Benedetta Baldi

List of John Benjamins publications in which Benedetta Baldi is involved.

Title

Structuring Variation in Romance Linguistics and Beyond: In honour of Leonardo M. Savoia

Edited by Mirko Grimaldi, Rosangela Lai, Ludovico Franco and Benedetta Baldi

Current theoretical approaches to language devote great attention to macro- and micro-variation and show an ever-increasing interest in minority languages. In this respect, few empirical domains are as rich and lively as the Italo-Romance languages, which together with Albanian were the main… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 252] 2018. viii, 395 pp.

Articles

Manzini, Maria Rita, Leonardo M. Savoia and Benedetta Baldi 2021 Chapter 8. - ŋ plurals in North Lombard varieties: Differential plural marking and phases Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2018: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' 32, Utrecht, Drijkoningen, Frank, Sergio Baauw and Luisa Meroni (eds.), pp. 151–170 | Chapter

We focus on North Lombard -a and -n feminine plurals, for which we provide a morphological analysis. At the syntactic level, the relevant varieties are characterized by the phenomenon of Differential Plural Marking, whereby phasal domains have different realizations of plural morphology on the… read more

Baldi, Benedetta, Ludovico Franco and Leonardo M. Savoia 2019 Alternative truths and delegitimization pragmatic strategies around the 2018 Italian elections Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 7:2, pp. 293–320 | Article

In this paper we aim at analysing, from a pragmatic viewpoint, the rhetoric of delegitimization of the opponent in new media insofar as it triggers individual, uncontrolled and deep-rooted forms of communications. The communicative context is that of the political controversies and the… read more

Baldi, Benedetta and Ludovico Franco 2018 Chapter 2. Gender, number and inflectional class in some Northern Italian dialects: The plural inflection ‑i and the interpretation of N morphology Structuring Variation in Romance Linguistics and Beyond: In honour of Leonardo M. Savoia, Grimaldi, Mirko, Rosangela Lai, Ludovico Franco and Benedetta Baldi (eds.), pp. 31–55 | Chapter

In many Northern Italian varieties the plural inflection ‑i has a restricted distribution, targeting feminine class nouns, determiners and adjectives. The ‑i morpheme also occurs with clitic pronouns, both subjects and objects. The crucial point we address is the relation between the plural… read more