Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. Variation and change in transitivity alternations and argument realization in Italo-Romance 9
5. Syntactic and functional broadening of the reflexive markers in Romance: for a typological approach 33
6. The prosodic features of pragmatic chillo in Neapolitan: implications for syntax and diachrony 55
7. On the surprising origin of what-particles in Italian dialects 79
8. On the evolution of mesoclisis in the imperative in Western Lombard varieties 107
9. Inflectional classes in Istriot: a first systematisation in diachrony and synchrony 127
10. Parlare le cose: structural aspects and syntactic-semantic disambiguation of some Italo-Romance verba dicendi in a diachronic and synchronic perspective 143
11. The mass neuter of Praianese: new data and some insights 163
12. Differential possessive marking in Italo-Romance 187
13. On the feminine plural definite article and the interrogative conjugation in the dialect of Berbenno (BG) 213
14. Pseudo-coordination and cu-finite construction in Salento: a case of syntactic reanalysis 233
15. Differential object marking in the dialects of Southern Calabria 255
16. Language index
17. Name index
18. Subject index