Miriam Voghera
List of John Benjamins publications for which Miriam Voghera plays a role.
Articles
2024 Chapter 3. The role of ambiguity in intentional vagueness Vagueness, Ambiguity, and All the Rest: Linguistic and pragmatic approaches, Fiorentini, Ilaria and Chiara Zanchi (eds.), pp. 29–50 | Chapter
In order to study the relationship between ambiguity and vagueness, it is necessary to distinguish Systemic Vagueness (SV), which is a property of any linguistic codes, from Intentional Vagueness (IntV), which emerges in messages produced by speakers in response to specific communicative needs.… read more
2017 Chapter 18. Intentional vagueness: A corpus-based analysis of Italian and German Exploring Intensification: Synchronic, diachronic and cross-linguistic perspectives, Napoli, Maria and Miriam Ravetto (eds.), pp. 371–390 | Chapter
In this article, we present a corpus-based analysis to illustrate the extent and the depth of the similarities in the use of Vagueness Expressions (VEs) in spoken Italian and German. Adopting a semiotic approach to the study of vagueness, we have investigated the frequency and the distribution of… read more
2013 A case study on the relationship between grammatical change and synchronic variation: The emergence of tipo[-N] in Italian Synchrony and Diachrony: A dynamic interface, Giacalone Ramat, Anna, Caterina Mauri and Piera Molinelli (eds.), pp. 283–312 | Article
Over recent decades the Italian word tipo (Eng. type) has developed numerous non-nominal uses. This paper seeks to address the issue of whether synchronic variation in the use of tipo reflects diachronic development. Findings indicate that, (1) the complex path of grammaticalization of tipo led to… read more