The dialects of northern Italy

• Autores: Paola Benincà, Mair Parry, Diego Pescarini
• Localización: The Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages / Adam Ledgeway (ed. lit.), Martin Maiden (ed. lit.), 2016, ISBN 9780199677108, págs. 185-205
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • After a brief outline of the principal episodes in the external history, the chapter surveys the principal aspects of phonology, morphology and syntax of the dialects of northern Italy, including both Gallo-Italic (Ligurian, Piedmontese, Lombard, Emilian-Romagnol) and Venetan dialects. Topics dealt with include: characteristics of northern Italian dialects; suprasegmental phonology; segmental phonology; morphology of nouns and adjectives; verb morphology: tenses, person endings, root alternations, past participles; word formation; pronouns; articles; demonstratives; possessives; agreement in the nominal group; subject clitic pronouns; wh-movement constructions; negation; auxiliaries and double compound forms; restructuring and clitic climbing; clitic syntax.