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Contact-Induced Complexification in the Gender System of Istro-Romanian

Loporcaro, Michele; Gardani, Francesco; Giudici, Alberto (2021). Contact-Induced Complexification in the Gender System of Istro-Romanian. Journal of Language Contact, 14(1):72-126.

Abstract

The paper provides the first description of the borrowing of Croatian collective numerals into Northern Istro-Romanian and explores the consequences of this borrowing for the morphosyntax of the recipient language. It argues that the collective numerals under examination, which are specified as nominative plural feminine in the Slavic model, took on a different structural specification in the Romance replica, in a way that led to a restructuring of the morphosyntactic system, introducing (sub)gender overdifferentiation on just two agreement targets and, thereby, a complexification in this area of grammar. The illustration of this change is placed against the background of the other contact-induced changes that grammatical gender has undergone in Istro-Romanian during the 20th century, which have led to the borrowing of two dedicated forms in distinct inflectional cells and the rise of two separate defective gender values, each the replica of one number value of the Slavic neuter.

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Item Type:Journal Article, refereed, original work
Communities & Collections:06 Faculty of Arts > Institute of Romance Studies
06 Faculty of Arts > Zurich Center for Linguistics
08 Research Priority Programs > Language and Space
Dewey Decimal Classification:800 Literature, rhetoric & criticism
470 Latin & Italic languages
410 Linguistics
440 French & related languages
460 Spanish & Portuguese languages
450 Italian, Romanian & related languages
Uncontrolled Keywords:borrowing; contact-induced complexification; gender; number; numerals;
Language:English
Date:30 September 2021
Deposited On:13 Oct 2021 13:52
Last Modified:26 Dec 2024 02:35
Publisher:Brill
ISSN:1955-2629
OA Status:Gold
Free access at:Publisher DOI. An embargo period may apply.
Publisher DOI:https://doi.org/10.1163/19552629-14010004
Related URLs:https://brill.com/view/journals/jlc/14/1/article-p72_72.xml?ebody=Article%20details (Publisher)
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