This work sets out to explore the phenomenon of double past participle forms exhibited by certain verbs across the Sicilian dialects. It starts with the definition of the past participial class. It then attempts an overview of this... more
This work sets out to explore the phenomenon of double past participle forms exhibited by certain verbs across the Sicilian dialects. It starts with the definition of the past participial class. It then attempts an overview of this phenomenon in various Romance varieties and moves to the analysis of the phenomenon of the past participial doublets in selected modern literary sources. The final part provides discussion of the second part of my data col- lection, in which I asked some native speakers of various Sicilian dialects to translate 52 sentences containing past participle (used in different func- tions) in standard Italian into their linguistic varieties.
