An Evaluative Head in Romance

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dc.identifier	ECF_article_1501
dc.title	An Evaluative Head in Romance. The Palermitan Verbal Affix -vu
dc.contributor.author	Sorrisi Fabrizio
dc.contributor.author	giorgi alessandra
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/annali-di-ca-foscari-serie-occidentale/2018/1/an-evaluative-head-in-romance/
dc.description.abstract	In this work, we analyse the behaviour of a verbal suffix in Palermitan – the Romance language spoken in Palermo, Sicily – expressing an evaluative meaning with sentential scope. The suffix is (V)vu, where V is the thematic vowel of the verb. The Palermitan dialect we study here is the one spoken in the urban area, approximately by 250,000 speakers. This suffix is interesting for several reasons. In the first place, an evaluative morpheme with clausal scope is quite unusual in Romance and to our knowledge it has not been reported outside Sicily. In the second place, as we will illustrate later, its use is spreading among the youngest generation, showing that the dialect is productive and the form under scrutiny is adopted by larger segments of the population, even if it does not exist in Italian.
dc.relation.ispartof	Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 52 \| September 2018
dc.issued	2018-09-28
dc.dateAccepted	2018-08-13
dc.dateSubmitted	2018-08-05
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2499-1562
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/AnnOc/2499-1562/2018/01/003
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Evaluatives
dc.subject	Evaluatives
dc.subject	Italian dialects
dc.subject	Italian dialects
dc.subject	Palermitan
dc.subject	Palermitan
dc.subject	Speaker
dc.subject	Speaker
dc.subject	Verbal morphosyntax
dc.subject	Verbal morphosyntax

Research Article
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The Palermitan Verbal Affix -vu

alessandra giorgi Università Ca' Foscari

Fabrizio Sorrisi Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia

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abstract

In this work, we analyse the behaviour of a verbal suffix in Palermitan – the Romance language spoken in Palermo, Sicily – expressing an evaluative meaning with sentential scope. The suffix is (V)vu, where V is the thematic vowel of the verb. The Palermitan dialect we study here is the one spoken in the urban area, approximately by 250,000 speakers. This suffix is interesting for several reasons. In the first place, an evaluative morpheme with clausal scope is quite unusual in Romance and to our knowledge it has not been reported outside Sicily. In the second place, as we will illustrate later, its use is spreading among the youngest generation, showing that the dialect is productive and the form under scrutiny is adopted by larger segments of the population, even if it does not exist in Italian.

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Sept. 28, 2018

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Aug. 13, 2018

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Aug. 5, 2018

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Keywords: Palermitan • Speaker • Italian dialects • Verbal morphosyntax • Evaluatives

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