Blar i forfatter Artikler, rapporter og annet (språk og kultur) "Frasson, Alberto"

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    • Adding the microdimension to the study of language change in contact. Three case studies 

      Andriani, Luigi; D'Alessandro, Roberta; Frasson, Alberto; van Osch, Brechje; Sorgini, Luana; Terenghi, Silvia (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-03-04)
      Syntactic change in contact is generally explained as a result of cognitive, structural/typological, or sociolinguistic factors. However, the relative weight of these factors in shaping the outputs of contact is yet to be assessed. In this paper, we propose a microcontact approach to the study of change in contact, focusing on microsyntactic points of variation across multiple language pairs that ...

    • Subject Clitics in Microcontact: A Case Study from Heritage Friulian in Argentina and Brazil 

      Frasson, Alberto; D'Alessandro, Roberta; van Osch, Brechje (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-06-18)
      In 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. ...