Most Sicilian dialects display a monoclausal construction with motion verbs (V1) followed by the connecting element a and a lexical verb (V2) that Cardinaletti and Giusti (2001) call Inflected Construction, henceforth IC (cf. Rohlfs 1969 for a previous attempt at describing this construction). Example (1a) shows 'go' with the transitive verb 'take' and (1b) shows 'come' with the intransitive verb 'eat' in Marsalese, the dialect spoken in Marsala (province of Trapani):
This paper provides an overview of the different dimensions of variation found in the Inflected Construction (IC) (cf. Cardinaletti and Giusti 2001, 2003) arising with motion verbs in most Sicilian dialects. It does so by discussing data from the dialect of Delia (Caltanissetta) at face value with the dialect of Marsala (Trapani). The micro-variation emerging from the discussion challenges Cruschina's (2013) morphomic account; while it is easily captured by Cardinaletti and Giusti's (to appear) hypothesis that a semi-functional V1 fills a remerged functional head (t-T, cC). Merger in t or c is not only restricted to lexically specified forms of V1 but, in given feature combinations, also to lexically specified forms of V2 in T or C.
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