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Listing between lexicon and syntax: Focus on frame-naming lists
Full text linkThe goal of this paper is twofold. On the one hand, we advocate the view that ‘listing’ (Masini et al. this issue) is a cross-level mechanism with cognitive grounding that manifests itself in various ways along the lexicon-syntax continuum. Indeed, we claim that some linguistic objects pertaining to the morphological and lexical level (as e.g. coordinating compounds, reduplications, (ir)reversible binomials) are structurally and functionally similar to freely created syntactic lists. On the other hand, we analyze a so far underdescribed type of lists in-between lexicon and syntax. Lists are often seen as instances of “natural coordination” (Wälchli 2005) where the conjuncts are lexico-semantically related; however, there are lists where the conjuncts are, rather, frame-related, i.e., by virtue of occurring in a list, they either evoke or build a frame, which may be either established or context-dependent. In this respect, we present two corpus-based case-studies from Italian concerning the V1+and+V2 construction (e.g. gratta e sosta ‘scratch and park ticket’, lit. ‘scratch and park’) and the all+list construction (e.g. tutto casa e chiesa ‘pious, churchy’, lit. ‘all home and church’). We discuss and analyze our data with the tools of Construction Grammar (Goldberg 1995, 2006) and Construction Morphology (Booij 2010)
Verbal vs. nominal reflexive constructions. A categorial opposition?
No full textReflexives have been extensively studied from different approaches and perspectives, but no clear consensus has been established on the criteria for their definition. From a morphological point of view, a distinction between nominal reflexives and verbal reflexives has been generally accepted in both functional and generative approaches. However, it is ultimately hard to make a precise distinction between verbal and nominal reflexives which should possibly be viewed as a continuum rather than as a discrete partition. In this paper, I will discuss the opportunity of a categorial distinction between verbal and nominal reflexive constructions, identifying some general principles which allow us to classify a form as “verbal” or “nominal”
CLUB Working Papers in Linguistics 4
Full text linkQuesto quarto volume della collana CLUB Working Papers in Linguistics raccoglie, in formato open access, una selezione dei contributi presentati durante l’anno accademico 2018/2019 nell’ambito delle attività del CLUB – Circolo Linguistico dell’Università di Bologna.
Le diverse discipline del linguaggio che sono rappresentate in questa miscellanea offrono al lettore uno sguardo d’insieme sulle ultime tendenze della ricerca in vari ambiti, tra cui la tipologia linguistica, la linguistica storica, la corpus linguistics, l’analisi del discorso e la linguistica clinica.
Come nelle precedenti edizioni, viene qui pubblicato anche un saggio tratto dalla tesi di laurea magistrale risultata vincitrice del premio CLUB Day ‘Una tesi in linguistica’: quest’anno, il lavoro scelto è di Dennis Fucci.
I sette articoli, redatti in italiano, inglese o francese, sono dunque (in ordine alfabetico) di Giorgio Francesco Arcodia, Alessandra Barotto, Claudia Roberta Combei, Claire Doquet, Chiara Fedriani, Dennis Fucci, Gloria Gagliardi e Simone Mattiola
Chinese linguistics: an introduction (1.st ed.). Arcodia, G. F., & Basciano, B. (2021). Oxford University Press, 341 pages, ISBN: 978-0-19-884783-0
Full text linkBook review of Chinese Linguistics - An Introduction by Giorgio Francesco Arcodia and Bianca Basciano. The book is a functional text on Chinese languages, which a focus on Modern Standard Chinese. As stated in the first chapter, the aim of the book is to give a general presentation of the most important matters of Chinese linguistics research, both in and out of China. The book includes many current topics about the Chinese languages and their research, which are treated at length; for example what's Chinese linguistics, an overview of Sinitic languages, explanation about Chinese dialects, syntax, phonology, morphology and writing, etc. 
Note sul testo della «Cosmographia et Geographia de Affrica» di Giovanni Leone Africano
No full textL'importantissima "Cosmographia" di Leone Africano, principale documento di conoscenza dell'Africa mediterranea dal '500 all'800, è stata di recente oggetto di studio da parte di studiosi stranieri, che hanno mostrato tutti i limiti di un approccio non rigoroso dal punto di vista linguistico e filologico. Il presente studio prelude a una più vasta indagine che potrà restituire al testo una veste più attendibile e una cura esegetica che lo renda fruibile ai lettori contemporanei
Come si combinano le parole: la sintassi
No full textQuesto è un capitolo didattico sulle basi teoriche della sintassi all'interno di un volume per i corsi di linguistica generale
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