Andrea Padovan
List of John Benjamins publications in which Andrea Padovan is involved.
Journal
Title
Lexical Issues in the Architecture of the Language Faculty
Edited by Andrea Padovan
Special issue of Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 2:1 (2020) v, 111 pp.
2020 Introduction: The role of the lexicon in the language faculty Lexical Issues in the Architecture of the Language Faculty, Padovan, Andrea (ed.), pp. 1–4 | Introduction
2019 Contact-induced phenomena in the Alps Italian Dialectology at the Interfaces, Cruschina, Silvio, Adam Ledgeway and Eva-Maria Remberger (eds.), pp. 237–255 | Chapter
The main question underlying this chapter is to what extent language contact can affect syntactic structure. To tackle this issue we examine two relevant phenomena found in two minority languages spoken in the region Trentino-Alto Adige/South Tyrol: clitic climbing in Dolomitic Ladin and the use of… read more
2016 Why a bed can be slept in but not under: Variation in V+P constructions Theoretical Approaches to Linguistic Variation, Bidese, Ermenegildo, Federica Cognola and Manuela Caterina Moroni (eds.), pp. 119–144 | Article
In English the verbs that collocate with prepositions are called prepositional verbs (V+P) and are often subsumed under the class of phrasal verbs (V+ particle) although they should be kept distinct: in fact, it is easy to show that prepositions and particles have different syntactic behaviors. One… read more
2011 Diachronic clues to grammaticalization phenomena in the Cimbrian CP Studies on German-Language Islands, Putnam, Michael T. (ed.), pp. 279–300 | Article
Saying that a minority language proves to be quite a fascinating object of research when it comes to describing how it is affected by a stronger (standard) language is quite obvious. However, the way in which elements (both lexical and functional) borrowed from the stronger language infiltrate the… read more




