Silvia Ballarè
List of John Benjamins publications for which Silvia Ballarè plays a role.
Articles
2022 The development of locative relative markers: From typology to sociolinguistics (and back) Studies in Language 46:1, pp. 220–257 | Article
The accessibility hierarchy was first proposed by Keenan & Comrie (1977) to describe the cross-linguistic distribution of relative markers in terms of likelihood of relativization of different syntactic roles. The hierarchy is also commonly believed to reflect constraints on possible changes in… read more
2019 Chapter 4. C’era i fascisti e i tedeschi: Instances of linguistic simplification in a corpus of Italiano popolare Language Variation - European Perspectives VII: Selected papers from the Ninth International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 9), Malaga, June 2017, Villena-Ponsoda, Juan-Andrés, Francisco Díaz Montesinos, Antonio Manuel Ávila-Muñoz and Matilde Vida-Castro (eds.), pp. 71–84 | Chapter
The aim of this paper is the discussion of preliminary results of the ongoing study of an Italian substandard variety (italiano popolare) with the ParVa spoken corpus (Guerini 2016). The focus is on the interplay of two structural factors: contact with Italo-Romance dialects and linguistic… read more