Silvia Terenghi
List of John Benjamins publications for which Silvia Terenghi plays a role.
Articles
2022 Integrating deictic co-speech gestures in demonstrative forms Linguistics in the Netherlands 2022, Vogels, Jorrig and Sterre Leufkens (eds.), pp. 225–239 | Article
Deictic co-speech gestures (DCSGs) are commonly regarded as intimately related to exophoric demonstrative forms; yet, no account is available that formalises this relation. This paper proposes that DCSGs spell-out part of the internal structure of exophoric demonstratives: concretely, they… read more
2021 Chapter 16. Fission in Romance demonstrative-reinforcer constructions Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2018: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' 32, Utrecht, Baauw, Sergio, Frank Drijkoningen and Luisa Meroni (eds.), pp. 303–316 | Chapter
This paper proposes a new approach to Romance demonstrative-reinforcer constructions. The account is based on a binary valued feature system for deictic person and is embedded in the Distributed Morphology framework. Looking at data from Romance varieties, some (implicit) shortcomings of… read more
2019 Demonstrative-reinforcer constructions and the syntactic role of deictic features Linguistics in the Netherlands 2019, Berns, Janine and Elena Tribushinina (eds.), pp. 192–207 | Article
In this paper I take Romance demonstrative-reinforcer constructions as a way to test whether the deictic features encoded by demonstrative and locative forms are active in the syntax. From a descriptive point of view, I claim that demonstrative systems can be best accounted for by making… read more