Phenomena of Contact and Mixing in the Arbëresh Dialects of San Marzano di San Giuseppe in Salento and Vena di Maida in Calabria

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ID5901227
AutoresLeonardo M Savoia (0000-0002-5388-5629, University of Florence, autor de correspondencia), Bárbara Baldi (0000-0001-5531-6561, University of Florence, autor de correspondencia), Benedetta Baldi
Año2023
Volumen8
Número1
Páginas87
Fecha de publicación2023-03-17
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLanguages (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2226-471X • E-ISSN: 2226-471X
EditorialMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/languages8010087
OpenAlexW4327741459
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas41

In this work, we will investigate hybridization, borrowing, and grammatical reorganization phenomena in the Arbëresh dialects of San Marzano (Apulia) and Vena di Maida (central Calabria). The data from the Arbëresh of S. Benedetto Ullano (northern Calabria) will be useful to provide a comparative frame. Arbëresh is the name of the Albanian varieties spoken in the villages/cities generally formed in the late fifteenth century by communities fleeing from Albania as a consequence of the Ottoman occupation. The long-time contact with neighboring Romance varieties is reflected in the extended mixing phenomena which characterize the lexicon and the morphosyntactic organization of Arbëresh as a heritage language. This is particularly evident in the two dialects that we investigate in this contribution, where relexification and grammatical reorganization phenomena provide us with an interesting testing ground to explain language variation

Geography · Lexicon · Linguistics · History · Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity · Philosophy · Geology