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Record Nr.

UNINA9910134932403321

Autore

Bentley Delia

Titolo

Existentials and locatives in Romance dialects of Italy / / Delia Bentley, Francesco Maria Ciconte, and Silvio Cruschina [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015

ISBN

0-19-180623-4

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxiv, 306 pages) : illustrations, maps

Collana

Open Access e-Books

Knowledge Unlatched

Oxford linguistics

Disciplina

457.9

Soggetti

Italian language - Dialects - Existential constructions

Italian language - Dialects - Locative constructions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Dialect maps -- 1. Existentials and locatives in Romance dialects of Italy : introduction / Delia Bentley -- 2. Focus structure / Silvio Cruschina -- 3. Predication and argument realization / Delia Bentley -- 4. Definiteness effects and linking / Delia Bentley -- 5. Historical context / Francesco Maria Ciconte -- 6. Conclusion / Delia Bentley -- Appendix 1: Early Romance sources -- Appendix 2: Latin sources

Sommario/riassunto

This publication provides a large-scale comparative treatment of 'there' sentences (there copula NP), reporting the results of a survey of over 100 Italo-Romance and Sardinian dialects spoken in Italy. It addresses key issues in linguistic theory and offers a valuable source of data for research on the Romance languages.