PRIMI APPUNTI SULLA MANIPOLAZIONE DELL’ASSEGNAZIONE DEL GENERE IN SANVALENTINESE
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https://doi.org/10.24193/subbphilo.2020.4.20Keywords:
gender, number, recategorization, inflectional class, overdifferentiation, collective plural, Romance dialectology, metaphony.Abstract
Preliminary Notes on Gender Assignment Manipulation in Sanvalentinese. This contribution draws attention on a peculiar feature of the Italo-Romance dialect spoken in San Valentino in Abruzzo Citeriore, where a subgroup of feminine nouns displays both feminine and masculine plural options.
Gender shift to masculine in the plural seems to be exploited to obtain semantic differences related to countability and evaluation, namely to refer respectively to weak differentiation and pejorative meaning. This phenomenon, known as recategorization or gender assignment manipulation, is rather common in African languages of different families, but less pervasive and systematic in Romance.
Gender and recategorization in Sanvalentinese are discussed in relation to inflectional classes, of which this contribution provides a sketch.
REZUMAT. Prime note asupra manipulării genului gramatical în dialectul sanvalentinian. Această contribuție atrage atenția asupra unei trăsături particulare a dialectului italo-roman vorbit în San Valentino, în zona Abruzzo Citerior, unde un subgrup de substantive feminine prezintă atât un plural feminin, cât și unul masculin.
Schimbarea de gen la plural pare să fie utilizată spre a obține anumite diferențe semantice legate de numărabilitate și de evaluare, mai ales în ceea ce privește referirea la entități greu de diferențiat într-un ansamblu sau pentru a ascunde un sens peiorativ. Acest fenomen, cunoscut ca recategorizare sau manipulare de gen, este mai degrabă specific limbilor africane ce aparțin unor familii diferite și mai puțin caracteristic ori sistematic în limbile romanice.
Discuția asupra genului și a recategorizării sunt abordate în contextul claselor nonflexionale ale dialectului sanvalentinian, a căror descriere e prezentă, de asemenea, în acest articol.
Cuvinte-cheie: gen, număr, recategorizare, clase flexionale, supradiferenţiere, plural colectiv, dialectologie romanică, metafonie.
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