The Dialects of Italy

by Maiden; MARTIN

• ISBN13: 9780415111041
• ISBN10: 0415111048
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-03-24
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Italy holds special treasures for linguists. There is probably no other area of Europe in which such a profusion of variation, at all levels of linguistic structure, is concentrated into so limited a geographical area. The principal aim ofThe Dialects ofItalyis to make accessible--both to Romance specialists and to general linguists--the major structural features of the dialects of Italy, and to emphasize the importance of a detailed understanding of the dialects for issues in general linguistic theory. Selected topics include: phonology, morphology, syntax, lexis, the dialect areas and the sociolinguistics of dialects. The contributors, drawn from among the world's foremost experts in Italian dialectology, provide a stimulating range of perspectives and carefully examine the results of recent original research.

Table of Contents

List of figures	ix	(1)
List of contributors	x	(2)
List of abbreviations	xii
Introduction	1	(6)
Martin Maiden
Mair Parry
Part I Structures	7	(218)
1 Vowel systems	7	(8)
Martin Maiden
2 Metaphony	15	(11)
Leonardo Savoia
Martin Maiden
3 Palatalization	26	(6)
Edward Tuttle
4 Consonantal weakening	32	(9)
Luciano Giannelli
Thomas D. Cravens
5 Lengthening and raddoppiamento fonosintattico	41	(11)
Michele Loporcaro
6 The syllable	52	(6)
Lori Repetti
7 Prosodic phonology	58	(10)
Irene Vogel
8 Inflectional morphology of the noun and adjective	68	(7)
Martin Maiden
9 Inflectional morphology of the verb	75	(12)
Leonardo Savoia
10 Tense, mood and aspect in the verb	87	(12)
Patrizia Cordin
11 Synthetic and analytic structures	99	(7)
Nigel Vincent
12 Personal pronouns and demonstratives	106	(10)
Laura Vanelli
Lorenzo Renzi
13 Word structure and word formation	116	(7)
Tullio Telmon
Martin Maiden
14 Sentence word order	123	(8)
Paola Beninca
15 Conjunctions	131	(6)
Paola Beninca
16 Pronominal syntax	137	(8)
Cecilia Poletto
17 Passive and impersonal constructions	145	(17)
Michela Cennamo
18 The structure of the noun phrase	162	(9)
Lorenzo Renzi
19 Complementation	171	(8)
Nigel Vincent
20 Negation	179	(7)
Mair Parry
21 Quantifiers	186	(4)
Guglielmo Cinque
22 Relative clauses	190	(12)
Michela Cennamo
23 The syntax of conditional sentences	202	(6)
Marco Mazzoleni
24 Prepositions	208	(6)
Nigel Vincent
25 Lexical and semantic variation	214	(11)
Alberto Varvaro
Part II The dialect areas	225	(162)
26 The geographical distribution of the dialects	225	(12)
Leonardo Savoia
Dialects of the north	237	(60)
27 Piedmont	237	(8)
Mair Parry
28 Liguria	245	(8)
Werner Forner
29 Lombardy	253	(7)
Glauco Sanga
30 Trentino	260	(3)
Patrizia Cordin
31 The Veneto	263	(8)
Edward Tuttle
32 Emilia-Romagna	271	(8)
John Hajek
33 Friuli	279	(7)
Laura Vanelli
34 Ladin	286	(11)
Giampaolo Salvi
Dialects of the centre and south	297	(90)
35 Tuscany	297	(6)
Luciano Giannelli
36 Corsica	303	(8)
Marie-Jose Dalbera-Stefanaggi
37 Lazio, Umbria and the Marche	311	(10)
Ugo Vignuzzi
38 Abruzzo and Molise	321	(9)
Robert Hastings
39 Campania	330	(8)
Rosanna Sornicola
40 Puglia and Salento	338	(11)
Michele Loporcaro
41 Basilicata	349	(6)
Franco Fanciullo
42 Calabria and southern Basilicata	355	(10)
John Trumper
43 Sicily	365	(11)
Giovanni Ruffino
44 Sardinia	376	(11)
Michael A. Jones
Part III Sociolinguistics	387	(32)
45 The relationship between the dialects and the standard language	387	(7)
Zarko Muljacic
46 Code-switching and code-mixing	394	(7)
Gaetano Berruto
47 The dialects abroad	401	(11)
Hermann W. Haller
48 Italianization of the dialects	412	(7)
Alberto Sobrero
Bibliographical abbreviations	419	(3)
Bibliography	422	(41)
Index	463