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Urbino
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbino Urbino is one of
the southernmost towns in the Gallo-Italic area. Urbinate verb
morphology permits distinction between 3SG and 3PL, as it provides for
two different
endings marking the two number values singular and plural. However,
under
specific conditions (in the sense of Corbett 2006: 176), Urbinate
displays formal
identity between 3SG and 3PL verbal endings: in all intransitive
constructions,
and regardless of definiteness, verbs do not agree with plural lexical
postverbal subjects ((1) vs (2); see also Manzini and Savoia 2005, I:
49). In
interrogatives (3), agreement is optional if the subject is
interrogated
(Manzini and Savoia 2005, I: 627).
In a comparative perspective, it is worth mentioning that Urbinate is not an unicum in the Italo-Romance panorama, as it shares similar context-sensitive agreement patterns with some other northern-Italian and Tuscan varieties (Manzini and Savoia 2005, I: 37; Peverini 2011: 2-3). However, in the broader coastal strip that goes from Venetian and eastern Lombard down to Romagnol - namely just north to Urbino - and then again from southern Marchigiano to Abruzzese, the identity of 3SG and 3PL is not due to syntactic conditions, yet to morphological syncretism (Rohlfs 1966-69, § 532). Furthermore,
Urbinate displays the f.pl
ending
-le (< illae)
on
adjectives and quantifiers in predicative position
(4), as well as on the past participle of compound tenses. Otherwise, f.pl
adjectives, quantifiers, and
participles (5) are syncretic with m.sg
(6). Something similar happens with m.pl
-i - at least for quantifiers
(Balducci 1977: 22; Manzini and Savoia 2005, III: 615).
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