List of Illustrations and Tables -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Annex to Introduction: Phonetic Simplified Alphabet -- 1 Overview -- 1.1 Trentino Dialects in the Context of Northern Italian Dialects -- 1.2 The Main Romance Dialect Groups Spoken in Trentino -- 1.3 Germanic Languages Spoken in Trentino -- 1.4 Previous Studies -- 2 Nominal Morphology -- 2.1 Nominal Inflection: Number and Gender -- 2.2 Nominal Derivational Suffixes -- 2.3 Evaluative Morphology -- 2.4 Nominal Derivational Prefixes -- 2.5 Compound and Phrasal Nouns -- 3 Noun Phrases: Nouns with Determiners and Adjectives -- 3.1 Definite and Indefinite Determiners -- 3.2 Demonstrative + N -- 3.3 Possessive + N -- 3.4 Quantified NP -- 3.5 Interrogative and Exclamative NP -- 3.6 Quality Adjectives -- 4 Morphology and Syntax of Personal Pronouns -- 4.1 The Forms of Free Pronouns and Clitics -- 4.2 Subject Clitics -- 4.3 Se Impersonal Subject -- 4.4 Subject Clitics in Interrogative Sentences -- 4.5 Clitics in Relative Clauses -- 4.6 Free Pronouns and Clitics as Direct Objects -- 4.7 Free Pronouns and Clitics as Datives and Indirect Objects -- 4.8 Reflexive Pronouns -- 4.9 Clitics Clusters -- 4.10 Allocutive Pronouns -- 5 Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases -- 5.1 The Use of Simple Prepositions in Locative and Temporal Contexts -- 5.2 Other Uses of Simple Prepositions -- 5.3 Comparative Remarks on the Use of the Preposition in Central Trentino -- 5.4 Derivative and Compound Prepositions -- 6 Adverbs and Adverbial Phrases -- 6.1 Adverbial Morphology -- 6.2 Intensification and Modification of Adverbs -- 6.3 Some Peculiarities of the Adverbial System in Central Trentino -- 6.4 Affirmative and Negative Adverbs -- 7 Verb Morphology -- 7.1 The Regular Verbal Conjugations -- 7.2 Irregular Verbs -- 7.3 Past Participle Formation -- 7.4 Verb Formation -- 7.5 ‘Verb with Locative’ Constructions -- Annex to Ch. 7: Tables of Verb Forms -- 8 Verb Agreement and Valency -- 8.1 Verb Agreement -- 8.2 Verb Types -- 8.3 Passive Voice and Other Mechanisms of Subject Demotion -- 9 Main and Embedded Clauses -- 9.1 The Syntax of Main Clauses -- 9.2 Argumental Subordinate Clauses -- 9.3 Adverbial Subordinate Clauses -- 9.4 Other Subordinate Clauses Introduced by the Complementiser che : Relatives, Pseudo-relatives and Clefts -- 9.5 Use of Subjunctive in Embedded Clauses -- 10 Pragmatic Particles -- 10.1 General Properties -- 10.2 Pragmatic Particles in Declarative Sentences -- 10.3 Pragmatic Particles in Interrogative and Imperative Sentences -- 10.4 The Modal Interpretation of the Enclitic - (n)te -- References -- Index.

Central Trentino is a Romance dialect spoken in the North-East of Italy, which shows features belonging to both Gallo-Italic and Venetan dialects. Grammar of Central Trentino aims to present the first comprehensive grammatical description of this dialect, taking into consideration its morpho-syntactic properties and pragmatic phenomena. The book's general approach is synchronic and focused on the language currently in use. The authors discuss a wide range of examples gathered from both oral and written sources. The theoretical reference model is that of generative grammar, but the description of the phenomena is also accessible to a non-specialized audience.

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