Universita’ degli Studi di Firenze Dipartimento di Lingue, Letterature e Studi Interculturali Biblioteca di Studi di Filologia Moderna: Collana, Riviste e Laboratorio Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali Working Papers in Linguistics and Oriental Studies 1 Editor M. Rita Manzini firenze university press 2015 Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali / Working Papers in Linguistics and Oriental Studies - n. 1, 2015 ISSN 2421-7220 ISBN 978-88-6655-832-3 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.13128/QULSO-2421-7220-1 Direttore Responsabile: Beatrice Töttössy CC 2015 Firenze University Press La rivista è pubblicata on-line ad accesso aperto al seguente indirizzo: www.fupress.com/bsfm-qulso The products of the Publishing Committee of Biblioteca di Studi di Filologia Moderna: Collana, Riviste e Laboratorio (<http://www.lilsi.unifi.it/vp-82-laboratorio-editoriale-open-access-ricerca- formazione-e-produzione.html>) are published with financial support from the Department of Languages, Literatures and Intercultural Studies of the University of Florence, and in accordance with the agreement, dated February 10th 2009 (updated February 19th 2015), between the De- partment, the Open Access Publishing Workshop and Firenze University Press. 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Rita Manzini, Università degli Studi di Firenze Comitato scientifico / Scientific Advisory Board Claude Audebert, Université d'Aix-Marseille Fabrizia Baldissera, Università degli Studi di Firenze Andrea Calabrese, University of Connecticut Elisabetta Carpitelli, Université de Grenoble Guglielmo Cinque, Università di Venezia Ca’ Foscari Riccardo Contini, Università L’Orientale di Napoli Roberta D’Alessandro, Universiteit Leiden John Denton, Università degli Studi di Firenze Francesca Ditifeci, Università degli Studi di Firenze Steven Fassberg, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Marina Foschi, Università degli Studi di Pisa Francesca Fraccaro, Università degli Studi di Firenze Marcello Garzaniti, Università degli Studi di Firenze Maria Teresa Guasti, Università di Milano Bicocca Adam Ledgeway, Cambridge University M. Rita Manzini, Università degli Studi di Firenze Antonio Moreno-Sandoval, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Anna Roussou, University of Patras Michael Ryzhik, Bar-Ilan University, Israel Leonardo M. Savoia, Università degli Studi di Firenze Giuseppe Scattolin, Università Gregoriana, Roma Aldo Tollini, Università di Venezia Ca’ Foscari Beatrice Tottossy, Università degli Studi di Firenze Sun Yixue, Tongji University, Shanghai Ida Zatelli, Università degli Studi di Firenze Comitato di Redazione / Editorial Board John Denton, Università degli Studi di Firenze Francesca Ditifeci, Università degli Studi di Firenze Francesca Fraccaro, Università degli Studi di Firenze Marcello Garzaniti, Università degli Studi di Firenze Rosangela Lai, Università degli Studi di Firenze M. Rita Manzini, Università degli Studi di Firenze Leonardo M. Savoia, Università degli Studi di Firenze Ida Zatelli, Università degli Studi di Firenze Segretario di redazione / Editorial Assistant Rosangela Lai, Università degli Studi di Firenze Caporedattore / Managing Editor and Journal Manager Arianna Antonielli, Università degli Studi di Firenze Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali / Working Papers in Linguistics and Oriental Studies n. 1 (2015), p. 7 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.13128/QULSO-2421-7220-16864 Contents From the Editor 9 Some Considerations on the ’s Morpheme in English: Acquisition and Theory 13 Elisa Di Domenico World-Initial Geminates in Sardinian 37 Rosangela Lai Auxiliaries and Verb Classes in Child Italian: A Syntactic Analysis of the Development of Aspect 61 Paolo Lorusso Acquiring Romance Causatives: Evidence from Child Italian 89 Giulia Bellucci Syntactic Protocols to Enhance Inclusive Cultural Identity. A Case Study on Istro-Romanian Clausal Structure 117 Giuliana Giusti, Iulia Zegrean (De)Legitimization Strategies in the “Austere Prose” of Palmiro Togliatti 139 Benedetta Baldi, Ludovico Franco Compliment Patterning among Young Speakers: A Diachronic and Transnational Study of English and Dubbed Italian Film Dialogue 159 Debora Ciampi Translation Techniques and Interpretative Phenomena in the Greek Version of Shadow’ 179‘ צֵ ל the Hebrew Bible: A Study of the Figurative Use of the Noun Romina Vergari Chinese Students’ Development of Textual Competence in L2 Italian: A Corpus-Based Study 205 Andrea Scibetta The Role ofkunten Materials in the Process of Sino-Japanese Hybridization 233 Valerio Luigi Alberizzi Contributors 259 ISSN 2421-7220 (online) www.fupress.com/bsfm-qulso 2015 Firenze University Press Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali / Working Papers in Linguistics and Oriental Studies n. 1 (2015), pp. 9-11 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.13128/QULSO-2421-7220-16513 From the Editor It is a great pleasure to introduce readers to the first issue of this new journal, originating in a project of the Linguistics and Oriental Studies Section (Sezione di Studi Linguistici e Orientali) of the Department of Languages, Liter- atures and Intercultural Studies (LILSI), University of Florence and produced by the Department’s Open Access Publishing Workshop (LabOA), directed by Prof. Beatrice Töttössy. It follows on from the Quaderni del Dipartimento di Linguistica dell’Università di Firenze (1990-2012), published under the direction of Prof. Leonardo M. Savoia by the Department of Linguistics, where several of the people involved in the new journal previously worked. Our journal, issuing from the linguistic and orientalist components of LILSI, reflects their scientific and research interests. It aims to provide a forum for scholarly debate concerning the analysis of the various aspects of language, open to the community of linguists and oriental scholars in Italy and abroad, and highlighting the contributions of younger scholars whose research is being and was supervised by members of the Department. The current issue well exemplifies these general aims and the range of thematic areas that the journal covers. The article by Prof. Giuliana Giusti and Dr. Iulia Zegrean on the structure of Istro-Romanian (a variety of eastern Romance spoken in the Istrian peninsula in Croatia, also named Vlaški or Žejanski) illustrates the decades-long collaboration between some of the some of the Florence linguists, including myself and Prof. Savoia, and linguists at Venice Ca’ Foscari University, recently manifested in a shared interest in minority languages and languages in contact. Another strength of Florence linguistics is phonological research, specifically on varieties of Romance. Dr. Rosangela Lai, currently a post-doctoral researcher in Florence, contributes an article on word-initial geminates in Sardinian. She observes that it is uncommon for languages to display phonological contrasts between simplex and geminate obstruents, though Italian does. Sardinian displays an even rarer phonological contrast of this kind in word-initial position, which Lai insightfully analyzes in terms of the CVCV Theory of phonology. Several of the linguistics contributions illustrate another interest thriving among the scholars who have been or are associated with Florence, namely first and second language acquisition, seen in a theoretical perspective. Prof. Elisa Di Domenico (Università per Stranieri di Perugia), who held a temporary ISSN 2421-7220 (online) www.fupress.com/bsfm-qulso 2015 Firenze University Press 10 m. rita manzini position in Florence at the beginning of her career, writes on the acquisition of English as a second language. She uncovers the very intriguing fact that genitival ’s and copular ’s being considered one and the same morpheme by her experimental subjects leads one to reconsider their (distinct or common) status theoretically. Giulia Bellucci and Paolo Lorusso, both students fol- lowing the Linguistics curriculum of the PhD Program of the Department, write on first language acquisition. Lorusso considers the acquisition of the present perfect in children’s Italian, confirming that the Aktionsart of verbs is relevant for the productivity of early auxiliaries; more specifically, and quite interestingly, the perfective reading is maximally difficult with unergatives, while it is favoured by the presence of an internal argument (in unaccusatives and transitives). Bellucci provides experimental data concerning both Faire- Infinitive causatives in 3 to 6 years olds, showing that by the