24.1184, Books: Yes/no question-marking in Italian dialects: Lusini

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Subject: 24.1184, Books: Yes/no question-marking in Italian dialects: Lusini

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Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 21:01:35
From: Mariëtte Bonenkamp [lot at uu.nl]
Subject: Yes/no question-marking in Italian dialects: Lusini

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Title: Yes/no question-marking in Italian dialects 
Subtitle: A typological, theoretical and experimental approach 
Publication Year: 2013 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke - LOT
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/

Book URL: http://www.lotpublications.nl/index3.html 

Author: Sara Lusini

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460930980 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 20.00

Abstract:

This dissertation provides an account of polar questions in Italian dialects
from a typological, theoretical and empirical perspective. Both data from the
existing literature and new data from the author’s fieldwork are included in
this study. In the first part of this dissertation, it is shown that Italian
dialects display a large number of typologically diverse yes/no
question-marking strategies, as opposed to Standard Italian and Romance. The
variation found in Italian dialects is surprising, given that they are closely
related from a typological point of view. Furthermore, it is shown that
Several Tuscan, Central and Southern Italian dialects use a construction that
poses a challenge for standard typological classifications of polar questions
in the world’s languages. The second part of this dissertation focuses on the
syntax and prosody of this yes/no question-marking strategy. A theoretical
analysis is proposed in order to account for its syntactic properties.
Although this construction includes two fully-inflected verbs, it is argued
that it should be analyzed as a monoclausal utterance. A number of syntactic
tests are developed to shed some light on its underlying structure. Further
evidence for the proposed analysis comes from the results of empirical
testing. A production
experiment was carried out to investigate the phonetic realization of this
construction. The results of the experiment show that this construction
patterns with specific prosodic cues, which unambiguously signal its
monoclausal status. This study is of relevance to anyone interested in
descriptive typology, theoretical syntax and experimental phonetics, as well
as Italian dialectology.

Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics
                     Syntax
                     Typology

Subject Language(s): Italian (ita)

Written In: English  (eng)

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