Verum a fontibus haurire. A Variationist Analysis of Subjunctive Variability Across Space and Time: from Contemporary Italian back to Latin

Verum a fontibus haurire. A Variationist Analysis of Subjunctive Variability Across Space and Time: from Contemporary Italian back to Latin

This dissertation investigates the use of the subjunctive in completive clauses governed by verbs in Italian, both synchronically and diachronically, and in Vulgar Latin. By making use of the tools provided by the Variationist Sociolinguistic framework (Labov 1972, 1994), the current study sheds lig...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Digesto, Salvatore
Other Authors: Poplack, Shana
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa 2019
Subjects:
Subjunctive
Italian Subjunctive
Language Variation and Change
Lexicalization
Grammaticalization
Vulgar Latin
Latin Subjunctive
Diachronic Linguistics
Sociohistorical Linguistics
Quantitative Methods
Subjunctive Use
Language Usage
Italian
Mood
Language History
Sociolinguistics
Subjunctive Variability
Mood Variation
Variationist Sociolinguistics
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10393/39410
http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-23654

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http://hdl.handle.net/10393/39410
http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-23654

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