Isogloss. A journal on variation of Romance and Iberian languages


Isogloss. A journal on variation of Romance and Iberian languages
estudia la variació lingüística des d’una perspectiva comparada. D’aquesta manera, ofereix un fórum per la discussió de diferents enfocaments, orientat teóricament com descriptivament, que ens ajuden a proressar en la comprensió d’aquest tipus de varietats, les seves diferències i similituds.

 

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2026-04-24
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32 p, 356.9 KB Paradigm levelling in Spanish as a case of Root Shrinking / Vanden Wyngaerd, Guido (Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven (1970- ))
Spanish has three verb classes, identified by three different theme vowels: -a, e, and -i. The verbs show three different types of paradigm levelling, whereby verb class distinctions are neutralised, either in whole or in part. [...]
2026 - 10.5565/rev/isogloss.642
Isogloss, Vol. 12, Num. 1 (2026) , p. 1-32 (Articles)  
2026-04-23
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40 p, 444.1 KB Strong and weak resultatives with result roots in English and Spanish / Smith, Ryan W. (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey) ; Ausensi, Josep (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) ; Yu, Jianrong (Independent Researcher)
We consider a subclass of result verbs in Rappaport Hovav & Levin's (2010) sense built on roots that entail change (Beavers & Koontz-Garboden, 2020), e. g. , break, melt, explode, and tear. We argue that this class of roots possesses different grammatical properties between English and Spanish with respect to resultative constructions: these roots productively appear in both strong and weak resultatives in English but form only weak resultatives in Spanish (Washio, 1997). [...]
2026 - 10.5565/rev/isogloss.631
Isogloss, Vol. 12, Num. 1 (2026) , p. 1-40 (Articles)  
2026-04-24
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25 p, 396.7 KB The aspectual value of particle verbs in Romansh : Syntactic convergence through intense language contact / Hotz, Rolf (The University of Sydney) ; Julmi, Nora (Leiden University)
Particle verbs or phrasal verbs, i. e. , combinations of a preposition-like element and a verb, are common among the languages of Europe and best known from Germanic, but their systematic aspectual use in Romansh, a minority Romance language of Southeastern Switzerland, has gone largely unrecognized in the literature. [...]
2026 - 10.5565/rev/isogloss.629
Isogloss, Vol. 12, Num. 1 (2026) , p. 1-25 (Articles)  
2026-02-27
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33 p, 796.3 KB DOM and a-topics : The case of Sicilian and Tuscan regional varieties of Italian. An experimental study / Interlandi, Federica (Università degli Studi di Siena)
This study aims to investigate the extent to which language contact between Italian and Sicilian dialects has facilitated the integration of Differential Object Marking in the Sicilian regional variety of Italian, as compared to the Tuscan variety, which instead displays a limited use of a-marking of the direct object. [...]
2026 - 10.5565/rev/isogloss.613
Isogloss, Vol. 12, Num. 1 (2026) (Articles)  
2026-02-25
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33 p, 430.9 KB A prepositional cycle in French / Martin, Fabienne (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) ; Nie, Yining (San José State University) ; Alexiadou, Artemis (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
This paper discusses the morphosyntax and semantics of locative prepositions in French, with a particular focus on the prefix de- in complex prepositions (e. g. , en dessous de [in from. under of] 'below') and in axial nominalizations (e. [...]
2026 - 10.5565/rev/isogloss.537
Isogloss, Vol. 12, Num. 2 (2026) , p. 1-36 (Articles)  
2026-02-25
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31 p, 840.1 KB Investigating the tense contrast in parasitic gap constructions : Experimental data from different varieties of French and Spanish / Schoenmakers, Gert-Jan (Utrecht University) ; Rojas-Berscia, Luis Miguel (Radboud University Nijmegen)
It has often been observed that parasitic gaps fare better in untensed adjunct clauses than in tensed ones. García Mayo & Kempchinsky (1994) argue that this contrast emerges in Romance languages, but not in English. [...]
2026 - 10.5565/rev/isogloss.536
Isogloss, Vol. 12, Num. 2 (2026) , p. 1-31 (Articles)  
2026-03-10
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27 p, 478.6 KB Are root que-sentences in Portuguese as insubordinate as in Spanish? / Canceiro, Nádia (Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa) ; Matos, Gabriela (Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa)
This paper examines insubordinate que-clauses in European Portuguese (EP) and Peninsular Spanish (PS), focusing on their syntactic and discursive properties. The study presents novel data from EP, a language less studied in this context, and contributes to the Syntax/Discourse interface approach. [...]
2026 - 10.5565/rev/isogloss.534
Isogloss, Vol. 12, Num. 2 (2026) , p. 1-27 (Articles)  
2026-03-10
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38 p, 1.3 MB Revisiting locality : Two case studies from Italian / Mocci, Davide (University of Cagliari) ; Greco, Matteo (Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori di Pavia) ; Moro, Andrea (Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori di Pavia)
In the generative tradition, the conditions on subextraction (i. e. , the extraction from a phrase XP) have been captured by either one of the following incompatible formulations: (i) a formulation based on the notion of phase (the PIC, i. [...]
2026 - 10.5565/rev/isogloss.533
Isogloss, Vol. 12, Num. 2 (2026) , p. 1-38 (Articles)  
2026-03-05
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22 p, 508.2 KB Commitment datives / Borik, Olga (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (Espanya)) ; Teomiro, Ismael (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (Espanya))
In this paper we argue for a division in the category of ethical datives by identifying a new type of dative: the commitment dative. These datives are clitics that appear in directive sentences, always refer to the speaker, have no effect on the at-issue content as they cannot be negated, passivized nor topicalized, cannot be doubled by a PP (unlike other kinds of ethical datives such as affected experiencers), allow for PCC violations, and are banned in (indirect speech/reporting) embedded clauses. [...]
2026 - 10.5565/rev/isogloss.532
Isogloss, Vol. 12, Num. 2 (2026) , p. 1-22 (Articles)  
2026-03-10
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31 p, 736.1 KB Before and after the noun : Semantics for Spanish demonstratives / Bombi, Carla (Universität Potsdam)
Spanish demonstratives may appear before the noun (este libro 'this book') or after the noun (el libro este 'the book this'). Despite their relevance for comparative syntax (Giusti 1997, 2015, Brugè 1996, 2002), little work has been done on their meaning. [...]
2026 - 10.5565/rev/isogloss.531
Isogloss, Vol. 12, Num. 2 (2026) , p. 1-31 (Articles)