Silvia Luraghi

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

Journal

Titles

Partitives cross-linguistically: Dimensions of variation

Edited by Silvia Luraghi and Petra Sleeman

Special issue of Linguistic Variation 23:1 (2023) v, 243 pp.
Subjects Generative linguistics | Typology

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

Diachronic Treebanks

Edited by Hanne Martine Eckhoff, Silvia Luraghi and Marco Passarotti

Special issue of Diachronica 35:3 (2018) v, 153 pp.
Subjects Historical linguistics

Space in Diachrony

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
Subjects Historical linguistics | Other Indo-European languages | Semantics

Articles

Luraghi, Silvia 2023 Beyond affectedness – partitive objects and degrees of agenthood in Ancient GreekPartitives cross-linguistically: Dimensions of variation, Luraghi, Silvia and Petra Sleeman (eds.), pp. 95–123 | Article
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
Sleeman, Petra and Silvia Luraghi 2023 Crosslinguistic variation in partitives: An introductionPartitives 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 linguisticsDiachronic 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 perfectPerfects in Indo-European Languages and Beyond, Crellin, Robert and Thomas Jügel (eds.), pp. 377–410 | Chapter
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… read more
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… read more
Ponti, Edoardo Maria and Silvia Luraghi 2020 Non-configurationality in diachrony: Correlations in local and global networks of Ancient Greek and LatinDiachronic Treebanks for Historical Linguistics, Eckhoff, Hanne Martine, Silvia Luraghi and Marco Passarotti (eds.), pp. 69–94 | Chapter
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
Eckhoff, Hanne Martine, Silvia Luraghi and Marco Passarotti 2018 The added value of diachronic treebanks for historical linguisticsDiachronic 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: Correlations in local and global networks of Ancient Greek and LatinDiachronic Treebanks, Eckhoff, Hanne Martine, Silvia Luraghi and Marco Passarotti (eds.), pp. 367–392 | Article
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
Luraghi, Silvia 2017 Differential Goal marking vs. differential Source marking in Ancient GreekSpace in Diachrony, Luraghi, Silvia, Tatiana Nikitina and Chiara Zanchi (eds.), pp. 119–146 | Chapter
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
Luraghi, Silvia, Tatiana Nikitina and Chiara Zanchi 2017 Space in Diachrony: An introductionSpace in Diachrony, Luraghi, Silvia, Tatiana Nikitina and Chiara Zanchi (eds.), pp. xi–xviii | Article
Luraghi, Silvia 2015 Asymmetries in Italian temperature terminologyThe Linguistics of Temperature, Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria (ed.), pp. 333–353 | Article
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
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
Luraghi, Silvia 2014 Plotting diachronic semantic maps: The role of metaphorsPerspectives on Semantic Roles, Luraghi, Silvia and Heiko Narrog (eds.), pp. 99–150 | Article
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
Luraghi, Silvia and Heiko Narrog 2014 Perspectives on semantic roles: An introductionPerspectives on Semantic Roles, Luraghi, Silvia and Heiko Narrog (eds.), pp. 1–22 | Article
Luraghi, Silvia, Jóhanna Barðdal and Eugenio R. Luján 2014 Editors’ cornerJournal of Historical Linguistics 4:2, pp. 159–160 | Article
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
Luraghi, Silvia 2011 The coding of spatial relations with human landmarks: From Latin to RomanceCase, Animacy and Semantic Roles, Kittilä, Seppo, Katja Västi and Jussi Ylikoski (eds.), pp. 207–234 | Article
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
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
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
Luraghi, Silvia 2005 Paths of semantic extension: From cause to beneficiary and purposeHistorical 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 proseStudies in Language 25:1, pp. 89–113 | Article
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
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
Luraghi, Silvia 1998 The Grammaticalization of the Left Sentence Boundary in HittiteThe Limits of Grammaticalization, Giacalone Ramat, Anna and Paul J. Hopper (eds.), pp. 189–210 | Article
Luraghi, Silvia 1995 The pragmatics of verb initial sentences in some ancient Indo-European languagesWord Order in Discourse, Downing, Pamela A. and Michael Noonan (eds.), pp. 355–386 | Article
Luraghi, Silvia 1987 Patterns of case syncretism in Indo-European languagesPapers from the 7th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Giacalone Ramat, Anna, Onofrio Carruba and Giuliano Bernini (eds.), pp. 355 ff. | Article