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The Syntax of the Dialect of Bari ...
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This dissertation describes and analyses a selection of morphosyntactic phenomena from the nominal, verbal and clausal domains of Barese, an upper southern Italian dialect of Puglia. Chapter 2 analyses pragmatically unmarked and marked sentential word orders in Barese. Barese is a null-subject language whose unmarked transitive word order is (S)VO, in which syntactic constituents can be displaced in accordance with their pragmatico-semantic relevance to the discourse. One peculiarity of Barese regards intransitives encoding a loco-temporal (c)overt argument, where VS and SV orders may both mark sentence-focus. While VS encodes a null loco-temporal argument, SV serves to encode broad focus whenever S is ‘accessible’ in the mind of both discourse participants forming part of their ‘common ground’. Chapter 3 examines the structure of Barese nominal expressions, focusing on the interaction between adjectives, possessives and demonstratives. Barese nominals nearly systematically precede adjectives and ... : AHRC and CHESS ...
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Barese; Italian dialect; morphosyntax; Romance languages
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URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/269405
https://dx.doi.org/10.17863/cam.15625
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The Syntax of the Dialect of Bari
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Andriani, Luigi. - : University of Cambridge, 2017. : Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, 2017. : Homerton College, 2017
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