Federica Da Milano
List of John Benjamins publications in which Federica Da Milano is involved.
2025 Deixis and self-reference: A comparison between Indo-European and East Asian languages, in EP’s framework Emancipatory Pragmatics: Innovative approaches to pragmatics incorporating the concept of “ba”, Fujii, Yoko, William F. Hanks, Sachiko Ide, Scott Saft and Kishiko Ueno (eds.), pp. 249–274 | Chapter
The aim of this paper is to compare personal deixis, mainly self-reference and subjectivity, in relation to linguistic intersubjectivity, in Indo-European languages and in East Asian languages, with a focus on Japanese. The approach is based on the theorical framework of emancipatory pragmatics,… read more
2021 Chapter 11. The category ‘pronoun’ in East and Southeast Asian languages, with a focus on Japanese Linguistic Categories, Language Description and Linguistic Typology, Alfieri, Luca, Giorgio Francesco Arcodia and Paolo Ramat (eds.), pp. 389–410 | Chapter
The topic of the paper is an analysis of the debated notion of the category ‘pronoun’ in East and Southeast Asian languages, with a special focus on Japanese. After a description of the main aspects of the notion of ‘person’ as a grammatical category, the focus is devoted to personal pronouns in… read more
2019 AcI: Inheritance and influence on some languages of Western Europe Latin influence on the syntax of the languages of Europe, Cornillie, Bert and Bridget Drinka (eds.), pp. 108–124 | Article
This paper examines the history of the Accusativus cum Infinitivo (henceforth: AcI) construction in some languages of Western Europe (the Romance and Germanic languages), and attempts to ascertain whether the AcI in the modern languages is modelled on the AcI of Latin or whether the form was… read more
2007 Demonstratives in the languages of Europe Europe and the Mediterranean as Linguistic Areas: Convergencies from a historical and typological perspective, Ramat, Paolo and Elisa Roma (eds.), pp. 25–47 | Article
The definition of ‘demonstrative’ used in this research is based on Diessel’s study (1999): in particular, semantic and pragmatic features of demonstratives have been the main topic of this study. I have compiled a questionnaire for the elicitation of the data. Because demonstratives seem to… read more