Tortora, C: Comparative Grammar of Borgomanerese

List of Abbreviations; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: The syntax and semantics of the weak locative; 0. Introduction; 1. Unaccusative verb classes; 2. The syntactic manifestation of the GOAL / non-GOAL distinction in Borgomanerese; 3. SOURCE-entailing verbs and the existential; 4. The weak locative goal argument in Italian; 5. English non-existential weak there as a weak locative goal argument; Chapter 3: Object clitics in simple tense, complex predicate, and imperative clauses; 0. Introduction; 1. Generalized enclisis in the simple tenses; 2. Enclisis with past participles in the compound tenses; 3. Variation in placement: the nature of the clitic itself; 4. Restructuring verbs; 5. Enclisis in causative constructions; 6. Enclisis with imperatives; 7. Clitic combinations; Chapter 4: Object clitics and locative prepositions; 0. Introduction; 1. Argument locatives as another type of adverbial host; 2. The preposition's complement; 3. Remaining issues; Chapter 5: Subject Clitics; 0. Introduction; 1. Subject clitic pronouns in Northern Italian dialects; 2. Subject clitics in Borgomanerese: an overview; 3. The subject clitic i; 4. Third person singular l and la; 5. The second person singular subject clitics tal and t; 6. The subject clitic a; 7. The subject clitic ngh; 8. The impersonal clitic s; Chapter 6: Interrogatives; 0. Introduction; 1. Interrogative pronouns; 2. The missing preposition; 3. The difference between cus and que; 4. Doubly-filled comp and cleft questions; Appendix: Verb Conjugations; References

Christina Tortora is a Professor of Linguistics at the City University of New York (College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center). She has twice been a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow (2001, and 2011-12), and is the editor of The Syntax of Italian Dialects (OUP 2003). She has both a National Science Foundation Grant and a National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant, to support her research on Appalachian English Syntax.