Giuseppina Silvestri
List of John Benjamins publications for which Giuseppina Silvestri plays a role.
2019 Matrix complementizers in Italo-Romance Italian Dialectology at the Interfaces, Cruschina, Silvio, Adam Ledgeway and Eva-Maria Remberger (eds.), pp. 155–183 | Chapter
Based on uncharted evidence from Italo-Romance, we describe and discuss three types of matrix clauses, i.e. jussives, concessives and optatives, which reveal a certain degree of consistency but also display different patterns of microvariation. We show how such clauses may be introduced by… read more
2017 Chapter 6. Adverb agreement in the dialects of the Lausberg Area Adjective Adverb Interfaces in Romance, Hummel, Martin and Salvador Valera (eds.), pp. 173–204 | Chapter
This paper brings uncharted evidence to the phenomenon of adverb agreement in Italo-Romance. Among southern Italian dialects, manner adverbs are not morphologically distinguished from adjectives and, in certain varieties, may agree with a referring nominal. The patterns of agreement are… read more
2016 Adverb and participle agreement: For a parameter hierarchy in Italo-Romance microvariation Theoretical Approaches to Linguistic Variation, Bidese, Ermenegildo, Federica Cognola and Manuela Caterina Moroni (eds.), pp. 89–118 | Article
This paper discusses the reality of adverb agreement in Italo-Romance and takes into account newly acquired data from non-standard varieties. In southern Italian dialects manner adverbs are not morphologically distinguished from adjectives and, in certain varieties (Cruschina 2010; Ledgeway 2011),… 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