Modeling Syntactic Change under Contact: The Case of Italiot Greek

In this paper, we investigate patterns of persistence and change affecting the syntax of nominal structures in Italiot Greek in comparison to Modern (and Ancient) Greek, and we explore the role of Southern Italo-Romance as a potential source of interference. Our aim is to highlight the dynamics that...

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Published inLanguages (Basel) Vol. 6; no. 2; p. 74
Main Authors Guardiano, Cristina, Stavrou, Melita
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Basel MDPI AG 2021
Subjects
Bilingualism
Dialects
Greek
Greek language
horizontal transmission
Language contact
Learning transfer
nominal structures
Romance
Romance languages
Southern Italy
Syntactic change
syntactic contact
Syntactic structures
Italy
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ISSN2226-471X
2226-471X
DOI10.3390/languages6020074

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Summary:In this paper, we investigate patterns of persistence and change affecting the syntax of nominal structures in Italiot Greek in comparison to Modern (and Ancient) Greek, and we explore the role of Southern Italo-Romance as a potential source of interference. Our aim is to highlight the dynamics that favor syntactic contact in this domain: we provide an overview of the social context where these dynamics have taken place and of the linguistic structures involved.
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ISSN:2226-471X
2226-471X
DOI:10.3390/languages6020074