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Segnare, parlare, intendersi: modalità e forme
2012
Processi cognitivi e mutamento linguistico: il caso della metonimia
2009
Il contributo indaga il meccanismo della metonimia come agente del mutamento linguistico. Dopo un excursus teorico che chiarisce l'importanza (cognitiva e linguistica) del meccanismo metonimico, vengono presi in esame alcuni casi studio che chiariscono (anche per fini didattici) le modalità attraverso le quali si verificano diacronicamentemodificazioni semantiche e morfosintattiche su base metonimica.
TEXT LINGUISTICS E SCIENZE COGNITIVE: il contributo teorico di Dressler e de Beaugrande al proceduralismo
2010
Il ladino e i suoi idiomi
2020
In questo capitolo si illustrano le suddivisioni interne al gruppo ladino. Dopo aver sottolineato la posizione particolare dell’ampezzano (appartenente linguisticamente al gruppo cadorino), si mostra che le restanti varietà sono separate da tre diverse linee di demarcazione che si sovrappongono: una linea di origine altomedievale che corre da nord a sud, dividendo Fassa e Gardena da Badia e Fodom; una da ovest a est, più recente, che isola il ladino settentrionale (valli di Gardena e Badia) dal ladino meridionale; e infine una linea circolare che separa le varietà centrali da quelle periferiche.Nella seconda parte del capitolo sono discusse le differenze fonologiche, morfologiche, sintattic…
Il linguaggio mafioso. Scritto, parlato, non detto
2017
The volume aims to show the language of the so called 'mafia'. The main task is the definition of the linguistic and pragmatic boundaries of this notion, The book starts from the paradox of the communication of the mafia. How mafia communicates even though it is an organization based on silence? The volume studies written, spoken and unspoken facts of communication of mafia. Il volume affronta il tema del linguaggio mafioso cercando di definirne i contorni pragmatici prima ancora che linguistici. Il punto di partenza è quello che potrebbe essere definito il paradosso del linguaggio mafioso: in che modo un'organizzazione che ha fatto del silenzio la sua cifra identitaria è riuscita a costrui…
The hidden side of adverbs
2018
This paper will address the predicative nature of manner adverb(ial)s and of three types of sentence adverbs (subject-oriented, modal, and evaluative) in Italian. Predication often becomes overt by means of morphological correlates. Is it possible to find any such evidence with invariable adverbs? To unveil their predicative nature, a procedure will be suggested in which two sentences, one with a -mente adverb, the other with its cognate adjective (a) share the content morphemes (identity of the signifiant) and (b) entail each other (identity of the signifié as regards semantic roles). A number of such pairs will be discussed, examples of which include: Intelligentemente, Leo intervenne ‘Cl…
Agency and agentive prepositions in Late Latin
2011
I propose the results of an analysis whose object is the expression of the Agent by means of a prepositional phrase in Post-Classical and Late Latin passive constructions. My interest comprises both the prepositions used in Latin to encode the passive Agent (namely ab), and those constituting the bases for the development in the Romance languages (namely per and de). The analysis is based on the functional approach to Transitivity proposed by Hopper and Thompson 1980 and on Cognitive Grammar, specifically on Langaker 1991 and the various Luraghi’s works on prepositions and cases in ancient Indo-European languages.
Paths of grammaticalization of Early Latin per/per-: A cognitive hypothesis
2016
The paper describes the semantic network of the Early Latin preverb per- and its relation with the corresponding preposition per ‘through’. Making use of the Cognitive Grammar framework, we argue that the basic spatial semantics of both preverb and preposition (here called the “PER relation”) can account for the whole set of concrete and abstract meanings per and per- express. In spite of this common semantic nucleus, however, per- and per differ as to the mechanisms at work in the development and organization of their semantic continua, thus imposing a differentiated analysis at the semantic as well as the morphosyntactic level. In this respect, the notions of grammaticalization and lexica…
Recensione volume 'Oratio obliqua. Strategies of reported speech in ancient languages, ed. Paolo Poccetti, Pisa-Roma, Serra, 2017'
2018
The phenomenon of reported speech in the world languages has gained attention in current linguistic research, as testified by the increasing number of recent works in this field, from typological linguistics ( Jäger 2007 ; Goddard & Wierzbicka 2018) to neurolinguistics (Groenewold 2015 and references therein). Although the wide cross-linguistic diversity in the way speakers report other people’s speech, there is a consensus on the need for identification strategies that are typologically valid. To this purpose, reported speech has also been investigated from many theoretical perspectives, from Functional Grammar to Natural Semantic Metalanguage, from Generative Grammar to Pragmatics, from P…
Evaluative suffixes in Archaic Latin: A cognitive morpho-pragmatic account for –ellus/-illus in Plautus
A preliminary investigation on Latin diminutives conducted within a framework that holds together the synchronic and diachronic explanation model of polysemy elaborated in Cognitive Linguistics and morpho-pragmatic studies on diminutives