Similatives: Semantic sources, pathways, and types of usage
Edited by Anna Kisiel, Hélène Vassiliadou, Valentina Benigni, Beatrice Bernasconi, Lieselotte Brems and Dejan Stosic
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 48:2 (2025) v, 257 pp.
Valentina Benigni
List of John Benjamins publications in which Valentina Benigni is involved.
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2025 “Stylish” similatives: A corpus-based study of style nouns in Italian and Russian Similatives: Semantic sources, pathways, and types of usage, Kisiel, Anna, Hélène Vassiliadou, Valentina Benigni, Beatrice Bernasconi, Lieselotte Brems and Dejan Stosic (eds.), pp. 323–347 | Article
In this contribution, we investigate two specific constructions with the lexical item ‘style’ that have developed similative uses. By looking at Russian v stile ‘in the style of’ and Italian (in) stile ‘(in) style’, we claim that the similarity mechanism that underlies these style-noun… read more
2025 Introduction Similatives: Semantic sources, pathways, and types of usage, Kisiel, Anna, Hélène Vassiliadou, Valentina Benigni, Beatrice Bernasconi, Lieselotte Brems and Dejan Stosic (eds.), pp. 179–188 | Introduction
2021 Chapter 12. Morphopragmatics of rhyming and imitative co-compounds in Russian Building Categories in Interaction: Linguistic resources at work, Mauri, Caterina, Ilaria Fiorentini and Eugenio Goria (eds.), pp. 317–354 | Chapter
Coordinative compounding is a phenomenon at the crossroads between word-formation, syntax and discourse, adopted for encoding non-lexicalized concepts in a wide range of languages. We propose a morphopragmatic account of two specific coordinative compounding strategies in Russian, namely, rhyming… read more