Grammar of Central Trentino

Jan Casalicchio, Ph.D. (2013), University of Padua, is Lecturer of Linguistics and Language Teaching at the University of Palermo. He published several articles on Romance languages and Italian dialectology, and the monograph Pseudorelative, gerundi e infiniti nelle varietà romanze (Lincom, 2013).Patrizia Cordin is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Trento. She has published monographs and articles on Romance languages, including Le costruzioni verbo-locativo in area romanza: dallo spazio all'aspetto (De Gruyter, 2011) and Pronomi e determinanti (Carocci, 2019).

• List of Illustrations and TablesAbbreviationsIntroductionAnnex to Introduction: Phonetic Simplified Alphabet1 Overview1.1 Trentino Dialects in the Context of Northern Italian Dialects1.2 The Main Romance Dialect Groups Spoken in Trentino1.3 Germanic Languages Spoken in Trentino1.4 Previous Studies2 Nominal Morphology2.1 Nominal Inflection: Number and Gender2.2 Nominal Derivational Suffixes2.3 Evaluative Morphology2.4 Nominal Derivational Prefixes2.5 Compound and Phrasal Nouns3 Noun Phrases: Nouns with Determiners and Adjectives3.1 Definite and Indefinite Determiners3.2 Demonstrative + N3.3 Possessive + N3.4 Quantified NP3.5 Interrogative and Exclamative NP3.6 Quality Adjectives4 Morphology and Syntax of Personal Pronouns4.1 The Forms of Free Pronouns and Clitics4.2 Subject Clitics4.3 Se Impersonal Subject4.4 Subject Clitics in Interrogative Sentences4.5 Clitics in Relative Clauses4.6 Free Pronouns and Clitics as Direct Objects4.7 Free Pronouns and Clitics as Datives and Indirect Objects4.8 Reflexive Pronouns4.9 Clitics Clusters4.10 Allocutive Pronouns5 Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases5.1 The Use of Simple Prepositions in Locative and Temporal Contexts5.2 Other Uses of Simple Prepositions5.3 Comparative Remarks on the Use of the Preposition in Central Trentino5.4 Derivative and Compound Prepositions6 Adverbs and Adverbial Phrases6.1 Adverbial Morphology6.2 Intensification and Modification of Adverbs6.3 Some Peculiarities of the Adverbial System in Central Trentino6.4 Affirmative and Negative Adverbs7 Verb Morphology7.1 The Regular Verbal Conjugations7.2 Irregular Verbs7.3 Past Participle Formation7.4 Verb Formation7.5 ‘Verb with Locative’ ConstructionsAnnex to Ch. 7: Tables of Verb Forms8 Verb Agreement and Valency8.1 Verb Agreement8.2 Verb Types8.3 Passive Voice and Other Mechanisms of Subject Demotion9 Main and Embedded Clauses9.1 The Syntax of Main Clauses9.2 Argumental Subordinate Clauses9.3 Adverbial Subordinate Clauses9.4 Other Subordinate Clauses Introduced by the Complementiser che: Relatives, Pseudo-relatives and Clefts9.5 Use of Subjunctive in Embedded Clauses10 Pragmatic Particles10.1 General Properties10.2 Pragmatic Particles in Declarative Sentences10.3 Pragmatic Particles in Interrogative and Imperative Sentences10.4 The Modal Interpretation of the Enclitic -(n)teReferencesIndex