Michele Loporcaro
List of John Benjamins publications in which Michele Loporcaro is involved.
Journal
ISSN 0176-4225 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9714
2026 Truncated vocatives in Romanesco: A crowdsourced study Italo-Romance Morphosyntax: Theoretical and empirical issues, Ciconte, Francesco Maria and Michela Cennamo (eds.), pp. 1–23 | Article
This paper addresses vocative truncation in Romanesco (Italo-Romance), which has been described as conditioned by a host of constraints at different structural levels. We crowdsourced the data collection with an online questionnaire devised to ask the three research questions whether the… read more
2021 Chapter 12. Multi-layered default in Ripano All Things Morphology: Its independence and its interfaces, Moradi, Sedigheh, Marcia Haag, Janie Rees-Miller and Andrija Petrovic (eds.), pp. 215–236 | Chapter
This chapter deals with morphological and syntactic defaults in Ripano (Italo-Romance), using the toolkit of Network Morphology and Canonical Typology. Analyzing noun and adjective inflection, we propose a unitary inheritance hierarchy for nominals which features a general default plus overrides… read more
2018 Chapter 16. Unstable personal pronouns in Northern Logudorese Structuring Variation in Romance Linguistics and Beyond: In honour of Leonardo M. Savoia, Grimaldi, Mirko, Rosangela Lai, Ludovico Franco and Benedetta Baldi (eds.), pp. 241–255 | Chapter
This paper deals with some Logudorese dialects of Northern Sardinia, whose nominal and pronominal morphology has been variously reshaped due to contact with Gallurese/Sassarese. While many of the data discussed here were addressed in the previously available literature, we draw on first-hand… read more
2014 The third gender of Old Italian Diachronica 31:1, pp. 1–22 | Article
We demonstrate that Old Italian had a three-gender system within which the neuter still qualified as a fully fledged gender value. To substantiate this claim, we adduce evidence showing that (a) Old Italian had three distinct sets of controllers, each of which selected a separate agreement… read more
2012 A new strategy for progressive marking and its implications for grammaticalization theory: The subject clitic construction in Pantiscu Studies in Language 36:4, pp. 747–784 | Article
The variety of Sicilian spoken in Pantelleria has developed a progressive construction which involves pronominal subject clitics. This is striking in many respects. Firstly, on a Romance scale, subject clitics are usually regarded as characteristic for varieties spoken north of Florence. Secondly,… read more
2010 Variation and change in morphology and syntax: Romance object agreement Variation and Change in Morphology: Selected papers from the 13th International Morphology Meeting, Vienna, February 2008, Rainer, Franz, Wolfgang U. Dressler, Dieter Kastovsky and Hans Christian Luschützky (eds.), pp. 149–176 | Article
Romance past participle agreement in perfective periphrastics, it is argued, has to be analyzed as object agreement. This paper provides a general characterization of Romance object agreement in a typological perspective (Section 2) and then discusses the different diachronic developments of the… read more
2007 Facts, theory and dogmas in historical linguistics: Vowel quantity from Latin to Romance Historical Linguistics 2005: Selected papers from the 17th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Madison, Wisconsin, 31 July - 5 August 2005, Salmons, Joseph C. and Shannon Dubenion-Smith (eds.), pp. 311–336 | Article
2002 18. External and internal causation in morphological change: Evidence from Italo-Romance dialects Morphology 2000: Selected papers from the 9th Morphology Meeting, Vienna, 24–28 February 2000, Bendjaballah, Sabrina, Wolfgang U. Dressler, Oskar E. Pfeiffer and Maria D. Voeikova (eds.), pp. 227–240 | Chapter
2000 Stress Stability Under Cliticization and the Prosodic Status of Romance Clitics Phonological Theory and the Dialects of Italy, Repetti, Lori (ed.), pp. 137–168 | Article
1998 Syllable Structure and Sonority Sequencing: Evidence from Emilian Romance Linguistics: Theoretical Perspectives, Schwegler, Armin, Bernard Tranel and Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria (eds.), pp. 155–170 | Article
The two senses of etymology: A concise history Historiographia Linguistica: Online-First Articles | Article
This article challenges the widespread textbook claim that “etymology boasts a venerable history of its own” (Malkiel), which implies that the history of etymology predates that of linguistics. On the contrary, it is argued that etymology, defined as “the search for the relationships—formal and… read more