Chapter 1. Introduction: Structuring thought, externalizing structure: Variation and universals

Maria Rita Manzini

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Chapter 1. Introduction: Structuring thought, externalizing structure

Variation and universals

Maria Rita Manzini

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This chapter is in the book Structuring Variation in Romance Linguistics and Beyond

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The articles collected in this volume bear witness to the important role played by studies on language variation, specifically on Romance microvariation, in the development of formal approaches to language. Leonardo M. Savoia is a central figure in this endeavor, in the twin fields of phonology and morphosyntax. In this introductory chapter, I will briefly put research into (micro)variation in Romance and other language families in the context of the recent theoretical debate in generative grammar. Despite Savoia’s unrivalled expertise in field work and the prodigious number of data we owe to him, especially on Italian and Albanian varieties, it is only within a theoretical setting that his work is truly appreciated. I will conclude each section by illustrating how the themes explored therein resonate in the several contributions to the volume.

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Prelim pages i
Table of contents v
Chapter 1. Introduction: Structuring thought, externalizing structure 1
Part I. Micro‑ and macro-variation in syntax
Chapter 2. Gender, number and inflectional class in some Northern Italian dialects 31
Chapter 3. Objects and subjects in the left periphery 57
Chapter 4. Notes on infinitival relatives in Italian 73
Chapter 5. Negation and negative copulas in Bantu 85
Chapter 6. On gender and number 97
Chapter 7. Micro‑ and macro-variation 111
Chapter 8. Concealed pseudo-clefts? Evidence from a Lombard dialect 121
Chapter 9. Negation patterns across dialects 133
Chapter 10. A note on left-peripheral maps and interface properties 149
Chapter 11. Italian faire -infinitives 161
Chapter 12. Optional vs obligatory movement in Albanian (pseudo)-raising constructions 177
Part II. Clitics and pronouns from a theoretical perspective
Chapter 13. Clitic stress allomorphy in Sardinian 195
Chapter 14. Clitics and vowel epenthesis 215
Chapter 15. Overabundance in Hungarian accusative pronouns 223
Chapter 16. Unstable personal pronouns in Northern Logudorese 241
Chapter 17. Object clitics for subject clitics in Francoprovençal and Piedmontese 257
Part III. Sound pattern and syntactic structure
Chapter 18. Are Sardinian vocatives perfectly regular? 271
Chapter 19. Phonological correlates of syntactic structure 283
Chapter 20. Metaphony as magnetism 297
Chapter 21. Some reflections on the syllabification of clusters 307
Part IV. Language in context
Chapter 22. Diachronic and synchronic lexical interactions in the Italo-Balkan linguistic space 323
Chapter 23. Lexical-semantic analysis of the political language 337
Chapter 24. Dialects and neuroscience 351
Chapter 25. Remarks on the vulnerability of grammar 365
Chapter 26. Some Celto-Albanian isoglosses and their implications 379
Subject index 391
Language index 393

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Chapters in this book

Prelim pages i
Table of contents v
Chapter 1. Introduction: Structuring thought, externalizing structure 1
Part I. Micro‑ and macro-variation in syntax
Chapter 2. Gender, number and inflectional class in some Northern Italian dialects 31
Chapter 3. Objects and subjects in the left periphery 57
Chapter 4. Notes on infinitival relatives in Italian 73
Chapter 5. Negation and negative copulas in Bantu 85
Chapter 6. On gender and number 97
Chapter 7. Micro‑ and macro-variation 111
Chapter 8. Concealed pseudo-clefts? Evidence from a Lombard dialect 121
Chapter 9. Negation patterns across dialects 133
Chapter 10. A note on left-peripheral maps and interface properties 149
Chapter 11. Italian faire -infinitives 161
Chapter 12. Optional vs obligatory movement in Albanian (pseudo)-raising constructions 177
Part II. Clitics and pronouns from a theoretical perspective
Chapter 13. Clitic stress allomorphy in Sardinian 195
Chapter 14. Clitics and vowel epenthesis 215
Chapter 15. Overabundance in Hungarian accusative pronouns 223
Chapter 16. Unstable personal pronouns in Northern Logudorese 241
Chapter 17. Object clitics for subject clitics in Francoprovençal and Piedmontese 257
Part III. Sound pattern and syntactic structure
Chapter 18. Are Sardinian vocatives perfectly regular? 271
Chapter 19. Phonological correlates of syntactic structure 283
Chapter 20. Metaphony as magnetism 297
Chapter 21. Some reflections on the syllabification of clusters 307
Part IV. Language in context
Chapter 22. Diachronic and synchronic lexical interactions in the Italo-Balkan linguistic space 323
Chapter 23. Lexical-semantic analysis of the political language 337
Chapter 24. Dialects and neuroscience 351
Chapter 25. Remarks on the vulnerability of grammar 365
Chapter 26. Some Celto-Albanian isoglosses and their implications 379
Subject index 391
Language index 393

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