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Chorophorics in the Aquilan Dialect
Author(s) -
Ursini FrancescoAlessio,
Long Haiping
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
studia linguistica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.187
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 1467-9582
pISSN - 0039-3193
DOI - 10.1111/stul.12132
Subject(s) - linguistics , syntax , representation (politics) , computer science , interpretation (philosophy) , natural language processing , semantic interpretation , relevance (law) , artificial intelligence , philosophy , politics , political science , law
This article outlines the properties of chorophorics (“spatial pronouns”) in the Italian dialect Aquilan. It is shown that chorophorics (e.g. pe'nfronte ‘to in front (of the ground)’) display similar morphological properties to spatial prepositions (e.g. ‘nfronte alla machina ‘in front of the car’). However, they differ in their syntactic distribution and their semantic interpretation in intra‐ and inter‐clausal structures, because of their anaphoric nature. An outline of the data is offered, and an analysis of chorophorics’ lexical and anaphoric potentials is defined via a minimal fragment of Discourse Representation Theory combined with a Lexical Syntax account. The article also offers general considerations on the nature of chorophorics and the relevance of dialectal data on cross‐linguistic research.