A Comparative Grammar of Borgomanerese

Christina Tortora is a Professor of Linguistics at the City University of New York (College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center). She has twice been a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow (2001, and 2011-12), and is the editor of The Syntax of Italian Dialects (OUP 2003). She has both a National Science Foundation Grant and a National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant, to support her research on Appalachian English Syntax.

• List of Abbreviations ; Chapter 1: Introduction ; Chapter 2: The syntax and semantics of the weak locative ; 0. Introduction ; 1. Unaccusative verb classes ; 2. The syntactic manifestation of the GOAL / non-GOAL distinction in Borgomanerese ; 3. SOURCE-entailing verbs and the existential ; 4. The weak locative goal argument in Italian ; 5. English non-existential weak there as a weak locative goal argument ; Chapter 3: Object clitics in simple tense, complex predicate, and imperative clauses ; 0. Introduction ; 1. Generalized enclisis in the simple tenses ; 2. Enclisis with past participles in the compound tenses ; 3. Variation in placement: the nature of the clitic itself ; 4. Restructuring verbs ; 5. Enclisis in causative constructions ; 6. Enclisis with imperatives ; 7. Clitic combinations ; Chapter 4: Object clitics and locative prepositions ; 0. Introduction ; 1. Argument locatives as another type of <"adverbial host>" ; 2. The preposition's complement ; 3. Remaining issues ; Chapter 5: Subject Clitics ; 0. Introduction ; 1. Subject clitic pronouns in Northern Italian dialects ; 2. Subject clitics in Borgomanerese: an overview ; 3. The subject clitic i ; 4. Third person singular l and la ; 5. The second person singular subject clitics tal and t ; 6. The subject clitic a ; 7. The subject clitic ngh ; 8. The impersonal clitic s ; Chapter 6: Interrogatives ; 0. Introduction ; 1. Interrogative pronouns ; 2. The missing preposition ; 3. The difference between cus and que ; 4. Doubly-filled comp and cleft questions ; Appendix: Verb Conjugations ; References

With its richness of data, insights, reflections, and novel analyses, this book is comparative syntactic investigation at its best.