a Record control number 016642403

a ISBN 0-19-870178-0

a ISBN 978-01-9870178-1

a Original cataloging agency NEU GrandLibrary

a Classification number PC1736

b Item number .D53 2014

a Dewey Classification 457.0

a Title Diachrony and dialects :

b Remainder of title grammatical change in the dialects of Italy /

c Statement of responsibility, etc edited by Paola Beninca, Adam Ledgeway [and] Nigel Vincent.

h Medium BOOK

a Title proper/short title Grammatical change in the dialects of Italy

a Place of publication, distribution, etc Oxford :

b Name of publisher, distributor, etc Oxford University Press,

c Date of publication, distribution, etc 2014.

a Extent xxiv, 349 p. :

b Other physical details ill. ;

c Dimensions 24 cm.

a Series statement Oxford studies in diachronic and historical linguistics ;

v Volume number/sequential designation 8

a Formatted contents note 1.Similarity and diversity in the evolution of Italo-Romance morphosyntax / Nigel Vincent -- 1.1.Introduction -- 1.2.Dialects -- 1.3.Diachrony -- 1.4.Sources of data -- 1.5.History and theory: analysis and synthesis in the verbal system -- 1.6.The chapters -- pt. I Verbal Structures -- 2.The development of the southern subjunctive: morphological loss and syntactic gain / Alessandra Lombardi -- 2.1.Introduction -- 2.2.Morphological marking of the indicative/subjunctive opposition in the south -- 2.3.Syntactic marking of the indicative/subjunctive opposition in the south -- 2.4.Summary and conclusions -- 3.Perfective auxiliation in Italo-Romance: the complementarity of historical and modern cross-dialectal evidence / Michele Loporcaro -- 3.1.Introduction -- 3.2.The basics: perfective auxiliation and the unaccusative hypothesis -- 3.3.Diachrony: intersections between modern dialect comparison and historical data -- 3.4.Bringing the historical and modern cross-dialectal evidence together -- 3.5.Conclusion -- 4.Passive and impersonal reflexives in the Italian dialects: synchronic and diachronic aspects / Michela Cennarno -- 4.1.Introduction -- 4.2.Passive and impersonal reflexives in Standard Italian -- 4.3.Passive and impersonal reflexives in the Italian dialects -- 4.4.Some diachronic data -- 4.5.Converging constraints on impersonal si/se -- 4.6.Some unsolved issues: the status of the reflexive morphemes si and ci -- 4.7.Conclusions -- 5.On the personal infinitive in Sicilian / Delia Bentley -- 5.1.Introduction -- 5.2.The personal infinitive in early Sicilian -- 5.3.The personal infinitive in modern Sicilian -- 5.4.Conclusion -- 6.Glimpsing the future: some rare anomalies in the history of the Italo-Romance and Gallo-Romance future and conditional stem, and what they suggest about paradigm structure / John Charles Smith -- 6.1.The facts -- 6.2.Semantic or phonological causation? -- 6.3.An accidental association? -- 6.4.The mechanism of the change -- 7.Person endings in the old Italian verb system / Laura Vanelli -- 7.1.Introduction -- 7.2.Verb endings in old Italian -- 7.3.Concluding remarks -- pt. II (Pro)nominal Structures -- 8.The evolution of Italo-Romance clitic clusters: prosodic restructuring and morphological opacity / Diego Pescarini -- 8.1.Introduction -- 8.2.The emergence of the mirror order -- 8.3.Separability -- 8.4.Allomorphy -- 8.5.Suppletion -- 8.6.Root incorporation -- 8.7.Italian -- 8.8.Conclusions -- 9.Subject clitics and macroparameters / Ian Roberts -- 9.1.Introduction -- 9.2.Micro- and macroparametric variation -- 9.3.Macroparameters and markedness -- 9.4.Parametric hierarchies -- 9.5.Northern Italian subject clitics and the null-argument hierarchy -- 9.6.The difference between subject and objects -- 9.7.Conclusion -- 10.Sicilian 1st and 2nd person oblique tonic pronouns: a historical and comparative examination / Rosanna Sornicola -- 10.1.Conservation and innovation in Romance pronominal systems -- 10.2.1SG and 2SG oblique tonic pronouns in early and modern Sicilian: Romance equivalents and etymological hypotheses -- 10.3.Textual evidence from early literary Sicilian -- 10.4.Textual data, areal data, and diachronic developments -- 10.5.Conclusions -- 11.Patterns of variation and diachronic change in Piedmontese object clitic syntax / Christina Tortora -- 11.1.Introduction -- 11.2.Piedmontese object clitic syntax -- 11.3.Relatable facts in Fassano and Spanish -- 11.4.Diachronic change in Piedmontese object clitic syntax revisited: the Functional Hierarchy Hypothesis -- 11.5.Conclusions -- 12.Gender assignment and pluralization in Italian and the Veneto / John B. Trumper -- 12.1.Recent work on the theme -- 12.2.Pluralization, gender assignment, and shift in the Veneto (Neo-Venetian) -- 12.3.Conclusion -- 13.Kind-defining relative clauses in the diachrony of Italian / Guglielmo Cinque -- 13.1.Introduction -- 13.2.Kind-defining relatives -- 13.3.Properties of post-copular kind-defining relatives -- 13.4.Deriving the properties of kind-defining relatives -- 13.5.Post- and pre-copular position (canonical and inverse predication) -- 13.6.Raising and matching derivations of kind-defining relatives -- 13.7.Post-copular relatives and agreement -- 13.8.Conclusions and speculations -- 14.Synchronic and diachronic clues on the internal structure of `where' in Italo-Romance / Cecilia Poletto -- 14.1.Introduction -- 14.2.Theoretical background -- 14.3.The formatives of `where' in northern Italian dialects -- 14.4.Matching the structure of locative PPs -- 14.5.Ubiquitous `where': relative, interrogative, and prepositional forms -- 14.6.Concluding remarks.

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Italian language

a Uniform title Oxford studies in diachronic and historical linguistics ;