Partitivo e articolo indeterminativo plurale nel piemontese parlato contemporaneo

The extent to which Italian can affect the syntax of contemporary, spoken Piedmontese, and how this comes about can be seen in several linguistic features: the indefinite article and the partitive determiners are an example. In Italian, the indefinite article and the partitive determiner have varying degrees of definitiveness of non-omission and omission. By contrast, despite usage of the indefinite and partitive determiners in Piedmontese being parallel to that in Italian up to the nineteenth century, these forms merged into a single, over-extended and non-omissible invariable deled, in the koine as the rule in all cases. The influence of Italian on the one hand and the weakening of the koine as a reference point because of its local variability on the other may have brought about the morphological (invariable vs. articulated) and syntactic (non-omission vs. omission) variations which are now seen in the spoken language, borne out by a corpus of informal speech compared diachronically and synchronically to written texts.