Gallo-Siciliani Initiative

Contact-induced change and sociolinguistics: an experimental study on the Gallo-Italic dialects of Sicily

Research project 'Contact-induced change and sociolinguistics: an experimental study on the Gallo-Italic dialects of Sicily', founded by the European Union – Next Generation EU, Mission 4, Component 1, CUP J53D23017360001 - ID P2022YWS8T

Ontologies and Software

The following OWL vocabularies and datasets have been developed in the scope of this project.

• The Linguistic Phenomena Ontology (LiPh)
• Gallo-Sicilian features
• Nouns and Verbs of the Gallo-Italic variety spoken in Nicosia and Sperlinga

The whole production workflow for the ontology of Nouns and Verbs of the Gallo-Italic variety spoken in Nicosia and Sperlinga, aside with all the software tools and intermediate products, is available in the workflow page.

In addition, the Gallo-Siciliani github repository provide all the source codes of these tools.

Research Papers

The scientific works funded by the project are the followings:

• The Strange Case of the Gallo-Italic Dialects of Sicily: Preservation and Innovation in Contact-Induced Change
• Sulla creatività linguistica della perifrasi ‘mostrare a’ + infinito nel dialetto galloitalico di Nicosia
• Contact-induced change in Sicilian Gallo-Italic. The multipurpose Aviri a + Infinitive Construction in the dialect of Nicosia
• An OWL Ontology for Linguistic Phenomena with Applications to Gallo-Italic Dialects in Sicily
• Grammatiche scisse nel contatto linguistico: il caso delle minoranze galloitaliche in Sicilia. Parte prima
• Sulla questione dell’alternanza tra perfetto analitico e perfetto sintetico in siciliano
• REVISITING SYNTACTIC MICROVARIATION AND DIACHRONY IN THE DUAL COMPLEMENTIZER SYSTEMS OF UPPER SOUTHERN ITALY
• Bad rules, good rules: il caso della marcatura differenziale dell’oggetto in un dialetto galloitalico di Sicilia