Nominal syntax (and morphology) at the Ligurian/Occitan border Diego Pescarini To cite this version: Diego Pescarini. Nominal syntax (and morphology) at the Ligurian/Occitan border. 53rd SLE Meet- ing, WS 8: Contact and the architecture of language faculty, Aug 2020, On line, Romania. hal- 03094935 HAL Id: hal-03094935 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03094935 Submitted on 4 Jan 2021 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Nominal syntax (and morphology) at the Ligurian/Occitan border Diego Pescarini (CNRS, Université Côte d’Azur, BCL)
[email protected] 1. Introduction The talk focuses primarily on the syntax of the noun phrase in Nissart (Niçart/Niçois), the Occitan dialect spoken in the city of Nice (southern France). My goal is to compare Nissart with nearby linguistic systems that are attested in the contact area stretching from the River Var (immediately east of Nice) and the Italian town of Taggia, see Fig. 1. The dialects spoken in this are belong to two Romance subgroups: southern Occitan (Sauzet and Oliviéri 2016) and Intemelian Ligurian (Forner 1986). Fig. 1 – Contact area between southern Occitan and (Intemelian) Ligurian.