Simone Mattiola

List of John Benjamins publications for which Simone Mattiola plays a role.

Titles

Discourse Phenomena in Typological Perspective

Edited by Alessandra Barotto and Simone Mattiola

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 227] 2023. vi, 439 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Barotto, Alessandra and Simone Mattiola 2023 Chapter 1. Discourse phenomena in typological perspective: An overviewDiscourse Phenomena in Typological Perspective, Barotto, Alessandra and Simone Mattiola (eds.), pp. 1–9 | Chapter
This paper aims at investigating the semantics of nominal reduplication cross-linguistically. Nominal reduplication is treated as an iconic morphological device expressing functions that have something to do with plurality. Nevertheless, in the languages of the world, other types of functions… read more
Masini, Francesca and Simone Mattiola 2022 Wild words: The case of morphologically embedded general extendersExtravagant Morphology: Studies in rule-bending, pattern-extending and theory-challenging morphology, Eitelmann, Matthias and Dagmar Haumann (eds.), pp. 233–254 | Chapter
In this paper we analyse the formal and functional ‘extravagance’ of general extenders embedded within morphological schemas, either at the end of coordinate compounds, or as constituents of complex words, especially at the end of lists of complex words formed according to the same schema. After… read more
Mattiola, Simone 2021 Chapter 8. The non-universality of linguistic categories: Evidence from pluractional constructionsLinguistic Categories, Language Description and Linguistic Typology, Alfieri, Luca, Giorgio Francesco Arcodia and Paolo Ramat (eds.), pp. 279–312 | Chapter
This paper aims at giving a typological overview of pluractionality in order to show how grammatical categories, in cross-linguistic perspective, cannot be considered as universally valid entities. After having defined the phenomenon, I will present the main functions and some formal… read more