Relativization strategies and sociolinguistic variation in spoken Italian: a typological account
In this paper I aim at describing and analysing relative clauses in a corpus of spoken Italian. In the first section, I provide an overview of the relativization strategies in Italian, also taking into account non-standard varieties; then, I briefly discuss the sociolinguistic characterization of th...
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| description | In this paper I aim at describing and analysing relative clauses in a corpus of spoken Italian. In the first section, I provide an overview of the relativization strategies in Italian, also taking into account non-standard varieties; then, I briefly discuss the sociolinguistic characterization of the sub-standard area of contemporary Italian. In § 2, I introduce the selected corpus and its characteristics, also explaining the methodologies adopted for data extraction and annotation. Then, in § 3, the results of the analysis are presented. The distributions of the different strategies and the outputs of a statistical analysis show the different importance assumed by both linguistic and extralinguistic factors and enable the explanation of the observed variability. Finally, in § 4, some general conclusions are drawn. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-48f2664fa7a8445bad2cbf89575681a02025-01-31T10:34:03ZengUniversity of BolognaLinguistic Typology at the Crossroads2785-09432025-01-014212515710.6092/issn.2785-0943/2057218944Relativization strategies and sociolinguistic variation in spoken Italian: a typological accountSilvia Ballarè0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5568-1611Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, ItalyIn this paper I aim at describing and analysing relative clauses in a corpus of spoken Italian. In the first section, I provide an overview of the relativization strategies in Italian, also taking into account non-standard varieties; then, I briefly discuss the sociolinguistic characterization of the sub-standard area of contemporary Italian. In § 2, I introduce the selected corpus and its characteristics, also explaining the methodologies adopted for data extraction and annotation. Then, in § 3, the results of the analysis are presented. The distributions of the different strategies and the outputs of a statistical analysis show the different importance assumed by both linguistic and extralinguistic factors and enable the explanation of the observed variability. Finally, in § 4, some general conclusions are drawn.https://typologyatcrossroads.unibo.it/article/view/20572relative clausessociolinguistic variationlanguage variationspoken italian |
| spellingShingle | Silvia Ballarè Relativization strategies and sociolinguistic variation in spoken Italian: a typological account Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads relative clauses sociolinguistic variation language variation spoken italian |
| title | Relativization strategies and sociolinguistic variation in spoken Italian: a typological account |
| title_full | Relativization strategies and sociolinguistic variation in spoken Italian: a typological account |
| title_fullStr | Relativization strategies and sociolinguistic variation in spoken Italian: a typological account |
| title_full_unstemmed | Relativization strategies and sociolinguistic variation in spoken Italian: a typological account |
| title_short | Relativization strategies and sociolinguistic variation in spoken Italian: a typological account |
| title_sort | relativization strategies and sociolinguistic variation in spoken italian a typological account |
| topic | relative clauses sociolinguistic variation language variation spoken italian |
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