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Revue Romane
Vol. 55:2 (2020) ► pp.283–310
Articles Linguistiques

Avér o gavér?

Questo è il dilemma! Microvariazione negli esiti del latino habere nel nord d’Italia

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This contribution is an investigation of the distribution and nature of a structure found across Northern Italian varieties, a reflex of Latin habere to which a locative particle g has been added, within the contexts of the relation between microvariation and gradual language change. A detailed morpho-syntactic description forms the basis for an analysis that suggests a probable path of univerbation of the two elements. Driving the analysis is the consideration of the original semantic features of the Latin element from which the locative particle has developed, in particular of the order of their weakening.

Keywords: language change, gradualness of change, (synchronic) microvariation, Northern Italian reflexes of Latin habere , semantic bleaching, semantic retention
Article outline
  • Introduzione
  • 1.Il verbo avere
  • 2.Uso lessicale e uso funzionale
  • 3.Presenza di forme pronominali complemento proclitiche
  • 4.Forma infinita
  • 5.Gradualità del cambiamento diacronico e microvariazione sincronica
  • 6.Interpretazione della microvariazione nelle forme esito di habere
    • 6.1Verbo lessicale e ausiliare
    • 6.2Presenza di clitici complemento con verbo ausiliare
    • 6.3Forma infinita del verbo
    • 6.4Distribuzione geografica
  • 7.Conclusioni
  • Ringraziamenti
  • Nota
  • Bibliografia

Article language: Italian

Published online: 19 June 2019
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https://doi.org/10.1075/rro.19004.pao
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