Possessives, from Franco-Provençal and Occitan Systems to Contact Dialects in Apulia and Calabria

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5901014
AutoresBárbara Baldi (0000-0001-5531-6561, University of Florence, autor de correspondencia), Benedetta Baldi, Leonardo M Savoia (0000-0002-5388-5629, University of Florence, autor de correspondencia)
Año2021
Volumen6
Número2
Páginas63
Fecha de publicación2021-03-27
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLanguages (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2226-471X • E-ISSN: 2226-471X
EditorialMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/languages6020063
OpenAlexW3144773993
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas29

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 is no longer visible in the varieties of Celle, Faeto and Guardia which changed the original prenominal position to the postnominal position combining with the article, except with kinship terms, preserving the original prenominal position. At the heart of contact phenomena, there are bilingualism and transfer mechanisms between the languages included in the complex knowledge of the speaker, suggesting a test bed for the treatment of language variation and parameterization. We propose an account of morpho-syntactic and interpretive properties of possessives, making use of the insights from the comparison of contact systems with prenominal (Franco-Provençal and Occitan varieties) and postnominal (Southern Italian dialects) possessives. The final part examines the distribution of possessives, tracing it back to the definiteness properties of DP and proposes a phasal treatment based on syntactic and interpretive constraints

Definiteness · Language contact · Linguistics · Noun · Noun phrase · Possessive · Romance languages · Computer Science · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation