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Pronominal variation and layers in grammaticalization: the enclitic forms -ello and -lo in the Italo-Romance dialect of Lizzano in Belvedere
- Abstract:
- This study investigates the rare phenomenon of the co-occurrence (in Lizzanese, an Italo-Romance dialect spoken in the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines) of two types of enclitic pronoun in interrogative contexts: the unstressed monosyllabic forms -lo (3sg.m)/-la (3sg.f) and the stressed disyllabic forms -ello (3sg.m)/-ella (3sg.f). The coexistence of -lo and -ello is analysed as an instance of ‘layering’ (Hopper 1991) and it is claimed that a peculiar characteristic of Lizzanese historical phonology, the preservation of geminate consonants in posttonic contexts, played a crucial role in the emergence of layering. Moreover, following Loporcaro 2012, this study claims that -ello should be analysed as a syntactic clitic and -lo as a syntactic-and-phonological clitic and that these two clitic categories should be assigned distinct positions in a more refined and enriched cline of grammaticality.
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.26346/1120-2726-158
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- Publisher:
- Pacini Editore SpA
- Journal:
- Italian Journal of Linguistics More from this journal
- Volume:
- 32
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 33-58
- Publication date:
- 2020-07-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-06-05
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2499-8125
- ISSN:
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1120-2726
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English
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1109518
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- This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available from Pacini Editore SpA at: https://doi.org/10.26346/1120-2726-158
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