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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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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)  
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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)  
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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)  
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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)  
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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)  
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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)  
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2026-03-10
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31 p, 643.6 KB Fillers in multilingual children acquiring the non-null-subject property of French : Syntactic and phonological aspects / D'Aurizio, Laura (Bergische Universität Wuppertal) ; Arnaus Gil, Laia (Bergische Universität Wuppertal) ; Müller, Natascha (Bergische Universität Wuppertal) ; Stahnke, Johanna (Bergische Universität Wuppertal) ; Silva Colaço, Isabel
The aim of the present study is to analyze both the form and function of fillers across phonological and syntactic dimensions in first language acquisition, establishing a link between the two domains. [...]
2026 - 10.5565/rev/isogloss.530
Isogloss, Vol. 12, Num. 2 (2026) , p. 1-31 (Articles)  
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2026-03-10
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25 p, 426.1 KB Adverbial hierarchy and verb movement in the early production of Italian children / Patrizi, Sonia (Stanford University) ; Sanfelici, Emanuela (University of Padova)
This paper investigates the syntax of Italian adverbs and the placement of finite and non-finite predicates in children's early spontaneous speech, aiming at shedding light on the relationship between adverb syntax and verb movement in early language acquisition. [...]
2026 - 10.5565/rev/isogloss.526
Isogloss, Vol. 12, Num. 2 (2026) , p. 1-25 (Articles)  
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2026-03-10
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32 p, 930.1 KB Fostering the learning of L3 French and Spanish phonology in heritage bilinguals : State of the art and looking beyond / Gabriel, Christoph (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz) ; Grünke, Jonas (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)
Even though there were already calls around the turn of the millennium for the heritage languages of learners to be included in foreign-language teaching (e. g. , Gogolin 1994, Hu 2003), the acquisition of phonology in the context of migration-induced multilingualism is still an emerging area of research in both linguistics and language pedagogy. [...]
2026 - 10.5565/rev/isogloss.525
Isogloss, Vol. 12, Num. 2 (2026) , p. 1-32 (Articles)  
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2026-03-10
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42 p, 618.8 KB Voice and functional structure in Italo-Romance tough-constructions / Russo Cardona, Leonardo (University of Cambridge)
This paper focuses on the amount of functional structure and on the Voice properties of complement clauses in tough-constructions, on the basis of previously unexplored variation patterns in Italo-Romance. [...]
2026 - 10.5565/rev/isogloss.524
Isogloss, Vol. 12, Num. 2 (2026) , p. 1-42 (Articles)  
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