Rosangela Lai

List of John Benjamins publications in which Rosangela Lai is involved.

Title

Structuring Variation in Romance Linguistics and Beyond: In honour of Leonardo M. Savoia

Edited by Mirko Grimaldi, Rosangela Lai, Ludovico Franco and Benedetta Baldi

Current theoretical approaches to language devote great attention to macro- and micro-variation and show an ever-increasing interest in minority languages. In this respect, few empirical domains are as rich and lively as the Italo-Romance languages, which together with Albanian were the main… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 252] 2018. viii, 395 pp.

Articles

Bafile, Laura and Rosangela Lai 2018 Chapter 13. Clitic stress allomorphy in Sardinian Structuring Variation in Romance Linguistics and Beyond: In honour of Leonardo M. Savoia, Grimaldi, Mirko, Rosangela Lai, Ludovico Franco and Benedetta Baldi (eds.), pp. 195–213 | Chapter

Sardinian displays stress shifts under cliticisation with imperative and gerund verb forms. Stress shift is related to the type and number of clitics associated to the host. Across the range of dialectal variation, three different stress shift patterns are attested. We will argue that Sardinian… read more

Lai, Rosangela 2018 Language planning and language policy in Sardinia Language Problems and Language Planning 42:1, pp. 70–88 | Article

In 1999, the Italian Republic acknowledged the status of Sardinian as a minority language. Since then the Autonomous Region of Sardinia has been committed to the development of language policies for Sardinian. A regional law approved in 1997 adopted the aim of promoting the different varieties… read more