Jacqueline Visconti
List of John Benjamins publications in which Jacqueline Visconti is involved.
Journal
ISSN 0035-3906 | E‑ISSN 1600‑0811
Title
The Diachrony of Negation
Edited by Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen and Jacqueline Visconti
Despite intensive research, negation remains elusive. Its expression across languages, its underlying cognitive mechanisms, its development across time, and related phenomena, such as negative polarity and negative concord, leave many unresolved issues of both a definitional and a substantive… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 160] 2014. v, 258 pp.
2018 Chapter 6. Interpreting or in legal texts Legal Pragmatics, Kurzon, Dennis and Barbara Kryk-Kastovsky (eds.), pp. 117–130 | Chapter
Reconstructing the meaning of a text is a complex operation, involving linguistic, situational, inter-textual, cognitive, cultural, and ideological parameters. Due to a well-known polarization in contemporary linguistic theory, the interpretation process spans between an abstract “linguistic”… read more
2014 The diachrony of negation: Introduction The Diachrony of Negation, Mosegaard Hansen, Maj-Britt and Jacqueline Visconti (eds.), pp. 1–12 | Article
2014 On the development of the Italian truth adverbs davvero and veramente Diachronic Corpus Pragmatics, Taavitsainen, Irma, Andreas H. Jucker and Jukka Tuominen (eds.), pp. 133–154 | Article
The article compares the meanings and uses of the two main Italian adverbs of truth and truthfulness, namely davvero and veramente, across the whole documented history of the language. The investigation is carried out by inspection of two large corpora, Opera del Vocabolario Italiano (OVI; Old… read more
2005 On the origins of scalar particles in Italian The Evolution of Pragmatic Markers, Mosegaard Hansen, Maj-Britt and Corinne Rossari (eds.), pp. 237–261 | Article
In this paper the Italian scalar particles perfino and addirittura are investigated in a diachronic perspective, from their origins in spatial and temporal meanings to the scalar value they have in Present Day Italian. The data documenting the shift are discussed in Section 2, where it is argued… read more
2004 Conditionals and subjectification: Implications for a theory of semantic change Up and down the Cline – The Nature of Grammaticalization, Fischer, Olga, Muriel Norde and Harry Perridon (eds.), pp. 169–192 | Article
2003 From temporal to conditional: Italian qualora vs English whenever Meaning Through Language Contrast: Volume 2, Jaszczolt, Katarzyna M. and Ken Turner (eds.), pp. 23–50 | Article