LES TEMPS VERBAUX ET LA VARIATION DE LA PERSONNE EN FRIOULAN
VERB TENSES AND SUBJECT VARIATION IN THE FRIOULAN LANGUAGE

Summary/Abstract: Verb Tenses and Subject Variation in the Frioulan Language. The research is about the dialect of Bannia, a Frioulan village situated at the borderline between the Venetian language and the Frioulan language. We present the verb tenses of the Frioulan language (simple, compound and double-compound tenses) as well as the variation of the subject personal pronouns connected to the verb in assertive, interrogative and negative contexts. In comparison with the Italian language, the Venetian language and the other Romance languages are particularly underlined: the pronoun ‘tu’ with its double value of tonic pronoun and of connected atonic pronoun (ex.: tu tu fevelis, ‘toi, tu parles’; tu non tu amis, ‘toi, tu n’aimes pas’), the reflexive pronoun with a larger extension than in Italian (ex.: si lavasio?, ‘Vous, vous lavez?’) and also si lavial? ‘il se lave?’ or si lavie? ‘elle se lave?’. Whereas the standard Italian language uses no subject personal pronoun connected to the verb and the Venetian language presents three forms out of six (the second and the third persons singular and the third plural), by contrast, the central Frioulan language, as in the dialect of Bannia, has all its unaccented personal pronouns functioning as subject and connected to the verb.

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