E-book
Digital Version
Syntactic variation : the view from the German-language islands in Northeastern Italy
137 pages : 1 illustration
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- This volume offers a collection of papers devoted to the German-language islands in northeastern Italy, with main focus on their syntax and syntactic variation. Syntactic variation is seen in contemporary linguistics as one of the key domains to understand the language faculty and a special role in the study of variation has been played in recent years by diachronic syntax. Contact situations have drawn much attention in view of the study of language variation in a diachronic as well as in a synchronic perspective, and language islands, a distinctive environment for interference and language change, have been considered as a much valuable subject of investigation, as they display syntactic phenomena that can contribute to shed light on syntactic structures and how they evolve.
- The contributions in the present volume offer extensive discussion on several aspects related to the varieties spoken in the German-language islands in northeastern Italy. The book may therefore be of interest for specialists working in the field of syntax, German linguistics and historical linguistics. [Publisher's text]
- Proceedings of the conference held in Udine, Italy, November 8-9, 2018.
-
Information
ISBN: 9788832831252
SERIES
DISCIPLINES
SUBJECTS HEADINGS
- German language -- Dialects -- Italy, Northern -- Congresses
- German language -- Variation -- Italy, Northern -- Congresses
- German language -- Dialects -- Syntax -- Congresses
-
In this volume
- Foreword and aknowledgments
- Introduction
- Bavarian dialect-speaking enclaves as a special research interest of the early 20th century in the context of the Dictionary of Bavarian Dialects in Austria (WBÖ)
- Unknown relatives from the North? : on the origin and development of w-relative pronouns in German
- Overt and null subjects in South Tyrolean German : language use and variation
- Complementation in Cimbrian and in Saurian : some comparative notes
- On the classification of Mòcheno and Cimbrian within the typology of V2 languages : relaxed or residual V2 languages?
- The meandering path of VO and OV up in the Alps
- Verb second in Saurian main clauses
- Index
- List of contributors