Valentina Schiattarella
List of John Benjamins publications for which Valentina Schiattarella plays a role.
Articles
2024 Chapter 12. Food, contact phenomena and reconstruction in Oriental Berber Historical Linguistics 2019: Selected papers from the 24th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Canberra, 1–5 July 2019, Evans, Bethwyn, Maria Kristina Gallego and Luisa Miceli (eds.), pp. 283–329 | Chapter
Berber subclassification is notoriously problematic, due to overlapping innovations and retentions across hypothesized sub-branches. Focussing on Oriental Berber, we analyze the lexicon of food, on the assumption that linguistic contacts within Berber and between Berber and Arabic are reflected… read more
2018 Chapter 10. The influence of the state distinction on word order and information structure in Kabyle and Siwi (Berber) Information Structure in Lesser-described Languages: Studies in prosody and syntax, Adamou, Evangelia, Katharina Haude and Martine Vanhove (eds.), pp. 265–296 | Chapter
This paper, based on monologues and dialogues recorded in the field, shows how the presence (Kabyle) or the absence (Siwi) of an inflectional marking on nouns called state impacts the number and functions of grammatical relations and information structure constructions in those two closely related… read more