Leonardo M Savoia
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1498048 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Leonardo M Savoia |
| PRENOMES | Leonardo M |
| SOBRENOME | Savoia |
| ASSINATURA | SAVOIA L M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Florence |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5388-5629 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2007 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
V2 and Subject-Verb Inversion in Ladin and Romansh
In this article, we analyze the order verb-(clitic) subject that characterizes Rhaeto-Romance languages in V2 and interrogative contexts. In these varieties, the subject is necessarily realized by lexical or pronominal elements in preverbal position, except in inversion contexts. Some of these varieties have subject clitics (SCls) that display a distribution similar to that of full pronouns. Furthermore, in some, subject-verb inversion involves t…
The space of DP in Arbëresh dialects
This article examines the agreement system in DPs in some Arbëresh varieties. As we will see, in DPs, the distribution of the inflectional exponents is asymmetric, in the sense that, while the oblique is generally registered on every element in the DP, nominative and accusative are realized only on D or a modifier in its domain. This asymmetry also affects the expression of gender and number and interacts with the extensive syncretism among the e…
Le varietà italoalbanesi
The Italo-Albanian communities of Southern Italy were formed in the 15th century when whole populations migrated from the territory of Southern Albania due to Turkish pressure. Today we find 50 communities in which Albanian variety is still spoken. The history of these communities is lively and engaged on the political-literary front: the Arbëreshë intellectuals contributed with their ideas and their work to the Italian Risorgimento and to the Al…
Negation in Albanian
This article analyzes negative indefinites (n-words) in Albanian. These items include a prefixed element and an indefinite, and obligatorily require the occurrence of the negative marker, NM. Complementarily, the indefinite element can occur alone in negative contexts. This distribution, specifically the types of negative doubling, is explained by assuming that the negative operator is not realized by a lexical constituent within the syntactic st…
Explorations in Aromanian Morpho-Syntax
The main topic of this article is the relationship between morphosyntactic contexts and nominal inflections in Aromanian varieties of southern Albania. These varieties have a specialized inflection in the plural definite and feminine singular nouns, associated with genitive, dative, and prepositional contexts, where it is preceded by a Possessive Introducer. We present a detailed picture of the microvariation that characterizes the different syst…
Phenomena of Contact and Mixing in the Arbëresh Dialects of San Marzano di San Giuseppe in Salento and Vena di Maida in Calabria
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 fleein…
Recent Morphology Explorations in Romance Languages
According to a traditional vision, natural languages are systems that combine words in sequences to which syntax gives a logical organization
Partitives and Indefinites
This contribution examines the relation between genitives/ partitives and indefinites in some Italian varieties. A central question concerns the nature of the preposition de/di ( DE ) ‘of’ ( de ), specifically investigated in contexts where it does not introduce the usual possessive or partitive reading: bare partitives/Partitive articles of Italian varieties, negative contexts in which a negative marker select a partitive occurrence of DE of the…
Root, Thematic Vowels and Inflectional Exponents in Verbs
A long-time generative tradition treats the functional domains of the verb and noun as a result of motion and affixing; however, assuming a close correspondence between the order in syntax and morphology, as in the Mirror Principle proposed by Baker seems to be too strong a hypothesis and empirically unsustainable. Distributed Morphology (DM) incorporates this idea by translating it into rules manipulating syntactic nodes. The morphological pheno…
Interactions between Clitic Subjects and Objects in Piedmont and North Liguria Dialects
This contribution addresses a set of phenomena attested in the dialects spoken in Piedmont, including Franco-Provençal and Occitan varieties, and in West Liguria, concerning the interaction between subject and object clitics. Complementarily to these phenomena, we find the interplay between the realization of the 3rd person clitic and the auxiliary. More specifically, we will investigate the object-for-subject mechanism in the Piedmontese and Fra…
Language Use and Linguistic Structure
The editors are grateful to all those who have helped make the fifth volume of the Proceedings of the Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium (and the ninth volume in the whole series) a reality.Above all, as always, we would like to thank all the authors for both their enthusiastic participation in the conference and their cooperation in the time-consuming editorial process.We would also like to express our immense gratitude to all the reviewers who devo…
Possessives, from Franco-Provençal and Occitan Systems to Contact Dialects in Apulia and Calabria
This article investigates the contact-induced reorganization of the possessive system in the Gallo-Romance dialects spoken from around the 12th century in the villages of Celle and Faeto in North Apulia and Guardia Piemontese in North-West Calabria. Gallo-Romance possessives exclude the article in the prenominal position, whereas in the Southern Italian dialects, possessives follow the noun preceded by the definite article. This original contrast…
Locative Ps as general relators
Based mostly on the Romance languages, we provide evidence for the conclusion that oblique adpositions involved in the encoding of location and direction do not contribute a specific, fixed spatial meaning. On the contrary, they are general relators, relating a complement to an event by establishing an inclusion relation between them. Locatives are specializations of the basic relational inclusion content. State-in, motion-to and motion-from inte…
Alternative truths and delegitimization pragmatic strategies around the 2018 Italian elections
In this paper we aim at analysing, from a pragmatic viewpoint, the rhetoric of delegitimization of the opponent in new media insofar as it triggers individual, uncontrolled and deep-rooted forms of communications. The communicative context is that of the political controversies and the propaganda around the Italian elections of March 2018. Accusations of fake news, hate speech and other delegitimizing rhetorical tools occur within the messages di…
Finite and non-finite complementation, particles and control in Aromanian, compared to other Romance varieties and Albanian
Our Aromanian data come from Diviakë, Libofshë and Fier, three locations close to one another in southern Albania, and from Këllez, also in southern Albania. We argue that the impossibility of embedding sentences directly under V-v (Agree Resistance Theorem) leads to the overall shape of complementation in Romance.Section 2, on finite complementizers, shows that Aromanian supports analyses of complementizers as wh- pronouns independently develope…
Ergative case, aspect and person splits
Ergativity splits between perfect and imperfective/progressive predicates are observed in languages with a specialized ergative case (Punjabi) and without it (Kurdish). Perfect predicates correspond to a VP projection; external arguments are introduced by means of an oblique case, namely an elementary part–whole predicate saying that the event is ‘included by’, ‘located at’ the argument. A more complex organization is found with imperfective/prog…
Middle-passive voice in Albanian and Greek
In this paper we consider middle-passive voice in Greek and Albanian, which shows a many-to-many mapping between LF and PF. Different morphosyntactic shapes (conditioned by tense or aspect) are compatible with the same set of interpretations, which include the passive, the reflexive, the anticausative, and the impersonal (in Albanian only). Conversely, each of these interpretations can be encoded by any of the available morphosyntactic structures…
Linkers and agreement
In many languages a linker element is inserted between a noun N and a modifier or a complement of N. We focus on Albanian articles and on Iranian ezafes, and we introduce comparison data from Aromanian. In section 2, we provide arguments as to why currently available formal theories of linkers (as copulas, as case assigners, as means for identity avoidance) face problems when applied to Albanian or Kurdish. In section 3 we argue, on the basis of …
N Class and its Interpretation
In this work we will characterize Romance N class morphology as endowed with a semantic content, providing evidence about the active involvement of N class at the syntaxsemantic interface. We will argue that the so-called neuter of Central Italian dialects involves coding of the mass/count distinction by N class morphology. The mass vs. count contrast can be interpreted as the reflex of a more primitive property, which opposes non-individual cont…
Reducing 'case' to denotational primitives
The nominal inflection system of Albanian includes specifications of case, definiteness, number and nominal class (gender). Our analysis recognizes three types of properties as theoretically relevant, namely N(ominal class), Q(quantification), D(efiniteness). Q inflections are responsible for the so-called oblique case - effectively a dyadic operator yielding a 'zonal inclusion' (possession) relation between the element to which it attaches and t…
Mesoclisis in the imperative
Les clitiques sujets dans les variétés occitanes et francoprovençales italiennes
Dans cet article, nous examinerons quelques aspects de la syntaxe du sujet dans les dialectes occitans du Piémont occidental, dans les dialectes francoprovençaux du Piémont occidental et du Val d’Aoste, y compris les parlers de Celle di Faeto (francoprovençal) dans les Pouilles et de Guardia Piemontese (occitan) en Calabre : l’existence de clitiques sujets, l’absence de l’accord entre verbe et sujet post-posé, l’inversion du verbe et du clitique …
A Unification of Morphology and Syntax
This book focuses on a classical theme of linguistic theory, that of variation across languages. From an empirical point of view, A Unification of Morphology and Syntax contributes to the discussion on language variation by engaging with new data collected through fieldwork, covering both Romance and Albanian dialects. From a theoretical point of view, the book shows how the variation displayed by the data is best accounted for through the intera…
Reducing 'case' to denotational primitives
The nominal inflection system of Albanian includes specifications of case, definiteness, number and nominal class (gender). Our analysis recognizes three types of properties as theoretically relevant, namely N(ominal class), Q(quantification), D(efiniteness). Q inflections are responsible for the so-called oblique case - effectively a dyadic operator yielding a 'zonal inclusion' (possession) relation between the element to which it attaches and t…
Middle-passive voice in Albanian and Greek
In this paper we consider middle-passive voice in Greek and Albanian, which shows a many-to-many mapping between LF and PF. Different morphosyntactic shapes (conditioned by tense or aspect) are compatible with the same set of interpretations, which include the passive, the reflexive, the anticausative, and the impersonal (in Albanian only). Conversely, each of these interpretations can be encoded by any of the available morphosyntactic structures…
Locative Ps as general relators
Based mostly on the Romance languages, we provide evidence for the conclusion that oblique adpositions involved in the encoding of location and direction do not contribute a specific, fixed spatial meaning. On the contrary, they are general relators, relating a complement to an event by establishing an inclusion relation between them. Locatives are specializations of the basic relational inclusion content. State-in, motion-to and motion-from inte…
Linkers and agreement
In many languages a linker element is inserted between a noun N and a modifier or a complement of N. We focus on Albanian articles and on Iranian ezafes, and we introduce comparison data from Aromanian. In section 2, we provide arguments as to why currently available formal theories of linkers (as copulas, as case assigners, as means for identity avoidance) face problems when applied to Albanian or Kurdish. In section 3 we argue, on the basis of …
Root, Thematic Vowels and Inflectional Exponents in Verbs
A long-time generative tradition treats the functional domains of the verb and noun as a result of motion and affixing; however, assuming a close correspondence between the order in syntax and morphology, as in the Mirror Principle proposed by Baker seems to be too strong a hypothesis and empirically unsustainable. Distributed Morphology (DM) incorporates this idea by translating it into rules manipulating syntactic nodes. The morphological pheno…
Mesoclisis in the imperative
Language Use and Linguistic Structure
The editors are grateful to all those who have helped make the fifth volume of the Proceedings of the Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium (and the ninth volume in the whole series) a reality.Above all, as always, we would like to thank all the authors for both their enthusiastic participation in the conference and their cooperation in the time-consuming editorial process.We would also like to express our immense gratitude to all the reviewers who devo…
N Class and its Interpretation
In this work we will characterize Romance N class morphology as endowed with a semantic content, providing evidence about the active involvement of N class at the syntaxsemantic interface. We will argue that the so-called neuter of Central Italian dialects involves coding of the mass/count distinction by N class morphology. The mass vs. count contrast can be interpreted as the reflex of a more primitive property, which opposes non-individual cont…
Phenomena of Contact and Mixing in the Arbëresh Dialects of San Marzano di San Giuseppe in Salento and Vena di Maida in Calabria
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 fleein…
Possessives, from Franco-Provençal and Occitan Systems to Contact Dialects in Apulia and Calabria
This article investigates the contact-induced reorganization of the possessive system in the Gallo-Romance dialects spoken from around the 12th century in the villages of Celle and Faeto in North Apulia and Guardia Piemontese in North-West Calabria. Gallo-Romance possessives exclude the article in the prenominal position, whereas in the Southern Italian dialects, possessives follow the noun preceded by the definite article. This original contrast…
A Unification of Morphology and Syntax
This book focuses on a classical theme of linguistic theory, that of variation across languages. From an empirical point of view, A Unification of Morphology and Syntax contributes to the discussion on language variation by engaging with new data collected through fieldwork, covering both Romance and Albanian dialects. From a theoretical point of view, the book shows how the variation displayed by the data is best accounted for through the intera…
Les clitiques sujets dans les variétés occitanes et francoprovençales italiennes
Dans cet article, nous examinerons quelques aspects de la syntaxe du sujet dans les dialectes occitans du Piémont occidental, dans les dialectes francoprovençaux du Piémont occidental et du Val d’Aoste, y compris les parlers de Celle di Faeto (francoprovençal) dans les Pouilles et de Guardia Piemontese (occitan) en Calabre : l’existence de clitiques sujets, l’absence de l’accord entre verbe et sujet post-posé, l’inversion du verbe et du clitique …
Reducing 'case' to denotational primitives
The nominal inflection system of Albanian includes specifications of case, definiteness, number and nominal class (gender). Our analysis recognizes three types of properties as theoretically relevant, namely N(ominal class), Q(quantification), D(efiniteness). Q inflections are responsible for the so-called oblique case - effectively a dyadic operator yielding a 'zonal inclusion' (possession) relation between the element to which it attaches and t…
Mesoclisis in the imperative
Ergative case, aspect and person splits
Ergativity splits between perfect and imperfective/progressive predicates are observed in languages with a specialized ergative case (Punjabi) and without it (Kurdish). Perfect predicates correspond to a VP projection; external arguments are introduced by means of an oblique case, namely an elementary part–whole predicate saying that the event is ‘included by’, ‘located at’ the argument. A more complex organization is found with imperfective/prog…
Middle-passive voice in Albanian and Greek
In this paper we consider middle-passive voice in Greek and Albanian, which shows a many-to-many mapping between LF and PF. Different morphosyntactic shapes (conditioned by tense or aspect) are compatible with the same set of interpretations, which include the passive, the reflexive, the anticausative, and the impersonal (in Albanian only). Conversely, each of these interpretations can be encoded by any of the available morphosyntactic structures…
Linkers and agreement
In many languages a linker element is inserted between a noun N and a modifier or a complement of N. We focus on Albanian articles and on Iranian ezafes, and we introduce comparison data from Aromanian. In section 2, we provide arguments as to why currently available formal theories of linkers (as copulas, as case assigners, as means for identity avoidance) face problems when applied to Albanian or Kurdish. In section 3 we argue, on the basis of …
N Class and its Interpretation
In this work we will characterize Romance N class morphology as endowed with a semantic content, providing evidence about the active involvement of N class at the syntaxsemantic interface. We will argue that the so-called neuter of Central Italian dialects involves coding of the mass/count distinction by N class morphology. The mass vs. count contrast can be interpreted as the reflex of a more primitive property, which opposes non-individual cont…
Finite and non-finite complementation, particles and control in Aromanian, compared to other Romance varieties and Albanian
Our Aromanian data come from Diviakë, Libofshë and Fier, three locations close to one another in southern Albania, and from Këllez, also in southern Albania. We argue that the impossibility of embedding sentences directly under V-v (Agree Resistance Theorem) leads to the overall shape of complementation in Romance.Section 2, on finite complementizers, shows that Aromanian supports analyses of complementizers as wh- pronouns independently develope…
Alternative truths and delegitimization pragmatic strategies around the 2018 Italian elections
In this paper we aim at analysing, from a pragmatic viewpoint, the rhetoric of delegitimization of the opponent in new media insofar as it triggers individual, uncontrolled and deep-rooted forms of communications. The communicative context is that of the political controversies and the propaganda around the Italian elections of March 2018. Accusations of fake news, hate speech and other delegitimizing rhetorical tools occur within the messages di…
Possessives, from Franco-Provençal and Occitan Systems to Contact Dialects in Apulia and Calabria
This article investigates the contact-induced reorganization of the possessive system in the Gallo-Romance dialects spoken from around the 12th century in the villages of Celle and Faeto in North Apulia and Guardia Piemontese in North-West Calabria. Gallo-Romance possessives exclude the article in the prenominal position, whereas in the Southern Italian dialects, possessives follow the noun preceded by the definite article. This original contrast…
Locative Ps as general relators
Based mostly on the Romance languages, we provide evidence for the conclusion that oblique adpositions involved in the encoding of location and direction do not contribute a specific, fixed spatial meaning. On the contrary, they are general relators, relating a complement to an event by establishing an inclusion relation between them. Locatives are specializations of the basic relational inclusion content. State-in, motion-to and motion-from inte…
Partitives and Indefinites
This contribution examines the relation between genitives/ partitives and indefinites in some Italian varieties. A central question concerns the nature of the preposition de/di ( DE ) ‘of’ ( de ), specifically investigated in contexts where it does not introduce the usual possessive or partitive reading: bare partitives/Partitive articles of Italian varieties, negative contexts in which a negative marker select a partitive occurrence of DE of the…
Root, Thematic Vowels and Inflectional Exponents in Verbs
A long-time generative tradition treats the functional domains of the verb and noun as a result of motion and affixing; however, assuming a close correspondence between the order in syntax and morphology, as in the Mirror Principle proposed by Baker seems to be too strong a hypothesis and empirically unsustainable. Distributed Morphology (DM) incorporates this idea by translating it into rules manipulating syntactic nodes. The morphological pheno…
Interactions between Clitic Subjects and Objects in Piedmont and North Liguria Dialects
This contribution addresses a set of phenomena attested in the dialects spoken in Piedmont, including Franco-Provençal and Occitan varieties, and in West Liguria, concerning the interaction between subject and object clitics. Complementarily to these phenomena, we find the interplay between the realization of the 3rd person clitic and the auxiliary. More specifically, we will investigate the object-for-subject mechanism in the Piedmontese and Fra…
Language Use and Linguistic Structure
The editors are grateful to all those who have helped make the fifth volume of the Proceedings of the Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium (and the ninth volume in the whole series) a reality.Above all, as always, we would like to thank all the authors for both their enthusiastic participation in the conference and their cooperation in the time-consuming editorial process.We would also like to express our immense gratitude to all the reviewers who devo…
Phenomena of Contact and Mixing in the Arbëresh Dialects of San Marzano di San Giuseppe in Salento and Vena di Maida in Calabria
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 fleein…
Recent Morphology Explorations in Romance Languages
According to a traditional vision, natural languages are systems that combine words in sequences to which syntax gives a logical organization
Explorations in Aromanian Morpho-Syntax
The main topic of this article is the relationship between morphosyntactic contexts and nominal inflections in Aromanian varieties of southern Albania. These varieties have a specialized inflection in the plural definite and feminine singular nouns, associated with genitive, dative, and prepositional contexts, where it is preceded by a Possessive Introducer. We present a detailed picture of the microvariation that characterizes the different syst…
The space of DP in Arbëresh dialects
This article examines the agreement system in DPs in some Arbëresh varieties. As we will see, in DPs, the distribution of the inflectional exponents is asymmetric, in the sense that, while the oblique is generally registered on every element in the DP, nominative and accusative are realized only on D or a modifier in its domain. This asymmetry also affects the expression of gender and number and interacts with the extensive syncretism among the e…
Le varietà italoalbanesi
The Italo-Albanian communities of Southern Italy were formed in the 15th century when whole populations migrated from the territory of Southern Albania due to Turkish pressure. Today we find 50 communities in which Albanian variety is still spoken. The history of these communities is lively and engaged on the political-literary front: the Arbëreshë intellectuals contributed with their ideas and their work to the Italian Risorgimento and to the Al…
Negation in Albanian
This article analyzes negative indefinites (n-words) in Albanian. These items include a prefixed element and an indefinite, and obligatorily require the occurrence of the negative marker, NM. Complementarily, the indefinite element can occur alone in negative contexts. This distribution, specifically the types of negative doubling, is explained by assuming that the negative operator is not realized by a lexical constituent within the syntactic st…
V2 and Subject-Verb Inversion in Ladin and Romansh
In this article, we analyze the order verb-(clitic) subject that characterizes Rhaeto-Romance languages in V2 and interrogative contexts. In these varieties, the subject is necessarily realized by lexical or pronominal elements in preverbal position, except in inversion contexts. Some of these varieties have subject clitics (SCls) that display a distribution similar to that of full pronouns. Furthermore, in some, subject-verb inversion involves t…
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