This article is concerned with some aspects of the borrowing in contexts of bi/multi-lingualism Arbëresh – Romance dialect (- Regional Italian). The Arbëresh communities present a set of linguistic mixing phenomena (loanwords, code-mixing, hybrid forms) due to the old and prolonged bilingualism between Albanian and Romance dialect. Specifically, the Arbëresh lexicon includes a sub-class of lexical bases shared with the Romance varieties, which combine with the Arbëresh inflectional morphology. On the other hand, particular types of lexicalization emerge, for instance in correspondence of the adjectives and the verbal morphology. In some communities, like these of Vena di Maida and Ginestra - here investigated – the linguistic knowledge of the speakers includes both Arbëresh and a local Romance variety (Savoia 2008). These conditions strictly recall the mixed languages’ used by bilingual speakers and endowed with a mixed lexicon (Bakker e Muysken 1994, Muysken 2000, Myers-Scotton 2006). From a theoretical perspective, the borrowing and the code-mixing in bilingualism contexts provide an interesting evidence for understanding the mechanisms that drive the linguistic variation (Savoia 2008, Savoia e Baldi 2009). More precisely, the lexical borrowings represent the interface between the mental grammar of the speaker and the semantic universe of the cultures in contact.

Fenomeni di code-mixing e di prestito nei sistemi arbëreshë / Benedetta, Baldi; Leonardo, M. Savoia. - STAMPA. - (2016), pp. 145-163.

Fenomeni di code-mixing e di prestito nei sistemi arbëreshë

BALDI, BENEDETTA;SAVOIA, LEONARDO MARIA
2016

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This article is concerned with some aspects of the borrowing in contexts of bi/multi-lingualism Arbëresh – Romance dialect (- Regional Italian). The Arbëresh communities present a set of linguistic mixing phenomena (loanwords, code-mixing, hybrid forms) due to the old and prolonged bilingualism between Albanian and Romance dialect. Specifically, the Arbëresh lexicon includes a sub-class of lexical bases shared with the Romance varieties, which combine with the Arbëresh inflectional morphology. On the other hand, particular types of lexicalization emerge, for instance in correspondence of the adjectives and the verbal morphology. In some communities, like these of Vena di Maida and Ginestra - here investigated – the linguistic knowledge of the speakers includes both Arbëresh and a local Romance variety (Savoia 2008). These conditions strictly recall the mixed languages’ used by bilingual speakers and endowed with a mixed lexicon (Bakker e Muysken 1994, Muysken 2000, Myers-Scotton 2006). From a theoretical perspective, the borrowing and the code-mixing in bilingualism contexts provide an interesting evidence for understanding the mechanisms that drive the linguistic variation (Savoia 2008, Savoia e Baldi 2009). More precisely, the lexical borrowings represent the interface between the mental grammar of the speaker and the semantic universe of the cultures in contact.
2016
978-88-6274-735-6
LA LINGUA E I PARLANTI STUDI E RICERCHE DI LINGUISTICA
145
163
Benedetta, Baldi; Leonardo, M. Savoia
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