Giorgio Graffi
List of John Benjamins publications in which Giorgio Graffi is involved.
Journals
ISSN 2589-1588 | E‑ISSN 2589‑1596
Lingvisticæ Investigationes
International Journal of Linguistics and Language Resources
Edited by Jorge Baptista, Cédrick Fairon, Natalia Grabar and Corinne Rossari
ISSN 0378-4169 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9927
Titles
200 Years of Syntax: A critical survey
Giorgio Graffi
This book argues convincingly against the widespread opinion that very few syntactic studies were carried out before the 1950s. Relying on the detailed analysis of a large amount of original sources, it shows that syntactic matters were in fact carefully investigated throughout both the 19th… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 98] 2001. xiv, 551 pp.
Linguistic Reconstruction and Indo-European Syntax: Proceedings of the Colloquium of the 'Indogermanische Gesellschaft'. University of Pavia, 6–7 September 1979
Edited by Paolo Ramat
The aim of the colloquium, from which this volume derives, was to bring together approaches from general linguistics and language reconstruction, to show how these can benefit from eachother. Although the focus was on Indo-European languages, other language families were present in the discussion,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 19] 1980. viii, 263 pp.
2025 New tools for understanding Hjelmslev Historiographia Linguistica 52:1, pp. 102–124 | Review article
2024 Chapter 1. Can linguistics and historiography of linguistics profit from each other? History of Linguistics 2021: Selected papers from the 15th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS 15), Milan, 28 August – 1 September, Raynaud, Savina, Maria Paola Tenchini and Enrica Galazzi (eds.), pp. 14–30 | Chapter
I offer support for an affirmative answer to the question in the title by means of two case studies. The first one is on the notion of predication. I compare two recent theoretical studies, arguing that one of them is less satisfactory than the other, since it does not consider the original… read more
2019 Origin of language and origin of languages Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 1:1, pp. 6–23 | Article
The question of monogenesis vs. polygenesis of human languages was essentially neglected by contemporary linguistics until the appearance of the research on the genetics of human populations by L. L. Cavalli-Sforza and his collaborators, which brought to light very exciting parallels between the… read more
2016 Harris, Chomsky and the origins of transformational grammar Lingvisticæ Investigationes 39:1, pp. 48–87 | Article
According to Chomsky’s report of the mid 1970s, he and Harris developed their theories in an essentially independent way; whereas according to some statements by Harris, some contact actually took place between them. To shed light on this issue, it may be useful to systematically compare their… read more
2010 The “linguistic wars”: A tentative assessment by an outsider witness Chomskyan (R)evolutions, Kibbee, Douglas A. (ed.), pp. 395–420 | Article
In the last two decades a debate developed about the historiography of the so-called “linguistic wars” of the late 1960s and the early 1970s, the fight between “generative semantics” (GS) and “extended standard theory” (EST). This historiographical debate looks as rough as the original “wars”… read more
2002 The asterisk from historical to descriptive and theoretical linguistics: An historical note Historiographia Linguistica 29:3, pp. 329–338 | Article
The use of the asterisk in descriptive and theoretical linguistics is attested well before the 1950s (contrary to what has been maintained by Householder in 1973). It is suggested that the meaning of the asterisk was extended from that of ‘unattested form’, which was standard in historical… read more
1998 The treatment of syntax by some early 19th-century linguists: New insights and the continuity of general grammar Historiographia Linguistica 25:3, pp. 257–284 | Article
This article examines the views about syntax held by Humboldt, on the one hand, and by the founders of historical-comparative grammar (Bopp, Rask, Grimm, Pott, Schleicher), on the other. In general, it is noted that the grammaire générale tradition of 17th and 18th centuries still survives in the… read more
1998 A survey of syntactic theories in the 20th century Historiographia Linguistica 25:3, pp. 373–385 | Review article
1995 Old Debates and Current Problems: ‘Völkerpsychologie’ and the question of the individual and the social in language Historical Roots of Linguistic Theories, Formigari, Lia and Daniele Gambarara (eds.), pp. 171–184 | Article
1988 Structural Subject and Thematic Subject Lingvisticæ Investigationes 12:2, pp. 397–414 | Article
In the tradition of generative grammar, two different definitions of "subject" have been proposed: we name the first one "structural", since it is based on the constituent structure of the sentence, and the second one "thematic", because it makes use of the concept of thematic role. We argue that… read more