Cristina Guardiano
List of John Benjamins publications for which Cristina Guardiano plays a role.
2023 Differential object marking in a dialect of Sicily Differential Object Marking in Romance: Towards microvariation, Irimia, Monica Alexandrina and Alexandru Mardale (eds.), pp. 192–231 | Chapter
This contribution proposes an overview of the distribution of a-marked objects in a Romance dialect of Sicily, focusing on the relation between a-marking and the syntactic properties of the nominal structure in object position. The following properties are considered: type of lexical head… read more
2019 Syntactic variation across Greek dialects: The case of demonstratives Italian Dialectology at the Interfaces, Cruschina, Silvio, Adam Ledgeway and Eva-Maria Remberger (eds.), pp. 319–355 | Chapter
The syntax of demonstratives in the Greek varieties of southern Italy and more broadly in diaspora Greek can serve as a case study of how long-term unbalanced contact can give rise to syntactic borrowing, shedding light on both necessary and sufficient formal conditions of contact-induced… read more
2018 Chapter 7. Parametric comparison and dialect variation: Insights from Southern Italy Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 14: Selected papers from the 46th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Stony Brook, NY, Repetti, Lori and Francisco Ordóñez (eds.), pp. 103–133 | Chapter
This paper applies the Parametric Comparison Method (PCM) to the description of syntactic variation in the nominal domain in a representative subset of Romance dialects of Southern Italy. We observe that, in order to perform successfully at the level of micro-comparison, the method must be… read more
2015 Toward a syntactic phylogeny of modern Indo-European languages Proto-Indo-European Syntax and its Development, Kulikov, Leonid and Nikolaos Lavidas (eds.), pp. 125–156 | Article
The Parametric Comparison Method (PCM, Guardiano & Longobardi 2005, Longobardi & Guardiano 2009) is grounded on the assumption that syntactic parameters are more appropriate than other traits for use as comparanda for historical reconstruction, because they are able to provide unambiguous… read more
2013 Toward a syntactic phylogeny of modern Indo-European languages Proto-Indo-European Syntax and its Development, Kulikov, Leonid and Nikolaos Lavidas (eds.), pp. 122–152 | Article
The Parametric Comparison Method (PCM, Guardiano & Longobardi 2005, Longobardi & Guardiano 2009) is grounded on the assumption that syntactic parameters are more appropriate than other traits for use as comparanda for historical reconstruction, because they are able to provide unambiguous… read more
2008 Three fundamental issues in parametric linguistics The Limits of Syntactic Variation, Biberauer, Theresa (ed.), pp. 109–142 | Article
In this paper we discuss three compelling questions, which impinge on parameter theory: (a) What are the actual parameters of UG? (b) What is the form of a possible parameter? (c) How are parameter values distributed in space and time? With respect to the first question, we present the guidelines… read more
2007 Stereotypes about English as the language of science Linguistic inequality in scientific communication today: What can future applied linguistics do to mitigate disadvantages for non-anglophones?, Carli, Augusto and Ulrich Ammon (eds.), pp. 28–52 | Article
The progressive spread of English as the main language of international scientific communication has been interpreted in many different ways by several scholars. The paper presents a brief review of the scientific debate on such topics, focusing on the main stereotypes which have been created in… read more