Simona Messina
List of John Benjamins publications for which Simona Messina plays a role.
Articles
2019 The predicative adjectiveand its propositional arguments: A lexicon-grammar classification Lingvisticæ Investigationes 42:2, pp. 234–261 | Article
The purpose of this paper is to classify Italian adjectives that have the predicative function and accept a complement clause (Ch F) or an infinitive (V-inf) in N0 or N1 . For the formation of the word list, we have used electronic dictionaries from the “DELA” system in use in the Department of… read more
2007 Between the real and the unreal: The mimesis of Italian speech in TV series Lingvisticæ Investigationes 30:2, pp. 261–290 | Article
In this paper I present a work in progress concerning the mimesis of Italian speech, which is possible to study not only into the two traditional forms of language — written and spoken — but also in broadcast language of tv series. In order to find examples of mimesis of spoken language which are… read more