Mauro Tosco

List of John Benjamins publications for which Mauro Tosco plays a role.

Titles

Contested Languages: The hidden multilingualism of Europe

Edited by Marco Tamburelli and Mauro Tosco

[Studies in World Language Problems, 8] 2021. vi, 271 pp.
Subjects Applied linguistics | Language policy | Multilingualism | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

Arabic in Contact

Edited by Stefano Manfredi and Mauro Tosco

[Studies in Arabic Linguistics, 6] 2018. vi, 372 pp.
Subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Contact Linguistics | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

Afroasiatic: Data and perspectives

Edited by Mauro Tosco

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 339] 2018. vi, 288 pp.
Subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Theoretical linguistics

Arabic-based Pidgins and Creoles

Edited by Stefano Manfredi and Mauro Tosco

Special issue of Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 29:2 (2014) v, 253 pp.
Subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

Articles

Duberti, Nicola and Mauro Tosco 2021 Chapter 11. Teaching Piedmontese: A challenge?Contested Languages: The hidden multilingualism of Europe, Tamburelli, Marco and Mauro Tosco (eds.), pp. 199–208 | Chapter
Until 2015, Piedmontese, an endangered and contested language spoken in the homonymous region of northwest Italy, had never before been taught in a university context, at least in Italy. After discussing the complex (and still unsettled) juridical status of Piedmontese, the chapter traces the… read more
Tamburelli, Marco and Mauro Tosco 2021 Chapter 1. What are contested languages and why should linguists care?Contested Languages: The hidden multilingualism of Europe, Tamburelli, Marco and Mauro Tosco (eds.), pp. 3–18 | Chapter
The literature on regional and minority languages has seen strong developments in recent years, and new frontiers have been opened on issues of minority language planning and development as well as on issues of speakers’ rights. Nevertheless, there are many varieties that are left in a sort of… read more
Tosco, Mauro 2021 Chapter 3. Democracy: A threat to language diversity?Contested Languages: The hidden multilingualism of Europe, Tamburelli, Marco and Mauro Tosco (eds.), pp. 41–56 | Chapter
This chapter argues that democracy has both theoretical and practical implications that negatively affect the maintenance of language (and cultural) diversity. Attention is paid to the levelling effects of welfare policies, which tend to depress the speakers’ interest in language preservation and… read more
Manfredi, Stefano and Mauro Tosco 2018 Arabic in contact, now and thenArabic in Contact, Manfredi, Stefano and Mauro Tosco (eds.), pp. 1–17 | Chapter
Tosco, Mauro 2018 Afroasiatic: Fresh insights from an “old” language familyAfroasiatic: Data and perspectives, Tosco, Mauro (ed.), pp. 1–7 | Chapter
Manfredi, Stefano, Marie-Claude Simeone-Senelle and Mauro Tosco 2015 Language contact, borrowing and codeswitchingCorpus-based Studies of Lesser-described Languages: The CorpAfroAs corpus of spoken AfroAsiatic languages, Mettouchi, Amina, Martine Vanhove and Dominique Caubet (eds.), pp. 283–308 | Article
Within the larger rubric of language contact we will analyze in this chapter the two phenomena of lexical borrowing and codeswitching as represented in the languages of the CorpAfroAs database. After establishing a theoretical background concerning the difficult distinction between borrowing and… read more
Mettouchi, Amina, Graziano Savà and Mauro Tosco 2015 Cross-linguistic comparability in CorpAfroAsCorpus-based Studies of Lesser-described Languages: The CorpAfroAs corpus of spoken AfroAsiatic languages, Mettouchi, Amina, Martine Vanhove and Dominique Caubet (eds.), pp. 221–255 | Article
One of the aims of CorpAfroAs is to allow queries within and across the language samples composing the corpus. Through the study of phenomena represented in several languages of the corpus (directional morphemes, case, and gender) we show that CorpAfroAs indeed allows the retrieval of a body of… read more
Manfredi, Stefano and Mauro Tosco 2014 The morphosyntax and prosody of topic and focus in Juba ArabicArabic-based Pidgins and Creoles, Manfredi, Stefano and Mauro Tosco (eds.), pp. 319–351 | Article
The article discusses the information structure of Juba Arabic, an Arabic-based pidgincreole of South Sudan, showing how the expression of topic and focus is the result of a complex interaction of morphosyntactic and prosodic means. While the lexical elements used in the expression of topic and… read more
Manfredi, Stefano and Mauro Tosco 2014 IntroductionArabic-based Pidgins and Creoles, Manfredi, Stefano and Mauro Tosco (eds.), pp. 207–210 | Article
Mettouchi, Amina and Mauro Tosco 2011 Impersonal configurations and theticity: The case of meteorological predications in AfroasiaticImpersonal Constructions: A cross-linguistic perspective, Malchukov, Andrej L. and Anna Siewierska (eds.), pp. 307–322 | Article
Impersonal predications are often viewed as structures expressing either agent defocusing, or lack of canonical subject properties. The study of one type of prototypical impersonal predication, meteorological predicates, in various Afroasiatic branches suggests that the subject or agent may not be… read more
The article discusses the information structure of Gawwada, an East Cushitic language of Southwest Ethiopia, along the lines of the Prague School and ­Lambrecht’s (1994) theory. Gawwada does not have any dedicated focus-marking device – contrary to previous preliminary statements and in stark… read more
Tosco, Mauro 2008 Between coordination and subordination in GawwadaInteraction of Morphology and Syntax: Case studies in Afroasiatic, Frajzyngier, Zygmunt and Erin Shay (eds.), pp. 207–226 | Article
Several East and South Cushitic languages of East Africa have a preverbal series of subject markers. They are generally clitics, sometimes phonologically independent words. Like the subject clitics of many Romance varieties, these markers display characteristic restrictions: their paradigm is often… read more
The article analyzes the expression of understood objects in Somali. There is no object pronoun of 3rd person in Somali; this gap is usually interpreted as a “full Ø”, which saturates the valency of a transitive verb and forces a reading with an anaphoric object. The article shows that this is… read more
Tosco, Mauro 2002 When clitics collide: On to have in PiedmonteseDiachronica 19:2, pp. 365–397 | Article
Summary The paper deals with a few aspects of the morphosyntax of clitics in Piedmontese (Western Romance) and their historical development. In Piedmontese an element =l= (orthographically l’) is obligatorily inserted between the Subject Clitics and all and only the inflected forms of “to have”;… read more