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dc.contributor.authorFrasson, Alberto
dc.contributor.authorD'Alessandro, Roberta
dc.contributor.authorvan Osch, Brechje
dc.date.accessioned2021-12-22T13:44:57Z
dc.date.available2021-12-22T13:44:57Z
dc.date.issued2021-06-18
dc.description.abstractIn this paper we present data from first generation immigrants (G1) and second and third generation heritage speakers of Friulian, a Rhaeto-Romance language spoken in North-Eastern Italy and also found in Argentina and Brazil. The target phenomenon is subject clitics (SCL s). We show that SCL s in heritage Friulian are in a process of being reanalyzed from being agreement markers to pronouns. While SCL s are obligatory in Friulian as spoken in Italy, they are often dropped in heritage Friulian in Argentina and Brazil; this phenomenon, we argue, needs to be interpreted as the drop of pronominal subjects, and not of agreement-like SCL s. We also demonstrate that the use of SCL s (reanalyzed as pronominal subjects) is conditioned both by grammatical factors (it happens more in some grammatical persons than in others) and by discourse factors (they are used more in the case of a continuation topic than in other topicalization contexts). This means that in heritage Friulian, discourse constraints on the expression of subjects are not being lost or weakened; in fact, against the general grammaticalization trend of pronominal forms, new discourse constraints are introduced.en_US
dc.identifier.citationFrasson A, D'Alessandro R, van Osch B. Subject Clitics in Microcontact: A Case Study from Heritage Friulian in Argentina and Brazil. Heritage Language Journal. 2021;18(1):1-36en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1919234
dc.identifier.doi10.1163/15507076-12340001
dc.identifier.issn1550-7076
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/23487
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherBrillen_US
dc.relation.journalHeritage Language Journal
dc.relation.projectIDinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020-EU.1.1./681959/Netherlands/Language variation and change from the Italian heritage perspective./MicroContact/en_US
dc.relation.projectIDinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/RCN/?/2062165/Norway/?/?/en_US
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2021 The Author(s)en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humanities: 000::Linguistics: 010en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humaniora: 000::Språkvitenskapelige fag: 010en_US
dc.titleSubject Clitics in Microcontact: A Case Study from Heritage Friulian in Argentina and Brazilen_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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