Guglielmo Inglese
List of John Benjamins publications in which Guglielmo Inglese is involved.
Journal
ISSN 2210-2116 | E‑ISSN 2210‑2124
Title
Diachronic and Typological Perspectives on Anticausativization
Edited by Guglielmo Inglese, Giulia Mazzola and Eugenio Goria
The study of the causal-noncausal alternation offers a unique window onto how languages represent causal relations and event structure. Among the strategies used to encode this alternation, anticausative markers, which overtly signal noncausal situations, have received considerably less attention… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 138] 2026. vi, 514 pp. + index
2026 Intransitive verbs and reflexive marking in the history of French Revue Romane: Online-First Articles | Article
The Latin reflexive pronoun se famously developed into a middle marker in Romance languages. In this shift, it gained new voice-related functions (e.g. impersonals) and also became obligatory with some intransitive verbs, as in French s’évanouir ‘faint’. While the emergence of new… read more
2026 Chapter 4. Anticausativization patterns in Australian languages Diachronic and Typological Perspectives on Anticausativization, Inglese, Guglielmo, Giulia Mazzola and Eugenio Goria (eds.), pp. 73–118 | Chapter
This chapter explores the encoding of causal-noncausal alternations in Australian languages, with a focus on anticausativization. Using a genetically and geographically representative sample of 60 languages, we identified four major strategies involved in the anticausative pattern: verbalizers,… read more
2026 Chapter 1. What is an anticausative marker and where do anticausative markers come from? Diachronic and Typological Perspectives on Anticausativization, Inglese, Guglielmo, Giulia Mazzola and Eugenio Goria (eds.), pp. 1–24 | Chapter
This chapter opens the volume by offering an introduction to the typology and diachrony of anticausative markers, exploring their structural and semantic properties. We first provide a definition of what cross-linguistically counts as an anticausative marker and discuss how anticausatives may be… read more
2026 Chapter 10. Anticausativization and lability in Romance: A historical corpus study on Spanish and Italian Diachronic and Typological Perspectives on Anticausativization, Inglese, Guglielmo, Giulia Mazzola and Eugenio Goria (eds.), pp. 287–332 | Chapter
This comparative diachronic corpus study of Italian and Spanish focuses on the alternation between anticausativization (reflexive marking) and lability as noncausal marking strategies. By using mixed-effects logistic regression on historical data, we demonstrate the relevance of a variety of… read more
2024 The diachronic emergence of alignment cross‑linguistically: Theoretical and empirical perspectives Journal of Historical Linguistics 14:1, pp. 58–65 | Introduction
The possible origins of the various alignment patterns attested in the world’s languages have been the object of sustained interest in both language typology and historical linguistics (see Dahl 2021a for a recent overview). What is meant here by alignment, in a maximally general sense, is any… read more
2024 Chapter 6. Underspecification and ambiguity of voice markers: Synchrony and diachrony Vagueness, Ambiguity, and All the Rest: Linguistic and pragmatic approaches, Fiorentini, Ilaria and Chiara Zanchi (eds.), pp. 110–147 | Chapter
Voice markers have a notorious cross-linguistic tendency towards multifunctionality, in that a given marker can encode more than one voice operation at a time, such as reflexive and passive. In addition, diachronic typological research has also shown that patterns of multifunctionality of voice… read more
2023 The rise of middle voice systems: A study in diachronic typology Diachronica 40:2, pp. 195–237 | Article
Middle markers are characterized by a distribution halfway between grammar and the lexicon: with some verbs, middle marking encodes valency change, while with others it obligatorily occurs with no obvious synchronic motivation. Despite the existing cross-linguistic work on middle markers, their… read more
2023 The rise and fall of morphological schemas: A diachronic account of entre- prefixation in French Issues in Diachronic Construction Morphology, Norde, Muriel and Graeme Trousdale (eds.), pp. 187–210 | Article
The paper explores the origin and development of the [entre-V] construction in the history of French. By means of quantitative corpus data, it is shown that the [entre-V] construction, particularly in its reciprocal function, is productive in earlier stages of French and progressively disappears… read more
2022 The development of locative relative markers: From typology to sociolinguistics (and back) Studies in Language 46:1, pp. 220–257 | Article
The accessibility hierarchy was first proposed by Keenan & Comrie (1977) to describe the cross-linguistic distribution of relative markers in terms of likelihood of relativization of different syntactic roles. The hierarchy is also commonly believed to reflect constraints on possible changes in… read more
2020 Chapter 11. The Hittite periphrastic perfect Perfects 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
2017 A synchronic and diachronic typology of Hittite reciprocal constructions Studies in Language 41:4, pp. 956–1006 | Article
This paper discusses reciprocal constructions in Hittite, framed within the typology of reciprocals laid out by Nedjalkov (2007), König & Gast (2008), and Evans et al. (2011). Hittite attests to at least three reciprocal markers, that is, the middle voice, the particle =za, and three different… read more