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In:Adjective Adverb Interfaces in Romance
Edited by Martin Hummel and Salvador Valera
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 242] 2017
► pp. 173–204

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Chapter 6
Adverb agreement in the dialects of the Lausberg Area

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Published online: 21 December 2017
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Abstract
This paper brings uncharted evidence to the phenomenon of adverb agreement in Italo-Romance. Among southern Italian dialects, manner adverbs are not morphologically distinguished from adjectives and, in certain varieties, may agree with a referring nominal. The patterns of agreement are discussed and analysed by assessing and describing novel data retrieved from the upper southern Italian dialects of north-western Calabria. In these varieties adverbs agree with Undergoer/Patient arguments. The semantic entailments of the adverb agreement in transitive and unaccusative clauses disclose the availability of true and pseudo-resultative predicates. Moreover, agreeing adverbs influence the past participle agreement, which normally displays alternative patterns depending of the morpholexical properties of the participle (± metaphonic).
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Adjectival adverbs
    • 2.1Adverbs in southern Italian dialects
    • 2.2The dialects of the so-called Lausberg Area
    • 2.3Adjectives or adverbs
  • 3.Adverb agreement in southern Italian dialects
    • 3.1Patterns of adverb agreement
      • 3.1.1Transitives
      • 3.1.2Unaccusatives
      • 3.1.3Unergatives
    • 3.2Interim summary
  • 4.Notes on resultatives and pseudo-resultatives
    • 4.1(Pseudo-)resultatives in SIDs
    • 4.2The agreement of (pseudo-)resultatives
  • 5.Effects on past participle agreement
    • 5.1The general picture
    • 5.2Adjectival adverbs affect participle agreement
  • 6.Outline of a structural interpretation
    • 6.1Adverb placement
    • 6.2Adverb and participle agreement
  • 7.Concluding remarks
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
  • Appendix
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