Andrea Padovan

List of John Benjamins publications for which Andrea Padovan plays a role.

Journal

Title

Lexical Issues in the Architecture of the Language Faculty

Edited by Andrea Padovan

Special issue of Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 2:1 (2020) v, 111 pp.
Subjects Cognition and language | Evolution of language | Historical linguistics | Language acquisition | Neurolinguistics | Psycholinguistics
Casalicchio, Jan and Andrea Padovan 2019 Contact-induced phenomena in the AlpsItalian Dialectology at the Interfaces, Cruschina, Silvio, Adam Ledgeway and Eva-Maria Remberger (eds.), pp. 237–255 | Chapter
The main question underlying this chapter is to what extent language contact can affect syntactic structure. To tackle this issue we examine two relevant phenomena found in two minority languages spoken in the region Trentino-Alto Adige/South Tyrol: clitic climbing in Dolomitic Ladin and the use of… read more
Padovan, Andrea 2016 Why a bed can be slept in but not under: Variation in V+P constructionsTheoretical Approaches to Linguistic Variation, Bidese, Ermenegildo, Federica Cognola and Manuela Caterina Moroni (eds.), pp. 119–144 | Article
In English the verbs that collocate with prepositions are called prepositional verbs (V+P) and are often subsumed under the class of phrasal verbs (V+ particle) although they should be kept distinct: in fact, it is easy to show that prepositions and particles have different syntactic behaviors. One… read more
Padovan, Andrea 2011 Diachronic clues to grammaticalization phenomena in the Cimbrian CPStudies on German-Language Islands, Putnam, Michael T. (ed.), pp. 279–300 | Article
Saying that a minority language proves to be quite a fascinating object of research when it comes to describing how it is affected by a stronger (standard) language is quite obvious. However, the way in which elements (both lexical and functional) borrowed from the stronger language infiltrate the… read more