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On temporal deixis and cognitive models in early Indo-European
2013
Crosslinguistic evidence suggest that there are two different (often coexistent) basic cognitive models for time, on the basis of which the world’s languages express time in terms of conceptual metaphor from the source spatial domain to the target temporal domain: i) the Time-based (Time-Reference-Point) model, in which time is conceptualized in terms of sequentially arrayed objects moving in space, so that a temporal event is relative to another earlier or later temporal event; ii) the Ego-based (Ego-Reference-Point) model, which is considered to have a more complex structure in which times are conceptualized as objects relative to a canonical deictic observer (Ego) located at the hic et n…
The Tense-Aspect system between ontogeny and phylogeny: Evidence from the Proto-Indo-European “Injunctive”
2006
This paper examines early inflectional morphology related to the tense-aspect system of Pre-Indo-European by establishing a correlation between ontogeny and phylogeny in language acquisition and development. It will be argued that historical linguistics can shed light on the long-standing debate over the emergence of tense-aspect morphology. More specifically, the so-called Injunctive forms, which are assumed to be the most ancient verbal inflected items tracing back to the Pre-Indo-European language (see, among others, Lehmann 2002), permit us to infer that the initial grammar of the Proto-language was lacking tense morphology. In other words, the residual category of the Injunctive, which…
Towards a reconstruction of Indo-European culture: semantic functions of IE *men-
2002
Indo-European language reconstruction has allowed us to advance some hypotheses with regard to possible reconstructing cultural contents of what has been defined “Indo-European ideology” (Campanile 1992). The method of textual comparison, which compares no longer and not merely single lexical items or single syntactic constructions, but the whole literary systems too, is able to bring out linguistic and extra-linguistic reference contexts. The interest in reconstructing the Indo-European “basic lexicon” is renewed in the light of recent typological criteria of root classification (according to their active or stative meaning): the focus today is on drawing up the so-called “global etymologi…
L'inafferrabile criminale! Il punto (e gli altri segni) su Diabolik
2019
Analisi della punteggiatura in due fascicoli distanti alcuni decenni della pubblicazione a fumetti Diabolik, come esempio dell'evoluzione dei sistemi di punteggiatura di varietà dell'italiano scritto
Recensione a: A. Colobo (a cura di), Il curriculo e l'educazione linguistica
2007
Discontinuity as defocusing. A cognitive interpretation of the so-called discontinuous reciprocal constructions
2011
I intend to analyze a peculiar kind of reciprocal construction, in which the natural symmetry of the complex event is split due both to the defocusing of one participant (O), coded as a comitative, and the foregrounding of the other one (A), coded as a subject controlling the agreement with the verb. This construction (“discontinuous reciprocal construction”, Dimitriadis 2004), involves a “natural reciprocity” (Kemmer 1993) or “mutual configuration” (Haspelmath 2007) of the event (kissing, marring, meeting). Found in many languages, it is well attested in Italian too, both at standard level and at the informal one (1), alongside the prototypical reciprocal one (2): 1. Gianni si sposa/incont…
Recensione a “Goschler J., Stefanowitsch A. (eds.), Variation and change in the encoding of motion events, Human Cognitive Processing (HCP) 41, John …
2016
Variation and change in the encoding of motion events is a thematic collective volume focused on motion event encoding, one of the main topics in Cognitive Linguistics. Edited by Juliana Goschler and Anatol Stefanowitsch, it is the forty-first volume of the Human Cognitive Processing series, a John Benjamins’ interdisciplinary book series concerning research on language(s) and human cognitive faculties. The book results from a theme session of the Fourth International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistic Association.
Ricostruire la diacronia della sintassi ladino-dolomitica con l'aiuto di Joppi. Il caso dei costrutti percettivi
2016
L'articolo discute la duplice variazione che riguarda i costrutti percettivi delle varietà ladine: da un lato l'uso di due forme verbali diverse (gerundi e infiniti preposizionali), e dall'altro le differenze tra questi costrutti in ladino e nelle varietà iberoromanze. Sulla base dei dati tratti principalmente dalla raccolta di testi friuliani di Vincenzo Joppi (1878), si mostrerà come le peculiarità dei costrutti percettivi ladini siano dovute al loro carattere conservativo, ma anche a un'innovazione interna al ladino. This article suggests that a diachronic analysis of a specific syntactic phenomenon in Romance allows us to formulate hypotheses that can be extended to those varieties that…
Rheto-Romance Studies: Language and Linguistics
2022
This article resumes and critically discusses the literature published on Rhaeto-Romance (Romansh in Switzerland, Ladin and Friulian in Northern Italy) in 2019.
Rhaeto-Romance Studies: Language and Linguistics
2020
The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies is an annual critical bibliography of scholarly work done in the modern languages (except English). The bibliography is collaboratively edited under the direction of the general editors. All contributions are in English and written by acknowledged experts in the field.