Marco Favaro
List of John Benjamins publications in which Marco Favaro is involved.
Articles
2027 Reassessing modal particles and their role within Discourse Acts: A Functional Discourse Grammar perspective The Interpersonal Level in Functional Discourse Grammar, Serafim, Monielly, Matthias Mittendorfer and Kees Hengeveld (eds.), pp. 96–122 | Chapter
This paper re-examines modal particles (MPs) within the framework of Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG). MPs are syntactically integrated adverbial elements that scope over the entire clause and fine-tune speech acts by modifying illocutionary force in context. Drawing on extensive research on… read more
2020 Chapter 4. From focus marking to illocutionary modification: Functional developments of Italian solo ‘only’ Information-Structural Perspectives on Discourse Particles, Modicom, Pierre-Yves and Olivier Duplâtre (eds.), pp. 111–132 | Chapter
This paper investigates the polyfunctionality of the Italian adverb solo ‘only’. Beside its prototypical use as an exclusive focus particle, the adverb solo has developed some secondary uses which have not yet been investigated: connective uses (uses as a conjunctional adverb and as a discourse… read more