Connection and Contact. Italian Connectives in Spoken Fassano Ladin

Autor: Ilaria Fiorentini
Jazyk: English<br />Spanish; Castilian<br />Italian
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Cuadernos de Filología Italiana, Vol 21, Iss 0, Pp 85-105 (2015)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1133-9527
1988-2394
DOI: 10.5209/rev_CFIT.2014.v21.47458
Popis: This paper investigates a peculiar language contact situation, namely the Ladin area in Trentino-South Tyrol, in order to verify the presence and distribution of Italian discourse markers and connectives in a bilingual context. Based on a bilingual speech corpus, I will point out how Ladin speakers distinguishes between the pragmatic and semantic level of connection, using Italian forms in the first case and Ladin ones in the latter. In conclusion, I will focus on Italian connectives perché ‘because’ and allora ‘then, therefore’ and their equivalent Ladin forms , i.e. percheche / ajache and enlouta / donca.
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