Formal studies in Italo-Romance morphology and syntax

This volume gathers a thematic selection of scientific contributions presented at the 17th Cambridge Italian Dialect Syntax-Morphology Meeting (Zurich, 11–13 September 2023). The chapters address linguistic phenomena at the intersection of syntax, morphology and pragmatics and apply formal analyses on both northern and central-southern Italo-Romance varieties.

Specifically, a great amount of data is provided for Lombardy, Trentino-Alto Adige and Istria in the North and for Campania, Calabria and Puglia (including Salento) in the South. Most chapters offer newly discovered information from first-hand fieldwork or diachronic investigations. As for the problems examined, the authors focus on aspects such as argument structure, interrogatives, the behaviour of clitics, the structure of the noun phrase and topics of simple sentence syntax.

Through close analyses of issues related to these (and other) aspects, the book significantly enriches our knowledge of Italo-Romance varieties.

Dr. Stefano Cristelli, Postdoc in Historical Italian Linguistics, University of Zurich, Switzerland; Dr. Federica Breimaier, Research and teaching assistant in Italian Linguistics, University of Zurich, Switzerland; Prof. Dr. Michele Loporcaro, Full professor for Romance Linguistics (esp. Historical Italian Linguistics), University of Zurich, Switzerland; Dr. Stefano Negrinelli, Scientific assistant "Dicziunari Rumantsch Grischun", Chur, Switzerland; Prof. Dr. Tania Paciaroni, Professor of Romance Philology (Linguistics), LMU University of Munich, Germany; Dr. Mario Wild, Postdoc in Italian Historical Linguistics, University of Zurich, Switzerland.