Pietro Mingardi
List of John Benjamins publications in which Pietro Mingardi is involved.
Articles
2025 So what am I supposed to do? Italian elders and low-literacy citizens struggle with gerundive adjuncts in government documents: A self-paced reading study Written Language & Literacy 28:2, pp. 233–267 | Article
Non-obligatory control (NOC) gerundive adjuncts (e.g. ‘By reducing the effectiveness of the treatment, patients remain contagious for a longer period’) are common in government documents and require readers to integrate syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic information to identify the subject of… read more
2025 Adult second language acquisition under negligible exposure and no instruction: A self-paced reading study on adjuncts obligatory control Journal of Second Language Studies: Online-First Articles | Article
This study investigates whether adult learners of Italian as a second language (L2) acquire Obligatory Control (OC) in non-finite gerundive adjuncts, which is the local relationship between the empty subject PRO in the adjunct and the subject of the main clause. Adjunct OC in Italian is neither… read more