Italo-Romance Morphosyntax: Theoretical and empirical issues
Edited by Francesco Maria Ciconte and Michela Cennamo
Special issue of Linguistic Variation 26:1 (2026) v, 220 pp.
Michela Cennamo
List of John Benjamins publications in which Michela Cennamo is involved.
Historical Linguistics 2015: Selected papers from the 22nd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Naples, 27-31 July 2015
Edited by Michela Cennamo and Claudia Fabrizio
The collection of articles presented in this volume addresses a number of general theoretical, methodological and empirical issues in the field of Historical Linguistics, in different levels of analysis and on different themes: (i) phonology, (ii) morphology, (iii) morphosyntax, (iv) syntax, (v)… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 348] 2019. viii, 639 pp.
Contrastive Studies in Verbal Valency
Edited by Lars Hellan, Andrej L. Malchukov and Michela Cennamo
In recent years, issues of verbal valency, valency alternations and verb classes have seen a new upsurge of interest from a variety of perspectives. This book comprises articles investigating valency phenomena on a contrastive basis within Romance, Germanic and Slavic, and also in Basque and in the… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 237] 2017. vii, 476 pp.
Argument Structure in Flux: The Naples-Capri Papers
Edited by Elly van Gelderen, Jóhanna Barðdal and Michela Cennamo
The present volume is centered around five linguistic themes: argument structure and encoding strategies; argument structure and verb classes; unexpressed arguments; split intransitivity; and existential and presentational constructions. The articles also cover a variety of typologically different… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 131] 2013. viii, 578 pp.
2025 Differential object marking in early Italo-Romance and old Sardinian Historical Linguistics 2022: Selected papers from the 25th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Oxford, 1–5 August 2022, Kennard, Holly, Emily Lindsay-Smith, Aditi Lahiri and Martin Maiden (eds.), pp. 150–165 | Chapter
This paper explores the differential marking of objects (DOM) in two southern early Italo- Romance vernaculars, namely old Sicilian and old Neapolitan, and in old Sardinian texts from two different areas, Logudoro and Arborea. We investigate the constraints on the marking of objects, whether… read more
2023 Syntactic and semantic constraints on differential object marking
This paper explores the differential marking of (human) objects (DOM) in a corpus of old Sardinian texts from two different areas, Logudoro and Arborea. We investigate the constraints on the marking of objects, whether semantic, reflecting the Individuation Hierarchy (Silverstein, 1976, p. 122),… read more
2020 The actualization of new voice patterns in Romance: Persistence in diversity Historical Linguistics 2017: Selected papers from the 23rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, San Antonio, Texas, 31 July – 4 August 2017, Drinka, Bridget (ed.), pp. 109–142 | Chapter
This article discusses some aspects of the reorganization of voice distinctions in the transition from Latin to Romance, namely the grammaticalization of activity (do / make) and change of state (become) verbs as markers of the passive voice, and the reanalysis of the reflexive morpheme se as a… read more
2019 Aspects of grammaticalization and reanalysis in the voice domain in the transition from Latin to early Italo-Romance Perspectives on Language Structure and Language Change: Studies in honor of Henning Andersen, Heltoft, Lars, Iván Igartua, Brian D. Joseph, Kirsten Jeppesen Kragh and Lene Schøsler (eds.), pp. 205–231 | Chapter
This article discusses some aspects of the grammaticalization and reanalysis of lexical verbs as passive auxiliaries and light verbs in the passage from Latin to (Italo-)Romance, focussing on (i) the diachronic relationship between auxiliarization and light verbs, (ii) the direction of the… read more
2019 Introduction Historical Linguistics 2015: Selected papers from the 22nd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Naples, 27-31 July 2015, Cennamo, Michela and Claudia Fabrizio (eds.), pp. 1–8 | Chapter
2017 Object omission and the semantics of predicates in Italian in a comparative perspective Contrastive Studies in Verbal Valency, Hellan, Lars, Andrej L. Malchukov and Michela Cennamo (eds.), pp. 251–273 | Chapter
This paper discusses the semantics of O(bject) omission with divalent verbs in Italian, in relation to (i) the interplay of the inherent and structural aspects of verb meaning with the degree of thematic specification of the subject (i.e., agentivity/control); (ii) the inherent… read more
2017 Introduction. Issues in contrastive valency studies Contrastive Studies in Verbal Valency, Hellan, Lars, Andrej L. Malchukov and Michela Cennamo (eds.), pp. 1–24 | Chapter
2013 Argument structure in flux Argument Structure in Flux: The Naples-Capri Papers, Gelderen, Elly van, Jóhanna Barðdal and Michela Cennamo (eds.), pp. 1–12 | Article
2011 Impersonal constructions and accusative subjects in Late Latin Impersonal Constructions: A cross-linguistic perspective, Malchukov, Andrej L. and Anna Siewierska (eds.), pp. 169–188 | Article
This paper explores the role played by impersonal constructions in the rise of active coding systems, with evidence from Late Latin. It is argued that the spread of accusative arguments from impersonal to personal structures (initially unaccusative, subsequently unergative and transitive) might… read more
2009 Argument structure and alignment variations and changes in Late Latin The Role of Semantic, Pragmatic, and Discourse Factors in the Development of Case, Barðdal, Jóhanna and Shobhana L. Chelliah (eds.), pp. 307–346 | Article
This paper explores the diachronic relationship between the active/neutral realignment of grammatical relations taking place in Late Latin, manifested by accusative subjects, and the temporary loss of the grammatical dimension of voice. These two clusters of changes can be shown to reflect the rise… read more
2008 The rise and development of analytic perfects in Italo-Romance Grammatical Change and Linguistic Theory: The Rosendal papers, Eythórsson, Thórhallur (ed.), pp. 115–142 | Article
2007 Auxiliary selection and split intransitivity in Paduan: Variation, and lexical-aspectual constraints Split Auxiliary Systems: A cross-linguistic perspective, Aranovich, Raúl (ed.), pp. 65–99 | Article
2006 The rise and grammaticalization paths of Latin fieri and facere as passive auxiliaries Passivization and Typology: Form and function, Abraham, Werner and Larisa Leisiö (eds.), pp. 311–336 | Article
This paper discusses the various stages of the change leading to the emergence of the Latin verbs fieri ‘to become, to be done/made’ and facere ‘to do, to make’ as imperfective and perfective passive markers, respectively, between Late Latin and early (Italo)-Romance. It is argued that the… read more
2000 Patterns of ‘Active’ Syntax in Late Latin Pleonastic Reflexives Historical Linguistics 1995: Volume 1: General issues and non-Germanic Languages., Smith, John Charles and Delia Bentley (eds.), pp. 35–56 | Article
1998 The Loss of the Voice Dimension Between Late Latin and Early Romance Historical Linguistics 1997: Selected papers from the 13th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Düsseldorf, 10–17 August 1997, Schmid, Monika S., Jennifer R. Austin and Dieter Stein (eds.), pp. 77–100 | Article