{"product_id":"a-grammar-of-piedmontese-a-minority-language-of-northwest-italy-9789004544055","title":"A Grammar of Piedmontese: A Minority Language of","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCerea, madamin, andoma bin? Less than a century ago, this was one of the most frequent greetings heard in Piedmont, a region in northwest Italy. Today, however, Piedmontese is severely endangered.  This volume presents the first widely accessible and comprehensive grammatical description of the contemporary koine, covering its phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, pragmatics and typology, and drawing examples from both oral and written sources. Data on the history of the language and the local dialects and notes on revitalization efforts are also included.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConventions, Glosses and Symbols  Maps of Place Names in Piedmont Mentioned in the Grammar  List of Maps, Tables and Figures    1 The Language and Its History, Classification and Variation   1.1 Overview: Language and Speakers   1.2 Disentangling Classification and Ideology   1.3 The Dialects of Piedmontese: Features and Classification   1.4 The Internal Classification of the Piedmontese Varieties   1.5 Social Varieties in Old Piedmontese   1.6 The Speech of the Piedmontese Jews, Sinti and Waldensians   1.7 A Short Linguistic History of Piedmont   1.8 An Outline of the Piedmontese Literature    2 Phonetics and Phonology   2.1 Default Articulation of Phonemes   2.2 Loan Phonemes, Borrowing and Adaptation   2.3 Previous Accounts of the Phonology of Piedmontese   2.4 Phonetic Processes   2.5 Positional Restrictions on the Occurrence of Phonemes   2.6 Syllables   2.7 Clusters   2.8 Length   2.9 Stress   2.10 Pitch and Intonation    3 Writing System and Orthography   3.1 Overview   3.2 History   3.3 Evaluation    4 Words, Word Constituents and Word Classes   4.1 Roots, Stems, Words, Affixes and Clitics   4.2 Morphological Mechanisms   4.3 Suppletion   4.4 Syncretism   4.5 Word Classes    5 Nouns   5.1 Overview   5.2 Gender   5.3 Number   5.4 Derivational Morphology of Nouns    6 Adjectives   6.1 Overview   6.2 Semantics of Adjectives   6.3 Morphology of Adjectives   6.4 Comparative Constructions   6.5 Adjectives as Nouns   6.6 Derivational Morphology of Adjectives    7 Personal Pronouns   7.1 Overview   7.2 Independent Personal Pronouns   7.3 Subject Personal Pronouns   7.4 Non-subject Personal Pronouns: Object and Indirect Object   7.5 Interrogative Subject Clitics   7.6 Reflexive, Reciprocal and Impersonal Personal Pronouns   7.7 Attributive Pronoun   7.8 Lexicalized Verb-Clitic Constructions   7.9 Post-Tonic Vowel Dropping   7.10 Sequences of Clitics    8 Grounding and Deixis   8.1 Overview   8.2 Determiners and Classifiers   8.3 Deixis   8.4 Possessives    9 Quantifiers   9.1 Numerals   9.2 Generic Quantifiers   9.3 Negative Quantifiers   9.4 Interrogative Quantifiers   9.5 Quantificational Quantifiers    10 Verbs   10.1 Semantic Overview   10.2 Morphological Overview   10.3 Affixes, Allomorphy and Syncretism   10.4 Historical and Comparative Notes   10.5 Moods and Tenses   10.6 Use of the Auxiliaries   10.7 Verbal Derivation    11 Verbal Periphrases and Modalities   11.1 Valency-Increasing Operation, 1: Causative   11.2 Valency-Increasing Operation, 2: Permissive   11.3 Valency-Increasing Operation, 3: Middle   11.4 Modal Verbs   11.5 Progressive and Continuous   11.6 Imminential   11.7 Inchoative   11.8 Durative   11.9 Terminative   11.10 Immediative   11.11 Iterative    12 Adverbs   12.1 Overview   12.2 Predicate Adverbs   12.3 Degree Adverbs and Focalizers   12.4 Sentence Adverbs   12.5 Linking Adverbs   12.6 Adverb Formation Rules and Productivity    13 Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases   13.1 The Expression of Location and Movement   13.2 Basic Prepositions   13.3 Non-basic Prepositions   13.4 Prepositional Use of Adverbs   13.5 Attributive Phrases and Binominal Constructions    14 Phrases   14.1 The Structure of the Noun Phrase   14.2 Grounding and Ordering of Phrases   14.3 Adjectival Phrases   14.4 Temporal Phrases and Telling the Time    15 Clauses   15.1 Non-verbal Predication   15.2 Declarative Clauses   15.3 Introducing the Ubiquitous che   15.4 “Bare” che in Non-verbal Predication   15.5 Relative Clauses   15.6 Imperative Clauses   15.7 Exhortative Clauses   15.8 Mirative and Exclamative Clauses   15.9 Questions   15.10 The Expression of Atmospheric Events    16 Linkage   16.1 Coordination   16.2 Subordination    17 Negation   17.1 Overview   17.2 Sentence Negators   17.3 Negation with Scope over Smaller Units   17.4 Other Negative Items   17.5 Negative Concord   17.6 Holophrastic Negation    18 Pragmatics and Discourse   18.1 Information Structure and Sentence Word Order   18.2 Hanging Topics and Clefts   18.3 Discourse Markers    19 Piedmontese in a Typological Perspective   19.1 Genealogy and Overview   19.2 Phonology   19.3 Morphosyntax   19.4 Lexical Typology   19.5 Piedmontese, Standard Average European, and Other Romance Languages    20 Use, Contact and Care: Codeswitching, Endangerment, Enrichment and Standardization   20.1 Language Ideology through Language Use   20.2 The Long Road toward Resurgence   20.3 Envoi    Appendix: Text  References  Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51535932358999,"sku":"9789004544055","price":169.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-grammar-of-piedmontese-a-minority-language-of-northwest-italy-9789004544055","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}