Francesco Pinzin
List of John Benjamins publications in which Francesco Pinzin is involved.
Articles
2026 On postverbal subjects in Old Venetian Italo-Romance Morphosyntax: Theoretical and empirical issues, Ciconte, Francesco Maria and Michela Cennamo (eds.), pp. 132–152 | Article
Postverbal subjects occupy different positions across languages, as they can result from V-to-C movement (e.g., German) or from the subject remaining low (e.g., Italian), either in a thematic or low focus position. We test postverbal subjects in Old Venetian and show that their frequency… read more
2025 A long farewell: What the loss of V2 made briefly visible Diachronica 42:5, pp. 594–645 | Article
The verb second word order (V2) is known to have been present in some Medieval Romance languages, and to have been lost. The loss is however a gradual process that we propose to relate to the decreasing height of the verb movement in the left periphery through the Medieval period: whereas in the… read more
2018 Chapter 15. Latin denominal deponents: A syntactic analysis Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 14: Selected papers from the 46th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Stony Brook, NY, Repetti, Lori and Francisco Ordóñez (eds.), pp. 263–278 | Chapter
Latin deponent verbs are usually analyzed as idiosyncratic forms whose Middle morphology does not correspond to the subjacent syntactic/semantic structure (Embick 2000, Xu et al. 2007). This paper shows that, for the deponents produced after the first half of the II cent. BCE (ex. ancillor ‘I… read more