of the 11th Cambridge Italian Dialect Syntax-Morphology Meeting hosted by the Department of Romance of Romance Studies of the University of Vienna on 4-6 July 2016.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: The dialects of Italy at the interfaces  -- Silvio Cruschina, Adam Ledgeway and Eva-Maria Remberger; title: Inflectional uniformity in the present subjunctive in the dialects of central Friuli  -- Martina Da Tos; title: The Inflected Construction in the dialects of Sicily : Parameters of microvariation  -- Vincenzo Nicolò Di Caro; title: Mixed paradigms in Italo-Romance : A case of morphologization of auxiliary selection?  -- Pavel Štichauer; title: Selection and morphology of expletive subject clitics in northern Italian dialects  -- Lorenzo Ferrarotti; title: Can structural deficiency be parametrized? Oblique pronouns in old Tuscan varieties  -- Jacopo Garzonio and Silvia Rossi; title: The morphosyntax-semantics interface and the Sicilian Doubly Inflected Construction  -- Giuseppina Todaro and Fabio del Prete; title: Matrix complementizers in Italo-Romance  -- Valentina Colasanti and Giuseppina Silvestri; title: On the syntactic encoding of lexical interjections in Italo-Romance  -- Nicola Munaro; title: A person split analysis of the progressive forms in some southern Italian varieties  -- Paolo Lorusso; title: Contact-induced phenomena in the Alps  -- Jan Casalicchio and Andrea Padovan; title: N morphology and its interpretation : Romance feminine singular, plural -a  -- Maria Rita Manzini and Leonardo M. Savoia; title: Indefinite articles and licensing of nominals in two Slavic varieties  -- Marija Runić; title: Syntactic variation across Greek dialects : the case of demonstratives -- Cristina Guardiano and Dimitris Michelioudakis-- Authors index-- Language and place index-- Subject index.