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Linguistica
No full textLa Serie Linguistica di Caissa Italia ospita manuali, curatele e monografie di ricerca nel campo della linguistica generale, teorica e applicata. I volumi sono sottoposti alla valutazione del Comitato Scientifico o di referee esterni esperti del settore. Comitato Scientifico: Roberta D'Alessandro (Università di Leiden); Mara Frascarelli (Università di Roma Tre); Nicola Grandi (Università di Bologna); Maria Grossmann (Università dell'Aquila); Claudio Iacobini (Università di Salerno); Gabriele Iannàccaro (Università di Milano-Bicocca); Alessandro Lenci (Università di Pisa); Francesca Masini (Università di Bologna); Caterina Mauri (Università di Bologna); Anna Maria Thornton (Università dell'Aquila)
Approximation in Morphology
Full text linkThis Special Issue "Approximation in Morphology" has been collated from peer-reviewed papers presented at the ApproxiMo 'discontinuous' workshop (2022), which was held online between December 2021 and May 2022, and organized by Francesca Masini (Bologna), Muriel Norde (Berlin) and Kristel Van Goethem (Louvain)
On Light Nouns
No full textThis paper investigates the hypothesis that word classes are not homogeneous, but rather complex sets of entities with (partially) different properties that can be arranged along a scale. Whereas much work has been done on subclasses of verbs, and on scales of ‘verbiness’ (e.g., full-fledged verbs vs. verbs with a grammatical function), less attention has been paid to scales of ‘nouniness’. This paper focuses on a set of nouns – called ‘Light Nouns’ here – that occur as N1 in binominal constructions of the N1 of N2 type in languages such as Italian, English, and French. In this position Light Nouns tend to lose their lexical content and take on a more grammatical meaning that serves to modify N2. We discuss various types of Light Nouns (among which Taxonomic Nouns, Approximators, Quantifiers, and Support Nouns), measure their referentiality according to a set of parameters, and finally rank them along a scale
Review of Raffaele Simone and Francesca Masini:<i> Word classes: Nature, typology and representations</i>
No full textReview of Raffaele Simone and Francesca Masini (eds.). Word classes: Nature, typology and representations. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory [CILT] 332. Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014, 293 + vii pp., ISBN: 1978-90-272-4851-0. Hardback and E-book 99.00 EUR / 149.00 USD
Quaderni di Semantica
No full text«Quaderni di Semantica» è una rivista internazionale con referaggio anonimo (blind peer review), pubblicata annualmente. Si interessa a diversi settori dello studio del significato, e aspira a promuovere un dibattito tra esperti delle scienze umane e sociali (ad esempio linguisti, filologi antropologi, archeologi, genetisti, storici, paletnologi, neuropsicologi). Accetta contributi originali, inediti e interdisciplinari scritti nelle principali lingue europee. La rivista esce regolarmente dal 1980. In questi 35 anni di vita ha assunto un ruolo cruciale nella storia della linguistica moderna e si è avvalsa della collaborazione attiva di studiosi di fama internazionale quali Noam Chomsky, Eugen Coșeriu, Tullio De Mauro, Umberto Eco, Gianfranco Folena, Luigi Heilmann, Giulio C. Lepschy, Max Pfister e Harald Weinrich
Zeitschrift für Wortbildung / Journal of Word-formation
Full text linkZeitschrift für Wortbildung / Journal of Word Formation (ZWJW) is an open access and double-blind peer reviewed international journal published by Peter Lang. ZWJW publishes papers with respect to any language and linguistic field, e.g. morphology, syntax, lexicology, phonology, semantics, pragmatics, language history, typology, dialectology, language acquisition, language contact
Lingue e Linguaggio
No full textLingue e linguaggio è un luogo di discussione di respiro internazionale sulla linguistica generale e teorica, con una particolare attenzione alle aree di interazione con altre discipline, dalla psicologia alle neuroscienze, dall’informatica alle scienze cognitive. Pubblica saggi in inglese e in italiano operando nel rispetto dei più alti standard qualitativi. La rivista si occupa centralmente di teoria del linguaggio, dei vari livelli dell’analisi linguistica (fonologia, morfologia, sintassi, semantica, pragmatica) e della loro interazione, ma anche di linguistica computazionale, acquisizionale, variazionale e diacronica e di storia del pensiero linguistico. Lingue e linguaggio pubblica contributi di natura sia teorica che descrittiva ed è aperta ai diversi orientamenti teorici offerti dalla linguistica contemporanea
Compounds and multi-word expressions in Italian
No full textIt is often observed that compounds, being complex words formed by two (or more) words, are the mor-phological constructions closest to syntactic constructions, and that this is the reason why drawing a line between compounds and phrases is often difficult. Other complex lexical units challenge – possibly even more – the distinction between syntax, morphology and the lexicon: these are generally known as multi-word expressions (MWEs). MWEs are larger than morphological words and are nonetheless stored into our lexicon. The very existence of such MWEs poses a number of theoretical questions regarding (i) the organization of the lexicon, and (ii) the relationship between MWEs and compounds. The paper addresses both these questions by discussing data from Italian. After briefly describing the state of the art as far as Italian compounds and MWEs are concerned, the papers deals with demarcation issues and explores pos-sible areas of competition between compounds and MWEs
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Morphology
No full textThe field of morphology has gained increasing importance in contemporary linguistics with the realization that it can no longer be narrowly construed as the study of the means by which complex words are formed. Rather, the study of morphology must be situated in the context of our understanding of the mental lexicon as a whole. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Morphology offers a sweeping introduction to the field, showing that morphology is not only an active area of study in its own right, but also a critical link between different subfields of linguistics.
Led by Editor in Chief Rochelle Lieber and Associate Editors Sabine Arndt-Lappe, Antonio Fàbregas, Christina Gagné, and Francesca Masini, this collection includes 115 in-depth articles, encompassing all aspects of morphology, such as morphological units, inflection, derivation, compounding, and formal morphological means. Contributors at the forefront of the field discuss the major theoretical debates and methodological approaches, exploring the interface between morphology and phonology, syntax, and semantics, along with psycholinguistic, neurolinguistics, and sociolinguistic issues. The final section of the encyclopedia presents illustrative sketches of the morphological systems of different language families, from Arawak and Dravidian to Sino-Tibetan and Indo-European, offering a wide range of cross-linguistic data that will be useful to both researchers and teachers
Multi-word expressions and morphology
No full textMulti-word expressions are linguistic objects formed by two or more words that behave like a ‘unit’ by displaying formal and/or functional idiosyncratic properties with respect to free word combinations. They include an extremely varied set of items (from idioms to collocations, from formulae to sayings) which have been the privileged subject matter of fields such as phraseology, lexicology, lexicography, and computational linguistics. Far from being a marginal phenomenon, multi-word expressions are ubiquitous and pervasive: some estimate that they are as numerous as words in some languages, which makes them as central an issue as words for the understanding of human language. However, their relation with words, and morphology, is by far less explored, not to say neglected, especially in terms of demarcation, competition, and cross-linguistic variation
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