Jessica Rita Messina

List of John Benjamins publications in which Jessica Rita Messina is involved.

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Garzonio, Jacopo and Jessica Rita Messina 2026 Negative Concord and language contact: A case study on the Arbëresh variety of Piana degli Albanesi Italo-Romance Morphosyntax: Theoretical and empirical issues, Ciconte, Francesco Maria and Michela Cennamo (eds.), pp. 169–184 | Article
In this article we analyze how the Arbëresh variety spoken in Piana degli Albanesi, in Sicily, has changed its original strict Negative Concord system (as seen in Albanian) to a non-strict one under the influence of Sicilian and, more recently, Italian. After describing the peculiar language… read more
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