{"product_id":"syntactic-variation-the-dialects-of-italy-hardback-9780521517362","title":"Syntactic Variation; The Dialects of Italy (Hardback) 9780521517362","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSyntactic Variation\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Dialects of Italy\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn edited 2010 volume devoted to research into sentence structure within Romance languages, focusing on the dialects of Italy.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRoberta D'Alessandro (Edited by), Adam Ledgeway (Edited by), Ian Roberts (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521517362, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 14 January 2010\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e368 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 16 x 2.5 cm, 0.72 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis book was first published in 2010. The study of Romance languages can tell us a great deal about sentence structure and its variation in general. Focusing on the dialects of Italy - including the islands of Sardinia and Sicily - the authors explore three thematic areas: the nominal domain, the verbal domain and the left periphery of the clause. The book gives fresh attention to the dialects, arguing that they offer an unprecedented degree of variation (not found, for example, in Germanic languages). Analysing a host of data, the authors show how the dialects can be used as a test-bed for investigating and challenging received ideas about language structure and change. Coherent and wide-ranging, this is a vital resource for those working in syntactic theory, historical linguistics and Romance languages.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSyntactic variation and the dialects of Italy: an overview Roberta D'Alessandro, Adam Ledgeway and Ian Roberts\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Nominal Structures: 1. Headless relatives in some Old Italian varieties Paola Benincà\u003cbr\u003e 2. On Old Italian uomo and the classification of indefinite expressions Verner Egerland\u003cbr\u003e 3. Syncretism and suppletion in clitic systems: underspecification, silent clitics or neither? M. Rita Manzini and Leonardo M. Savoia\u003cbr\u003e 4. Lexicalization of 3rd person object clitics: clitic enclisis and clitic drop Leonardo M. Savoia and M. Rita Manzini\u003cbr\u003e 5. Proclitic vs enclitic pronouns in northern Italian dialects and the null-subject parameter Anna Cardinaletti and Lori Repetti\u003cbr\u003e 6. Domains of clitic placement in finite and non-finite clauses: evidence from a Piedmontese dialect Christina Tortora\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Verbal Structures: 7. Prohibition and Romance: negative imperatives in the early vernaculars of Italy Mair Parry\u003cbr\u003e 8. The periphrasis aviri a + infinitive in contemporary Sicilian dialect Luisa Amenta\u003cbr\u003e 9. A formal typology of person-based auxiliary selection in Italo-Romance Géraldine Legendre\u003cbr\u003e 10. The Abruzzese T-v system: feature spreading and the double auxiliary construction Roberta D'Alessandro and Adam Ledgeway\u003cbr\u003e 11. Perfective auxiliaries in the pluperfect in some southern Italian dialects Michela Cennamo\u003cbr\u003e 12. The logic of Romance past participle agreement Michele Loporcaro\u003cbr\u003e Part III. The Left Periphery: 13. Fronting as focalization in Sicilian Silvio Cruschina\u003cbr\u003e 14. Focus fronting and the left periphery in Sardinian Guido Mensching and Eva-Maria Remberger\u003cbr\u003e 15. In focus: an investigation of information and contrastive constructions Sandra Paoli\u003cbr\u003e 16. Criterial conditions for wh-structures: evidence from wh-exclamatives in northern Italian dialects Nicola Munaro\u003cbr\u003e 17. The distribution of the complementizers \/ka\/ and \/ku\/ in the North Salentino dialect of Francavilla Fontana (Brindisi) Paola Vecchio.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literature \u0026amp; literary studies [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literature \u0026amp; literary studies\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literature%20\u0026amp;%20literary%20studies%20%5BD%5D%22\"\u003eD\u003c\/a\u003e], Grammar, syntax \u0026amp; morphology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Grammar, syntax \u0026amp; morphology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Grammar,%20syntax%20\u0026amp;%20morphology%20%5BCFK%5D%22\"\u003eCFK\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46019743613208,"sku":"9780521517362","price":88.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521517362i_4cee51cc-839e-48b9-87c0-68f8bb925a0a.jpg?v=1691383461","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/syntactic-variation-the-dialects-of-italy-hardback-9780521517362","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}