Silvia Luraghi

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List of John Benjamins publications in which Silvia Luraghi is involved.

Journal

Journal of Historical Linguistics

General Editor: Silvia Luraghi and Guglielmo Inglese

ISSN 2210-2116 | E‑ISSN 2210‑2124

Titles (6) | Order by:

Partitives cross-linguistically: Dimensions of variation

Edited by Silvia Luraghi and Petra Sleeman

Special issue of Linguistic Variation 23:1 (2023) v, 243 pp.

Diachronic Treebanks for Historical Linguistics

Edited by Hanne Martine Eckhoff, Silvia Luraghi and Marco Passarotti

Over the last few decades, the widespread diffusion of digital technology has increased availability of primary textual sources, radically changing the everyday life of scholars in the humanities, who are now able to access, query and process a wealth of empirical evidence in ways not possible… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 113] 2020. v, 154 pp.

Diachronic Treebanks

Edited by Hanne Martine Eckhoff, Silvia Luraghi and Marco Passarotti

Special issue of Diachronica 35:3 (2018) v, 153 pp.

Space in Diachrony

Edited by Silvia Luraghi, Tatiana Nikitina and Chiara Zanchi

Space is a fundamental dimension of human life and is pervasive in human experience. Research on space has highlighted the possible asymmetrical nature of spatial relations. Differences in the encoding of goals and sources of motion are a case in point, and cross-linguistic coding tendencies show… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 188] 2017. xvii, 373 pp.

Perspectives on Semantic Roles

Edited by Silvia Luraghi and Heiko Narrog

Semantic roles have continued to intrigue linguists for more than four decades now, starting with determining their kind and number, with their morphological expression, and with their interaction with argument structure and syntax. The focus in this volume is on typological and historical issues.… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 106] 2014. vi, 336 pp.

On the Meaning of Prepositions and Cases: The expression of semantic roles in Ancient Greek

Silvia Luraghi

Prepositions and cases constitute a fruitful field of research for semantics. The historical development of their meaning can shed light on the relations among the semantic roles of participants and on the organization of conceptual space. Ancient Greek allows an in-depth study of such development.… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 67] 2003. xii, 366 pp.

Articles (33) | Order by:

Luraghi, Silvia 2024 Embodied constructions: The encoding of emotions in Ancient Greek Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Online-First Articles | Article

In Ancient Greek two-place verbs can take three different argument structure constructions, with nominative first arguments and either accusative or genitive or dative second arguments. While the accusative is the default case across all verb classes, the genitive indicates low agentivity of the… read more

Luraghi, Silvia 2023 Beyond affectedness – partitive objects and degrees of agenthood in Ancient Greek Partitives cross-linguistically: Dimensions of variation, Luraghi, Silvia and Petra Sleeman (eds.), pp. 95–123 | Article

In several ancient and modern Indo-European languages, the partitive-genitive may be used in place of the accusative to encode the second argument of two-place verbs. In Ancient Greek the two types of object encoding can alternate with change-of-state verbs, alternation being viewed as connected… read more

Sleeman, Petra and Silvia Luraghi 2023 Crosslinguistic variation in partitives: An introduction Partitives cross-linguistically: Dimensions of variation, Luraghi, Silvia and Petra Sleeman (eds.), pp. 1–27 | Review article

Eckhoff, Hanne Martine, Silvia Luraghi and Marco Passarotti 2020 Introduction. The added value of diachronic treebanks for historical linguistics Diachronic Treebanks for Historical Linguistics, Eckhoff, Hanne Martine, Silvia Luraghi and Marco Passarotti (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Chapter

Inglese, Guglielmo and Silvia Luraghi 2020 Chapter 11. The Hittite periphrastic perfect Perfects in Indo-European Languages and Beyond, Crellin, Robert and Thomas Jügel (eds.), pp. 377–410 | Chapter

In Hittite, the meaning associated with the Proto-Indo-European perfect, i.e. to indicate a state resulting from a change-of-state event, was covered by compound verb forms consisting of the -ant- participle plus the finite forms of the verbs ḫar(k)- “have” and eš- “be”. The origin and the… read more

Luraghi, Silvia 2020 From verb to New Event Marker: A new look at the Hittite pai - and uwa - constructions Studies in Language 44:4, pp. 788–811 | Article

In Hittite, deictic motion verbs pai- ‘go’ and uwa- ‘come’ may co-occur in a monoclausal structure with a second verb that carries the lexical meaning. As yet, their exact function remains obscure. I argue that motion verbs involved in such construction underwent transcategorization and function… read more

Ponti, Edoardo Maria and Silvia Luraghi 2020 Non-configurationality in diachrony: Correlations in local and global networks of Ancient Greek and Latin Diachronic Treebanks for Historical Linguistics, Eckhoff, Hanne Martine, Silvia Luraghi and Marco Passarotti (eds.), pp. 69–94 | Chapter

Non-configurationality is a linguistic property associated with free word order, discontinuous constituents, including NPs, and null anaphora of referential arguments. Quantitative metrics, based both on local networks (syntactic trees and word order within sentences) and on global networks… read more

Eckhoff, Hanne Martine, Silvia Luraghi and Marco Passarotti 2018 The added value of diachronic treebanks for historical linguistics Diachronic Treebanks, Eckhoff, Hanne Martine, Silvia Luraghi and Marco Passarotti (eds.), pp. 297–309 | Introduction

Ponti, Edoardo Maria and Silvia Luraghi 2018 Non-configurationality in diachrony: Correlations in local and global networks of Ancient Greek and Latin Diachronic Treebanks, Eckhoff, Hanne Martine, Silvia Luraghi and Marco Passarotti (eds.), pp. 367–392 | Article

Luraghi, Silvia 2017 Differential Goal marking vs. differential Source marking in Ancient Greek Space in Diachrony, Luraghi, Silvia, Tatiana Nikitina and Chiara Zanchi (eds.), pp. 119–146 | Chapter

Differential marking of Goal and Source is a relatively underresearched topic. Available cross-linguistic evidence points toward two possible triggers of differential marking of spatial relations, that is, nouns that denote spatial regions and animate nouns. In this paper, differential Goal and… read more

Luraghi, Silvia, Tatiana Nikitina and Chiara Zanchi 2017 Space in Diachrony: An introduction Space in Diachrony, Luraghi, Silvia, Tatiana Nikitina and Chiara Zanchi (eds.), pp. xi–xviii | Miscellaneous

Luraghi, Silvia 2015 Asymmetries in Italian temperature terminology The Linguistics of Temperature, Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria (ed.), pp. 333–353 | Article

The Italian system of temperature terminology features the basic terms caldo ‘hot’ and freddo ‘cold’, two intermediate terms, tiepido ‘warm’ and fresco ‘cool’, and two terms for extreme temperature, bollente ‘very hot’ and gelato ‘ice-cold’, and might look remarkably symmetrical. However, a closer… read more

Luraghi, Silvia and Eleonora Sausa 2015 Hate and anger, love and desire: The construal of emotions in Homeric Greek Historical Linguistics 2013: Selected papers from the 21st International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Oslo, 5-9 August 2013, Haug, Dag T.T. (ed.), pp. 233–256 | Article

In Homeric Greek verbs that indicate negative emotions such as anger, hate, and envy take the NominativeDative construction, while verbs that indicate love, desire, and affection take the NominativeGenitive construction. The two constructions are typical of different verb classes: the former mainly… read more

Luraghi, Silvia 2014 Plotting diachronic semantic maps: The role of metaphors Perspectives on Semantic Roles, Luraghi, Silvia and Heiko Narrog (eds.), pp. 99–150 | Article

The paper discusses patterns of polysemy among semantic roles in cross-linguistic perspective, and the possible way in which such polysemies come into being through meaning extension of morphemes (cases and adposition) that encode semantic roles. Semantic extension is described based on commonly… read more

Luraghi, Silvia and Heiko Narrog 2014 Perspectives on semantic roles: An introduction Perspectives on Semantic Roles, Luraghi, Silvia and Heiko Narrog (eds.), pp. 1–22 | Article

Luraghi, Silvia, Jóhanna Barðdal and Eugenio R. Luján 2014 Editors’ corner Journal of Historical Linguistics 4:2, pp. 159–160 | Article

Luraghi, Silvia 2012 Basic valency orientation and the middle voice in Hittite Studies in Language 36:1, pp. 1–32 | Article

This paper discusses basic valency orientation in Hittite, based on the typology proposed in Nichols et al. (2004). Verb pairs usually employed to test basic valency indicate the clearly transitivizing character of this language; a closer scrutiny of intransitive verbs further reveals the existence… read more

Luraghi, Silvia 2012 Review of Welo (2011): Indo-European syntax and pragmatics: contrastive approaches Studies in Language 36:2, pp. 449–453 | Review

Luraghi, Silvia 2011 The coding of spatial relations with human landmarks: From Latin to Romance Case, Animacy and Semantic Roles, Kittilä, Seppo, Katja Västi and Jussi Ylikoski (eds.), pp. 209–234 | Article

The paper discusses the coding of location and direction with respect to human entities, and analyzes the change undergone by the Latin coding system with its outcomes in the Romance languages. Latin features different coding strategies depending on whether location and direction relate to the… read more

Luraghi, Silvia 2010 Review of Good (2008): Linguistic universals and language change Studies in Language 34:2, pp. 453–461 | Review

Luraghi, Silvia 2009 The origin of the feminine gender in PIE: An old problem in a new perspective Grammatical Change in Indo-European Languages: Papers presented at the workshop on Indo-European Linguistics at the XVIIIth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Montreal, 2007, Bubenik, Vit, John Hewson and Sarah Rose (eds.), pp. 3–13 | Article

Luraghi, Silvia 2009 The evolution of local cases and their grammatical equivalent in Greek and Latin The Role of Semantic, Pragmatic, and Discourse Factors in the Development of Case, Barðdal, Jóhanna and Shobhana L. Chelliah (eds.), pp. 283–305 | Article

The Indo-European languages attest to a pie system with three local cases: locative, ablative, and (allative) accusative. I will focus on the system of local cases in Ancient Greek and in Latin. Both languages have a reduced number of case distinctions with respect to the pie system; in the field… read more

Luraghi, Silvia and Pierluigi Cuzzolin 2007 Mediating culture through language: Contact-induced phenomena in the early translations of the Gospels Europe and the Mediterranean as Linguistic Areas: Convergencies from a historical and typological perspective, Ramat, Paolo and Elisa Roma (eds.), pp. 133–158 | Article

The paper aims to show how translation can transfer certain culture-specific concepts into a different culture, possibly modifying it. It concentrates on the translation of the Greek preposition epí into Latin, Gothic, and Old Church Slavonic in Luke’s Gospel. We argue that, to various extents,… read more

Luraghi, Silvia 2005 Paths of semantic extension: From cause to beneficiary and purpose Historical Linguistics 2003: Selected papers from the 16th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Copenhagen, 11–15 August 2003, Fortescue, Michael, Eva Skafte Jensen, Jens Erik Mogensen and Lene Schøsler (eds.), pp. 141–157 | Article

Gaeta, Livio and Silvia Luraghi 2001 Gapping in Classical Greek prose Studies in Language 25:1, pp. 89–113 | Article

The order of gapping has repeatedly been connected with the basic word order of a language. Such a view is inadequate for free word order languages, such as Classical Greek. Classical Greek allows both right- and leftward gapping; besides, some cases of bi-directional gapping are also attested. All… read more

Luraghi, Silvia 2001 The development of local particles and adverbs in Anatolian as a grammaticalization process Diachronica 18:1, pp. 31–58 | Article

Summary The paper aims at giving a unified account of the origins and development of the Anatolian ‘local particles’, which, as such, are not attested in any other Indo-European language. The particles are P2 clitics and mostly co-occur with some type of local expression. The function of the… read more