Parametrizing dialect microvariation: the Reggio Emilia database

The comparative analysis of the variation observed in the nominal domain across the dialects of Italy is based on the parameter system used in Ceolin et al (2021) and on (a slightly updated version of) the questionnaire described in Crisma, Guardiano and Longobardi (2020) and Crisma et al (2024).

So far (May 2026), data have been collected from the languages shown in the map below. A table with detailed information about glottocodes, isocodes, language groups, geographical locations and coordinates can be found at the bottom of this page.

Cristina Guardiano and Vincenzo Stalfieri. 2025. Comparazione parametrica e strutture nominali. Alcune note dalla Sicilia galloitalica. In Elvira Assenza, Angela Castiglione, Alessandro De Angelis, and Salvatore Menza (eds), I dialetti galloitalici di Sicilia tra resistenza e assimilazione, 163–192. Centro Studi Filologici Linguistici Siciliani, Palermo.

Emanuela Li Destri, Marco Longhin, Gaia Sorge, Sofia Ferroni, Giovanni B. Matteazzi, Andrea Artioli, Lorenzo Carletti, Federico Motta, Giuseppe Longobardi & Cristina Guardiano (2026) Handling Cross-Dialect Syntactic Variation. A Theory-Driven Web Resource. In Anasastasopoulos, A. et al. (eds), Proceedings of Workshop on Dialects in NLP — A Resource Perspective (DialRes) @ LREC 2026, 70-82.

Number Morphology and Bare Nouns

Below you find the data concerning the distribution of bare argument nominals collected in the 29 dialects investigated in the following paper:

Guardiano Cristina, Michela Cambria and Vincenzo Stalfieri (2022) Number Morphology and Bare Nouns in Some Romance Dialects of Italy. Languages 7: 255.

Further material, currently under investigation, is discussed in the following abstract (GRAMS, Dublin, May 24-26 2026). Download the abstract.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The material found in this section is part of the Supplementary Material attached to Guardiano et al. (2022). Please, cite it as follows: 

Guardiano Cristina, Michela Cambria and Vincenzo Stalfieri (2022) Number Morphology and Bare Nouns in Some Romance Dialects of Italy. Languages 7: 255. https://doi.org/10.3390/ languages7040255, Supplementary Material available at https://www.parametricomparison.unimore.it/ultralocality/, accessed on DD/MM/YYYY.

Guardiano et al’s (2022) dialects

1. Casalmaggiore
2. Parma
3. Reggio Emilia
4. Novellara
5. Correggio
6. Savignano sul Rubicone
7. Teramo
8. Santa Maria Capua Vetere
9. Amalfi
10. Palma Campania
11. Felitto
12. Bari
13. Barletta
14. Taranto
15. Francavilla in Sinni
16. Verbicaro
17. Cellino San Marco
18. Mesagne
19. Botrugno
20. Cutro
21. Nicastro
22. Catanzaro
23. Reggio Calabria
24. San Filippo del Mela
25. Ragusa
26. Ribera
27. Mussomeli
28. Trapani
29. Aidone 

An overview of the dialectal structure of Italy

This page collects some reports written by Vincenzo Stalfieri about some major dialectal areas of Italy investigated through the PCM.