Francesco Gardani

List of John Benjamins publications for which Francesco Gardani plays a role.

Titles

Morphology and Meaning: Selected papers from the 15th International Morphology Meeting, Vienna, February 2012

Edited by Franz Rainer, Francesco Gardani, Hans Christian Luschützky and Wolfgang U. Dressler

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 327] 2014. viii, 350 pp.
Subjects Morphology | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

Morphology and its demarcations: Selected papers from the 11th Morphology meeting, Vienna, February 2004

Edited by Wolfgang U. Dressler, Dieter Kastovsky, Oskar E. Pfeiffer and Franz Rainer

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 264] 2005. xiv, 317 pp.
Subjects Morphology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Gardani, Francesco 2024 Where are features?Epistemological issue: The importance of features and exponents: Dissolving Feature Reassembly, Flores, Cristina and Neal Snape (eds.), pp. 53–57 | Commentary
Gardani, Francesco 2016 Allogenous exaptationExaptation and Language Change, Norde, Muriel and Freek Van de Velde (eds.), pp. 227–260 | Article
This paper studies exaptation from the perspective of language contact and structural borrowing. Drawing on data from different language-contact settings, I show that exaptation differs from grammaticalization, secondary grammaticalization, and degrammaticalization. I argue that exaptation is, also… read more
Loporcaro, Michele, Vincenzo Faraoni and Francesco Gardani 2014 The third gender of Old ItalianDiachronica 31:1, pp. 1–22 | Article
We demonstrate that Old Italian had a three-gender system within which the neuter still qualified as a fully fledged gender value. To substantiate this claim, we adduce evidence showing that (a) Old Italian had three distinct sets of controllers, each of which selected a separate agreement… read more
Rainer, Franz, Wolfgang U. Dressler, Francesco Gardani and Hans Christian Luschützky 2014 Morphology and meaning: An overviewMorphology 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. 3–46 | Article