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Focus on Additivity: Adverbial modifiers in Romance, Germanic and Slavic languages
Edited by Anna-Maria De Cesare and Cecilia Andorno
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 278] 2017
► pp. 311–330

Chapter 10
Ënghe, ence and also anche

Ladin and Italian additive particles in language contact situation

| Università dell’Insubria

The contribution examines the behaviour of additive particles in a specific language contact situation, namely the Ladin speaking area in Trentino-South Tyrol (Italy). Ladin is a minority language spoken by ca. 30,000 speakers, whose linguistic repertoires include also Italian (Fassa valley) and German (Badia and Gardena valleys). The analysis of a corpus of bilingual speech shows that, contrary to other types of particles (such as discourse markers), there is no borrowing of additive particles from Italian and German to Ladin. Nevertheless, the contact with these languages affects the position and scope of additive particles in the utterance, especially in Badia and Gardena Ladin.

Keywords: focus particles, additive particles, discourse markers, Ladin, Italian, German
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
    • 1.1Focus particles in language contact situations
    • 1.2Italian additive particles
  • 2.Research area, methodology and data
    • 2.1Discourse markers in the data
  • 3.Analysis of the data
    • 3.1Overview on focus particles in Fassa data
      • 3.1.1Additive particles in Fassa data
    • 3.2Overview on focus particles in Badia and Gardena data
      • 3.2.1Additive particles in Gardena and Badia data
    • 3.3Additive particles in translation
  • 4.Final remarks
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 24 August 2017
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