Quantifying trends of indefiniteness strategies in bilectal speakers of Sicilian and Italian

In this contribution, we use quantitative methods to account for trends of indefiniteness strategies (e.g. Italian Bevo del vino 'I drink some wine') in bilectal speakers of central Sicilian and Italian. These varieties differ in the available set (in terms of grammaticality and productivi...

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Autores: Di Caro, Vincenzo Nicolò|||0000-0003-2604-2172, Samo, Giuseppe|||0000-0003-3449-8006
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Fecha de publicación:2025
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
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Palavra-chave:Indefiniteness
Sicilian dialects
Weak indefinites
Determiners
Bilectalism
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spelling Quantifying trends of indefiniteness strategies in bilectal speakers of Sicilian and ItalianDi Caro, Vincenzo Nicolò|||0000-0003-2604-2172Samo, Giuseppe|||0000-0003-3449-8006IndefinitenessSicilian dialectsWeak indefinitesDeterminersBilectalismIn this contribution, we use quantitative methods to account for trends of indefiniteness strategies (e.g. Italian Bevo del vino 'I drink some wine') in bilectal speakers of central Sicilian and Italian. These varieties differ in the available set (in terms of grammaticality and productivity) of indefiniteness strategies. The usage of these strategies may vary across speakers in this particular linguistic environment, showing tendencies towards one or the other variety. These trends can be easily quantified exploring relevant indices, such as the Index of Language Dominance (ILD; Birdsong et al. 2012). We perform a data analysis on the set of data collected, curated and annotated from two experimental situations by Di Caro (2023). In this respect, we also take into consideration the values annotated for the ILD, a quantitative measure to map grammars of bilinguals, although originally designed for linguistic scenarios where the two varieties are both official languages in the same country or in different countries. The strongest hypothesis we test is a clear correlation between the ILD and sets of syntactic strategies in Deliano. However, our results found no strong correlations between these two variables. We suggest that new parameters should be created to assess language dominance in bilectal speakers of Italian and other Italo-Romance varieties. 22025-01-0120252025-01-01Articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501VoRhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://ddd.uab.cat/record/321688https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.5565/rev/isogloss.488reponame:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UABinstname:Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaInglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Aquest document està subjecte a una llicència d'ús Creative Commons. Es permet la reproducció total o parcial, la distribució, la comunicació pública de l'obra i la creació d'obres derivades, fins i tot amb finalitats comercials, sempre i quan es reconegui l'autoria de l'obra original.https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:ddd.uab.cat:3216882026-06-06T12:50:31Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Quantifying trends of indefiniteness strategies in bilectal speakers of Sicilian and Italian
title Quantifying trends of indefiniteness strategies in bilectal speakers of Sicilian and Italian
spellingShingle Quantifying trends of indefiniteness strategies in bilectal speakers of Sicilian and Italian
Di Caro, Vincenzo Nicolò|||0000-0003-2604-2172
Indefiniteness
Sicilian dialects
Weak indefinites
Determiners
Bilectalism
title_short Quantifying trends of indefiniteness strategies in bilectal speakers of Sicilian and Italian
title_full Quantifying trends of indefiniteness strategies in bilectal speakers of Sicilian and Italian
title_fullStr Quantifying trends of indefiniteness strategies in bilectal speakers of Sicilian and Italian
title_full_unstemmed Quantifying trends of indefiniteness strategies in bilectal speakers of Sicilian and Italian
title_sort Quantifying trends of indefiniteness strategies in bilectal speakers of Sicilian and Italian
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Di Caro, Vincenzo Nicolò|||0000-0003-2604-2172
Samo, Giuseppe|||0000-0003-3449-8006
author Di Caro, Vincenzo Nicolò|||0000-0003-2604-2172
author_facet Di Caro, Vincenzo Nicolò|||0000-0003-2604-2172
Samo, Giuseppe|||0000-0003-3449-8006
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author2 Samo, Giuseppe|||0000-0003-3449-8006
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Indefiniteness
Sicilian dialects
Weak indefinites
Determiners
Bilectalism
topic Indefiniteness
Sicilian dialects
Weak indefinites
Determiners
Bilectalism
description In this contribution, we use quantitative methods to account for trends of indefiniteness strategies (e.g. Italian Bevo del vino 'I drink some wine') in bilectal speakers of central Sicilian and Italian. These varieties differ in the available set (in terms of grammaticality and productivity) of indefiniteness strategies. The usage of these strategies may vary across speakers in this particular linguistic environment, showing tendencies towards one or the other variety. These trends can be easily quantified exploring relevant indices, such as the Index of Language Dominance (ILD; Birdsong et al. 2012). We perform a data analysis on the set of data collected, curated and annotated from two experimental situations by Di Caro (2023). In this respect, we also take into consideration the values annotated for the ILD, a quantitative measure to map grammars of bilinguals, although originally designed for linguistic scenarios where the two varieties are both official languages in the same country or in different countries. The strongest hypothesis we test is a clear correlation between the ILD and sets of syntactic strategies in Deliano. However, our results found no strong correlations between these two variables. We suggest that new parameters should be created to assess language dominance in bilectal speakers of Italian and other Italo-Romance varieties.
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