Alessandro Lenci
List of John Benjamins publications in which Alessandro Lenci is involved.
2026 Composing or not composing? Towards Distributional Construction Grammar Constructions and Frames: Online-First Articles | Article
Understanding how language comprehension works remains a central challenge. While meaning is traditionally viewed as incrementally constructed through compositional processes, numerous studies show that non-compositional mechanisms also play a crucial role. In this paper, we propose a unified… read more
2020 Valency coercion in Italian: An exploratory study Constructions and Frames 12:2, pp. 171–205 | Article
The paper investigates valency coercion effects in Italian by means of an acceptability rating task on nine argument structure constructions. The experimental design follows Perek & Hilpert (2014) in presenting three conditions: grammatical, impossible and coercion stimuli. This design allows us… read more
2014 Carving verb classes from corpora Word Classes: Nature, typology and representations, Simone, Raffaele and Francesca Masini (eds.), pp. 17–36 | Article
In this paper, I discuss some methodological problems arising from the use of corpus data for semantic verb classification. In particular, I present a computational framework to describe the distributional properties of Italian verbs using linguistic data automatically extracted from a large corpus. read more
2013 Verbs of visual perception in Italian FrameNet Advances in Frame Semantics, Fried, Mirjam and Kiki Nikiforidou (eds.), pp. 13–49 | Article
In this paper, we present a frame semantic analysis of a small group of Italian verbs expressing visual perception, which constitutes the first stage of a project for developing an Italian FrameNet. Our results show a close correspondence between English and Italian perception-related frames. The… read more
2011 Verbs of visual perception in Italian FrameNet Advances in Frame Semantics, pp. 9–45 | Article
In this paper, we present a frame semantic analysis of a small group of Italian verbs expressing visual perception, which constitutes the first stage of a project for developing an Italian FrameNet. Our results show a close correspondence between English and Italian perception-related frames. The… read more