Existentials and Locatives in Romance Dialects of Italy

This volume provides the first ever large-scale comparative treatment of there sentences (there copula NP), reporting the results of a survey of Italo-Romance and Sardinian dialects of Italy. The volume comprises detailed discussions of focus structure, predication and argument realization, the defi...

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Ciconte, Francesco Maria
Cruschina, Silvio
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Ciconte, Francesco Maria
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description This volume provides the first ever large-scale comparative treatment of there sentences (there copula NP), reporting the results of a survey of Italo-Romance and Sardinian dialects of Italy. The volume comprises detailed discussions of focus structure, predication and argument realization, the definiteness effects, and the linking from semantics to syntax in there sentences, advancing novel proposals in each case. The testing of influential hypotheses on existential constructions against first-hand dialect evidence leads the book to argue that existential and locative there sentences differ in focus structure and semantics, although their not being predicate focus constructions and the non-canonicality of the predicate—which is typically referential—is reflected in their shared morphosyntactic features. The hypothesis that the pivot is the predicate of the existential construction is adopted in the analysis, although a distinction is drawn between referential and non-referential pivots, which explains variation in pivot behaviour in morphosyntax. The volume also provides the historical background of Romance there sentences, relying on the findings of the analysis of a substantial corpus of early Italo-Romance vernacular texts.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-264012025-07-30T08:59:08Z Existentials and Locatives in Romance Dialects of Italy Bentley, Delia Ciconte, Francesco Maria Cruschina, Silvio sardinian there-sentences existential role and reference grammar locative italo-romance microvariation dialects romance Clitic Copula (linguistics) Noun phrase Predicate (grammar) Pro-form thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFG Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFK Grammar, syntax and morphology thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFG Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFK Grammar, syntax and morphology This volume provides the first ever large-scale comparative treatment of there sentences (there copula NP), reporting the results of a survey of Italo-Romance and Sardinian dialects of Italy. The volume comprises detailed discussions of focus structure, predication and argument realization, the definiteness effects, and the linking from semantics to syntax in there sentences, advancing novel proposals in each case. The testing of influential hypotheses on existential constructions against first-hand dialect evidence leads the book to argue that existential and locative there sentences differ in focus structure and semantics, although their not being predicate focus constructions and the non-canonicality of the predicate—which is typically referential—is reflected in their shared morphosyntactic features. The hypothesis that the pivot is the predicate of the existential construction is adopted in the analysis, although a distinction is drawn between referential and non-referential pivots, which explains variation in pivot behaviour in morphosyntax. The volume also provides the historical background of Romance there sentences, relying on the findings of the analysis of a substantial corpus of early Italo-Romance vernacular texts. 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2016-12-31 23:55:55 2018-10-03 09:09:28 2020-04-01T14:17:54Z 2015 book 606709 OCN: 931531096 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32739 9780198745266 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/26401 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32739/1/606709.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32739/1/606709.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32739/1/606709.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32739/1/606709.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32739/1/606709.pdf Oxford University Press 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198745266.001.0001 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198745266.001.0001 db4e319f-ca9f-449a-bcf2-37d7c6f885b1 RCUK 9780198745266 320 Oxford, UK open access
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locative
italo-romance
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romance
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Copula (linguistics)
Noun phrase
Predicate (grammar)
Pro-form
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Bentley, Delia
Ciconte, Francesco Maria
Cruschina, Silvio
Existentials and Locatives in Romance Dialects of Italy
title Existentials and Locatives in Romance Dialects of Italy
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title_fullStr Existentials and Locatives in Romance Dialects of Italy
title_full_unstemmed Existentials and Locatives in Romance Dialects of Italy
title_short Existentials and Locatives in Romance Dialects of Italy
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there-sentences
existential
role and reference grammar
locative
italo-romance
microvariation
dialects
romance
Clitic
Copula (linguistics)
Noun phrase
Predicate (grammar)
Pro-form
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thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFK Grammar, syntax and morphology
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