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Record Nr.

UNINA9910957916603321

Autore

Poletto Cecilia <1962->

Titolo

The higher functional field : evidence from northern Italian dialects / / Cecilia Poletto

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

ISBN

0-19-772169-9

1-280-83344-0

0-19-535087-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 207 pages)

Collana

Oxford studies in comparative syntax

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

457

457/.1

Soggetti

Italian language - Dialects - Italy, Northern

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2000.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 Preverbal Subject Clitics in Declarative Contexts; 3 Interrogative Sentences; 4 Rhaetoromance Verb Second: A Split-CP Perspective; 5 Subjunctive Clauses: The Modal Field; 6 Subject Positions; 7 A Brief Summary; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This work investigates the syntax of the higher portion of the functional structure of the clause using comparative data from hundreds of Northern Italian dialects. The area contains dialects that are different in most ways yet homogenous syntactically, making it ideal for this type of analysis.