Vittorio Tantucci

List of John Benjamins publications in which Vittorio Tantucci is involved.

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Different Slants on Grammaticalization

Edited by Sylvie Hancil and Vittorio Tantucci

This volume on grammaticalization focuses on new theoretical and methodological challenges underpinning language change. It provides new approaches and insights deepening our understanding of the cognitive, pragmatic, and socio-cultural mechanisms that trigger the formation and the change of… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 232] 2023. vi, 284 pp.

Tantucci, Vittorio and Aiqing Wang 2023 Chapter 2. From fear to reason: Grammaticalization as dependency vs expansion of the Mandarin apprehensive 怕 pà Different Slants on Grammaticalization, Hancil, Sylvie and Vittorio Tantucci (eds.), pp. 50–73 | Chapter

In this study we support the view that grammaticalization can unfold both in the form of increased dependency and increased expansion (cf. Traugott & Trousdale 2013), even when originating from the same original lexeme. We provide the case study of the Mandarin apprehensive verb 怕 pà … read more

Tantucci, Vittorio and Sylvie Hancil 2023 Introduction Different Slants on Grammaticalization, Hancil, Sylvie and Vittorio Tantucci (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Chapter

Culpeper, Jonathan, Samuel J. Oliver and Vittorio Tantucci 2021 Politeness reciprocity in Shakespeare’s dialogue: The case of thanks Historical Pragmatics today: Articles in honour of Andreas H. Jucker, Taavitsainen, Irma and Jonathan Culpeper (eds.), pp. 202–224 | Article

Recently, it has been proposed that (im)politeness in interaction today is governed in large part by a Principle of (Im)politeness Reciprocity (Culpeper and Tantucci 2021). This paper investigates whether politeness reciprocity works similarly in early modern English – specifically, in the plays… read more

Tantucci, Vittorio 2015 Traversativity and grammaticalization: The aktionsart of 过 guo as a lexical source of evidentiality Chinese Language and Discourse 6:1, pp. 57–100 | Article

This paper discusses the new aktionsart of traversativity, here defined as the category marking the phase of ‘getting-through’ an event or a situation. Different from completives and resultatives (cf. Bybee et al. 1994), traversatives do not profile a phasal contiguity with the telos of a… read more