Department of Italian

Department of Italian

ADAM LEDGEWAY

Books

• Ledgeway, Adam, 2000. A comparative syntax of the dialects of southern Italy: a minimalist approach. Oxford: Blackwell, xvi + 329 pp.
• Ledgeway, Adam, 2009. Grammatica diacronica del dialetto napoletano. (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie Band 350). Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag. Click here for details.
• Ledgeway, Adam, 2012. From Latin to Romance: Morphosyntactic typology and change. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Click here for details.
• Ledgeway, Adam, in prep. The Syntax of Abruzzese and Molisano (with Roberta D'Alessandro).

Edited books and Journals

• Ledgeway, Adam, 2003- Co-editor of The Italianist (with A. Brundin, C. Honess, D. La Penna, B. Richardson, L. Sampson). Click here for details.
• Ledgeway, Adam, 2007. Sui dialetti italoromanzi. Saggi in onore di Nigel B. Vincent (The Italianist 27, Special supplement 1). Norfolk: Biddles, 316 pp. (with Delia Bentley).
• Ledgeway, Adam, 2008. Didattica della lingua italiana: Testo e contesto. Perugia: Guerra, 195 pp. (with Anna Laura Lepschy). Click here for details.
• Ledgeway, Adam, 2010. Syntactic variation. The dialects of Italy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (with Roberta D'Alessandro, Ian Roberts), xvi + 351 pp. Click here for details.
• Ledgeway, Adam, 2010. In and out of Italy: lingua e cultura della migrazione italiana. Perugia: Guerra. Click here for details.
• Ledgeway, Adam, 2010- Co-editor of Oxford University Press linguistics series Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics (with Ian Roberts). Click here for details.
• Ledgeway, Adam, 2010. The Cambridge history of the Romance languages. Vol. 1: Structures. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (with Martin Maiden and John Charles Smith). Click here for details.
• Ledgeway, Adam, 2011. Le comunità immigranti nel Regno Unito: Il caso di Bedford. Perugia: Guerra, 119 pp. (with Anna Laura Lepschy).
• Ledgeway, Adam, in prep. The Cambridge history of the Romance languages. Vol. 2: Contexts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (with Martin Maiden and John Charles Smith).
• Ledgeway, Adam, in prep. Oxford Handbook of the Romance Languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press (with Martin Maiden).
• Ledgeway, Adam, in prep. The Cambridge Handbook of Historical Syntax. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (with Ian Roberts).
• Ledgeway, Adam, in prep. Diachrony and dialects. Grammatical change in the dialects of Italy. Oxford: Oxford University Press (with Paola Benincà and Nigel Vincent).
• Ledgeway, Adam (in prep.), Joseph Cremona, The dialect of the Vallée d'Aure (Hautes-Pyrénées). Oxford: Blackwell (with Martin Maiden).

Book chapters

• Ledgeway, Adam, 1998. 'La ristrutturazione in napoletano', in Giovanni Ruffino (ed.), Atti del XXI Congresso Internazionale di Linguistica e Filologia Romanza. Centro di s tudi filologici e linguistici siciliani, Università di Palermo 18-24 settembre 1995. Sezione 2 Morfologia e sintassi delle lingue romanze, Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 529-541.
• Ledgeway, Adam, 1998, 'Avé(re) and esse(re) alternation in Neapolitan', in Olga Fullana and Francesc Roca (eds), Studies on the syntax of central Romance languages, University of Girona, 123-147.
• Ledgeway, Adam, 2000, 'Dialect syntax and generative grammar', in Giulio Lepschy and Prue Shaw (eds), A linguistics round-table on dictionaries and the history of the language, University College London, Centre for Italian Studies, Occasional Papers 4:73-89.
• Ledgeway, Adam, 2003. 'Linguistic theory and the mysteries of Italian dialects', in Anna Laura Lepschy and Arturo Tosi (eds), Multilingualism in Italy: past and present. Oxford: Legenda, 108-140.
• Ledgeway, Adam, 2006. 'The dual complementiser system in southern Italy: spirito greco, materia romanza?', in Anna Laura Lepschy and Arturo Tosi (eds), Rethinking languages in contact: The case of Italian. Oxford: Legenda, 112-26.
• Ledgeway, Adam, 2007. 'Diachrony and finiteness: subordination in the dialects of southern Italy', in Irina Nikolaeva (ed.), Finiteness: Theoretical and empirical foundations. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 335-65.
• Ledgeway, Adam, 2007. 'Introduzione', in Delia Bentley and Adam Ledgeway (eds), Sui dialetti italoromanzi. Saggi in onore di Nigel B. Vincent (The Italianist 27, Special supplement 1). Norfolk: Biddles, 15-21 (with Delia Bentley).
• Ledgeway, Adam, 2007. 'La posizione dell'aggettivo nella storia del napoletano', in Delia Bentley and Adam Ledgeway (eds), Sui dialetti italoromanzi. Saggi in onore di Nigel B. Vincent(The Italianist 27, Special supplement 1). Norfolk: Biddles, 104-25.
• Ledgeway, Adam, 2007. 'Old Neapolitan word order: some initial observations', in Anna Laura Lepschy and Arturo Tosi (eds), Histories and dictionaries of the languages of Italy. Ravenna: Longo, 121-49.
• Ledgeway, Adam, 2008. 'Understanding dialect: some Neapolitan examples' in Adam Ledgeway and Anna Laura Lepschy (eds), Didattica della lingua italiana: Testo e contesto. Perugia: Guerra, 99-111.
• Ledgeway, Adam, 2008. 'Introduzione' in Adam Ledgeway and Anna Laura Lepschy (eds), Didattica della lingua italiana: Testo e contesto. Perugia: Guerra, 9-10 (with Anna Laura Lepschy).
• Ledgeway, Adam 2009. 'Aspetti della sintassi della periferia sinistra del cosentino', in Diego Pescarini (ed.), Studi sui dialetti della Calabria (Quaderni di lavoro ASIt n.9). Padua: Unipress, 3-24.
• Ledgeway, Adam, 2010. 'The clausal domain: CP structure and the left periphery', in Roberta D'Alesssandro, Adam Ledgeway and Ian Roberts (eds), Syntactic variation: The dialects of Italy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 38-51.
• Ledgeway, Adam, 2010. 'Syntactic variation and the dialects of Italy: an overview', in Roberta D'Alesssandro, Adam Ledgeway and Ian Roberts (eds), Syntactic variation: The dialects of Italy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1-3.
• Ledgeway, Adam, 2010 'The Abruzzese T-v system: feature spreading and the double auxiliary construction', in Roberta D'Alesssandro, Adam Ledgeway & Ian Roberts (eds), Syntactic variation. The dialects of Italy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 201-09 (with Roberta D'Alessandro).
• Ledgeway, Adam, 2010. 'Introduzione', in Adam Ledgeway, and Anna Laura Lepschy (eds), Into and out of Italy. lingua e cultura della migrazione italiana. Perugia: Guerra, 11-12 (with Anna Laura Lepschy).
• Ledgeway, Adam, 2010. 'Syntactic and morphosyntactic typology and change', in Adam Ledgeway, Martin Maiden & John Charles Smith (eds), The Cambridge history of the Romance languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Ledgeway, Adam, 2010. 'Introduction', in Adam Ledgeway, Martin Maiden & John Charles Smith (eds), The Cambridge history of the Romance languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, X-XX (with Martin Maiden and John Charles Smith).
• Ledgeway, Adam, 2010. 'Subject licensing in CP: The Neapolitan double-subject construction', in Paola Benincà and Nicola Munaro (eds), Mapping the left periphery. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Ledgeway, Adam, 2010. 'Lingua italiana in bocca calabra: Italian in Calabria', in Vilma De Gasparin (ed.), Ciò che potea la lingua nostra. Lectures and Essays in Memory of Clara Florio Cooper, (The Italianist 30, Special supplement 1). Norfolk: Biddles, pp. 95-120.
• Ledgeway, Adam, 2011. 'Grammaticalization from Latin to Romance', in Heiko Narrog & Bernd Heine (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Grammaticalization, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Ledgeway, Adam, 2011. 'Syntactic and morphosyntactic typology and change', in Adam Ledgeway, Martin Maiden & John Charles Smith (eds), The Cambridge history of the Romance languages. Volume 1: Structures. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 382-471, 724-34.
• Ledgeway, Adam, 2011. 'Introduction', in Adam Ledgeway, Martin Maiden & John Charles Smith (eds), The Cambridge history of the Romance languages. Volume 1: Structures. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (with Martin Maiden and John Charles Smith), pp. xvii-xxii.
• Ledgeway, Adam, 2011. 'Il ruolo del dialetto nell'apprendimento dell'italiano L2: alcuni esempi napoletani', in Annamaria Lamarra and Michela Cennamo (eds), Italiano lingua seconda/straniera. Competenza d'uso e integrazione, Naples: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 109-22.
• Ledgeway, Adam, 2011. 'Grammaticalization from Latin to Romance', in Heiko Narrog & Bernd Heine (eds), Handbook of Grammaticalization, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 719-28.
• Ledgeway, Adam, 2011. 'Introduzione', in Adam Ledgeway and Anna Laura Lepschy (eds), Le comunità immigranti nel Regno Unito: Il caso di Bedford, Perugia: Guerra, pp. 11-12 (with Anna Laura Lepschy).
• Ledgeway, Adam, 2011. 'Interview with the Mingalone Family of Bedford', in Adam Ledgeway and Anna Laura Lepschy (eds), Le comunità immigranti nel Regno Unito: Il caso di Bedford, Perugia: Guerra, 75-78 (with Anna Laura Lepschy).
• Ledgeway, Adam, in press. 'La sopravvivenza del sistema dei doppi complementatori nei dialetti meridionali', in Patrizia Del Puente (ed.), Dialetti: Per Parlare e Per Parlarne. Secondo Convegno Internazionale di Dialettologia. Progetto dell'Atlante Linguistico della Basilicata.
• Ledgeway, Adam, in press. 'Reconstructing complementiser-drop in the dialects of the Salento: A syntactic or phonological phenomenon?', in Theresa Biberauer and George Walkden (eds), Diachronic Generative Syntax XII Meeting, University of Cambridge.
• Ledgeway, Adam, in prep. 'The verb phrase', in Giuseppe Longobardi (ed.), the Syntax of Italian, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (with Ian Roberts).
• Ledgeway, Adam, in prep. 'The development of the southern subjunctive: morphological loss and syntactic gain', in Paola Benincà, Adam Ledgeway and Nigel Vincent (eds), Diachrony and dialects. Grammatical change in the dialects of Italy. Oxford: Oxford University Press (with Alessandra Lombardi).
• Ledgeway, Adam, in prep. 'From Latin to Romance syntax: the great leap', in Paola Crisma and Giuseppe Longobardi (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Diachronic and Historical Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Journal Articles

• Ledgeway, Adam, 1996. 'La ristrutturazione e i verbi modali-aspettuali in napoletano', in Robert Hastings (ed.), Centro di dialettologia e linguistica italiana di Manchester, Quaderni di Ricerca 1, 62-82.
• Ledgeway, Adam, 1997. 'Asyndetic complementation in Neapolitan dialect', The Italianist 17, 231-273.
• Ledgeway, Adam, 1998. 'Variation in the Romance infinitive: the case of the southern Calabrian inflected infinitive', Transactions of the Philological Society 96, 1-61.
• Ledgeway, Adam, 1997-1999. 'I tempi sovraccomposti nel napoletano antico', L'Italia dialettale, LX, 105-124.
• Ledgeway, Adam, 2003. 'L'estensione dell'ausiliare perfettivo avere nell'antico napoletano: intransitività scissa condizionata da fattori modali', Archivio Glottologico Italiano, LXXXVIII: 27-71.
• Ledgeway, Adam, 2003 [2004]. 'Il sistema completivo dei dialetti meridionali: la doppia serie di complementatori'. Rivista italiana di dialettologia 27: 89-147.
• Ledgeway, Adam, 2004. 'Lo sviluppo dei dimostrativi nei dialetti centromeridionali', Lingua e Stile XXXIX:65-112.
• Ledgeway, Adam, 2005. 'Moving through the left periphery: the dual complementiser system in the dialects of southern Italy' Transactions of the Philological Society 103:336-96.
• Ledgeway, Adam, 2005. 'Verb movement, adverbs and clitic positions in Romance', Probus 17: 79-113 (with Alessandra Lombardi).
• Ledgeway, Adam, 2007. 'Osservatorio linguistico: La sintassi dei dialetti meridionali', La lingua italiana. Storia, strutture, testi, 3:161-70.
• Ledgeway, Adam, 2008. 'Satisfying V2 in early Romance: Merge vs Move' .Journal of Linguistics 44: 437-70.
• Ledgeway, Adam, 2008. 'Sulla storia dei verbi copulari dei dialetti dell'alto Meridione: il caso del napoletano', The Italianist 28: 281-301.
• Ledgeway, Adam, 2009. 'La grammatica diacronica del napoletano: problemi e metodi', Bollettino Linguistico Campano 15/16: 1-72.
• Ledgeway, Adam, 2010. 'At the C-T boundary: Investigating Abruzzese complementation' , Lingua 120:2040-2060 (with Roberta D'Alessandro).
• Ledgeway, Adam, 2011. 'When Theory Meets Data: the Case of the Placiti Cassinesi', in Sylvia Adamson and Wendy Bennett (eds), Language, Text, & History: Linguistics and Philology in the 21st Century. Oxford: Blackwell. Special Issue of the Transactions of the Philological Society, 110: 7-13.
• Ledgeway, Adam, in press. 'Adverb agreement and split intransitivity: Evidence from southern Italy', to appear in Archivio glottologico italiano.
• Ledgeway, Adam, in prep. 'From Latin to Romance: the rise of configurationality, functional categories and head-marking', in Johanna Barodal, Michela Cennamo and Elly van Gelderen (eds), Argument Realization and Change. Oxford: Blackwell. Special Issue of the Transactions of the Philological Society.
• Ledgeway, Adam, in prep. 'The faire-par and faire-infinitive causative constructions: evidence from the Cosentino imperative' (with Alessandra Lombardi).
• Ledgeway, Adam, in press. 'The grammaticalisation of progressive and andative aspect in the dialects of Apulia'.

Other Contributions

• 1998. A. Giacalone Ramat and P. Ramat, 'Preface', The Indo-European languages. London: Routledge, pp. xiii-xviii, translated by A. Ledgeway.
• 1998. E. Vineis, 'Latin', in A. Giacalone Ramat and P. Ramat (eds), The Indo- European languages. London: Routledge, pp. 261-321, translated by A. Ledgeway.
• Ledgeway, Adam 1998. 'Italian Studies. Language', in Stephen Parkinson (ed.), The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, Modern Humanities Research Association, 60:349-72 ( with Alessandra Lombardi).
• Ledgeway, Adam 1999. 'Italian Studies. Language', in Stephen Parkinson (ed.), The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, Modern Humanities Research Association, 61:373-93 ( with Alessandra Lombardi).
• Ledgeway, Adam 2000-01. 'Italian Studies. Language', in Stephen Parkinson (ed.), The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, Modern Humanities Research Association, 63:343-72 ( with Alessandra Lombardi).

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