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Sul neutro. Grammatica e linguistica
2016
Il saggio analizza la linguistica come disciplina scientifica novella. La combinazione di funzioni e forme linguistiche è sempre dinamica, è sempre un processo e mai uno stato.
Per una nuova toponomastica siciliana
2014
Dell'uso non numerabile di nomi numerabili
2016
The so-called Reaction object construction: Reaction or co-predication?
2017
C'era una volta Leonardo Sciascia, c'era una volta Regalpetra
2019
A trenta anni dalla morte di Leonardo Sciascia, un'analisi linguistico-letteraria della sua opera di esordio, "Le parrocchie di Regalpetra", con particolare attenzione alle questioni onomastiche
Costruire i nomi dei luoghi, costruire lo spazio. I sistemi toponimici di tre comunità della Sicilia centrale
Natural Language Inference in Ordinary and Support Verb Constructions
2020
The family of clause types known as 'support (or 'light') verb construction' (SVC) manifests a peculiar syntax-semantics interface if compared with ordinary verb constructions (OVC). If, in e.g. She laughed, the verb licenses an argument and assigns it a semantic role, syntacticians of every stripe nowadays agree that it is the noun laugh, in She gave a laugh, which fulfils the same function. The differences between the two types have been extensively discussed in the linguistics literature (systematic research started in the 1970s), less so in Computational Linguistics. This paper has two objectives. First, it will propose an innovative type of semantic role, which is termed Cognate Semant…
Meaning Extraction from Strappare Causatives in Italian
2021
The work targets a little-known causative construction of Italian whose causative verb is strappare ‘tear/extort/snatch’ (e.g. Ada strappò la confessione a Piero ‘Ada made Piero confess against his will’). In the active voice of this clause type, the subject, licensed by strappare, is invariably associated with the semantic role ‘Causer’ (as fare does in fare causatives, see [1]), whilst the post-verbal NP (e.g. confessione ‘confession’) is best analyzed as the predicate licensing the remaining syntactic function/s and the related semantic role/s. The NooJ grammar which the authors propose automatically extracts the meaning of strappare causatives by means of a novel type of semantic role. …
Sistemi di orientamento nel latino di Plauto
2021
This paper investigates the spatial Frames of Reference (FoRs) in Old Latin within the framework of cognitive linguistics. Differently from modern romance languages, which are heavily based on the so-called relative FoR, ancient Indo-European languages such as Vedic and Homeric Greek did not make use of such an egocentric orientation system at their earliest stage, since the relation between FIGURE and GROUND was not specified by imposing an external deictic observer’s viewpoint. the aim of this study is to add the perspective of Old Latin, by focusing on the contexts of use of spatial terms of FRONT, BEHIND, LEFT, RIGHT in the comedies of Plautus. The results of this analysis are consisten…
Dalla Word Sense Disambiguation alla sintassi: il problema dell'articolo partitivo in italiano
2017
Out of context, a sequence of Italian such as dei professori 'of.the teachers' is ambiguous: it can either mean some teachers (e.g. Dei professori intervennero 'Some teachers attended') or carry the value of a Saxon genitive (e.g. i libri dei professori 'the teachers' books'). The part of speech to which dei professori belongs cannot be identified: dei could be a partitive article in a noun phrase or a preposition in a prepositional phrase. This key difference raises a problem in the area of Word Sense Disambiguation. Despite its relevance for NLP, this case of homonymy has so far been disregarded in the literature. The paper distinguishes the functions of grammar morphemes such as dei and …