M. Silvia Micheli

List of John Benjamins publications in which M. Silvia Micheli is involved.

Articles

Micheli, M. Silvia and Matteo Pellegrini 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

Micheli, M. Silvia 2024 Linee di tendenza aggiornate della formazione di parola dell’italiano contemporaneo Revue Romane 59:1, pp. 113–142 | Article

L’articolo delinea un profilo della formazione di parola dell’italiano a partire dai primi anni Duemila, sulla base di un repertorio di neoformazioni attestate negli ultimi due decenni. L’analisi conferma alcune tendenze già identificate da studi precedenti, tra cui la preminenza della… read more

Micheli, M. Silvia 2021 Compounding in Old Italian: A constructionist analysis Lingvisticæ Investigationes 44:1, pp. 66–100 | Article

This paper provides a corpus-based analysis of compounding in Old Italian. The semantic and formal properties of compound words attested in Old Italian are described and discussed through the theoretical tools provided by Construction Morphology. The analysis confirms that compounding is… read more