Machine generated contents note: Syntactic variation and the dialects of Italy: an overview / Roberta D'Alessandro, Adam Ledgeway and Ian Roberts; Part I. Nominal Structures: 1. Headless relatives in some Old Italian varieties / Paola Beninc...; 2. On Old Italian uomo and the classification of indefinite expressions / Verner Egerland; 3. Syncretism and suppletion in clitic systems: underspecification, silent clitics or neither? / M. Rita Manzini and Leonardo M. Savoia; 4. Lexicalization of 3rd person object clitics: clitic enclisis and clitic drop / Leonardo M. Savoia and M. Rita Manzini; 5. Proclitic vs enclitic pronouns in northern Italian dialects and the null-subject parameter / Anna Cardinaletti and Lori Repetti; 6. Domains of clitic placement in finite and non-finite clauses: evidence from a Piedmontese dialect / Christina Tortora; Part II. Verbal Structures: 7. Prohibition and Romance: negative imperatives in the early vernaculars of Italy / Mair Parry; 8. The periphrasis aviri a + infinitive in contemporary Sicilian dialect / Luisa Amenta; 9. A formal typology of person-based auxiliary selection in Italo-Romance / Geraldine Legendre; 10. The Abruzzese T-v system: feature spreading and the double auxiliary construction / Roberta D'Alessandro and Adam Ledgeway; 11. Perfective auxiliaries in the pluperfect in some southern Italian dialects / Michela Cennamo; 12. The logic of Romance past participle agreement / Michele Loporcaro; Part III. The Left Periphery: 13. Fronting as focalization in Sicilian / Silvio Cruschina; 14. Focus fronting and the left periphery in Sardinian / Guido Mensching and Eva-Maria Remberger; 15. In focus: an investigation of information and contrastive constructions / Sandra Paoli; 16. Criterial conditions for wh-structures: evidence from wh-exclamatives in northern Italian dialects / Nicola Munaro; 17. The distribution of the complementizers /ka/ and /ku/ in the North Salentino dialect of Francavilla Fontana (Brindisi) / Paola Vecchio.
Syntactic variation : the dialects of Italy. ISBN 9780521517362. Published by Cambridge University Press in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.