This book aims to address a gap in the existing literature on the relationship between vagueness and ambiguity, as well as on their differences and similarities, both in synchrony and diachrony, and taking into consideration their relation to language use. The book is divided into two parts, which… read more
Edited by Silvia Luraghi, Tatiana Nikitina and Chiara Zanchi
Space is a fundamental dimension of human life and is pervasive in human experience. Research on space has highlighted the possible asymmetrical nature of spatial relations. Differences in the encoding of goals and sources of motion are a case in point, and cross-linguistic coding tendencies show… read more
This paper investigates cose (pl. of cosa ‘thing’) as a general extender (GE) and marker of non-exhaustivity from Latin to contemporary Italian. The study employs three corpora: CODIT, LIP/VoLIP and KIParla. We show that the frequency of cose-GEs dropped in 16th c., when they started being… read more
The relationship between ambiguity and vagueness is traditionally considered rather complex. It is not always easy to distinguish between the two phenomena, and the two concepts may seem to overlap. This introduction aims to clarify what is generally understood by ambiguity and vagueness in… read more
This paper provides new evidence for the Source–Goal asymmetry by analyzing the synchronic behavior and the diachronic developments of Ancient Greek preverbs. This investigation is based on a diachronic corpus, including Homer as well as later prose, obtained by selecting a number of verbs… read more
