Francesca Masini
List of John Benjamins publications in which Francesca Masini is involved.
Journal
ISSN 1876-1933 | E‑ISSN 1876‑1941
Title
Word Classes: Nature, typology and representations
Edited by Raffaele Simone and Francesca Masini
The universal and typological status of the notion of word class — closely related to part-of-speech systems, morphology, syntax and the lexicon-syntax interface — continues to be of major linguistic theoretical interest. The papers included in this volume offer a fresh look at the variety of… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 332] 2014. vii, 293 pp.
2025 The prosody of list constructions Multimodal Communication from a Construction Grammar Perspective, Nikiforidou, Kiki and Mirjam Fried (eds.), pp. 116–151 | Chapter
The paper addresses one of the current hot topics within Construction Grammar, namely the integration of phonetic and phonological features into constructions. More specifically, we investigate some suprasegmental features of list constructions in spontaneous Italian speech, in order to… read more
2025 The fate of ‘pseudo-’ words: A contrastive corpus-based analysis Languages in Contrast 25:1, pp. 23–50 | Article
The present study examines the fate of the neoclassical combining form pseudo- in eight European languages, belonging to Germanic (Danish, Dutch, English, German and Swedish) and Romance (French, Italian, Spanish). In order to gain a better understanding of the synchronic morphological behaviour… read more
2022 Editorial announcement Constructions and Frames 14:2, p. | Editorial
2022 Wild words: The case of morphologically embedded general extenders Extravagant Morphology: Studies in rule-bending, pattern-extending and theory-challenging morphology, Eitelmann, Matthias and Dagmar Haumann (eds.), pp. 233–254 | Chapter
In this paper we analyse the formal and functional ‘extravagance’ of general extenders embedded within morphological schemas, either at the end of coordinate compounds, or as constituents of complex words, especially at the end of lists of complex words formed according to the same schema. After… read more
2021 Chapter 4. Category-building lists between grammar and interaction: A constructionist view Building Categories in Interaction: Linguistic resources at work, Mauri, Caterina, Ilaria Fiorentini and Eugenio Goria (eds.), pp. 73–110 | Chapter
Lists are one of the most common devices that are used in interaction to refer to a category. Yet, there are only few studies that analyze the relationship between lists and categorization. Our paper aims at advancing our knowledge of this relationship, and of lists in general. From a theoretical… read more
2017 Cognate constructions in Italian and beyond: A lexical semantic approach Contrastive Studies in Verbal Valency, Hellan, Lars, Andrej L. Malchukov and Michela Cennamo (eds.), pp. 219–250 | Chapter
This paper contains a lexico-semantic analysis of Cognate Constructions (CCs), i.e. argument structure patterns in which the verb and its nominal complement are morphologically or semantically related, mainly based on Italian data. We identify three types of CCs which display… read more
2014 Introduction: New approaches to old Word Class issues Word Classes: Nature, typology and representations, Simone, Raffaele and Francesca Masini (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Article
2014 On Light Nouns Word Classes: Nature, typology and representations, Simone, Raffaele and Francesca Masini (eds.), pp. 51–74 | Article
This paper investigates the hypothesis that word classes are not homogeneous, but rather complex sets of entities with (partially) different properties that can be arranged along a scale. Whereas much work has been done on subclasses of verbs, and on scales of ‘verbiness’ (e.g., full-fledged verbs… read more