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Syntactic Variation: The Dialects of Italy
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Cambridge University Press, 1/14/2010EAN 9780521517362, ISBN10: 0521517362Hardcover, 368 pages, 23.5 x 16 x 2.5 cmLanguage: EnglishThis book was first published in 2010. The study
of Romance languages can tell us a great deal about sentence structure and its variation in general. Focusing on the dialects of Italy - including the islands of Sardinia and Sicily - the authors explore three thematic areas: the nominal domain, the verbal domain and the left periphery of the clause. The book gives fresh attention to the dialects, arguing that they offer an unprecedented degree of variation (not found, for example, in Germanic languages). Analysing a host of data, the authors show how the dialects can be used as a test-bed for investigating and challenging received ideas about language structure and change. Coherent and wide-ranging, this is a vital resource for those working in syntactic theory, historical linguistics and Romance languages.Syntactic variation and the dialects of Italyan overview Roberta D'Alessandro, Adam Ledgeway and Ian RobertsPart I. Nominal Structures1. Headless relatives in some Old Italian varieties Paola Benincà2. On Old Italian uomo and the classification of indefinite expressions Verner Egerland3. Syncretism and suppletion in clitic systemsunderspecification, silent clitics or neither? M. Rita Manzini and Leonardo M. Savoia4. Lexicalization of 3rd person object cliticsclitic enclisis and clitic drop Leonardo M. Savoia and M. Rita Manzini5. Proclitic vs enclitic pronouns in northern Italian dialects and the null-subject parameter Anna Cardinaletti and Lori Repetti6. Domains of clitic placement in finite and non-finite clausesevidence from a Piedmontese dialect Christina TortoraPart II. Verbal Structures7. Prohibition and Romancenegative imperatives in the early vernaculars of Italy Mair Parry8. The periphrasis aviri a + infinitive in contemporary Sicilian dialect Luisa Amenta9. A formal typology of person-based auxiliary selection in Italo-Romance Géraldine Legendre10. The Abruzzese T-v systemfeature spreading and the double auxiliary construction Roberta D'Alessandro and Adam Ledgeway11. Perfective auxiliaries in the pluperfect in some southern Italian dialects Michela Cennamo12. The logic of Romance past participle agreement Michele LoporcaroPart III. The Left Periphery13. Fronting as focalization in Sicilian Silvio Cruschina14. Focus fronting and the left periphery in Sardinian Guido Mensching and Eva-Maria Remberger15. In focusan investigation of information and contrastive constructions Sandra Paoli16. Criterial conditions for wh-structuresevidence from wh-exclamatives in northern Italian dialects Nicola Munaro17. The distribution of the complementizers /ka/ and /ku/ in the North Salentino dialect of Francavilla Fontana (Brindisi) Paola Vecchio.
