Riccardo Giomi
List of John Benjamins publications in which Riccardo Giomi is involved.
2026 Chapter 12. A layered approach to habitual constructions: Typological generalizations A Layered Approach to Habitual Constructions, Gregersen, Sune and Kees Hengeveld (eds.), pp. 372–385 | Chapter
This chapter presents typological generalizations that can be derived from a comparison of the data presented in Chapters 2–11 in this volume. The languages are compared in the light of the two predictions presented in Chapter 1: (i) across and within languages, dedicated habitual expressions… read more
2026 Chapter 8. Habitual constructions in European Portuguese A Layered Approach to Habitual Constructions, Gregersen, Sune and Kees Hengeveld (eds.), pp. 229–265 | Chapter
This chapter examines two habitual constructions in European Portuguese, costumar + infinitive and the present perfect, from a Functional Discourse Grammar perspective. Through a variety of collocation and interpretation tests designed to determine the semantic scope of grammatical expressions,… read more
2024 Chapter 6. Underspecification and ambiguity of voice markers: Synchrony and diachrony Vagueness, Ambiguity, and All the Rest: Linguistic and pragmatic approaches, Fiorentini, Ilaria and Chiara Zanchi (eds.), pp. 110–147 | Chapter
Voice markers have a notorious cross-linguistic tendency towards multifunctionality, in that a given marker can encode more than one voice operation at a time, such as reflexive and passive. In addition, diachronic typological research has also shown that patterns of multifunctionality of voice… read more
2014 Grammar, context and the hearer: A proposal for an addressee-oriented model of Functional Discourse Grammar The interaction between context and grammar in Functional Discourse Grammar, Alturo, Nuria, Evelien Keizer and Lluís Payrató (eds.), pp. 275–296 | Article
This paper addresses two issues related to the overarching question of how to integrate Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG) into a wider theory of verbal interaction (Hengeveld and Mackenzie 2008: 1). First, it proposes an addressee-oriented version of the Grammatical Component, presenting a first… read more