Balkan Romance : aspects on the syntax of Istro-Romanian

dc.contributor.advisor	Giusti, Giuliana	it_IT
dc.contributor.author	Zegrean, Iulia-Georgiana <1983>	it_IT
dc.date.accessioned	2012-04-21T08:28:15Z	it_IT
dc.date.accessioned	2012-07-30T16:05:18Z
dc.date.available	2012-04-21T08:28:15Z	it_IT
dc.date.available	2012-07-30T16:05:18Z
dc.date.issued	2012-03-12	it_IT
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10579/1166	it_IT
dc.description.abstract	The present study presents the initial results of the documentation and (tentative) analyses of some aspects of the grammar of Istro-Romanian (IR), an understudied seriously endangered dialect from the Eastern Romance family, spoken in Croatia. The study is based on data which I collected throughout 2009 and 2010. Chapter 1 offers a brief overview of present-day IR, with references to the community and the linguistic identity. Chapter 2 discusses the properties that IR has in common (or according to which it differs) from languages belonging to the Balkan Linguistic Area, with a systematic comparative look at the three other Eastern Romance languages/dialects. Chapters 3 and 4 present original data on the Noun Phrase and Verb Phrase in IR, in the framework of recent generative studies. Finally, Chapter 5 takes a step further into possible formal comparative analyses – with either Romanian or Slavic, by looking at the behavior of clitic elements in IR.	it_IT
dc.description.abstract	Questo studio presenta i risultati iniziali del lavoro di documentazione e dell’analisi di alcuni aspetti grammaticali del dialetto istro-romeno. L’istro-romeno è una varietà romanza precedentemente poco studiata, parlata in Croazia, appartenente alla famiglia delle lingue romanze orientali, seriamente a rischio d’estinzione. Lo studio è basato su dati empirici che ho raccolto nel 2009 e nel 2010. Il Capitolo 1 offre una panoramica sull’istro-romeno oggi, con riferimenti alla comunità e alla identità linguistica. Nel Capitolo 2 vengono discusse proprietà che l’istro-romeno ha in comune con (oppure secondo le quali si differenzia dalle) lingue appartenenti alla Lega Linguistica Balcanica, guardando sistematicamente i dati delle tre altre varietà romanze orientali, per ragioni comparative. Nei Capitoli 3 e 4 vengono presentati dati originali riguardanti i sintagmi nominale e verbale in istro-romeno, secondo l’approccio generativista. Il Capitolo 5 offre una possibile strada per l’analisi comparativa con il romeno e/o il croato di un fenomeno sintattico specifico, ovvero la posizione degli elementi clitici.	it_IT
dc.format.medium	Tesi cartacea	it_IT
dc.language.iso	en	it_IT
dc.publisher	Università Ca' Foscari Venezia	it_IT
dc.rights	© Iulia Zegrean, 2012	it_IT
dc.subject	Istro-Romanian - Syntax	it_IT
dc.subject	Balkan linguistic area	it_IT
dc.title	Balkan Romance : aspects on the syntax of Istro-Romanian	it_IT
dc.type	Doctoral Thesis	it_IT
dc.degree.name	Scienze del linguaggio	it_IT
dc.degree.level	Dottorato di ricerca	it_IT
dc.degree.grantor	Scuola di dottorato in Scienze del linguaggio, della cognizione e della formazione	it_IT
dc.description.academicyear	2009/2010	it_IT
dc.description.cycle	23	it_IT
dc.degree.coordinator	Giorgi, Alessandra	it_IT
dc.location.shelfmark	D001096	it_IT
dc.location	Venezia, Archivio Università Ca' Foscari, Tesi Dottorato	it_IT
dc.rights.accessrights	openAccess	it_IT
dc.thesis.matricno	955503	it_IT
dc.format.pagenumber	[4], IV, 196 p.	it_IT
dc.subject.miur	L-LIN/01 GLOTTOLOGIA E LINGUISTICA	it_IT
dc.description.tableofcontent	Table of contents Abstract Acknowledgements Chapter 1. Istro-Romanian …………………………………………………………………… 1 1.1. Istro-Romanians: the community and the dialect 1 1.2. How to write Istro-Romanian 4 1.3. Theoretical interest 5 1.3.1. Some brief notes on Eastern Romance 5 1.3.2. The state of the art and the present contribution 5 1.4. Previous studies and resources 7 1.5. Data collection: informants and methodology 8 1.6. The approaches in the present study 9 Chapter 2. The Romance Balkans: Balkan Sprachbund properties extended to Istro-Romanian ……………………………………………………………………………………….. 11 2.1. Introduction 11 2.2. Is Balkan Comparative Syntax possible? 12 2.3. The Balkan Sprachbund 13 2.3.1 Goals of research on the Balkan Sprachbund 13 2.3.2. Balkan languages 14 2.3.3. Linguistic continuum: influences and changes 18 2.3.4. Establishing membership: the shared properties criterion 19 2.3.5. 20th century studies of Balkan properties 20 2.3.5.1. Sandfeld (1926/1930) 20 2.3.5.2. Schaller (1975) 21 2.3.5.3. Solta (1980) 22 2.3.5.4. Gołąb (1984) 22 2.3.5.5. Lindsted (2000) 23 2.3.5.6. Ad interim concluding remarks 24 2.4. The role of Balkan Romance 26 2.5. The shared properties of Romance Balkan languages: where does Istro-Romanian stand 28 2.5.1. Nominal Cases 28 2.5.1.1. Vocative case forms 29 2.5.1.2. Accusative case forms and markers 30 2.5.1.3. Dative/Genitive case forms and markers 31 2.5.2. Definite artiche 32 2.5.3. Pronominal clitics 34 2.5.4. Subjunctives 34 2.5.4.1. Complements of modal verbs 35 2.5.4.2. Complements of intentional verbs 36 2.5.4.3. Subjunctive constructions as sentential modifiers 37 2.5.5. Future tenses 40 2.5.6. Evidentials 41 2.6. Ad interim conclusions 43 Chapter 3. The Noun Phrase ………………………………………………………………… 45 3.1. The noun 45 3.1.1. Gender and number 45 3.1.2. Noun classes 49 3.1.3. Nouns without argument structure. The R relation 52 3.2. The determiner 54 3.2.1. The articles 54 3.2.1.1. The indefinite article 54 3.2.1.2. The definite article: evolution, morphology and referential properties 56 3.2.1.3. The ‘pseudo-article’ 64 3.2.1.2.1. The status of čela /čå / čel’i /čåle 70 3.2.1.2.2. Possible analysis and open questions 72 3.2.2. The demonstratives (with and without N) 75 3.2.3. The possessives (with and without N) 77 3.3. The quantifier (with and without N) 81 3.3.1. Quantifier Nouns 83 3.3.2. Quantifiers and Quantity adjectives 84 3.4. Noun modifiers 89 3.4.2. The order of Demonstrative, Possessive and Noun 90 3.4.3. The order of Possessive, Numeral and Noun 90 3.5. Adjectival modifiers 91 3.5.1. The position of the adjective 91 3.5.2. The comparative/superlative 96 3.5.3. The modifiers of the adjective 96 3.6. Ad interim conclusions 97 Chapter 4. The Verb Phrase ………………………………………………………………… 99 4.1. Classification of lexical verbs. Argument structure 99 4.1.1. Transitive, intransitive, unaccusative verbs 99 4.1.1.1. More on unaccusativity vs unergativity 104 4.1.2. Psychological verbs 107 4.1.2.1. Nominative Experiencer: piažę (1) 110 4.1.2.2. Dative Experiencer: piažę (2) 111 4.1.2.3. Dative Experiencer: piažę se 113 4.1.3. Reflexive verbs 114 4.1.4. Meteorological verbs 116 4.2. Changes to argument structure 116 4.2.1. The passive voice 116 4.2.2. The ‘se’ middle construction 117 4.2.3. Impersonal ‘se’ construction 117 4.3. Functional categories related to the verb 117 4.3.1. Modal verbs 118 4.3.2. Aspectual verbs 120 4.3.3. Auxiliary verbs 121 4.3.4. Tense and aspect 124 4.3.5. Negation 127 4.4. Ad interim conclusions 129 Chapter 5. Clitic placement and some syntactic implications ………………………. 131 5.1. Types of clitics in Istro-Romanian. Data 131 5.1.1. Some general properties of IR 132 5.1.2. Properties of clitic elements 133 5.1.2.1. Categories 133 5.1.2.2. Properties 138 5.1.2.3. Position 143 5.2. Clitic placement in Istro-Romanian 152 5.2.1. Contact-induced phenomenon? 152 5.2.2. More on auxiliary verbs 156 5.2.3. More on pronominal clitics 158 5.2.3.1. The masculine/feminine asymmetry 158 5.3. Syntactic clitics vs PF-clitics (Embick and Noyer 2001) 163 5.3.1. Romanian verbal clitic cluster 163 5.3.2. Implications on Istro-Romanian clitics 168 5.4. Old Romanian 169 5.5. Ad interim conclusions 172 6. Concluding remarks and future research ………………………………………… 175 Appendix 1: Other data 177 Appendix 2: How to write Istro-Romanian 185 References 187	it_IT
dc.identifier.bibliographiccitation	Zegrean, Iulia (2012). "Balkan Romance : aspects on the syntax of Istro-Romanian", Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, tesi di dottorato, 23. ciclo, 2012	it_IT