Vagueness, Ambiguity, and All the Rest: Linguistic and pragmatic approaches
Edited by Ilaria Fiorentini and Chiara Zanchi
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 347] 2024. vi, 286 pp.
Chiara Zanchi
List of John Benjamins publications for which Chiara Zanchi plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Discourse studies | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
Space in Diachrony
Edited by Silvia Luraghi, Tatiana Nikitina and Chiara Zanchi
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 188] 2017. xvii, 373 pp.
Subjects Historical linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
2024 Chapter 7. Vague stuff: Cose as a general extender from Latin to Italian Vagueness, Ambiguity, and All the Rest: Linguistic and pragmatic approaches, Fiorentini, Ilaria and Chiara Zanchi (eds.), pp. 148–176 | Chapter
This paper investigates cose (pl. of cosa ‘thing’) as a general extender (GE) and marker of non-exhaustivity from Latin to contemporary Italian. The study employs three corpora: CODIT, LIP/VoLIP and KIParla. We show that the frequency of cose-GEs dropped in 16th c., when they started being… read more
2024 Chapter 1. Introduction: How vague and ambiguous are vagueness and ambiguity? Vagueness, Ambiguity, and All the Rest: Linguistic and pragmatic approaches, Fiorentini, Ilaria and Chiara Zanchi (eds.), pp. 1–8 | Chapter
The relationship between ambiguity and vagueness is traditionally considered rather complex. It is not always easy to distinguish between the two phenomena, and the two concepts may seem to overlap. This introduction aims to clarify what is generally understood by ambiguity and vagueness in… read more
2017 Space in Diachrony: An introduction Space in Diachrony, Luraghi, Silvia, Tatiana Nikitina and Chiara Zanchi (eds.), pp. xi–xviii | Introduction
2017 New evidence for the Source–Goal asymmetry: Ancient Greek preverbs Space in Diachrony, Luraghi, Silvia, Tatiana Nikitina and Chiara Zanchi (eds.), pp. 147–178 | Chapter
This paper provides new evidence for the Source–Goal asymmetry by analyzing the synchronic behavior and the diachronic developments of Ancient Greek preverbs. This investigation is based on a diachronic corpus, including Homer as well as later prose, obtained by selecting a number of verbs… read more