Structuring Variation in Romance Linguistics and Beyond

In honour of Leonardo M. Savoia

Editors

Mirko Grimaldi | University of Salento

Rosangela Lai | University of Florence

Ludovico Franco | Nova University of Lisbon

Benedetta Baldi | University of Florence

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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.

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 252] 2018. viii, 395 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/la.252

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction: Structuring thought, externalizing structure: Variation and universals

M. Rita Manzini | pp. 1–28

Part I. Micro‑ and macro-variation in syntax

Chapter 2. Gender, number and inflectional class in some Northern Italian dialects: The plural inflection ‑i and the interpretation of N morphology

Benedetta Baldi and Ludovico Franco | pp. 31–55

Chapter 3. Objects and subjects in the left periphery: The case of a-Topics

Adriana Belletti | pp. 57–72

Chapter 4. Notes on infinitival relatives in Italian

Guglielmo Cinque and Paola Benincà | pp. 73–84

Chapter 5. Negation and negative copulas in Bantu

Gloria Cocchi | pp. 85–96

Chapter 6. On gender and number: A psycholinguistic review

Paolo Lorusso | pp. 97–109

Chapter 7. Micro‑ and macro-variation: From pronominal allomorphies to the category of irreality/non-veridicality

M. Rita Manzini | pp. 111–120

Chapter 8. Concealed pseudo-clefts? Evidence from a Lombard dialect

Diego Pescarini and Giulia Donzelli | pp. 121–131

Chapter 9. Negation patterns across dialects

Cecilia Poletto and Michèle Oliviéri | pp. 133–148

Chapter 10. A note on left-peripheral maps and interface properties

Luigi Rizzi | pp. 149–160

Chapter 11. Italian faire-infinitives: The special case of volere

Norma Schifano and Michelle Sheehan | pp. 161–175

Chapter 12. Optional vs obligatory movement in Albanian (pseudo)-raising constructions

Giuseppina Turano | pp. 177–192

Part II. Clitics and pronouns from a theoretical perspective

Chapter 13. Clitic stress allomorphy in Sardinian

Laura Bafile and Rosangela Lai | pp. 195–213

Chapter 14. Clitics and vowel epenthesis: A case study

Jacopo Garzonio and Silvia Rossi | pp. 215–222

Chapter 15. Overabundance in Hungarian accusative pronouns

Maria Grossmann and Anna M. Thornton | pp. 223–239

Chapter 16. Unstable personal pronouns in Northern Logudorese

Michele Loporcaro, Serena Romagnoli and Mario Wild | pp. 241–255

Chapter 17. Object clitics for subject clitics in Francoprovençal and Piedmontese

Ian Roberts | pp. 257–267

Part III. Sound pattern and syntactic structure

Chapter 18. Are Sardinian vocatives perfectly regular?

Franck Floricic and Lucia Molinu | pp. 271–282

Chapter 19. Phonological correlates of syntactic structure: The distribution of raddoppiamento fonosintattico in Calabrian

Adam Ledgeway | pp. 283–296

Chapter 20. Metaphony as magnetism

Marc van Oostendorp and Roberta D’Alessandro | pp. 297–306

Chapter 21. Some reflections on the syllabification of clusters: A view from the dialects of Italy

Diana Passino | pp. 307–319

Part IV. Language in context

Chapter 22. Diachronic and synchronic lexical interactions in the Italo-Balkan linguistic space: From Latin lucanĭca to Italo-Albanian lëkëngë

Francesco Altimari | pp. 323–336

Chapter 23. Lexical-semantic analysis of the political language: Studies between 1960 and 1980

Paola Desideri | pp. 337–350

Chapter 24. Dialects and neuroscience: A first critical review

Mirko Grimaldi | pp. 351–364

Chapter 25. Remarks on the vulnerability of grammar

Giovanna Marotta | pp. 365–378

Chapter 26. Some Celto-Albanian isoglosses and their implications

John Trumper | pp. 379–389

Subject Index

Language Index

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