Advances in Italian Dialectology

Roberta D’Alessandro (Ph.D. in Linguistics, 2004, Stuttgart University), is Professor of Syntax and Language Variation at Utrecht University. She has published extensively on Italian and Romance linguistics, dialectology, variation, and syntax-phonology.Diego Pescarini (Ph.D. in Linguistics, 2006, University of Padua) is Research Associate at the University of Zurich. His research focuses on the comparative grammar of the Romance languages.

• PrefaceList of Figures, Maps and TablesIntroductionNorthern Varieties1 The Distribution of Gender and Number in Lunigiana Nominal ExpressionsEdoardo Cavirani2 On the Interpretation of an Interrogative Form in North-Eastern Italian DialectsPatrizia Cordin3 Verb-Second and (Micro)Variation in Two Rhaeto-Romance Varieties of Northern ItalyJan Casalicchio and Federica CognolaCentral Varieties4 On the Palatalization of /s/ + Consonant in Some Dialects of Middle and Southern ItalyLuca Lorenzetti5 On the Gender System of ViterbeseMichele Loporcaro6 Indefinite Determiners. Variation and Optionality in Italo-RomanceAnna Cardinaletti and Giuliana GiustiUpper Southern Varieties7 Italo-Romance Phonological Rules and Indo-Aryan Lexicon: The Case of Abruzzian RomaniAndrea Scala8 Avita fatta: Non-Etymological Forms of Auxiliary habere in Southern Italian DialectsCarlo Schirru9 Adjectival Positions in Barese: Prenominal Exceptions to the Postnominal RuleLuigi AndrianiExtreme Southern Varieties and Sardinian10 Metaphony in Southern Salento: New Analysis and New DataMirko Grimaldi and Andrea Calabrese11 The ‘go for’ Construction in SicilianSilvio Cruschina12 The Complementizers ca and chi in Sardinian: Syntactic Properties and Geographic DistributionCaroline Bacciu and Guido MenschingIndex