Diachrony and Dialects: Grammatical Change in the Dialects of Italy

by Nigel Vincent, Paola Beninca, Adam Ledgeway

This book examines diachronic change and diversity in the morphosyntax of Romance varieties spoken in Italy. These varieties offer an especially fertile terrain for research into language change, because of both the richness of dialectal variation and the length of the period of textual attestation. While attention in the past has been focussed on the variation found in phonology, morphology, and vocabulary, this volume examines variation in morphosyntactic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198701780
• ISBN13: 9780198701781
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"