Silvia Luraghi

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List of John Benjamins publications for which Silvia Luraghi plays a role.

Journal

Journal of Historical Linguistics (JHL)

General Editor: Silvia Luraghi and Eitan Grossman

ISSN 2210-2116 | E-ISSN 2210-2124

Titles

Partitives cross-linguistically: Dimensions of variation

Edited by Silvia Luraghi and Petra Sleeman

[Linguistic Variation, 23:1] 2023. v, 243 pp.

Diachronic Treebanks for Historical Linguistics

Edited by Hanne Martine Eckhoff, Silvia Luraghi and Marco Passarotti

[Benjamins Current Topics, 113] 2020. v, 154 pp.

Subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics

Edited by Hanne Martine Eckhoff, Silvia Luraghi and Marco Passarotti

[Diachronica, 35:3] 2018. v, 153 pp.

Subjects Historical linguistics

Edited by Silvia Luraghi, Tatiana Nikitina and Chiara Zanchi

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 188] 2017. xvii, 370 pp.

Subjects Historical linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

Perspectives on Semantic Roles

Edited by Silvia Luraghi and Heiko Narrog

[Typological Studies in Language, 106] 2014. vi, 336 pp.

Subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology

On the Meaning of Prepositions and Cases: The expression of semantic roles in Ancient Greek

Silvia Luraghi

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 67] 2003. xii, 366 pp.

Subjects Historical linguistics | Other Indo-European languages | Semantics

Articles

Luraghi, Silvia. 2023. Beyond affectedness – partitive objects and degrees of agenthood in Ancient Greek. Partitives cross-linguistically: Dimensions of variation, Luraghi, Silvia and Petra Sleeman (eds.), pp. 95–123

In several ancient and modern Indo-European languages, the partitive-genitive may be used in place of the accusative to encode the second argument of two-place verbs. In Ancient Greek the two types of object encoding can alternate with change-of-state verbs, alternation being viewed as connected… read more | Article

Sleeman, Petra and Silvia Luraghi. 2023. Crosslinguistic variation in partitives. Partitives cross-linguistically: Dimensions of variation, Luraghi, Silvia and Petra Sleeman (eds.), pp. 1–27

Review article

Eckhoff, Hanne Martine, Silvia Luraghi and Marco Passarotti. 2020. Introduction. The added value of diachronic treebanks for historical linguistics. Diachronic Treebanks for Historical Linguistics, Eckhoff, Hanne Martine, Silvia Luraghi and Marco Passarotti (eds.), pp. 1–14

Miscellaneous

Inglese, Guglielmo and Silvia Luraghi. 2020. Chapter 11. The Hittite periphrastic perfect. Perfects in Indo-European Languages and Beyond, Crellin, Robert and Thomas Jügel (eds.), pp. 377–410

In Hittite, the meaning associated with the Proto-Indo-European perfect, i.e. to indicate a state resulting from a change-of-state event, was covered by compound verb forms consisting of the -ant- participle plus the finite forms of the verbs ḫar(k)- “have” and eš- “be”. The origin and the function… read more | Chapter

Luraghi, Silvia. 2020. From verb to New Event Marker. Studies in Language 44:4, pp. 788–811

In Hittite, deictic motion verbs pai- ‘go’ and uwa- ‘come’ may co-occur in a monoclausal structure with a second verb that carries the lexical meaning. As yet, their exact function remains obscure. I argue that motion verbs involved in such construction underwent transcategorization and function as… read more | Article

Ponti, Edoardo Maria and Silvia Luraghi. 2020. Non-configurationality in diachrony. Diachronic Treebanks for Historical Linguistics, Eckhoff, Hanne Martine, Silvia Luraghi and Marco Passarotti (eds.), pp. 69–94

Non-configurationality is a linguistic property associated with free word order, discontinuous constituents, including NPs, and null anaphora of referential arguments. Quantitative metrics, based both on local networks (syntactic trees and word order within sentences) and on global networks… read more | Chapter

Eckhoff, Hanne Martine, Silvia Luraghi and Marco Passarotti. 2018. The added value of diachronic treebanks for historical linguistics. Diachronic Treebanks, Eckhoff, Hanne Martine, Silvia Luraghi and Marco Passarotti (eds.), pp. 297–309

Introduction

Ponti, Edoardo Maria and Silvia Luraghi. 2018. Non-configurationality in diachrony. Diachronic Treebanks, Eckhoff, Hanne Martine, Silvia Luraghi and Marco Passarotti (eds.), pp. 367–392

Luraghi, Silvia. 2017. Differential Goal marking vs. differential Source marking in Ancient Greek. Space in Diachrony, Luraghi, Silvia, Tatiana Nikitina and Chiara Zanchi (eds.), pp. 119–146

Differential marking of Goal and Source is a relatively underresearched topic. Available cross-linguistic evidence points toward two possible triggers of differential marking of spatial relations, that is, nouns that denote spatial regions and animate nouns. In this paper, differential Goal and… read more | Chapter

Luraghi, Silvia, Tatiana Nikitina and Chiara Zanchi. 2017. Space in Diachrony. Space in Diachrony, Luraghi, Silvia, Tatiana Nikitina and Chiara Zanchi (eds.), pp. xi–xviii

Article

Luraghi, Silvia. 2015. Asymmetries in Italian temperature terminology. The Linguistics of Temperature, Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria (ed.), pp. 333–353

The Italian system of temperature terminology features the basic terms caldo ‘hot’ and freddo ‘cold’, two intermediate terms, tiepido ‘warm’ and fresco ‘cool’, and two terms for extreme temperature, bollente ‘very hot’ and gelato ‘ice-cold’, and might look remarkably symmetrical. However, a closer… read more | Article

Luraghi, Silvia and Eleonora Sausa. 2015. Hate and anger, love and desire. Historical Linguistics 2013: Selected papers from the 21st International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Oslo, 5-9 August 2013, Haug, Dag T.T. (ed.), pp. 233–256

In Homeric Greek verbs that indicate negative emotions such as anger, hate, and envy take the NominativeDative construction, while verbs that indicate love, desire, and affection take the NominativeGenitive construction. The two constructions are typical of different verb classes: the former mainly… read more | Article

Luraghi, Silvia. 2014. Plotting diachronic semantic maps. Perspectives on Semantic Roles, Luraghi, Silvia and Heiko Narrog (eds.), pp. 99–150

The paper discusses patterns of polysemy among semantic roles in cross-linguistic perspective, and the possible way in which such polysemies come into being through meaning extension of morphemes (cases and adposition) that encode semantic roles. Semantic extension is described based on commonly… read more | Article

Luraghi, Silvia and Heiko Narrog. 2014. Perspectives on semantic roles. Perspectives on Semantic Roles, Luraghi, Silvia and Heiko Narrog (eds.), pp. 1–22

Article

Luraghi, Silvia, Jóhanna Barðdal and Eugenio R. Luján. 2014. Editors’ corner. Journal of Historical Linguistics 4:2, pp. 159–160

Article

Luraghi, Silvia. 2012. Basic valency orientation and the middle voice in Hittite. Studies in Language 36:1, pp. 1–32

This paper discusses basic valency orientation in Hittite, based on the typology proposed in Nichols et al. (2004). Verb pairs usually employed to test basic valency indicate the clearly transitivizing character of this language; a closer scrutiny of intransitive verbs further reveals the existence… read more | Article

Luraghi, Silvia. 2012. Review of Welo (2011): Indo-European syntax and pragmatics: contrastive approaches. Studies in Language 36:2, pp. 449–453

Review

Luraghi, Silvia. 2011. The coding of spatial relations with human landmarks. Case, Animacy and Semantic Roles, Kittilä, Seppo, Katja Västi and Jussi Ylikoski (eds.), pp. 207–234

The paper discusses the coding of location and direction with respect to human entities, and analyzes the change undergone by the Latin coding system with its outcomes in the Romance languages. Latin features different coding strategies depending on whether location and direction relate to the… read more | Article

Luraghi, Silvia. 2010. Review of Good (2008): Linguistic universals and language change. Studies in Language 34:2, pp. 453–461

Review

Luraghi, Silvia. 2009. The origin of the feminine gender in PIE: An old problem in a new perspective. Grammatical Change in Indo-European Languages: Papers presented at the workshop on Indo-European Linguistics at the XVIIIth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Montreal, 2007, Bubenik, Vit, John Hewson and Sarah Rose (eds.), pp. 3–13

Article

Luraghi, Silvia. 2009. The evolution of local cases and their grammatical equivalent in Greek and Latin. The Role of Semantic, Pragmatic, and Discourse Factors in the Development of Case, Barðdal, Jóhanna and Shobhana L. Chelliah (eds.), pp. 283–305

The Indo-European languages attest to a pie system with three local cases: locative, ablative, and (allative) accusative. I will focus on the system of local cases in Ancient Greek and in Latin. Both languages have a reduced number of case distinctions with respect to the pie system; in the field… read more | Article

Luraghi, Silvia and Pierluigi Cuzzolin. 2007. Mediating culture through language: Contact-induced phenomena in the early translations of the Gospels. Europe and the Mediterranean as Linguistic Areas: Convergencies from a historical and typological perspective, Ramat, Paolo and Elisa Roma (eds.), pp. 133–158

The paper aims to show how translation can transfer certain culture-specific concepts into a different culture, possibly modifying it. It concentrates on the translation of the Greek preposition epí into Latin, Gothic, and Old Church Slavonic in Luke’s Gospel. We argue that, to various extents,… read more | Article

Luraghi, Silvia. 2005. Paths of semantic extension. Historical Linguistics 2003: Selected papers from the 16th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Copenhagen, 11–15 August 2003, Fortescue, Michael, Eva Skafte Jensen, Jens Erik Mogensen and Lene Schøsler (eds.), pp. 141–157

Article

Gaeta, Livio and Silvia Luraghi. 2001. Gapping in Classical Greek prose. Studies in Language 25:1, pp. 89–113

The order of gapping has repeatedly been connected with the basic word order of a language. Such a view is inadequate for free word order languages, such as Classical Greek. Classical Greek allows both right- and leftward gapping; besides, some cases of bi-directional gapping are also attested. All… read more | Article

Luraghi, Silvia. 2001. The development of local particles and adverbs in Anatolian as a grammaticalization process. Diachronica 18:1, pp. 31–58

Summary The paper aims at giving a unified account of the origins and development of the Anatolian ‘local particles’, which, as such, are not attested in any other Indo-European language. The particles are P2 clitics and mostly co-occur with some type of local expression. The function of the… read more | Article