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Chapter 4. Tracking Jespersen’s cycle in Veronese and Bresciano

Diatopic variation in sentential negation
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Abstract

This article provides an insight in the expression of sentential negation in two Italo-Romance varieties, i.e., Bresciano and Veronese. The fieldwork data gathered in Lumezzane (BS), Brescia, San Giovanni Lupatoto (VR) and Nogara (VR) shows an intriguing range of variation. The Veronese peripheral data displays the particle mia (local form of mica ) as a reinforcing negative element; central Bresciano shows a homogeneous pattern of postverbal negation, whereas in Lumezzanese the negative particle mia is completely grammaticalized. The general picture illustrates homogeneous negation patterns across the analysed structures, with all three stages of Jespersen’s cycle represented.

Abstract

This article provides an insight in the expression of sentential negation in two Italo-Romance varieties, i.e., Bresciano and Veronese. The fieldwork data gathered in Lumezzane (BS), Brescia, San Giovanni Lupatoto (VR) and Nogara (VR) shows an intriguing range of variation. The Veronese peripheral data displays the particle mia (local form of mica ) as a reinforcing negative element; central Bresciano shows a homogeneous pattern of postverbal negation, whereas in Lumezzanese the negative particle mia is completely grammaticalized. The general picture illustrates homogeneous negation patterns across the analysed structures, with all three stages of Jespersen’s cycle represented.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction 1
  4. Section I. Diachronic approaches
  5. Chapter 1. From comparative standard marker to comparative adverb 20
  6. Chapter 2. From fear to reason 50
  7. Chapter 3. - maɾa in Mara 74
  8. Section II. Synchronic approaches
  9. Chapter 4. Tracking Jespersen’s cycle in Veronese and Bresciano 104
  10. Chapter 5. Could be, might be, maybe 124
  11. Chapter 6. The final-appendage construction in Japanese and Korean 147
  12. Chapter 7. New perspectives on phonological erosion as an aspect of grammaticalization 176
  13. Section III. Interactive contexts
  14. Chapter 8. On the development of discourse markers from elliptical structures 198
  15. Chapter 9. On the grammaticalization of ideophones 237
  16. Chapter 10. An emerging final particle 263
  17. Index 283
Different Slants on Grammaticalization
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https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.232.04tag

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction 1
  4. Section I. Diachronic approaches
  5. Chapter 1. From comparative standard marker to comparative adverb 20
  6. Chapter 2. From fear to reason 50
  7. Chapter 3. - maɾa in Mara 74
  8. Section II. Synchronic approaches
  9. Chapter 4. Tracking Jespersen’s cycle in Veronese and Bresciano 104
  10. Chapter 5. Could be, might be, maybe 124
  11. Chapter 6. The final-appendage construction in Japanese and Korean 147
  12. Chapter 7. New perspectives on phonological erosion as an aspect of grammaticalization 176
  13. Section III. Interactive contexts
  14. Chapter 8. On the development of discourse markers from elliptical structures 198
  15. Chapter 9. On the grammaticalization of ideophones 237
  16. Chapter 10. An emerging final particle 263
  17. Index 283
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