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The antipassive as a Romance phenomenon: A case study of Italian
No full textThis study focuses on the Italian pronominal verbs lamentarsi ‘lament/complain’, ricordarsi ‘remember/remind’, vantarsi ‘praise/boast’ and their transitive counterparts and analyzes their distribution from the 13th to the 21st century across different syntactic environments, with particular attention to logical object expressions. It explores the possibility of an antipassive (AP) analysis, thereby adding a Romance perspective to the growing research of the historical development of the AP. The pronominal constructions of the sample that select an oblique complement display structural characteristics typical of the AP. Namely, they contain a demoted logical object, are structurally intransitive and semantically transitive, mark the oblique using the preposition di, display a detransitivizing “AP morpheme” si, and have a transitive counterpart. For all three verb pairs, there is initially a high frequency of AP constructions (13th-15th centuries), followed by a decrease in favor of transitive constructions with a direct object complement.ja50th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Language
Rewriting and Mythic Bricolage in the Work of Contemporary Francophone Roma Authors
No full textIn the last past decades, Romani writers have tried to create their own literature with the aim of representing their minority and establishing their own language. This serves, among other purposes, to differentiate themselves from the representation of Roma in the majority society, as well as from the associated stereotypes reproduced in art and culture. With the help of the concept of rewriting, stereotypes are deconstructed, and an attempt is made to create a new identity through the creation of a new écriture, which both plays with the prejudices of the majority society against Roma and at the same time breaks away from them. The intention is not to create a literature by Roma for Roma, but to make their works accessible to world literature, which is done, among other things, through the retelling of myths, as well as through intertextual references.Hagen
Hybrid constructions with a gente and se in rural Madeiran Portuguese varieties
No full textThe varieties of Portuguese spoken in Madeira present a predominant use of a gente, a grammaticalized first person plural pronoun, derived from the noun phrase ‘the people’, instead of the traditional pronoun nós. They also exhibit constructions where a gente cooccurs with the impersonal clitic se. In a pioneering study, Martins (2009) provides a detailed description of what she calls “double subject impersonal constructions” and proposes that a gente restricts the generic interpretation of the clitic se. Based on spoken data from semi-directed interviews and free-speech conversations with elderly speakers of rural Madeiran Portuguese, this chapter provides a quantitative and qualitative approach to the [(a gente) + se] construction. The goal of this study is twofold. First, a depiction of the broad referential range of this hybrid structure is presented. Its possible interpretations cover a scope similar to that of first person plural pronouns reaching from indefinite readings to deictic ones (referring to participants of the speech act). Second, a description of the syntactic features of this innovative construction will show that the element se is being reanalyzed as a dependent person marker in rural Madeiran Portuguese varieties
Nr. 41 (Dezember 2023)
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Variable spectral moments in phrase-final fricative epithesis for L1 & L2 speakers of French
No full textPhrase-final fricative epithesis (PFFE) is a phenomenon in Continental French in which utterance-final vowels lose their voicing and yield fricative-like whistles corresponding to the identity of the host vowel. PFFE is also well attested among L2 speakers; differences in its production across speaker groups have been reported in several domains: vowel type, speech rate, register, constituent location, fricative-vowel ratio (FVR), and measures of center of gravity (COG). Participants completed a reading task targeting 98 tokens of /i,y,u/ in phrase-final position. 4569 PFFE segments were examined via 7 frames of 8 ms in length with 2 ms in overlap across their trajectories. Results suggest categorical speaker group differences for /y/ in terms of skewness, as well as for kurtosis and for intensity at higher FVRs. This suggests that L1/L2 sociophonetic realizations contain nuanced differences far beyond the presence/absence paradigm still common to many variationist inquiries.50th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Language
The form of address o senhor
No full textWe will examine the uses of the noun phrase o senhor (formal ‘you’), as well as its linguistic and discourse status. As a form of address, it has acquired features that are typical of pronominal forms of address, with bleaching of semantic traits that point to an ongoing process of grammaticalization. In European Portuguese, despite being an issue that has been addressed several times, a comparison of the existing theoretical explanations has yet to be accomplished. Furthermore, its usage has not been analysed in different discourse contexts so as to attest to these changes. It is therefore necessary to revive and broaden the discussion. The data we have employed in this analysis is taken from the corpus Perfil sociolinguístico da fala bracarense (‘Sociolinguistic profile of Braga speech’), consisting of sociolinguistic interviews. We also built an ad hoc corpus, comprising political debates and interviews. In addition, for specific questions, some data was obtained from the CETEMPúblico corpus, and from the Davies & Ferreira corpus for diachronic data. The overall goal of this study is the analysis of the linguistic and discourse features of the address form o senhor. It is a qualitative approach, complemented by quantitative analysis of the occurrences recorded. The results of our study show that o senhor is a hybrid form of address, revealing features from the two categories, the nominal form of address and the pronominal form of address. The confrontation of diachronic and synchronic data shows that the semantic values of the noun affect the current pragmatic values of the forms of address (FA)
The case of Spanish clitics
No full textObligatory control into temporal adjuncts has traditionally been observed to be limited to subject control, rather than object control (Landau 2013, 2015, Boeckx et al. 2010, among others). A challenge to this generalization arises in Spanish. In Spanish, in-situ full DP objects and postverbal object clitics conform to the established pattern of objects not being able to establish control into an adjunct. However, I present novel data showing that when an object clitic is preverbal, it can control the subject position of a non-finite temporal adjunct. Moreover, when a clitic can control into an adjunct, subject control is not ruled out; there can be ambiguity between the choice of controller. I show how this data can be accounted for following the two-tiered theory of control. I account for the optionality between a subject or preverbal clitic controller by distinguishing between two available positions for the clitic within vP.50th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Language
Kinderweihnachten 1944 in Ravensbrück: Memories of Austrian Romni Ceija Stojka as World Literature
No full textCeija Stojka, Austrian Romni writer, artist, and survivor of three concentration camps, tells in her first memoir the story of a children’s party in 1944 in Ravensbrück concentration camp, the Kinderweihnachten [Children’s Christmas]. The poignant narrative joins numerous others by inmates from several countries in various languages—in print and archival sources—as works of world literature. An examination of the most notable variation in the individual renditions about who actually organized the party—the camp’s officers or the inmates—leads to an analysis of Stojka’s initial particular belief that the officers were the organizers and her subsequent reflections on why she might have come to this conclusion. This essay examines that belief within the context of Romani cultural concepts, and especially that of baxt, meaning both happiness and luck
Introduction
No full textThis volume brings together contributions by researchers focusing on personal pronouns in Ibero-Romance languages, going beyond the well-established variable of expressed vs. non-expressed subjects. While factors such as agreement morphology, topic shift and contrast or emphasis have been argued to account for variable subject expression, several corpus studies on Ibero-Romance languages have shown that the expression of subject pronouns goes beyond these traditionally established factors and is also subject to considerable dialectal variation. One of the factors affecting choice and expression of personal pronouns or other referential devices is whether the construction is used personally or impersonally. The use and emergence of new impersonal constructions, eventually also new (im)personal pronouns, as well as the variation found in the expression of human impersonality in different Ibero-Romance language varieties is another interesting research area that has gained ground in the recent years. In addition to variable subject expression, similar methods and theoretical approaches have been applied to study the expression of objects. Finally, the reference to the addressee(s) using different address pronouns and other address forms is an important field of study that is closely connected to the variable expression of pronouns. The present book sheds light on all these aspects of reference to discourse participants. The volume contains contributions with a strong empirical background and various methods and both written and spoken corpus data from Ibero-Romance languages. The focus on discourse participants highlights the special properties of first and second person referents and the factors affecting them that are often different from the anaphoric third person. The chapters are organized into three thematic sections: (i) Variable expression of subjects and objects, (ii) Between personal and impersonal, and (iii) Reference to the addressee
Political Interventions in Space and Place in Uriah Burton’s Uriah Burton “Big Just”: His Life, His Aims, His Ideals
No full textUriah Burton’s collaborative life story is a rare text, and no research has been carried out on it. Burton makes several important interventions in the politics of space and place in the UK, as he fights, sometimes literally, for peace, rest, and safe living places. He is a self-proclaimed group leader, group representative, and peacemaker, and he fights for authority and influence to achieve his goals. The in-between positions that he adopts intersect with historically inculcated discourses of sedentarism, control, surveillance, and assimilation, and his efforts led to significant interventions concerning private caravan site provision for Romanies, Gypsies, Travellers, and people of no fixed abode. He is religious and fights for justified aims—a just war, which reverberates in his nickname “Big Just”. However, he does have to negotiate and compromise to achieve his aims, as well as endure attacks on his personality, his representative status, and his ideas of right and wrong