ABSTRACT
The task of identifying dialect subareas has barely begun (see Pellegrini (1977: 31)). Pellegrini himself, in assigning S. Lazio dialects to the Campanian area, observes that the defining isogloss to the north is the boundary of pl > [kj] (rather than [pj]). Radtke (1988: 653) situates the line north of Gaeta and south of Itri between Frosinone and Sora, but holds that there are no clearly defined linguistic boundaries to the east, the criterion being the impressionistic one of dependence on / independence from the hegemony of Neapolitan. For the southern and eastern limits, we may rely on Avolio’s study of the Salerno–Lucera line (see also Rohlfs (1966: 389)). Avolio uses ten criteria (see the maps in Avolio (1989: 19–21) and Table 39.1).
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West |
East |
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i |
-CI- |
> |
tʧ |
tts |
FACIO > 'fatʧə vs. 'fattsə ‘I do’ |
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ii |
-LL- |
> |
ll |
dd(ɖɖ, r) |
ECCU ILLU(M) > 'killu vs. 'kiddu, 'kiɖɖə, 'kirə ‘that’ |
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iii |
-NG- + front vowel |
> |
ɲɲ |
nʤ |
PLANGIT > 'kjaɲɲə vs. 'kjanʤə, kjanʧə ‘he weeps’ |
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iv |
1/3sg. imperf. ind. 2/3 conjg. verbs |
-'evə |
-'ia |
ri'ʧevə, sə'ntevə vs. ri'ʧia, sen'tia ‘I / he said, felt’ |
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v |
Conditional type |
fa'ʧessə far’ria faʧar’ria |
fa'ʧera < Lat. plupf. ind. |
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vi |
1pl. clitic pron. |
ʧə or ʤə |
nə |
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vii |
3pers. subject pronoun |
'issə < IPSU(M) |
'iddə < ILLU(M) |
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viii |
‘cradle’ |
'konnələ |
'nakə |
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ix |
‘owl’ |
ʧutʧu'vεttələ |
kukku'vajə |
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χ |
‘tomorrow’ |
ri'manə |
'krajə |
