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Author:   Mauro Tosco ,  Emanuele Miola ,  Nicola Duberti
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   19
Weight:   1.118kg
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9789004544055

ISBN 10:   9004544054
Pages:   572
Publication Date:   08 June 2023
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Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Conventions, Glosses and Symbols Maps of Place Names in Piedmont Mentioned in the Grammar List of Maps, Tables and Figures 1 The Language and Its History, Classification and Variation  1.1 Overview: Language and Speakers  1.2 Disentangling Classification and Ideology  1.3 The Dialects of Piedmontese: Features and Classification  1.4 The Internal Classification of the Piedmontese Varieties  1.5 Social Varieties in Old Piedmontese  1.6 The Speech of the Piedmontese Jews, Sinti and Waldensians  1.7 A Short Linguistic History of Piedmont  1.8 An Outline of the Piedmontese Literature 2 Phonetics and Phonology  2.1 Default Articulation of Phonemes  2.2 Loan Phonemes, Borrowing and Adaptation  2.3 Previous Accounts of the Phonology of Piedmontese  2.4 Phonetic Processes  2.5 Positional Restrictions on the Occurrence of Phonemes  2.6 Syllables  2.7 Clusters  2.8 Length  2.9 Stress  2.10 Pitch and Intonation 3 Writing System and Orthography  3.1 Overview  3.2 History  3.3 Evaluation 4 Words, Word Constituents and Word Classes  4.1 Roots, Stems, Words, Affixes and Clitics  4.2 Morphological Mechanisms  4.3 Suppletion  4.4 Syncretism  4.5 Word Classes 5 Nouns  5.1 Overview  5.2 Gender  5.3 Number  5.4 Derivational Morphology of Nouns 6 Adjectives  6.1 Overview  6.2 Semantics of Adjectives  6.3 Morphology of Adjectives  6.4 Comparative Constructions  6.5 Adjectives as Nouns  6.6 Derivational Morphology of Adjectives 7 Personal Pronouns  7.1 Overview  7.2 Independent Personal Pronouns  7.3 Subject Personal Pronouns  7.4 Non-subject Personal Pronouns: Object and Indirect Object  7.5 Interrogative Subject Clitics  7.6 Reflexive, Reciprocal and Impersonal Personal Pronouns  7.7 Attributive Pronoun  7.8 Lexicalized Verb-Clitic Constructions  7.9 Post-Tonic Vowel Dropping  7.10 Sequences of Clitics 8 Grounding and Deixis  8.1 Overview  8.2 Determiners and Classifiers  8.3 Deixis  8.4 Possessives 9 Quantifiers  9.1 Numerals  9.2 Generic Quantifiers  9.3 Negative Quantifiers  9.4 Interrogative Quantifiers  9.5 Quantificational Quantifiers 10 Verbs  10.1 Semantic Overview  10.2 Morphological Overview  10.3 Affixes, Allomorphy and Syncretism  10.4 Historical and Comparative Notes  10.5 Moods and Tenses  10.6 Use of the Auxiliaries  10.7 Verbal Derivation 11 Verbal Periphrases and Modalities  11.1 Valency-Increasing Operation, 1: Causative  11.2 Valency-Increasing Operation, 2: Permissive  11.3 Valency-Increasing Operation, 3: Middle  11.4 Modal Verbs  11.5 Progressive and Continuous  11.6 Imminential  11.7 Inchoative  11.8 Durative  11.9 Terminative  11.10 Immediative  11.11 Iterative 12 Adverbs  12.1 Overview  12.2 Predicate Adverbs  12.3 Degree Adverbs and Focalizers  12.4 Sentence Adverbs  12.5 Linking Adverbs  12.6 Adverb Formation Rules and Productivity 13 Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases  13.1 The Expression of Location and Movement  13.2 Basic Prepositions  13.3 Non-basic Prepositions  13.4 Prepositional Use of Adverbs  13.5 Attributive Phrases and Binominal Constructions 14 Phrases  14.1 The Structure of the Noun Phrase  14.2 Grounding and Ordering of Phrases  14.3 Adjectival Phrases  14.4 Temporal Phrases and Telling the Time 15 Clauses  15.1 Non-verbal Predication  15.2 Declarative Clauses  15.3 Introducing the Ubiquitous che  15.4 “Bare” che in Non-verbal Predication  15.5 Relative Clauses  15.6 Imperative Clauses  15.7 Exhortative Clauses  15.8 Mirative and Exclamative Clauses  15.9 Questions  15.10 The Expression of Atmospheric Events 16 Linkage  16.1 Coordination  16.2 Subordination 17 Negation  17.1 Overview  17.2 Sentence Negators  17.3 Negation with Scope over Smaller Units  17.4 Other Negative Items  17.5 Negative Concord  17.6 Holophrastic Negation 18 Pragmatics and Discourse  18.1 Information Structure and Sentence Word Order  18.2 Hanging Topics and Clefts  18.3 Discourse Markers 19 Piedmontese in a Typological Perspective  19.1 Genealogy and Overview  19.2 Phonology  19.3 Morphosyntax  19.4 Lexical Typology  19.5 Piedmontese, Standard Average European, and Other Romance Languages 20 Use, Contact and Care: Codeswitching, Endangerment, Enrichment and Standardization  20.1 Language Ideology through Language Use  20.2 The Long Road toward Resurgence  20.3 Envoi Appendix: Text References Index

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Mauro Tosco is professor of African Linguistics at the University of Turin. His main area of research is the Horn of Africa. He also works on the revitalization of minority languages and language policy and ideology. Emanuele Miola is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Bologna. His research interests include sociolinguistics, Italo-Romance and Piedmontese dialectology, and typology. Nicola Duberti is Adjunct Professor of Piedmontese at the University of Turin. His main areas of research are the dialectology of Piedmontese varieties and the history of Piedmontese literature. He also works on the revitalization of minority languages in schools.

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