Vagueness, Ambiguity, and All the Rest: Linguistic and pragmatic approaches
Edited by Ilaria Fiorentini and Chiara Zanchi
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 347] 2024. vi, 281 pp. + index
Ilaria Fiorentini
List of John Benjamins publications for which Ilaria Fiorentini plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Discourse studies | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
Building Categories in Interaction: Linguistic resources at work
Edited by Caterina Mauri, Ilaria Fiorentini and Eugenio Goria
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 220] 2021. vi, 467 pp.
Subjects Cognition and language | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
2024 Chapter 7. Vague stuff: Cose as a general extender from Latin to Italian Vagueness, Ambiguity, and All the Rest: Linguistic and pragmatic approaches, Fiorentini, Ilaria and Chiara Zanchi (eds.), pp. 148–176 | Chapter
This paper investigates cose (pl. of cosa ‘thing’) as a general extender (GE) and marker of non-exhaustiveness from Latin to contemporary Italian. The study employs three corpora: CODIT, LIP/VOLIP and KIParla. We show that the frequency of cose-GEs dropped in 16th c., when they started being… read more
2024 Chapter 1. Introduction: How vague and ambiguous are vagueness and ambiguity? Vagueness, Ambiguity, and All the Rest: Linguistic and pragmatic approaches, Fiorentini, Ilaria and Chiara Zanchi (eds.), pp. 1–8 | Chapter
The relationship between ambiguity and vagueness is traditionally considered rather complex. It is not always easy to distinguish between the two phenomena, and the two concepts may seem to overlap. This introduction aims to clarify what is generally understood by ambiguity and vagueness in… 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
2021 Chapter 1. Building categories in interaction: Theoretical and empirical perspectives Building Categories in Interaction: Linguistic resources at work, Mauri, Caterina, Ilaria Fiorentini and Eugenio Goria (eds.), pp. 1–8 | Chapter
2019 Non-exhaustive lists in spoken language: A construction grammatical perspective On the Role of Pragmatics in Construction Grammar, Finkbeiner, Rita (ed.), pp. 290–316 | Article
The aim of this paper is to analyze how speakers refer to non-exhaustive sets in spoken discourse, by means of open lists. We will propose an analysis of non-exhaustivity in terms of indexicality and we will therefore consider open lists as having an inherently pragmatic component. Based on… read more
2017 Chapter 10. Ënghe, ence and also anche: Ladin and Italian additive particles in language contact situation Focus on Additivity: Adverbial modifiers in Romance, Germanic and Slavic languages, De Cesare, Anna-Maria and Cecilia Andorno (eds.), pp. 311–330 | Chapter
The contribution examines the behaviour of additive particles in a specific language contact situation, namely the Ladin speaking area in Trentino-South Tyrol (Italy). Ladin is a minority language spoken by ca. 30,000 speakers, whose linguistic repertoires include also Italian (Fassa valley) and… read more
2017 Chapter 15. Italian discourse markers and modal particles in contact Pragmatic Markers, Discourse Markers and Modal Particles: New perspectives, Fedriani, Chiara and Andrea Sansó (eds.), pp. 417–437 | Chapter
The paper addresses the issue of the fuzzy boundaries between modal particles (henceforth MPs) and discourse markers (DMs) in a specific language contact situation, namely the Ladin area in Trentino-South Tyrol (Italy). It is still debated whether MPs should be seen as a subtype of DMs or… read more
2017 Chapter 8. Intensifiers between grammar and pragmatics: A lesson from a language contact situation Exploring Intensification: Synchronic, diachronic and cross-linguistic perspectives, Napoli, Maria and Miriam Ravetto (eds.), pp. 173–192 | Chapter
Intensification is a more pervasive phenomenon than usually thought, involving modification and scaling at different levels. Besides adjectives and adverbs, also the epistemic stance and the illocutionary force of speech acts can be modulated (Bazzanella et al. 1991; Ghezzi 2013). The strategies… read more