Cinzia Russi
List of John Benjamins publications for which Cinzia Russi plays a role.
2014 The grammaticalization of nomə in the Eastern Abruzzese dialect Ortese: Fromindefinite pronoun to inflectional marker? Grammaticalization – Theory and Data, Hancil, Sylvie and Ekkehard König (eds.), pp. 157–180 | Article
This paper draws attention to the distribution and referential functions nomÉ™ in Ortonese, an Eastern Abruzzese dialect that, overall, remains relatively understudied. The analysis of original written and spoken data shows that in this dialect nomÉ™ appears to have reached a more advanced stage of… read more
2014 On the relationship between sentence focus category, subject-verb order, and genericity: A preliminary analysis of some Italian unaccusatives Perspectives on Linguistic Structure and Context: Studies in honor of Knud Lambrecht, Katz Bourns, Stacey and Lindsy L. Myers (eds.), pp. 39–56 | Article
This paper examines the relationship among sentence focus, subject position (i.e., preverbal vs. postverbal) and genericity in Italian constructions involving two sub-classes of unaccusative verbs. It is shown that with unaccusatives denoting change of location (e.g., arrivare ‘arrive’), subject… read more
2006 A usage-based analysis of the allomorphy of the Italian masculine definite article Studies in Language 30:3, pp. 575–598 | Article
Within standard generative phonology, the distribution of the allomorphs of the Italian masculine definite article has been related strictly to features of the initial segment/cluster of the lexical item following the article. Two main drawbacks characterize such analysis. First, they crucially… read more
2006
Morphosyntactic Functions of Italian Reflexive si: A Grammaticalization
Analysis Historical Romance Linguistics: Retrospective and perspectives, Gess, Randall and Deborah Arteaga (eds.), pp. 357–374 | Chapter
2006 Italian Volerci: Lexical Verb or Functional Head? New Perspectives on Romance Linguistics: Vol. I: Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics, Nishida, Chiyo and Jean-Pierre Y. Montreuil (eds.), pp. 247–262 | Article
Based on a detailed reconstruction of the evolution of Old Italian bisogna “must/be necessary”, Benincà and Poletto (1994, 1997) propose that this verb underwent a process of grammaticalization through which it changed from full verb into a functional head expressing deontic necessity. This paper… read more