Matteo Pellegrini
List of John Benjamins publications in which Matteo Pellegrini is involved.
Articles
2025 Exploring the form of Italian diminutives: Alternation patterns and constructional schemas Constructions and Frames 17:2, pp. 175–210 | Article
In this paper, we provide an extensive analysis of the formal features displayed by Italian diminutives (especially allomorphy) by using surface alternation patterns automatically extracted from a dataset of base-diminutive pairs. Applying the theoretical tools provided by Construction… read more
2022 Derivation predicting inflection: A quantitative study of the relation between derivational history and inflectional behavior in Latin Studies in Language 46:4, pp. 753–792 | Article
In this paper, we investigate the value of derivational information in predicting the inflectional behavior of lexemes. We focus on Latin, for which large-scale data on both inflection and derivation are easily available. We train boosting tree classifiers to predict the inflection class of… read more