Prima della fase sperimentale vera e propria, verranno brevemente discusse le specificità storiche, culturali e linguistiche dell’emigrazione italiana in Australia. L’analisi, condotta sulla classe delle consonanti coronali e articolata in due fasi (uno studio distribuzionale delle produzioni fonetiche e una più sottile indagine delle caratteristiche spettrali dei suoni fricativi), rivela la presenza di tendenze non sistematiche, che verranno discusse in chiave sociolinguistica. Lo studio, parte del più ampio progetto IRIAS (Italian Roots in Australian Soil), condotto da Università di Bologna, University of Western Sydney, ISTC-CNR e Filef, si concentra su soggetti residenti nell’area metropolitana di Sydney (Greater Sydney) e insediatisi in Australia da più di un cinquantennio, caratterizzati da un repertorio linguistico trilingue del tipo dialetto L1, italiano L2 e inglese 元. L’articolo intende riassumere le premesse teoriche, le metodologie e i risultati più rilevanti ottenuti dall’analisi del parlato in italiano di quattro parlanti italo-australiani di origine veneta. I show that, together with other developments in the French negative system, it falsifies predictions made in the literature and has consequences for the reconstruction of negative systems in less well-documented languages. Based on data from the electronic corpora Frantext and Base de Français Médiéval, I analyze the three stages of this evolution.
By the end of the Classical French period, however, the conjunction (which by then takes the form ny/ni) has lost all of its weak negative polarity uses again, and it is used only in strong negatively polar environments in Modern Standard French. In a range of contexts, ne was thus semantically equivalent to either the additive conjunction et ('and') or the disjunction ou ('or').
Medieval French being a Negative Concord language, on the other hand, its negative coordinating conjunction, ne, a direct descendant of neque/nec, was able to develop a full range of weak negative polarity uses. Thus, in Classical Latin, as is consonant with the typological status of that language as a Double Negation language, neque/nec was exclusively used in negative contexts. In effect, the conjunction appears to have taken an almost perfectly circular path. TEXT: The evolution of the negative coordinating conjunction ('(neither'/'nor') from Latin to Modern French instantiates a type of cyclic development that is previously undocumented as such at the level of morphosyntax, viz.
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