The diachrony of Abruzzese complementation

Abstract

Complementizer systems in southern Italian varieties have received a lot of attention in the traditional dialectological literature.In this paper, we try to trace the diachronic development of complementizers in a scarcely documented vernacular Upper southern variety, Abruzzese.We indentify five stages in the development of this system, and two main developmental paths: one extending the ke/che to subordinate clauses, and the other extending ka to all clauses, including declarative unselected ones.

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