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Luras
Luras
is a village of about 2500 inhabitants in the northern Sardinian
province of Tempio-Olbia.
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luras
Lurisincu
is a Logudorese enclave in the Gallurese area. Due to contact with
Gallurese, Lurese has obliterated gender distinctions in plural forms
of articles, object pronouns, adjectives, and participles. Moreover, a
peculiar personal pronoun system has emerged, in which three third
person forms co-occur: issɛ, unmarked for gender, and two
gender-inflected forms, issu vs. issa (‘he’ vs
‘she’).
The latter
are used only for purposes of disambiguation (cf. Loporcaro 2006b;
2012). For instance, in (1) the unmarked form issɛ is used first, then
issu and issa are introduced in (2) to disambiguate the referent of the
preceding pronoun. The
pattern has not been observed elsewhere in Romance and, from a
typological point of view, it does not correspond to any known system
reported in Siewierska’s (2005) WALS map.
(1) Q:
kiɛ ɛilj vénnišu ?
‘who
came?’
A: issɛ
‘it’s him/her’
(2) Q:
ma issu o issa?
‘well, but [do you mean] him or
her?’
For
a more detailed description of Lurisincu and its relevance to the study
of agreement, please refer to the overview written
by Serena Romagnoli.
Topic
- Depperu, P. 2006. Vocabolario lurisinco. Dizionario
logudorese della parlata di Luras. Sassari: Libreria Koinč.
- Loporcaro, M. 2006a.
'Sul logudorese di Luras e sul suo nuovo vocabolario' in P. Depperu, Vocabbolariu lurisincu. Dizionario
logudorese della parlata di Luras. Sassari: Libreria Koinč,
9-11.
- Loporcaro, M. 2006b.
'Contatto e mutamento linguistico in Sardegna settentrionale: il caso
di Luras' Revue de Linguistique
Romane, 70:321-349.
- Loporcaro,
M. 2008. 'Contatto e mutamento linguistico in Sardegna settentrionale:
il caso di Luras' in S. Heinemann & P. Videsott (eds.), Sprachwandel und (Dis-)Kontinuität in der
Romania. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 129-138.
- Loporcaro,
M. 2012. 'Contact-induced change in personal pronouns: some Romance
examples' in M. Vanhove, T. Stolz, A. Urdze & H. Otsuka (eds.), Morphologies in contact. Berlin:
Akademie Verlag [Studia Typologica, STUF Beiheft 10], 207-25.
Focus
Publications:
- Loporcaro,
M. 2015. 'The impact of morphology on change in agreement systems' in
J. Fleischer, E. Rieken & P. Widmer (eds.), Agreement from a Diachronic Perspective.
Berlin: De Gruyter, 103-126.
- Loporcaro,
M. 2018. Gender from Latin to
Romance: history, geography, typology. Oxford: Oxford University
Press.
- Loporcaro,
M., S. Romagnoli & M. Wild. (forth.). 'Unstable personal
pronouns in Northern Logudorese' in B. Baldi, L. Franco, M. Grimaldi
& R. Lai (eds.), Structuring
Variation in Romance Linguistics and Beyond. Studies in Honour of Leonardo M. Savoia
[Linguistik Aktuell-Linguistics Today], Amsterdam, John Benjamins.
Presentations:
- Loporcaro,
M., S. Romagnoli & M. Wild. 2017. 'Pronomi personali instabili in
logudorese settentrionale' Talk delivered at the 12th Cambridge Italian Dialect
Syntax-Morphology Meeting (CIDSM 12), University of Cambridge,
3-5 July 2017.
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