Elisabetta Magni
List of John Benjamins publications for which Elisabetta Magni plays a role.
2024 Chapter 2. The role of ambiguity and vagueness in language change Vagueness, Ambiguity, and All the Rest: Linguistic and pragmatic approaches, Fiorentini, Ilaria and Chiara Zanchi (eds.), pp. 10–28 | Chapter
In linguistic research, the concepts of ambiguity and vagueness are often confused and frequently invoked to describe synchronic facts and explain diachronic processes. This article illustrates the differences and similarities between the two phenomena, defines their position within the domain… read more
2021 Chapter 11. Et cetera, eccetera, etc. The development of a general extender from Latin to Italian Building Categories in Interaction: Linguistic resources at work, Mauri, Caterina, Ilaria Fiorentini and Eugenio Goria (eds.), pp. 295–316 | Chapter
This paper discusses the range of functions of et cetera in Latin, as well as the multifunctionality and evolution of eccetera in Italian. Both forms pertain to the category of general extenders, i.e. markers whose main function is to ‘extend’ otherwise grammatically complete utterances. We will… read more
2017 Une grammaticalisation avec peine: Le cas de l’italien appena Mots de liaison et d'intégration: Prépositions, conjonctions et connecteurs, Ponchon, Thierry, Hava Bat-Zeev Shyldkrot et Annie Bertin (dir.), pp. 103–118 | Chapter
L’évolution du mot italien appena présente des similitudes avec le français à peine d’un point de vue sémantique et syntaxique. Ces formes proviennent toutes les deux de l’expression latine ad poenam et, à partir des significations originales de ‘punition’, ‘douleur’, ‘souffrance’, elles se… read more
2013 Synchronic gradience and language change in Latin genitive constructions Synchrony and Diachrony: A dynamic interface, Giacalone Ramat, Anna, Caterina Mauri and Piera Molinelli (eds.), pp. 177–200 | Article
This paper builds on the conceptualization of synchronic variation in terms of gradience and, more specifically, on recent findings concerning constructional gradience. In this perspective, indeterminacy, ambiguity and variation in language use and language system, are observed to involve both the… read more
2011 Coexisting structures and competing functions in genitive word order The Noun Phrase in Romance and Germanic: Structure, variation, and change, Sleeman, Petra and Harry Perridon (eds.), pp. 223–240 | Article
This paper examines the correlations between word order at the clause level and word order at the noun phrase level in languages with no dominant genitive order. In this perspective, the comparison between Latin and English is a revealing domain for investigating both synchronic variation and… read more