A hundred yars of studies on Sardinian in L’Italia Dialettale: insights, updates and an in-depth analysis of the verbal morphology of some central Sardinian varietie

Abstract

This article firstly provides a brief excursus into the papers on the Sardinian language published in the journal L'Italia Dialettale (ID) in one hundred years of activity; in the second, more substantial part, taking inspiration from the fundamental essay by Max Leopold Wagner on the verbal and nominal morphology of Sardinian published in ID 14-15 (1938-1939), the organisation of the paradigms of some high-frequency verbs characterised by stem polymorphism or stem suppletivism is re-examined in the light of some new data from central Sardinia (Barbagia di Ollolai and Nuoro, Alto-Oristano). In some cases the ‘regularisation’ strategies follow the L-morphomic pattern (see Aronoff 1994 and Maiden 2011, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2021) but we find different solutions depending on the language variety under consideration.