Database of
Agreement in
Italo-Romance
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Agnone
Agnone is a small town of approximately 5100 inhabitants in northern Molise (province of Isernia)  In
Agnonese,
as well as in other upper-southern dialects, controllers never exhibit
inflectional endings due to the centralisation of final vowels.
Determiners and third
person object clitics, conversely, are inflected for gender and number.
Besides masculine and feminine endings, Agnonese exhibits a 'neuter'
form of determiners and clitics, which occurs whenever the controller
is a mass nouns (of a certain kind, e.g. ˈkɛæ̯ʃə
‘cheese’ in (1)) or the clitic pronoun references an event. (1) lə ˈkɛæ̯ʃə
la
faˈroi̯na The
theoretical question we aim to address is whether the neuter must be
regarded as a third autonomous value of the grammatical category gender
or as a semantically
based subclass (Maiden 2011:170) within one and the same gender (the
masculine). For a more detailed description of Agnonese and its relevance to the study of agreement, please refer to the overview written by Michele Loporcaro, Chiara Zanini and Federica Breimaier. Topic
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