Paolo Ramat

List of John Benjamins publications in which Paolo Ramat is involved.

Linguistic Categories, Language Description and Linguistic Typology

Edited by Luca Alfieri, Giorgio Francesco Arcodia and Paolo Ramat

Few issues in the history of the language sciences have been an object of as much discussion and controversy as linguistic categories. The eleven articles included in this volume tackle the issue of categories from a wide range of perspectives and with different foci, in the context of the current… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 132] 2021. vi, 424 pp.

Europe and the Mediterranean as Linguistic Areas: Convergencies from a historical and typological perspective

Edited by Paolo Ramat and Elisa Roma

This volume is a collection of 12 papers which originated from a research project on ‘Europe and the Mediterranean from a linguistic point of view: history and prospects’. The papers deal with specific morphosyntactic aspects of language structure and evolution. The comparative perspective is… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 88] 2007. xxvi, 364 pp.

The History of Linguistics in Italy

Edited by Paolo Ramat, Hans-Josef Niederehe and E.F.K. Koerner †

This volume brings together the papers published in Historiographia Linguistica 9:3 (1982), which was devoted to the history of linguistics in Italy, with Marazzini’s paper first published in Historiographia Linguistica 10:1/2 (1983), and an original article by Franco Lo Piparo expressly written… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 33] 1986. x, 364 pp.

Linguistic Reconstruction and Indo-European Syntax: Proceedings of the Colloquium of the 'Indogermanische Gesellschaft'. University of Pavia, 6–7 September 1979

Edited by Paolo Ramat

The aim of the colloquium, from which this volume derives, was to bring together approaches from general linguistics and language reconstruction, to show how these can benefit from eachother. Although the focus was on Indo-European languages, other language families were present in the discussion,… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 19] 1980. viii, 263 pp.

Alfieri, Luca, Giorgio Francesco Arcodia and Paolo Ramat 2021 Chapter 1. Linguistic categories, language description and linguistic typology – An overview Linguistic Categories, Language Description and Linguistic Typology, Alfieri, Luca, Giorgio Francesco Arcodia and Paolo Ramat (eds.), pp. 1–34 | Chapter

In this paper we propose a critical discussion of the rationale for this volume. After a short introduction (Section 1), an outline of the long-standing opposition between language particular description and universal grammar in the history of the language sciences is provided (Section 2). This… read more

Fedriani, Chiara, Gianguido Manzelli and Paolo Ramat 2013 Gradualness in contact-induced constructional replication: The Abstract Possession construction in the Circum-Mediterranean area Synchrony and Diachrony: A dynamic interface, Giacalone Ramat, Anna, Caterina Mauri and Piera Molinelli (eds.), pp. 391–418 | Article

It is widely appreciated that the linguistic category of possession does not reduce to any single, familiar value, such as ownership. A moment’s thought reveals the extraordinary variety of the relationships coded by possessive constructions. (Langacker 1991: 169)In this paper we investigate the… read more

Ramat, Paolo 2007 Foreword Europe and the Mediterranean as Linguistic Areas: Convergencies from a historical and typological perspective, Ramat, Paolo and Elisa Roma (eds.), pp. ix–xxv | Foreword

Ramat, Paolo 2007 Review of Frajzyngier, Hodges & Rood (2005): Linguistic Diversity and Language Theories Studies in Language 31:3, pp. 690–699 | Review

Ramat, Paolo 1994 On Latin absolute constructions Linguistic Studies on Latin: Selected papers from the 6th International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics (Budapest, 23–27 March 1991), Herman, József (ed.), pp. 259–268 | Article

Ramat, Paolo 1990 Da Humboldt ai neogrammatici: Continuità e fratture Leibniz, Humboldt, and the Origins of Comparativism: Proceedings of the international conference, Rome, 25–28 September 1986, De Mauro, Tullio † and Lia Formigari (eds.), pp. 199–212 | Article

Ramat, Paolo 1989 The Balkanic Linguistic Type NOWELE Volume 13 (April 1989), pp. 21–40 | Article

Ramat, Paolo 1986 Giacomo Devoto (1898-1974) The man and his work The History of Linguistics in Italy, Ramat, Paolo, Hans-Josef Niederehe and E.F.K. Koerner † (eds.), pp. 301–320 | Article

Ramat, Paolo 1982 Giacomo Devoto 1898–1974: The man and his work Historiographia Linguistica 9:3, pp. 495–513 | Article

The paper essays to give a brief survey of the imposing and complex work of Giacomo Devoto (1897–1974), with particular emphasis on its principal traits seen both from the point of view of the history of linguistics and its scientific significance. Especial attention is drawn first of all to… read more

Ramat, Paolo 1982 Preface Historiographia Linguistica 9:3, pp. 233–235 | To be specified

Ramat, Paolo 1980 Preface Linguistic Reconstruction and Indo-European Syntax: Proceedings of the Colloquium of the 'Indogermanische Gesellschaft'. University of Pavia, 6–7 September 1979, Ramat, Paolo (ed.), pp. 1–13 | Preface

Ramat, Paolo 1979 Lingua intellettuali egemonia in Gramsci. By Franco Lo Piparo Historiographia Linguistica 6:3, pp. 385–390 | Review

Ramat, Paolo 1975 Friedrich Engels Zwischen Anthropologie und Sprachwissenschaft Historiographia Linguistica 2:3, pp. 335–351 | Article

The author aims to show that Friedrich Engels’ linguistic researches, especially in his Der fränkische Dialekt, are to be considered within the same theoretical framework of historic materialism which underlies his more comprehensive studies on the history of primitive peoples, such as the… read more