R: Re: R: Italian Particles

Raymond Brown wrote:

> >in Italian (=Tuscanian) we don't
> >have these particles; they're caratteristic of some Northern Italian
> >dialects.
>
> ....which are not regarded _linguistically_ as Italian!  Northern Italian
> dialects in the political sense only.  AFAIK this phenomenon is found only
> in Friulan (and other RhetoRomance dialects?) and in the so-called
> GalloItalic dialects (Piedmontese, Milanese etc).
I gave some exemples of how these particles work in my dialect, that of
Como - 30 kms from Milan - which is GalloItalic

> They are not, as Luca rightly says, characteristic of standard Italian
> (i.e. "Tuscan as spoken by Romans") nor AFAIK of any of the various
> dialects found in central or southern Italy.
I don't know very well central (Toscanian excluded, obviously!) and southern
dialects, but I've never heard someone using particles as these.

Luca