La sintassi del mòcheno tra lingue germaniche e lingue romanze
The aim of this article is to introduce the German dialect Mòcheno, a minority languagespoken in Trentino (Italy). By analysing the syntax of the direct object in main and interrogative clauses, the syntax of subject pronouns and by comparing Mòcheno with older Germanic languages, I show that the va...
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2014-03-01
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| description | The aim of this article is to introduce the German dialect Mòcheno, a minority languagespoken in Trentino (Italy). By analysing the syntax of the direct object in main and interrogative clauses, the syntax of subject pronouns and by comparing Mòcheno with older Germanic languages, I show that the variation displayed by this language, which is completely absent from both German and its dialects, is not a consequence of direct syntactic borrowing from the contact Romance varieties, as previously thought, but emerges from one single and autonomous grammar.
KEYWORDS: OV/VO, subject pronouns, syntax of NP subjects, older Germanic, double-base hypothesis |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9af783f6b73e49d18ba039b526d131b22023-12-02T00:35:50ZengMilano University PressAtti del Sodalizio Glottologico Milanese1972-99012014-03-0120127 n.s.10.13130/1972-9901/3449La sintassi del mòcheno tra lingue germaniche e lingue romanzeFederica Cognola0University of TrentoThe aim of this article is to introduce the German dialect Mòcheno, a minority languagespoken in Trentino (Italy). By analysing the syntax of the direct object in main and interrogative clauses, the syntax of subject pronouns and by comparing Mòcheno with older Germanic languages, I show that the variation displayed by this language, which is completely absent from both German and its dialects, is not a consequence of direct syntactic borrowing from the contact Romance varieties, as previously thought, but emerges from one single and autonomous grammar. KEYWORDS: OV/VO, subject pronouns, syntax of NP subjects, older Germanic, double-base hypothesishttps://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/asgm/article/view/3449 |
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| title | La sintassi del mòcheno tra lingue germaniche e lingue romanze |
| title_full | La sintassi del mòcheno tra lingue germaniche e lingue romanze |
| title_fullStr | La sintassi del mòcheno tra lingue germaniche e lingue romanze |
| title_full_unstemmed | La sintassi del mòcheno tra lingue germaniche e lingue romanze |
| title_short | La sintassi del mòcheno tra lingue germaniche e lingue romanze |
| title_sort | la sintassi del mocheno tra lingue germaniche e lingue romanze |
| url | https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/asgm/article/view/3449 |
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