BALKANISMS AND ITALIAN-ROMANISMS IN SOME VERBAL CONSTRUCTION ASPECTS OF ITALIAN ARBERESH LANGUAGE
BALKANISMS AND ITALIAN-ROMANISMS IN SOME VERBAL CONSTRUCTION ASPECTS OF ITALIAN ARBERESH LANGUAGE

Summary/Abstract: The author of this paper focuses on some periphrastic constructions that are used to show the aspects of progressiveness and immanence in the verbal system of Italian Arbëresh Language. To treat these aspect forms as well as some other modal forms of Arbëresh dialects, the author takes into account the first grammars of Arbëresh language in the XIX century and a series of texts recorded in the Arbëresh-speaking context published since the middle of the 20th century, as well as data collected in person during field research since the 1980s. This paper analyses the results and compares them to the Balkan and Italian linguistic contexts, taking into account Italian language as well as the dialects of southern Italy, which have been in constant contact with Arbëresh language for centuries.

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