Mario Squartini
List of John Benjamins publications for which Mario Squartini plays a role.
Articles
2017 Chapter 7. Italian non-canonical negations as modal particles: Information state, polarity and mirativity Pragmatic Markers, Discourse Markers and Modal Particles: New perspectives, Fedriani, Chiara and Andrea Sansó (eds.), pp. 203–228 | Chapter
This chapter will focus on the role of information state as a major factor in the development of modal particles derived from negative minimizers. By capitalizing on previous research on Romance non-canonical negations (see especially Schwenter 2003, 2005, 2006), the analysis will describe the… read more
2010 Mood in Italian Mood in the Languages of Europe, Rothstein, Björn and Rolf Thieroff (eds.), pp. 237–250 | Article
2001 The internal structure of evidentiality in Romance Studies in Language 25:2, pp. 297–334 | Article
This article discusses the evidential uses of the Future, Conditional and Indicative Imperfect in various Romance languages (mostly French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish) and the semantic factors that underlie the choice between them. The Romance data are used as a background for an evaluation of… read more