Adam Ledgeway
Biographic Data
| ID | 1498569 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adam Ledgeway |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adam |
| FAMILY NAME | Ledgeway |
| SIGNATURE | LEDGEWAY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1766-1959 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Modelling Language Contact in Magna Graecia: Parameter Hierarchies, the Catapult Effect and Layering
This article explores a number of case studies taken from an exhaustive examination of Greek–Romance contact in southern Italy. Among other things, it highlights the relevance of the Greek–Romance evidence for refining our understanding of the nature of contact‐induced change and how, when modelled in terms of parameter hierarchies, exogenous change can be formally distinguished from endogenous change. In particular, it is proposed that a formal …
Exploring Microvariation in Verb-Movement Parameters within Daco-Romanian and across Daco-Romance
This article reviews some of the principal patterns of morphosyntactic variation within Daco-Romanian and across Daco-Romance in support of a distinction between low vs high V-movement grammars variously distributed in accordance with diatopic variation (Daco-Romance: west vs east, Aromanian: north vs south), diachronic and diagenerational variation (Megleno-Romanian) and endogenous vs exogenous factors (Istro-Romanian). This approach, which buil…
Introduction: Balkan Romance Within the Balkan Sprachbund
This article provides a short introduction to Balkan Romance, examining and exemplifying a number of its principal features. In particular, the discussion begins in §2 with a review of the main morphosyntactic features of the four principal sub-branches of Old Romanian spoken today within the Balkan Sprachbund (Daco-Romanian, Aromanian, Istro-Romanian, and Megleno-Aromanian), tracing the treatment of such Balkanisms both in the traditional philol…
Negation and Verb-Movement in Romance: New Perspectives on Jespersen’s Cycle
In this article we bring to light one additional factor underlying so-called Jespersen’s Cycle (JC) in Romance which has to date gone unnoticed, namely the varying position of the finite verb within the IP. More specifically, we show that there exists an empirical correlation between the availability of clause-medial/high verb-movement and Stages II–III of JC in which a postverbal negator is licensed. Drawing on novel data, we demonstrate that th…
Residues and Extensions of Perfective Auxiliary be: Modal Conditioning
This article provides both a diachronic and synchronic account of the generalization of perfective auxiliary be in specific irrealis modal contexts across numerous Romance varieties spoken in Italy and more widely within the Romània, which has essentially gone unnoticed in the descriptive and theoretical literature. In some cases (southern Calabrian, Latin American Spanish, Portuguese), the distribution of be is to be interpreted as a residue of …
The Negative Imperative in Southern Calabria. Spirito Greco, Materia Romanza Again
The aim of this article is to investigate a special case of suppletion in the paradigm of the negative imperative in some dialects of southern Calabria. First, we show how these paradigms involve the extension of an original infinitival desinence to a present indicative verb, giving rise to a hybrid imperatival form (Section 2). Second, we claim that this pattern of suppletion does not represent a Romance-internal development but, rather, the out…
Changing alignments in the Greek of southern Italy
This article investigates a peculiar pattern of subject case-marking in the Greek of southern Italy. Recent fieldwork with native speakers, coupled with the consultation of some written sources, reveals that, alongside prototypical nominative subjects, Italo-Greek also licenses accusative subjects, despite displaying a predominantly nominative-accusative alignment. Far from being random replacements within a highly attrited grammar, the distribut…
The Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages
This book is as an essential tool for both Romance linguists and general linguists which brings together leading recent international scholarship in individual Romance varieties and from different theoretical frameworks and approaches, showing how each may cast new and necessary light on the other. It offers a detailed structural treatment of all the individual Romance varieties and Romance-speaking areas (including standard, non-standard, dialec…
Clausal complementation
The main goal of this chapter is to provide a descriptive and critical overview of the some of the most striking and interesting problems and questions related to issues in Romance complementation and its development from Latin, covering such as areas as finite and non-finite complementation; loss of accusative with infinitive construction; distribution of full, reduced and VP clausal complements and their differing structural and semantic interp…
Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages
Manciati siti ? Les constructions moyennes avec les participes résultatifs-statifs en italien et dans les variétés italo-romanes méridionales
Cette étude examine le problème des participes employés comme épithètes ou prédicats pour exprimer les états résultatifs (par ex. invecchiata 'vieillie'). Partant de l'hypothèse de La Fauci (1988) selon laquelle de tels participes seraient caractérisés par la syntaxe moyenne, on discute d'une sous-classe de participes qui, à première vue, semblerait infirmer cette hypothèse (par ex. manciata 'ayant déjà mangé', litt. 'mangée'). Sur des preuves it…
Testing linguistic theory and variation to their limits: The case of Romance
Through a number of illuminating cases studies which draw in large part on the largely under-utilized data of Romance dialectal varieties, the present article sets out to highlight the importance that Romance data, especially those of non-standard varietites, can play in testing and enriching currents theories of syntax. In particular, we shall show that dialectal varieties, although frequently overlooked in the past, offer an immensely fertile a…
From Latin to RomanceMorphosyntactic Typology and Change: Morphosyntactic Typology and Change
"This book examines the grammatical changes that took place in the transition from Latin to the Romance languages. The emerging language underwent changes in three fundamental areas involving the noun phrase, verb phrase, and the sentence. The impact of the changes can be seen in the reduction of the Latin case system; the appearance of auxiliary verb structures to mark such categories tense, mood, and voice; and a shift towards greater rigidific…
Lingua italiana in bocca calabra: Italian in Calabria
(2010). Lingua italiana in bocca calabra: Italian in Calabria. The Italianist: Vol. 30, Ciò che potea la lingua nostra: Lectures and Essays in Memory of Clara Florio Cooper. Edited by Vilma De Gasparin, pp. 95-120
At the C-T boundary: Investigating Abruzzese complementation
Satisfying V2 in early Romance: Merge vs. Move
In early Romance the finite verb raises in root clauses to the vacant C position, a movement operation frequently accompanied in turn by fronting of a pragmatically salient constituent to a preverbal position within the C-domain. Although this structural characterization of early Romance V2 word order overwhelmingly accounts for the core cases, there remains a smaller number of contexts in which the V2 effect appears to be satisfied by other mean…
Sulla storia dei verbi copulari dei dialetti dell'alto Meridione: Il Caso Del Napoletano
Asyndetic complementation in Neapolitan dialect
Satisfying V2 in early Romance: Merge vs. Move
In early Romance the finite verb raises in root clauses to the vacant C position, a movement operation frequently accompanied in turn by fronting of a pragmatically salient constituent to a preverbal position within the C-domain. Although this structural characterization of early Romance V2 word order overwhelmingly accounts for the core cases, there remains a smaller number of contexts in which the V2 effect appears to be satisfied by other mean…
At the C-T boundary: Investigating Abruzzese complementation
Changing alignments in the Greek of southern Italy
This article investigates a peculiar pattern of subject case-marking in the Greek of southern Italy. Recent fieldwork with native speakers, coupled with the consultation of some written sources, reveals that, alongside prototypical nominative subjects, Italo-Greek also licenses accusative subjects, despite displaying a predominantly nominative-accusative alignment. Far from being random replacements within a highly attrited grammar, the distribut…
Manciati siti ? Les constructions moyennes avec les participes résultatifs-statifs en italien et dans les variétés italo-romanes méridionales
Cette étude examine le problème des participes employés comme épithètes ou prédicats pour exprimer les états résultatifs (par ex. invecchiata 'vieillie'). Partant de l'hypothèse de La Fauci (1988) selon laquelle de tels participes seraient caractérisés par la syntaxe moyenne, on discute d'une sous-classe de participes qui, à première vue, semblerait infirmer cette hypothèse (par ex. manciata 'ayant déjà mangé', litt. 'mangée'). Sur des preuves it…
Exploring Microvariation in Verb-Movement Parameters within Daco-Romanian and across Daco-Romance
This article reviews some of the principal patterns of morphosyntactic variation within Daco-Romanian and across Daco-Romance in support of a distinction between low vs high V-movement grammars variously distributed in accordance with diatopic variation (Daco-Romance: west vs east, Aromanian: north vs south), diachronic and diagenerational variation (Megleno-Romanian) and endogenous vs exogenous factors (Istro-Romanian). This approach, which buil…
Residues and Extensions of Perfective Auxiliary be: Modal Conditioning
This article provides both a diachronic and synchronic account of the generalization of perfective auxiliary be in specific irrealis modal contexts across numerous Romance varieties spoken in Italy and more widely within the Romània, which has essentially gone unnoticed in the descriptive and theoretical literature. In some cases (southern Calabrian, Latin American Spanish, Portuguese), the distribution of be is to be interpreted as a residue of …
The Negative Imperative in Southern Calabria. Spirito Greco, Materia Romanza Again
The aim of this article is to investigate a special case of suppletion in the paradigm of the negative imperative in some dialects of southern Calabria. First, we show how these paradigms involve the extension of an original infinitival desinence to a present indicative verb, giving rise to a hybrid imperatival form (Section 2). Second, we claim that this pattern of suppletion does not represent a Romance-internal development but, rather, the out…
Asyndetic complementation in Neapolitan dialect
Satisfying V2 in early Romance: Merge vs. Move
In early Romance the finite verb raises in root clauses to the vacant C position, a movement operation frequently accompanied in turn by fronting of a pragmatically salient constituent to a preverbal position within the C-domain. Although this structural characterization of early Romance V2 word order overwhelmingly accounts for the core cases, there remains a smaller number of contexts in which the V2 effect appears to be satisfied by other mean…
Sulla storia dei verbi copulari dei dialetti dell'alto Meridione: Il Caso Del Napoletano
Lingua italiana in bocca calabra: Italian in Calabria
(2010). Lingua italiana in bocca calabra: Italian in Calabria. The Italianist: Vol. 30, Ciò che potea la lingua nostra: Lectures and Essays in Memory of Clara Florio Cooper. Edited by Vilma De Gasparin, pp. 95-120
At the C-T boundary: Investigating Abruzzese complementation
From Latin to RomanceMorphosyntactic Typology and Change: Morphosyntactic Typology and Change
"This book examines the grammatical changes that took place in the transition from Latin to the Romance languages. The emerging language underwent changes in three fundamental areas involving the noun phrase, verb phrase, and the sentence. The impact of the changes can be seen in the reduction of the Latin case system; the appearance of auxiliary verb structures to mark such categories tense, mood, and voice; and a shift towards greater rigidific…
Testing linguistic theory and variation to their limits: The case of Romance
Through a number of illuminating cases studies which draw in large part on the largely under-utilized data of Romance dialectal varieties, the present article sets out to highlight the importance that Romance data, especially those of non-standard varietites, can play in testing and enriching currents theories of syntax. In particular, we shall show that dialectal varieties, although frequently overlooked in the past, offer an immensely fertile a…
Manciati siti ? Les constructions moyennes avec les participes résultatifs-statifs en italien et dans les variétés italo-romanes méridionales
Cette étude examine le problème des participes employés comme épithètes ou prédicats pour exprimer les états résultatifs (par ex. invecchiata 'vieillie'). Partant de l'hypothèse de La Fauci (1988) selon laquelle de tels participes seraient caractérisés par la syntaxe moyenne, on discute d'une sous-classe de participes qui, à première vue, semblerait infirmer cette hypothèse (par ex. manciata 'ayant déjà mangé', litt. 'mangée'). Sur des preuves it…
The Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages
This book is as an essential tool for both Romance linguists and general linguists which brings together leading recent international scholarship in individual Romance varieties and from different theoretical frameworks and approaches, showing how each may cast new and necessary light on the other. It offers a detailed structural treatment of all the individual Romance varieties and Romance-speaking areas (including standard, non-standard, dialec…
Clausal complementation
The main goal of this chapter is to provide a descriptive and critical overview of the some of the most striking and interesting problems and questions related to issues in Romance complementation and its development from Latin, covering such as areas as finite and non-finite complementation; loss of accusative with infinitive construction; distribution of full, reduced and VP clausal complements and their differing structural and semantic interp…
Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages
Changing alignments in the Greek of southern Italy
This article investigates a peculiar pattern of subject case-marking in the Greek of southern Italy. Recent fieldwork with native speakers, coupled with the consultation of some written sources, reveals that, alongside prototypical nominative subjects, Italo-Greek also licenses accusative subjects, despite displaying a predominantly nominative-accusative alignment. Far from being random replacements within a highly attrited grammar, the distribut…
The Negative Imperative in Southern Calabria. Spirito Greco, Materia Romanza Again
The aim of this article is to investigate a special case of suppletion in the paradigm of the negative imperative in some dialects of southern Calabria. First, we show how these paradigms involve the extension of an original infinitival desinence to a present indicative verb, giving rise to a hybrid imperatival form (Section 2). Second, we claim that this pattern of suppletion does not represent a Romance-internal development but, rather, the out…
Residues and Extensions of Perfective Auxiliary be: Modal Conditioning
This article provides both a diachronic and synchronic account of the generalization of perfective auxiliary be in specific irrealis modal contexts across numerous Romance varieties spoken in Italy and more widely within the Romània, which has essentially gone unnoticed in the descriptive and theoretical literature. In some cases (southern Calabrian, Latin American Spanish, Portuguese), the distribution of be is to be interpreted as a residue of …
Negation and Verb-Movement in Romance: New Perspectives on Jespersen’s Cycle
In this article we bring to light one additional factor underlying so-called Jespersen’s Cycle (JC) in Romance which has to date gone unnoticed, namely the varying position of the finite verb within the IP. More specifically, we show that there exists an empirical correlation between the availability of clause-medial/high verb-movement and Stages II–III of JC in which a postverbal negator is licensed. Drawing on novel data, we demonstrate that th…
Exploring Microvariation in Verb-Movement Parameters within Daco-Romanian and across Daco-Romance
This article reviews some of the principal patterns of morphosyntactic variation within Daco-Romanian and across Daco-Romance in support of a distinction between low vs high V-movement grammars variously distributed in accordance with diatopic variation (Daco-Romance: west vs east, Aromanian: north vs south), diachronic and diagenerational variation (Megleno-Romanian) and endogenous vs exogenous factors (Istro-Romanian). This approach, which buil…
Introduction: Balkan Romance Within the Balkan Sprachbund
This article provides a short introduction to Balkan Romance, examining and exemplifying a number of its principal features. In particular, the discussion begins in §2 with a review of the main morphosyntactic features of the four principal sub-branches of Old Romanian spoken today within the Balkan Sprachbund (Daco-Romanian, Aromanian, Istro-Romanian, and Megleno-Aromanian), tracing the treatment of such Balkanisms both in the traditional philol…
Modelling Language Contact in Magna Graecia: Parameter Hierarchies, the Catapult Effect and Layering
This article explores a number of case studies taken from an exhaustive examination of Greek–Romance contact in southern Italy. Among other things, it highlights the relevance of the Greek–Romance evidence for refining our understanding of the nature of contact‐induced change and how, when modelled in terms of parameter hierarchies, exogenous change can be formally distinguished from endogenous change. In particular, it is proposed that a formal …
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