Francesca Franzon

List of John Benjamins publications for which Francesca Franzon plays a role.

Article

Franzon, Francesca and Chiara Zanini 2019 Chapter 8. Different degrees of abstraction from visual cues in processing concrete nounsPerspectives on Abstract Concepts: Cognition, language and communication, Bolognesi, Marianna and Gerard J. Steen (eds.), pp. 167–184 | Chapter
Concreteness has been defined as a semantic property related to physical perception. In this paper we tackle the concreteness issue from the viewpoint of countability by arguing that uncountable expressions (e.g., some cake), although concrete, are more abstract than countable ones (e.g., one cake)… read more