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Isogloss. A journal on variation of Romance and Iberian languages


Isogloss. A journal on variation of Romance and Iberian languages studies language variation from a comparative perspective. In doing so, it offers a forum for discussion of different approaches, either theoretically or descriptively oriented, that help us progress in our understanding of such varieties, their differences, and similarities.

 
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28 p, 642.0 KB French subject doubling : a third path / Liang, Yiming (Universiteit Gent (Països Baixos)) ; Donati, Caterina (Université Paris Cité (França)) ; Burnett, Heather (Université Paris Cité (França))
This paper revisits the status of subject clitics in Spoken French by studying subject doubling as a sociolinguistic variable. In the literature, two influential analyses have been proposed to account for French subject doubling. [...]
2024 - 10.5565/rev/isogloss.420
Isogloss, Vol. 10 Núm. 7 (2024) , p. 1-28 (Articles)  
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2024-12-16
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20 p, 493.4 KB Possessives with kinship terms in Italian and Italo-Romance dialects : Variation and optionality / Volpato, Francesca (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia) ; Lebani, Gianluca (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia)
This study investigates the acceptability of constructions containing third-person possessives combined with singular and plural kinship terms in adult bilectal speakers of Italian and different Italo-Romance varieties spoken in six different geographic areas in northern, central, and southern Italy. [...]
2024 - 10.5565/rev/isogloss.409
Isogloss, Vol. 10 Núm. 7 (2024) , p. 1-20 (Articles)  
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2024-12-16
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27 p, 506.9 KB An empirical study on the semantics-pragmatics of two Romance confirmational tags / Castroviejo, Elena (Universidad del País Vasco) ; Mayol, Laia (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
This paper provides a fine-grained characterization of two confirmational tags in Catalan, oi? and eh?, starting with the novel claim that, despite appearances, they do not have the same distribution or meaning. [...]
2024 - 10.5565/rev/isogloss.406
Isogloss, Vol. 10 Núm. 7 (2024) , p. 1-27 (Articles)  
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2024-12-16
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34 p, 524.6 KB On documenting language change as it happens : the periphrastic construction "motion verb + a + infinitive" in Italian / Li Destri, Emanuela (Università di Udine (Itàlia))
This study examines the grammaticalization of motion verbs in Italian within the periphrastic construction "motion verb + a + infinitive". Verbs such as andare 'to go', venire 'to come' and tornare 'to return' develop functional uses and express aspectual meanings, such as culminative, inchoative-imminential and iterative. [...]
2024 - 10.5565/rev/isogloss.418
Isogloss, Vol. 10 Núm. 7 (2024) , p. 1-34 (Articles)  
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2024-12-16
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27 p, 526.0 KB Scaling counterarguments : : the dynamics of exclamative se constructions / Callegari, Elena (University of Iceland)
This paper introduces Exclamative Se Constructions (ESCs), analyzing their use in two Romance languages: Trevigiano, a northern Italian dialect, and Standard Italian. ESCs are used to express shock or surprise at someone's statement and to challenge its accuracy. [...]
2024 - 10.5565/rev/isogloss.411
Isogloss, Vol. 10 Núm. 7 (2024) , p. 1-27 (Articles)  
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2024-12-16
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22 p, 900.8 KB Asymmetry as a general cue for V2 (loss) / Larrivée, Pierre (Université de Caen Normandie (França)) ; Poletto, Cecilia (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main) ; Pinzin, Francesco (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main (Alemanya)) ; Goux, Mathieu (Université de Caen Normandie (França))
This paper identifies a micro-cue correlating to verb second word order (V2) in two closely related Medieval Romance languages. As V2 is asymmetrically distributed in main rather than subordinate clauses, an asymmetry would be expected in phenomena assumed to relate to V2, such as subject inversion, null subject and enclisis. [...]
2024 - 10.5565/rev/isogloss.410
Isogloss, Vol. 10 Núm. 7 (2024) , p. 1-22 (Articles)  
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2024-12-16
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25 p, 1.1 MB Mapping focus to prosody in Italian : the case of wh-questions / Bocci, Giuliano (Università degli Studi di Siena (Itàlia)) ; Bianchi, Valentina (Università degli Studi di Siena (Itàlia)) ; Cruschina, Silvio (University of Helsinki (Finlàndia))
Italian wh-questions with bare wh-elements are characterized by an exceptional prosodic pattern, whereby the nuclear pitch accent (NPA) is assigned neither to the wh-element nor to the default rightmost position, but it rather falls on the lexical verb, even though this is not semantically interpreted as a focus. [...]
2024 - 10.5565/rev/isogloss.422
Isogloss, Vol. 10 Núm. 7 (2024) , p. 1-25 (Articles)  
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2024-12-16
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29 p, 399.2 KB The anchor of a modal superlative and the individual vs stage level reading of the adjective / Tovena, Lucia M. (Université Paris Cité (França)) ; Fleury, Damien (Université Paris Cité (França))
This paper is about the semantics of quality modal superlatives in predicative function, e. g. Italian È stata il più calma possibile ('She was the calmest possible'), with a focus on what is the anchoring of the modal superlative, and how what is being compared is restricted. [...]
2024 - 10.5565/rev/isogloss.424
Isogloss, Vol. 10 Núm. 7 (2024) , p. 1-29 (Articles)  
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2024-12-16
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40 p, 676.6 KB On tenses as speech-act-level functions : towards a novel analysis of the French 'narrative' imparfait / Caudal, Patrick (Université Paris-Cité (França))
This paper aims at demonstrating the validity of a two-pronged hypothesis: (i) that the aspectual viewpoint content of the so-called 'narrative imparfait' (NIMPF) does not bear on the verb it marks (i. [...]
2024 - 10.5565/rev/isogloss.435
Isogloss, Vol. 10 Núm. 7 (2024) , p. 1-40 (Articles)  
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2024-12-16
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32 p, 639.8 KB The syllabification of /sw/ in Italian and the phonological status of /w / Cossu, Piero (Università di Pisa (Itàlia))
This study investigates the phonetics and phonology of word-initial /sw/ clusters in Italian, aiming to discern the syllabic parsing of the sequence and the phonological status of the glide /w/. Previous studies have reported a dual status of /w/ in Italian, consonantal in loanwords versus vocalic in native lexemes, apparently dependent on the graphemic form of /w/, i. [...]
2024 - 10.5565/rev/isogloss.430
Isogloss, Vol. 10 Núm. 7 (2024) , p. 1-32 (Articles)  
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