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Language Variation - European Perspectives VII: Selected papers from the Ninth International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 9), Malaga, June 2017Edited by Juan-Andrés Villena-Ponsoda, Francisco Díaz Montesinos, Antonio-Manuel Ávila-Muñoz and Matilde Vida-Castro
[Studies in Language Variation 22] 2019
► pp. 71–84
Chapter 4
C’era i fascisti e i tedeschi
Instances of linguistic simplification in a corpus of Italiano popolare
Silvia Ballarè | University of Torino
Eugenio Goria | University of Torino
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 simplification. The
corpus shows previously overlooked syntactic features,
which may improve the view of this subvariety and also
allows a quantitative analysis of agreement in existential
constructions.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.On italiano popolare
- 3.Linguistic simplification in italiano popolare
- 4.Research questions and methodology
- 5.Analysis
- 5.1New features
- 5.2Case study: Existential constructions
- 6.Conclusions
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Published online: 12 December 2019
https://doi.org/10.1075/silv.22.04bal
https://doi.org/10.1075/silv.22.04bal
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