Giovanna Marotta

List of John Benjamins publications for which Giovanna Marotta plays a role.

Marotta, Giovanna 2018 Chapter 25. Remarks on the vulnerability of grammarStructuring Variation in Romance Linguistics and Beyond: In honour of Leonardo M. Savoia, Grimaldi, Mirko, Rosangela Lai, Ludovico Franco and Benedetta Baldi (eds.), pp. 365–378 | Chapter
This paper deals with the special status of morphological features in a series of contexts that are crucial for the understanding of the architecture of human grammar: language pathology and impairment, L1/L2 acquisition, language evolution, language contact. The critical review of data referring… read more
Marotta, Giovanna 2014 New parameters for the sociophonetic indexes: Evidence from the Tuscan varieties of ItalianAdvances in Sociophonetics, Celata, Chiara and Silvia Calamai (eds.), pp. 137–168 | Article
A sociophonetic analysis of the main phonological processes occurring in Tuscan Italian is presented within a global proposal of a new, original set of parameters of variation. After a general discussion on the sociophonetic indexes and the illustration of phonological processes occurring in the… read more
Marotta, Giovanna and Linda Meini 2012 13. Spatial prepositions in Italian L2: Universal and language-specific principlesSpace and Time in Languages and Cultures: Linguistic diversity, Filipović, Luna and Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt (eds.), pp. 289–324 | Article
Space is a core domain of human cognition. However, the linguistic variation in encoding spatial reference is immense. In our chapter we address the currently debated issue of the existence of universal conceptual categories and principles by investigating one of the most idiosyncratic linguistic… read more
Ajello, Roberto, Giovanna Marotta, Laura Mazzoni and Florida Nicolai 2002 Morphosyntactic fragility in the spoken and written Italian of the deafClinical Linguistics: Theory and applications in speech pathology and therapy, Fava, Elisabetta (ed.), pp. 49–74 | Article
Marotta, Giovanna 2000 Oxytone Infinitives in the Dialect of PisaPhonological Theory and the Dialects of Italy, Repetti, Lori (ed.), pp. 191–210 | Article