Egle Mocciaro
List of John Benjamins publications in which Egle Mocciaro is involved.
Articles
2017 Asymmetries in path encoding in Sicilian: A diachronic overview Space in Diachrony, Luraghi, Silvia, Tatiana Nikitina and Chiara Zanchi (eds.), pp. 281–304 | Chapter
This paper proposes a description of the encoding of path within the system of the spatial relations in present-day Sicilian, with a retrospective glance to the diachronic developments of that system. Two features characterize the spatial relations in present-day Sicilian: (a) consistent with a… read more
2016 The embodied sources of purpose expressions in Latin Embodiment in Latin Semantics, Short, William Michael (ed.), pp. 85–114 | Article
This chapter examines the phrasal means of encoding the semantic role of purpose in Latin. After discussing the notion of semantic role and its use in cognitive linguistics, we illustrate the conceptual relation between the notional domains of space and causation. On this basis, we analyze the… read more