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.
Ilaria Fiorentini
List of John Benjamins publications for which Ilaria Fiorentini plays a role.
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Subjects Cognition and language | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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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
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 | Chapter
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
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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
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 corpus… read more | Article
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
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 | Chapter
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
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 whether… read more | Chapter
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
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 | Chapter