Diachronic and synchronic aspects in the expression of temporal distance in the past: A process of grammaticalization in Italian compared with other Romance languages and English

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents XI
4. Part I: Issues in Phonology
5. The status of Italian glides in the syllable 3
6. The phonology and phonetics of laryngeal stop contrasts in Assamese 30
7. The phonetics-phonology relationship in the neurobiology of language 65
8. Metaphony with unary elements 104
9. Many sons of Aodh: Tracing multiple outcomes of the Scottish and Irish clan name MacAoidh/Ó hAodha 129
10. Part II: Issues in Morpho-Phonology
11. Disharmony and decay: Itelmen vowel harmony in the 20th century 161
12. Deriving morphophonological (mis)applications 193
13. Distribution of falling tones in Mabaan 249
14. Vedic Sanskrit accentuation and readjustment rules 266
15. Allomorphy of Italian determiners at the morphology-phonology interface 295
16. Part III: Issues in the Morpho-Syntax
17. Diachronic and synchronic aspects in the expression of temporal distance in the past: A process of grammaticalization in Italian compared with other Romance languages and English 329
18. N inflections and their interpretation: Neuter -o and plural -a in Italian varieties 357
19. Copying and resolution in South Slavic and South Bantu Conjunct Agreement 391
20. Subject and impersonal clitics in northern Italian dialects 409
21. Markedness as a condition on feature sharing 432
22. Part IV: Issues in Syntax
23. On a-marking of object topics in the Italian left periphery 445
24. Postverbal subjects and nuclear pitch accent in Italian wh-questions 467
25. On the Merge position of additive and associative plurals 495
26. Subjects, topics and the interpretation of pro 510
27. Index 531