Nicholas Catasso

List of John Benjamins publications in which Nicholas Catasso is involved.

Title

Language Change at the Interfaces: Intrasentential and intersentential phenomena

Edited by Nicholas Catasso, Marco Coniglio and Chiara De Bastiani

This volume offers an up-to-date survey of linguistic phenomena at the interfaces between syntax and prosody, information structure and discourse – with a special focus on Germanic and Romance – and their role in language change. The contributions, set within the generative framework, discuss… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 275] 2022. viii, 255 pp.

Articles

Catasso, Nicholas 2024 Another adverbial expletive in German? The Evolution of Expletives: Theoretical and diachronic perspectives, Fuß, Eric and Benjamin L. Sluckin (eds.), pp. 59–93 | Article

In this paper, I propose that a previously understudied lexical item with the polysemous form so (‘so’) in German can be classified as an adverbial expletive. While so has been extensively analyzed in functions such as modal adverb and discourse marker, this study focuses on its occurrence as a… read more

Catasso, Nicholas 2022 Review of Georgiafentis, Giannoulopoulou, Koloipoulou & Tsokoglou (2020): Contrastive Studies in Morphology and Syntax Languages in Contrast 22:1, pp. 160–168 | Review

Catasso, Nicholas, Marco Coniglio and Chiara De Bastiani 2022 Interface phenomena and language change: Where we are and where we are going Language Change at the Interfaces: Intrasentential and intersentential phenomena, Catasso, Nicholas, Marco Coniglio and Chiara De Bastiani (eds.), pp. 1–32 | Chapter