Indefinite determiners in two northern Italian dialects

Italian and Italian dialects express indefiniteness in different ways, among which with a null determiner (ZERO) like all other Romance languages, but also with the definite article (ART) unlike what is found in Romance. Italian and some northern Italian dialects also display the so-called "par...

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Autores: Lebani, Gianluca E.|||0000-0002-3588-1077, Giusti, Giuliana|||0000-0002-4574-3866
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
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Palabra clave:Italian dialects
Indefinite determiners
Partitive articles
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spelling Indefinite determiners in two northern Italian dialectsA quantitative approachLebani, Gianluca E.|||0000-0002-3588-1077Giusti, Giuliana|||0000-0002-4574-3866Italian dialectsIndefinite determinersPartitive articlesItalian and Italian dialects express indefiniteness in different ways, among which with a null determiner (ZERO) like all other Romance languages, but also with the definite article (ART) unlike what is found in Romance. Italian and some northern Italian dialects also display the so-called "partitive determiner" DI+ART, which is present in French. Few northwestern Italian dialects display (bare) DI, parallel to French. We adopt Cardinaletti and Giusti's (2015, 2016) unified analysis and build on Cardinaletti and Giusti's (2018, 2020) hypothesis that the variation and optionality in the distribution of the four determiners in regional Italian mirror their distribution in Italian dialects along two isoglosses: the ART isogloss spreading from the center of Italy towards north-west and south-east; and the DI isogloss spreading from Piedmont eastwards. We conduct a quantitative analysis on the results of a questionnaire in Piacentino and Rodigino. We test the distribution of the four determiners with mass and count nouns in two dimensions: sentence type (positive vs. negative) and predicate type (telic vs. atelic). The results confirm the hypothesis that the complexity of the determiner is related to its distribution highlighting two hierarchies of contexts: NEG < POS and ATEL < TEL. It also confirms that Piacentino, located at the crossroads of the ART and DI isoglosses, has more optionality than Rodigino, located at their borders. 22022-01-0120222022-01-01Articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501VoRhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://ddd.uab.cat/record/255879https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.5565/rev/isogloss.122reponame: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:2558792026-06-06T12:50:31Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Indefinite determiners in two northern Italian dialects
A quantitative approach
title Indefinite determiners in two northern Italian dialects
spellingShingle Indefinite determiners in two northern Italian dialects
Lebani, Gianluca E.|||0000-0002-3588-1077
Italian dialects
Indefinite determiners
Partitive articles
title_short Indefinite determiners in two northern Italian dialects
title_full Indefinite determiners in two northern Italian dialects
title_fullStr Indefinite determiners in two northern Italian dialects
title_full_unstemmed Indefinite determiners in two northern Italian dialects
title_sort Indefinite determiners in two northern Italian dialects
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Lebani, Gianluca E.|||0000-0002-3588-1077
Giusti, Giuliana|||0000-0002-4574-3866
author Lebani, Gianluca E.|||0000-0002-3588-1077
author_facet Lebani, Gianluca E.|||0000-0002-3588-1077
Giusti, Giuliana|||0000-0002-4574-3866
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author2 Giusti, Giuliana|||0000-0002-4574-3866
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Italian dialects
Indefinite determiners
Partitive articles
topic Italian dialects
Indefinite determiners
Partitive articles
description Italian and Italian dialects express indefiniteness in different ways, among which with a null determiner (ZERO) like all other Romance languages, but also with the definite article (ART) unlike what is found in Romance. Italian and some northern Italian dialects also display the so-called "partitive determiner" DI+ART, which is present in French. Few northwestern Italian dialects display (bare) DI, parallel to French. We adopt Cardinaletti and Giusti's (2015, 2016) unified analysis and build on Cardinaletti and Giusti's (2018, 2020) hypothesis that the variation and optionality in the distribution of the four determiners in regional Italian mirror their distribution in Italian dialects along two isoglosses: the ART isogloss spreading from the center of Italy towards north-west and south-east; and the DI isogloss spreading from Piedmont eastwards. We conduct a quantitative analysis on the results of a questionnaire in Piacentino and Rodigino. We test the distribution of the four determiners with mass and count nouns in two dimensions: sentence type (positive vs. negative) and predicate type (telic vs. atelic). The results confirm the hypothesis that the complexity of the determiner is related to its distribution highlighting two hierarchies of contexts: NEG < POS and ATEL < TEL. It also confirms that Piacentino, located at the crossroads of the ART and DI isoglosses, has more optionality than Rodigino, located at their borders.
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