Riflessi dell’emigrazione nei dialetti irpini: uno spoglio dei dizionari dialettali

This paper researches the role of English borrowings in some dialectal varieties spoken in South of Italy. It focuses on the study of English borrowing included in some dictionaries of some dialects of Southern Italy, with particular attention to the area of Avellino, which has been involved in emigration process since the last decades of XIX century. The present study questions if and how migrants played a role in the process of change of their own dialect of origin and, in particular, if their L2 had an impact on the dialectal varieties. In this paper, I will investigate (a) the presence of English borrowings in the lexicographic tradition of Irpinia dialects; (b) the process of integration of these loanwords.