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Title Structuring variation in romance linguistics and beyond : in honour of Leonardo M. Savoia / edited by Mirko Grimaldi, University of Salento ; Rosangela Lai, University of Florence ; Ludovico Franco, Nova University of Lisbon ; Benedetta Baldi, University of Florence.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2018]

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Series Linguistik Aktuell / Linguistics Today ; 252
Linguistik Aktuell / Linguistics Today ; 252.
Note A collection of papers to honor the work of Professor Leonardo M. Savoia.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Introduction: Structuring thought, externalizing structure: variation and universals / M. Rita Manzini. -- Part I. Micro- and macro-variation in syntax. Gender, number and inflectional class in some north-Italian dialects: The plural inflection -i and the interpretation of N morphology / Benedetta Baldi and Ludovico Franco -- Objects and subjects in the Left Periphery: The case of a-Topics / Adriana Belletti -- Notes on infinitival relatives in Italian / Guglielmo Cinque and Paola Benincà -- Negation and negative copulas in Bantu / Gloria Cocchi -- On gender and number: A psycholinguistic review / Paolo Lorusso -- Micro- and macro-variation: From pronominal allomorphies to the category of irreality/non-veridicality / M. Rita Manzini -- Concealed pseudo-clefts? Evidence from a Lombard dialect / Diego Pescarini and Giulia Donzelli -- Negation patterns across dialects / Cecilia Poletto and Michèle Oliviéri -- A note on left-peripheral maps and interface properties/ Luigi Rizzi -- Italian faire-infinitives: The special case of volere / Norma Schifano and Michelle Sheehan -- Optional vs obligatory movement in Albanian (pseudo)-raising constructions / Giuseppina Turano -- Part II. Clitics and pronouns from a theoretical perspective. Clitic stress allomorphy in Sardinian / Laura Bafile and Rosangela Lai -- Clitics and vowel epenthesis: A case study / Jacopo Garzonio and Silvia Rossi -- Overabundance in Hungarian accusative pronouns / Maria Grossmann and Anna M. Thornton -- Unstable personal pronouns in northern Logudorese / Michele Loporcaro, Serena Romagnoli and Mario Wild -- Object clitics for subject clitics in Francoprovençal and Piedmontese / Ian Roberts -- Part III. Sound pattern and syntactic structure. Are Sardinian vocatives perfectly regular? / Franck Floricic and Lucia Molinu -- Phonological correlates of syntactic structure: The distribution of raddoppiamento fonosintattico in Calabrian / Adam Ledgeway -- Metaphony as magnetism / Marc van Oostendorp and Roberta D'Alessandro -- Some reflections on the syllabification of clusters: A view from the dialects of Italy / Diana Passino -- Part IV. Language in context. Diachronic and synchronic lexical interactions in the Italo-Balkan linguistic space: From Latin lucanica to Italo-Albanian lëkëngë / Francesco Altimari -- Lexical-semantic analysis of the political language: Studies between 1960 and 1980 / Paola Desideri -- Dialects and neuroscience: A first critical review / Mirko Grimaldi -- Remarks on the vulnerability of grammar / Giovanna Marotta -- Some Celto-Albanian isoglosses and their implications / John Trumper.
Summary Current theoretical approaches to language devote great attention to macro- and micro-variation and show an ever-increasing interest in minority languages. In this respect, few empirical domains are as rich and lively as the Italo-Romance languages, which together with Albanian were the main research domain of Leonardo M. Savoia. The volume covers areas as different as phonology, morphology, syntax and the lexicon. A broad range of Romance languages is considered, as well as Albanian, Greek and Hungarian, shedding new light on many classical topics. The first section focuses on morphosyntax, both in the narrow sense and with regard to its interfaces. The second section focuses on clitics and pronouns. The third section deals with a number of issues in phonology and syntax-phonology interface. The last section turns the reader's attention beyond formal linguistics itself and examines variation in the light of neurosciences, pathology, historical linguistics and political discourse.
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Subject Italian language -- Variation.
Italian language -- Variation.
Italian language.
Romance languages -- Variation.
Romance languages -- Variation.
Romance languages.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Festschriften.
Festschriften.
Added Author Grimaldi, Mirko, editor.
Lai, Rosangela, editor.
Franco, Ludovico, editor.
Baldi, Benedetta, editor.
Savoia, Leonardo Maria, 1948- honouree.
Other Form: Print version: Structuring variation in romance linguistics and beyond. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2018] 9789027201904 (DLC) 2018034776
ISBN 9789027263179 (pdf)
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9789027201904 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
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