There sentences in extreme southern Italy
On the rise of a “Greek-style” pattern
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22024320 |
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| Authors | A De Angelis (0000-0002-3288-2517, University of Messina), Giulia Bucci (Sapienza University of Rome) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 337-380 |
| Publication date | 2022-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Historical Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2210-2116 • E-ISSN: 2210-2124 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/jhl.20044.ang |
| OpenAlex | W4294977178 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 34 |
Among the morpho-syntactic patterns by which Italo-Romance varieties code there sentences, a peculiar structure surfaces in extreme southern varieties, particularly in Salento and in southern Calabria: this involves an invariable 3rd person form of the outcome of habēre as the copula, with no agreement with the postcopular nominal, the so-called pivot. Even though this pattern is attested in other Romance languages too, it proves, however, to be peculiar, insofar as it hosts top-ranking definite NPs (especially 1st and 2nd person pronouns), which are generally disallowed within ‘to have’ there sentences in the Romance varieties. In the present paper, we infer that this pattern depends on the contact with Italo-Greek, which displays similar constructions, with an invariant 3rd sg. form of ‘to have’, the lack of the proform and the pivot marked as accusative. However, a diachronic investigation reveals that neither the extreme southern Italo-Romance varieties nor Italo-Greek displayed in their Medieval stage a similar construction, since both of them exhibited the definiteness effect. Sociolinguistic factors can account for how the two systems influenced each other by ruling out the definiteness effect from the respective patterns at the end of the interference process
Art · Definiteness · Linguistics · Literature · Morpho · Physics · Romance · Romance languages · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Mathematics · Philosophy · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
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Historical Syntax in Cross-Linguistic Perspective
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Syntax
Existential Sentences Crosslinguistically
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Differential Object Marking
Storia linguistica e storia politica nell'italia meridionale
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Evidence for syntax as a signal of historical relatedness
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Existentials and Other Locatives
Transitivity in Grammar and Discourse
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