Séminaire de Recherche en Linguistique
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| Titre | Optionality of V3 in Romansh varieties |
| Conférencier | Giuseppe Samo (Université de Genève/Beijing Language and Culture University) |
| Date | mardi 02 mai 2023 |
| Heure | 12h15 |
| Salle | L208 (Bâtiment Candolle) |
| Description | Optionality of V3 in Romansh varieties In this presentation, we discuss the ability of a set of lexical entries, e.g. tout in üna vouta ‘suddenly’ and uossa ‘then’ (Samo 2022: 158–163), in triggering V2 and V3 orders (cf. also Grünert 2019) in the Romansh varieties of Putèr and Vallader. We extract our data from a heterogeneous group of available sources (folktales, newspaper, social media). Our data support the hypothesis that there is no “pure” optionality (see also Samo & Si 2022): the strongest hypothesis is that when the adverbial is fronted in a V2 environment the item is topicalized/focussed, while in V3 environment the adverbial moves to a dedicated position for “highlighted” adverbials ModP(Rizzi 2004) rather than being generated in a position higher than the Left Periphery (cf. it can only precede subjects in V3 environments). References Grünert, M. (2019) Die Konstituentenfolge im bündnerromanischen Nebensatz, Ladinia XLII (2018), 23–39 Rizzi, L. (2004). Locality and left periphery. In A. Belletti (Ed.), Structures and beyond: The cartography of syntactic structures, Volume 3, pp. 223–251. Oxford, New York: Oxford, Oxford University Press. Samo, G. (2022) Criterial V2: ModP as a locus of microvariation in Swiss Romansh varieties, Probus 34 (1), 143–170 Samo, G., & Si, F. (2022). Optionality of 的 De in Chinese Possessive Structures: A Quantitative Study. Quaderni Di Linguistica E Studi Orientali, 2022, 37-53. https://doi.org/10.13128/qulso-2421-7220-13602 |
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