Advances in Italian dialectology : sketches of Italo-Romance grammars / edited by Roberta D'Alessandro, Diego Pescarini.

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Front Matter -- Introduction / Roberta D'Alessandro and Diego Pescarini -- The Distribution of Gender and Number in Lunigiana Nominal Expressions / Edoardo Cavirani -- On the Interpretation of an Interrogative Form in North-Eastern Italian Dialects / Patrizia Cordin -- Verb-Second and (Micro)Variation in Two Rhaeto-Romance Varieties of Northern Italy / Jan Casalicchio and Federica Cognola -- On the Palatalization of /s/ + Consonant in Some Dialects of Middle and Southern Italy / Luca Lorenzetti -- On the Gender System of Viterbese / Michele Loporcaro -- Indefinite Determiners: Variation and Optionality in Italo-Romance / Anna Cardinaletti and Giuliana Giusti -- Italo-Romance Phonological Rules and Indo-Aryan Lexicon: The Case of Abruzzian Romani / Andrea Scala -- Avita fatta: Non-Etymological Forms of Auxiliary habere in Southern Italian Dialects / Giancarlo Schirru -- Adjectival Positions in Barese: Prenominal Exceptions to the Postnominal Rule / Luigi Andriani -- Metaphony in Southern Salento: New Analysis and New Data / Mirko Grimaldi and Andrea Calabrese -- The 'go for' Construction in Sicilian / Silvio Cruschina -- The Complementizers ca and chi in Sardinian: Syntactic Properties and Geographic Distribution / Caroline Bacciu and Guido Mensching -- Index.

This volume is a collection of grammar sketches from several Italo-Romance varieties. The contributions cover various areas of linguistics (phonology, morphology, syntax) and are organized in sections according to the customary geolinguistic classification. Each chapter provides the description of a salient phenomenon for a given language, based on novel data, as well as the state-of-the-art knowledge on that phenomenon. The articles are in-depth studies carried out by prominent experts as well as promising young scholars. The theoretical apparatus is kept to a minimum in order to make the book accessible to scholars without specific expertise. For the same reason, hypotheses and formalisms are introduced gradually, only if necessary for the description of the data.

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