Year: 2015
Type: article
Abstract: Complementizer systems in southern Italian varieties have received a lot of attention in the traditional dialectological literature.In this paper, we try to trace the diachronic development of complementizers in a scarcely documented vernacular Upper southern variety, Abruzzese.We indentify five stages in the development of this system, and two main developmental paths: one extending the ke/che to subordinate clauses, and the other extending ka to all clauses, including declarative unselected ones.
Authors: Roberta D’Alessandro, Claudio Di Felice
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3185396221