Linguistic Categories, Language Description and Linguistic Typology
Edited by Luca Alfieri, Giorgio Francesco Arcodia and Paolo Ramat
[Typological Studies in Language, 132] 2021. vi, 424 pp.
Giorgio Francesco Arcodia
List of John Benjamins publications for which Giorgio Francesco Arcodia plays a role.
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Subjects Cognition and language | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
2021 Chapter 1. Linguistic categories, language description and linguistic typology – An overview Linguistic Categories, Language Description and Linguistic Typology, Alfieri, Luca, Giorgio Francesco Arcodia and Paolo Ramat (eds.), pp. 1–34 | Chapter
In this paper we propose a critical discussion of the rationale for this volume. After a short introduction (Section 1), an outline of the long-standing opposition between language particular description and universal grammar in the history of the language sciences is provided (Section 2). This… read more
2021 Chapter 10. The on-line construction of meaning in Mandarin Chinese: Focus on relative clauses Building Categories in Interaction: Linguistic resources at work, Mauri, Caterina, Ilaria Fiorentini and Eugenio Goria (eds.), pp. 271–294 | Chapter
Mandarin Chinese employs a fairly wide range of constructions to encode categories, and specifically ad hoc categories. These include, for instance, a general extender as 等等
děng(děng) ‘etc., and so on’, non-exhaustive connectives as 啊
ā…
啊
ā (see Zhang 2008),… read more
2017 On Sinitic influence on Macanese: Focus on indirect causation Language Ecology 1:2, pp. 158–184 | Article
Macanese, the near-extinct Portuguese creole of Macao, is an understudied contact language with strong Malayo-Portuguese features. It is also characterised by Sinitic influence, which however has sometimes been downplayed in the literature (see Ansaldo and Matthews 2004). In this paper, I argue… read more
2015 Areal perspectives on total reduplication of verbs in Sinitic The Why and How of Total Reduplication: Current Issues and New Perspectives, Rossi, Daniela (ed.), pp. 836–872 | Article
The topic of reduplication in Sinitic languages has attracted much attention in the literature, but studies adopting a comparative and areal perspective are still lacking. This paper aims to analyse the correlations between form and function in reduplicating constructions in a sample of twenty… read more
2014 The Chinese adjective as a word class Word Classes: Nature, typology and representations, Simone, Raffaele and Francesca Masini (eds.), pp. 95–118 | Article
It has often been claimed that Chinese does not have an independent class of adjectives, which are seen by some authors as a subclass of verbs (cf. Li & Thompson 1981; Hengeveld 1992; Tang 1998, among others). In this paper, I shall first provide evidence for the status of adjectives as an… read more
2014 Diachrony and the polysemy of derivational affixes Morphology and Meaning: Selected papers from the 15th International Morphology Meeting, Vienna, February 2012, Rainer, Franz, Francesco Gardani, Hans Christian Luschützky and Wolfgang U. Dressler (eds.), pp. 127–140 | Article
In this paper we discuss two cases of seemingly polysemous derivational affixes: the Ewe suffix -ví, originally a noun meaning “child”, which has acquired a number of different semantic values in word formation, as e.g. “inexperienced” (núfíáláví “inexperienced teacher”) or “person who adheres to… read more
2010 Coordination in compounding Cross-Disciplinary Issues in Compounding, Scalise, Sergio and Irene Vogel (eds.), pp. 177–198 | Article
This chapter deals with the expression of coordination relations in compounding. Two macro-types of compounds are identified, namely hyperonymic coordinating compounds (co-compounds), where the referent of the compound is in a superordinate relationship to the meaning of the parts (as Mandarin… read more