Differential possessive marking in Italo-Romance
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Diego Pescarini
Abstract
This article focuses on Italo-Romance possessives. The term Italo-Romance refers to the complex of “varieties spoken in the Italian peninsula and in the islands that have long since chosen Italian as their guiding language” (Pellegrini 1973, 106). Data from the AIS are annotated and plotted on maps to show the distribution of possessive forms in various syntactic environments: in combination with nouns (including kinship nouns), in predicative position, and in elliptical NPs. Special attention is paid to patterns of Differential Possessive Marking, i.e. the co-occurrence in the same language of specialized possessive forms with a restricted syntactic distribution.
Abstract
This article focuses on Italo-Romance possessives. The term Italo-Romance refers to the complex of “varieties spoken in the Italian peninsula and in the islands that have long since chosen Italian as their guiding language” (Pellegrini 1973, 106). Data from the AIS are annotated and plotted on maps to show the distribution of possessive forms in various syntactic environments: in combination with nouns (including kinship nouns), in predicative position, and in elliptical NPs. Special attention is paid to patterns of Differential Possessive Marking, i.e. the co-occurrence in the same language of specialized possessive forms with a restricted syntactic distribution.
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Contents V
- Introduction 1
- Variation and change in transitivity alternations and argument realization in Italo-Romance 9
- Syntactic and functional broadening of the reflexive markers in Romance: for a typological approach 33
- The prosodic features of pragmatic chillo in Neapolitan: implications for syntax and diachrony 55
- On the surprising origin of what-particles in Italian dialects 79
- On the evolution of mesoclisis in the imperative in Western Lombard varieties 107
- Inflectional classes in Istriot: a first systematisation in diachrony and synchrony 127
- Parlare le cose: structural aspects and syntactic-semantic disambiguation of some Italo-Romance verba dicendi in a diachronic and synchronic perspective 143
- The mass neuter of Praianese: new data and some insights 163
- Differential possessive marking in Italo-Romance 187
- On the feminine plural definite article and the interrogative conjugation in the dialect of Berbenno (BG) 213
- Pseudo-coordination and cu-finite construction in Salento: a case of syntactic reanalysis 233
- Differential object marking in the dialects of Southern Calabria 255
- Language index
- Name index
- Subject index
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Contents V
- Introduction 1
- Variation and change in transitivity alternations and argument realization in Italo-Romance 9
- Syntactic and functional broadening of the reflexive markers in Romance: for a typological approach 33
- The prosodic features of pragmatic chillo in Neapolitan: implications for syntax and diachrony 55
- On the surprising origin of what-particles in Italian dialects 79
- On the evolution of mesoclisis in the imperative in Western Lombard varieties 107
- Inflectional classes in Istriot: a first systematisation in diachrony and synchrony 127
- Parlare le cose: structural aspects and syntactic-semantic disambiguation of some Italo-Romance verba dicendi in a diachronic and synchronic perspective 143
- The mass neuter of Praianese: new data and some insights 163
- Differential possessive marking in Italo-Romance 187
- On the feminine plural definite article and the interrogative conjugation in the dialect of Berbenno (BG) 213
- Pseudo-coordination and cu-finite construction in Salento: a case of syntactic reanalysis 233
- Differential object marking in the dialects of Southern Calabria 255
- Language index
- Name index
- Subject index
