Variation and change in transitivity alternations and argument realization in Italo-Romance
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Michela Cennamo
Abstract
This paper discusses semantic and discourse-pragmatic factors determining uniformity, variation and change in some (northern and southern) Italo-Romance varieties in two (in)transitivity alternations, auxiliary selection and postverbal Subjects (and related agreement patterns) with one-argument verbs. Variation in these domains in the Italo-Romance varieties considered reveals patterns of change in progress: the introduction and cancellation of a split intransitivity system marked through auxiliary selection, and the spread of agreement with postverbal Subjects and the retrenchment/loss of the original non-agreement structure.
Abstract
This paper discusses semantic and discourse-pragmatic factors determining uniformity, variation and change in some (northern and southern) Italo-Romance varieties in two (in)transitivity alternations, auxiliary selection and postverbal Subjects (and related agreement patterns) with one-argument verbs. Variation in these domains in the Italo-Romance varieties considered reveals patterns of change in progress: the introduction and cancellation of a split intransitivity system marked through auxiliary selection, and the spread of agreement with postverbal Subjects and the retrenchment/loss of the original non-agreement structure.
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
