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Let (it) snow<\/span><\/span><\/h2>
Expletives with weather verbs in Trentino and Venetan dialects<\/span><\/span><\/h5><\/div><\/div>
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In the area of syntax, there are many notable differences between standard Italian and the Italo-Romance dialects. In this section we will look at how weather verbs are formed in the dialects spoken in the region of Veneto and the autonomous province of Trento, based on the article by Tomaselli & Bidese<\/a> (2023). To say \u2018it has snowed\u2019 in Italian, one would say ha\/\u00e8 nevicato<\/em>. However, in the dialects spoken in Trento (as well as in some Venetan varieties), you would have to add in the clitic pronoun el or l\u2019\u00a0<\/em>(known as either expletive or impersonal subject pronoun) to form a grammatical sentence. So instead of standard Italian ‘ha\/\u00e8 nevicato<\/em>‘ (has\/is snowed), in many dialects you might find something like ‘L<\/strong><\/span>‘a neveg\u00e0<\/em>‘ (it<\/strong><\/span> has snowed). Audio files collected in the AlpiLinK and VinKo projects, confirm this: listen to the sentences in (1) for two examples from the province of Trento.<\/p>\n

(1) L<\/strong><\/span>‘a fioc\u00e0 <\/em>(it has snowed)\u00a0\/a le aute l<\/strong><\/span>‘a floc\u00e0 e a le basse l<\/strong><\/span>‘a plovu <\/em>(up in the mountain it has snowed and down in the valley it has rained)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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