Paola Vernillo
List of John Benjamins publications in which Paola Vernillo is involved.
Articles
2023 How did you break that? Semantic boundaries of Italian and English action verbs encoding breaking events Languages in Contrast 23:1, pp. 93–120 | Article
Cross-linguistic research has brought extensive evidence on how languages differ in their categorization of actions and events, pointing out the differences in the semantic categories they establish, their boundaries and their degree of granularity with respect to the variety of events they… read more
2019 Chapter 10. Metaphor in action: Action verbs and abstract meaning Perspectives on Abstract Concepts: Cognition, language and communication, Bolognesi, Marianna and Gerard J. Steen (eds.), pp. 215–238 | Chapter
Embodiment plays an essential role in both concrete and abstract semantic representation. As a consequence, action verbs are extensively involved in the conceptualization and linguistic encoding of figurative meanings. In the light of several theoretical frameworks, this chapter aims to… read more