Florian Wandl (University of Zürich)
Abstract
Research on the system of pronominal clitics so far has mostly focused on the major Slavic languages. Studies addressing issues regarding these clitics in minor Slavic languages or dialects are rare. In this talk, I will discuss the system of pronominal clitics in the Slovenian dialect spoken in in the Resia valley in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region of northern Italy. This dialect has been in intense language contact with Romance (mostly Friulian and standard Italian) for several centuries which has left an imprint also on pronominal clitics. After having introduced the inventory of pronominal clitics in Resian, the place of these clitics in the clause is established. The emerging system of Resian pronominal clitics is then discussed against the background of Slavic and Romance clitic systems.
Biografie
Florian Wandl is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Zürich. He has a background in historical linguistics and philology, and is also interested in linguistic typology. His main research focus boils down to the question of how the Slavic languages came to be the way they are.