The formal expression of grammatical gender in a modern greek dialect affected by italo-romance
Abstract
This doctoral thesis examines phenomena of gender assignment, emphasizing language contact and noun borrowing at the interface between Greek and Italo-Romance (Venetian and Italian) on the Ionian Islands. It sets out to document, record and examine an Italo-Romance-influenced dialect of Modern Greek, Heptanesian Greek, which is the dialect of the Ionian Islands. The thesis aims to offer the first systematic investigation of the integration of Italo-Romance features into the Heptanesian noun morphology. Fistly, in endeavoring to profile the Heptanesian dialect synchronically, the present research investigates the strategies, mechanisms and principles regulating loan-noun integration and gender assignment in Heptanesian, with a view to revealing the degree of their integration into the morphological inflectional patterns of the language and the extent to which they transfer characteristics of their origin. Exploring language change that has occurred in the dialect’s noun morphology, this ...
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