Microvariation in Verbal and Nominal Agreement

An Analysis of Two Lombard Alpine Dialects

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ID21583435
AuthorsDiego Pescarini (0000-0002-2851-6442, BCL , CNRS, Université Côte d’Azur , Nice , France, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume33
Issue2
Pages227-248
Publication date2021-09-27
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueProbus (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0921-4771 • E-ISSN: 1613-4079
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/prbs-2021-0003
OpenAlexW4243100080
LanguageEN
References cited29

In Bregagliotto and Mesolcinese, two Lombard Alpine dialects, feminine plural agreement/concord is marked by the formative - n , a reflex of the third person plural verbal ending. In Bregagliotto, plural - n triggers mesoclisis of the feminine subject clitic in contexts of inversion, whereas in the noun phrase - n behaves as a second-position element marking plural feminine concord. Mesolcinese exhibits verbal gender agreement as the formative - n occurs on the inflected verb whenever a feminine plural subject or the feminine plural object clitic occurs; in feminine plural DPs, - n is attached to any element except the definite article. I argue that the Bregagliotto system emerged when - n was reanalysed as an adjunct pluraliser, whereas in Mesolcinese - n has been turned into a marker of morphophonological concord/agreement

Agreement · Clitic · Linguistics · Noun · Noun phrase · Plural · Verb · Computer Science · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

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