Contested Languages: The hidden multilingualism of Europe
Edited by Marco Tamburelli and Mauro Tosco
[Studies in World Language Problems, 8] 2021. vi, 271 pp.
Mauro Tosco
List of John Benjamins publications for which Mauro Tosco plays a role.
Subjects Applied linguistics | Language policy | Multilingualism | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Arabic in Contact
Edited by Stefano Manfredi and Mauro Tosco
[Studies in Arabic Linguistics, 6] 2018. vi, 372 pp.
Subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Contact Linguistics | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Afroasiatic: Data and perspectives
Edited by Mauro Tosco
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 339] 2018. vi, 288 pp.
Subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Theoretical linguistics
Arabic-based Pidgins and Creoles
Edited by Stefano Manfredi and Mauro Tosco
Special issue of Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 29:2 (2014) v, 253 pp.
Subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
2021 Chapter 11. Teaching Piedmontese: A challenge? Contested Languages: The hidden multilingualism of Europe, Tamburelli, Marco and Mauro Tosco (eds.), pp. 199–208 | Chapter
Until 2015, Piedmontese, an endangered and contested language spoken in the homonymous region of northwest Italy, had never before been taught in a university context, at least in Italy. After discussing the complex (and still unsettled) juridical status of Piedmontese, the chapter traces the… read more
2021 Chapter 1. What are contested languages and why should linguists care? Contested Languages: The hidden multilingualism of Europe, Tamburelli, Marco and Mauro Tosco (eds.), pp. 3–18 | Chapter
The literature on regional and minority languages has seen strong developments in recent years, and new frontiers have been opened on issues of minority language planning and development as well as on issues of speakers’ rights. Nevertheless, there are many varieties that are left in a sort of… read more
2021 Chapter 3. Democracy: A threat to language diversity? Contested Languages: The hidden multilingualism of Europe, Tamburelli, Marco and Mauro Tosco (eds.), pp. 41–56 | Chapter
This chapter argues that democracy has both theoretical and practical implications that negatively affect the maintenance of language (and cultural) diversity. Attention is paid to the levelling effects of welfare policies, which tend to depress the speakers’ interest in language preservation and… read more
2018 Arabic in contact, now and then Arabic in Contact, Manfredi, Stefano and Mauro Tosco (eds.), pp. 1–17 | Chapter
2018 Afroasiatic: Fresh insights from an “old” language family Afroasiatic: Data and perspectives, Tosco, Mauro (ed.), pp. 1–7 | Chapter
2015 Language contact, borrowing and codeswitching Corpus-based Studies of Lesser-described Languages: The CorpAfroAs corpus of spoken AfroAsiatic languages, Mettouchi, Amina, Martine Vanhove and Dominique Caubet (eds.), pp. 283–308 | Article
Within the larger rubric of language contact we will analyze in this chapter the two phenomena of lexical borrowing and codeswitching as represented in the languages of the CorpAfroAs database. After establishing a theoretical background concerning the difficult distinction between borrowing and… read more
2015 Cross-linguistic comparability in CorpAfroAs Corpus-based Studies of Lesser-described Languages: The CorpAfroAs corpus of spoken AfroAsiatic languages, Mettouchi, Amina, Martine Vanhove and Dominique Caubet (eds.), pp. 221–255 | Article
One of the aims of CorpAfroAs is to allow queries within and across the language samples composing the corpus. Through the study of phenomena represented in several languages of the corpus (directional morphemes, case, and gender) we show that CorpAfroAs indeed allows the retrieval of a body of… read more
2014 The morphosyntax and prosody of topic and focus in Juba Arabic Arabic-based Pidgins and Creoles, Manfredi, Stefano and Mauro Tosco (eds.), pp. 319–351 | Article
The article discusses the information structure of Juba Arabic, an Arabic-based pidgincreole of South Sudan, showing how the expression of topic and focus is the result of a complex interaction of morphosyntactic and prosodic means. While the lexical elements used in the expression of topic and… read more
2014 Introduction Arabic-based Pidgins and Creoles, Manfredi, Stefano and Mauro Tosco (eds.), pp. 207–210 | Article
2011 Impersonal configurations and theticity: The case of meteorological predications in Afroasiatic Impersonal Constructions: A cross-linguistic perspective, Malchukov, Andrej L. and Anna Siewierska (eds.), pp. 307–322 | Article
Impersonal predications are often viewed as structures expressing either agent defocusing, or lack of canonical subject properties. The study of one type of prototypical impersonal predication, meteorological predicates, in various Afroasiatic branches suggests that the subject or agent may not be… read more
2010 Why contrast matters: Information structure in Gawwada (East Cushitic) The Expression of Information Structure: A documentation of its diversity across Africa, Fiedler, Ines and Anne Schwarz (eds.), pp. 315–348 | Article
The article discusses the information structure of Gawwada, an East Cushitic language of Southwest Ethiopia, along the lines of the Prague School and Lambrecht’s (1994) theory. Gawwada does not have any dedicated focus-marking device – contrary to previous preliminary statements and in stark… read more
2008 Between coordination and subordination in Gawwada Interaction of Morphology and Syntax: Case studies in Afroasiatic, Frajzyngier, Zygmunt and Erin Shay (eds.), pp. 207–226 | Article
2007 Feature-geometry and diachrony: The development of the subject clitics in Cushitic and Romance Diachronica 24:1, pp. 119–153 | Article
Several East and South Cushitic languages of East Africa have a preverbal series of subject markers. They are generally clitics, sometimes phonologically independent words. Like the subject clitics of many Romance varieties, these markers display characteristic restrictions: their paradigm is often… read more
2004 Between zero and nothing: Transitivity and noun incorporation in Somali Studies in Language 28:1, pp. 83–104 | Article
The article analyzes the expression of understood objects in Somali. There is no object pronoun of 3rd person in Somali; this gap is usually interpreted as a “full Ø”, which saturates the valency of a transitive verb and forces a reading with an anaphoric object. The article shows that this is… read more
2002 When clitics collide: On to have in Piedmontese Diachronica 19:2, pp. 365–397 | Article
Summary The paper deals with a few aspects of the morphosyntax of clitics in Piedmontese (Western Romance) and their historical development. In Piedmontese an element =l= (orthographically l’) is obligatorily inserted between the Subject Clitics and all and only the inflected forms of “to have”;… read more
