TY  - JOUR
A1  - Poletto, Cecilia
A1  - Tomaselli, Alessandra
T1  - Resilient subject agreement morpho-syntax in the germanic romance contact area
T2  - Languages
N2  - In this work, we intend to investigate one fundamental aspect of language contact by comparing the distribution of subjects in German, Northern Italian dialects and Cimbrian. Here, we show that purely syntactic order phenomena are more prone to convergence, i.e., less resilient, while phenomena that have a clearly identifiable morphological counterpart are more resilient. The empirical domain of investigation for our analysis is the morphosyntax of both nominal and pronominal subjects, the agreement pattern and their position in Cimbrian grammar. While agreement patterns display a highly conservative paradigm, the syntax of nominal (vP-peripheral and topicalized) subjects is innovative and mimics the Italian linear word order.
KW  - clitic syntax
KW  - language contact
KW  - Cimbrian
KW  - subject syntax
Y1  - 2021
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/62491
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-624916
SN  - 2226-471X
N1  - This research received funding from the Italian government line of financing PRIN 2017.
VL  - 6
IS  - 3, art. 119
SP  - 1
EP  - 13
PB  - MDPI
CY  - Basel
ER  -