Francesca Di Garbo

List of John Benjamins publications for which Francesca Di Garbo plays a role.

Articles

This paper examines contact-induced change in numeral classifier systems based on two case studies of East Asian languages. Study 1 investigates contact-induced loss and emergence of numeral classifiers in different languages of the Amdo Sprachbund, where Sinitic languages are engaged in a… read more
Agbetsoamedo, Yvonne and Francesca Di Garbo 2015 Unravelling temperature terms in SɛlɛɛThe Linguistics of Temperature, Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria (ed.), pp. 107–127 | Article
This paper investigates the encoding of temperature in Sɛlɛɛ, a Niger-Congo language of the Kwa group, spoken in Ghana. The lexicon of temperature in Sɛlɛɛ consists of six central and two non-central temperature terms, distributed among the word classes of nouns, adjectives and verbs. The… read more