La negazione di frase: forme e funzioni. Studi di caso nel dominio italoromanzo

In this dissertation, I investigate the strategies of sentence negation realized through co-etymological forms that can be found in the Italian varieties and the Italo-Romance dialects spoken in Lavello (PZ) and Vertova (BG). I analyse the outcomes of the Jespersen’s cycle that involves particle deriving from Latin mīca(m) (‘crumb’) in the considered varieties. I also consider the consequences of language contact between the Italo-Romance dialects and the regional varieties of Italian, underling the bidirectionality of the dynamic and relating the functions covered by the negative particles with the notion of (inter)subjectivity.