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L’é ciaro che se dise cusì. On Change in the System of Expletive Subject Clitics in Opitergino

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2025
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Zanini, C., Battistella, G., & Gardani, F. (2025). L’é ciaro che se dise cusì. On Change in the System of Expletive Subject Clitics in Opitergino. Journal of Linguistics, 61(2), 397–437. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022226723000282

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Expletive subject clitics (ESCs) are pronominal elements that occur in impersonal contexts with which no individual reference is associated. Their presence strikingly distinguishes northern Italo-Romance varieties from standard Italian. We target this structural incongruence by studying the occurrence of ESCs in present-day Opitergino, a virtually unstudied Venetan variety. We explore the question of whether, in the wake of a profound transformation in the sociolinguistic environment that occurred between the first half of the 20th ce

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61

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2

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397

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437

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linguistics, clitics, subject clitics, Venetan varieties, Italo-Romance varieties, language contact, contact-induced syntactic change, syntax, optionality, expletive subject clitics

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English

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2025-04-01

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2023-11-09

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0022-2267

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Zanini, C., Battistella, G., & Gardani, F. (2025). L’é ciaro che se dise cusì. On Change in the System of Expletive Subject Clitics in Opitergino. Journal of Linguistics, 61(2), 397–437. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022226723000282

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