Examining the morphosyntax of dialetics comprising Italy, Corsica and the Italian and Romantic-speaking areas of Switzerland, this original and innovative analysis presents previously unknown or understudied data from a variety of Romance dialects.

M. Rita Manzini is Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Florence, Italy. Her main research interests are in theoretical linguistics, syntax and language variation, including its acquisition aspects.

Leonardo M. Savoia is Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Florence, Italy. His research interests centre on phonology and morphosyntax.

Table of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1The nature of the agreement inflections of the verb.Chapter 2Subjects and subject-verb agreement in Italian dialects.Chapter 3Lexicalization patterns of the so-called 3rd person dative.Chapter 4Cooccurrence and mutual exclusion patterns of subject and object clitics.Chapter 5Transitivity and Unaccusativity: Auxiliary selection Chapter 6Parameters of auxiliary selectionChapter 7The syntax of object clitics and middle-reflexives in Albanian dialects.Chapter 8'Participle' and 'infinitive' in Geg dialects. Chapter 9'Subjunctives' and non-finite sentences in Tosk dialects.Chapter 10Causatives in Albanian