Phenomena of Contact and Mixing in the Arbëresh Dialects of San Marzano di San Giuseppe in Salento and Vena di Maida in Calabria

In this work, we will investigate hybridization, borrowing, and grammatical reorganization phenomena in the Arbëresh dialects of San Marzano (Apulia) Vena di Maida (central Calabria). The data from S. Benedetto Ullano (northern Calabria) be useful to provide a comparative frame. is name Albanian varieties spoken villages/cities generally formed late fifteenth century by communities fleeing Albania as consequence Ottoman occupation. long-time contact with neighboring Romance reflected extended mixing which characterize lexicon morphosyntactic organization heritage language. This particularly evident two that contribution, where relexification us an interesting testing ground explain language variation.