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Romance and Croatian in Contact: Non-Clitic Auxiliaries in Istro-Romanian
| Content Provider | MDPI |
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| Author | Dragomirescu, Adina Nicolae, Alexandru |
| Copyright Year | 2021 |
| Description | This paper focuses on Istro-Romanian and argues that the TAM auxiliaries of this variety are not morphophonological clitics. This analysis is supported by the existence of several empirical phenomena (auxiliary-licensed VP-ellipsis, scrambling, and interpolation), some not found in modern Romance, others very rare in modern Romance. This property of Istro-Romanian auxiliary verbs accounts, in conjunction with other features of this variety (e.g., the availability of C-oriented and I-oriented pronominal clitics), for the massive variation in the word order of pronominal clitics, auxiliaries, and the lexical verb found in the Istro-Romanian sentential core. An endangered Romance variety spoken in Istria and in the diaspora, historically related to (Daco-)Romanian, Istro-Romanian has been in contact with Croatian since the settlement of Istro-Romanians in the Istrian peninsula. As some of the Istro-Romanian features and phenomena are found both in Croatian and in old Romanian, it appears that contact with Croatian acts as a catalyst of structural convergence engendering the retention of an archaic property of Istro-Romanian auxiliaries: a lower position on the grammaticalization cline, closer to the full word status of their etyma. |
| Starting Page | 187 |
| e-ISSN | 2226471X |
| DOI | 10.3390/languages6040187 |
| Journal | Languages |
| Issue Number | 4 |
| Volume Number | 6 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | MDPI |
| Publisher Date | 2021-11-13 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Languages Language Studies Auxiliary Vp-ellipsis Verb Movement Language Contact Istro-romanian Old Romanian Croatian Convergence |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
