Structuring Variation in Romance Linguistics and Beyond : In Honour of Leonardo M. Savoia.

Intro -- Structuring Variation in Romance Linguistics and Beyond -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- 1. Introduction: Structuring thought, externalizing structure -- 1. Is phonology different? -- 2. The unification of morphology and syntax -- 3. Syntactic parameters: Microvariation and macrocategories -- 4. Language and its speakers -- References -- Leonardo M. Savoia complete bibliography 1974-2017 -- Part I. Micro‑ and macro-variation in syntax -- 2. Gender, number and inflectional class in some Northern Italian dialects -- 1. Introduction: The framework -- 2. The distribution of the plural ‑'i' in North Italian dialects -- 3. Plural and D field -- 3.1 The inflection of clitics -- 4. Some proposals for the analysis -- 4.1 The nature of -i -- 4.2 The nominal inflection -- 5. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 3. Objects and subjects in the left periphery -- 1. Introduction -- 2. a-Topics -- 2.1 a-Topics in Italian during development -- 2.2 a-Topics in a comparative perspective -- 2.3 a-Topics in a diachronic perspective -- 2.4 The development of a-marking -- 2.5 When objects are Topics -- 3. a-Marking on lexical object Topics, not on lexical subject Topics -- 3.1 Instances of a-marked subjects -- 4. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 4. Notes on infinitival relatives in Italian -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Nonrestrictive 'da' infinitival relatives? -- 3. Two 'da' infinitival relatives in Italian -- 4. A difference between the 'da' + infinitive and the P 'cui'/art. + 'qual'‑ infinitive construction -- 5. Another difference between the 'da' + infinitive and the P 'cui'/art. + 'qual'‑ infinitive construction -- 6. Are there subject infinitival relatives in Italian? -- 7. 'Da' infinitival relatives and restructuring -- Acknowledgments -- References.

5. Negation and negative copulas in Bantu -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Copulas and negation -- 3. Negative inflected forms -- 4. A Bantu-Romance comparison -- 4.1 Jespersen's cycle -- 4.2 Initial negation -- 4.3 Medial negation -- 4.4 Final negation -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- 6. On gender and number -- 1. Introduction -- 2. On the Feature Strength Hypothesis: Number over gender -- 3. Inflectional noun class morphology -- 4. Possible explanations for the different status of number and gender in comprehension tasks -- 5. Concluding remarks -- References -- 7. Micro‑ and macro-variation -- 1. Enclisis/proclisis alternations in Romance -- 2. Realis/irrealis alternations in the typological debate -- 3. Microvariation and macroparameters -- References -- 8. Concealed pseudo-clefts? Evidence from a Lombard dialect -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Types of clefts -- 3. An aside on interrogatives in CN -- 4. Cleft interrogatives -- 4.1 who/what interrogatives -- 4.2 Temporal interrogatives -- 4.3 Other interrogatives -- 5. Summary and theoretical implications -- 6. Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 9. Negation patterns across dialects -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The data -- 2.1 L'Escarène -- 2.1.1 Single postverbal marker -- 2.1.2 Single preverbal noun -- 2.1.3 Preverbal noun and postverbal marker -- 2.2 Venice -- 2.3 Zemignana -- 3. Putting the pieces together: Negation and modality -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- 10. A note on left-peripheral maps and interface properties -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Syntactic and interface properties of criterial heads -- 3. There can be multiple topics, but LP focus is unique: The role of LF interface principles -- 4. Principles and parameters: A role for PF interface? -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 11. Italian 'faire'-infinitives -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Embedding 'volere' in Italian 'faire'-infinitives.

3. Want-FIs: Syntactic properties -- 4. Clitic transitive causee: defective intervention -- 5. Accusative transitive causee: ECM construction -- 6. Intermediate cliticisation: Silent OBTAIN -- 7. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 12. Optional vs obligatory movement in Albanian (pseudo)-raising constructions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Optional movement -- 3. Obligatory movement -- 4. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Part II. Clitics and pronouns from a theoretical perspective -- 13. Clitic stress allomorphy in Sardinian -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Approaches to enclitic stress phenomena -- 2.1 Phonological analyses -- 2.2 The 'weak-pronoun' analysis -- 3. Enclitic stress in Sardinian -- 3.1 General properties of lexical stress -- 3.2 Enclitic stress patterns -- 3.2.1 Logudorese -- 3.2.2 Transitional area -- 3.2.3 Campidanese -- 4. Discussion -- 5. A note on proclitic stress in Sardinian -- 6. Conclusions -- Acknowlegments -- References -- 14. Clitics and vowel epenthesis -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Syncope and epenthesis in Luzzara, Carpi and Rolo -- 3. Discussion -- 4. Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 15. Overabundance in Hungarian accusative pronouns -- 1. Overabundance -- 2. Hungarian nominal and pronominal inflection: An overview -- 3. Overabundance in Hungarian personal pronouns -- 3.1 Unbalanced overabundance in 1/2/3SG.ACC forms -- 3.2 Balanced overabundance in 1PL.ACC and 2PL.ACC forms -- 4. Are there differences in the usage of the two competing forms? -- 4.1 Emphatic vs. non-emphatic -- 5. Discussion and concluding remarks -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 16. Unstable personal pronouns in Northern Logudorese -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Contact-induced change in gender agreement and noun inflection in Sennorese -- 3. Contact-induced change in the dialect of Luras -- 3.1 Convergent gender marking in Lurese.

3.2 Change in the personal pronoun system: From common Logudorese to conservative Lurese -- 3.3 Instability and ongoing change in personal pronouns in the dialect of Luras -- 4. Personal pronouns in the nearby dialects of Bulzi and Pèrfugas -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 17. Object clitics for subject clitics in Francoprovençal and Piedmontese -- 1. Introduction -- 2. More data -- 3. Analysis -- 3.1 Cliticisation and incorporation -- 3.2 Enclisis to the past participle -- 4. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Part III. Sound pattern and syntactic structure -- 18. Are Sardinian vocatives perfectly regular? -- Introduction -- 1. On Vocatives in Sardinian -- 2. The syntax of Vocatives -- 3. Conclusion -- References -- 19. Phonological correlates of syntactic structure -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Cosentino RF: An overview -- 2.1 RF triggers -- 2.2 Defining locality -- 2.2.1 Core configurations: Spec-head, head-head and head-comp -- 2.2.2 Phases -- 3. Summary and conclusions -- References -- 20. Metaphony as magnetism -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Metaphony and the |A| eater -- 3. Magnetic grammar -- 4. Metaphony in magnetic grammar -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- 21. Some reflections on the syllabification of clusters -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Syllable theory and the syllabification of clusters -- 2.1 Predictions of current syllable theory -- 2.2 Diagnostics for syllabification -- 3. Syllabification of clusters -- 3.1 Obstruent/sonorant syllabification -- 3.2 Obstruent cluster syllabification -- 3.3 Sonorant/obstruent syllabification -- 3.4 Sonorant cluster syllabification -- 4. Final remarks -- References -- Part IV. Language in context -- 22. Diachronic and synchronic lexical interactions in the Italo-Balkan linguistic space -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Attestations of the lemma in the Italic and Balkan linguistic space.

3. History and current distribution of the lemma -- Acknowledgment -- References -- 23. Lexical-semantic analysis of the political language -- 1. Aspects and trends -- 2. The French Revolution language and beyond -- 3. The totalitarian languages and the discursive styles of leaders and party movements -- 4. The political language of the two Germanies -- References -- 24. Dialects and neuroscience -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Investigating the auditory brain: Techniques and methods -- 3. Dialect in the brain -- 3.1 Neurophysiology of tonal dialects -- 3.2 Auditory processing and dialect variation -- 3.3 Allophonic variation within dialects -- 4. Discussion and further remarks -- Acknowledgment -- References -- 25. Remarks on the vulnerability of grammar -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Language pathologies -- 3. Language pathologies and memory -- 4. Morphology in language acquisition -- 5. Language evolution -- 6. Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgment -- References -- 26. Some Celto-Albanian isoglosses and their implications -- 1. Celto-Albanian isoglosses -- 2. 'Bërrakë -a' 'bog' -- 3. 'Blertë' 'greenish -- verdant' -- 4. 'Brī briri', Gheg 'brî brini' 'horn' -- 5. 'Dritë -a' 'light' -- 6. Conclusions -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Literary Works -- References -- Language index -- Subject index.

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