Caterina Mauri

List of John Benjamins publications in which Caterina Mauri is involved.

Titles

Building Categories in Interaction: Linguistic resources at work

Edited by Caterina Mauri, Ilaria Fiorentini and Eugenio Goria

This book addresses the topic of linguistic categorization from a novel perspective. While most of the early research has focused on how linguistic systems reflect some pre-existing ways of categorizing experience, the contributions included in this volume seek to understand how linguistic… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 220] 2021. vi, 467 pp.

Synchrony and Diachrony: A dynamic interface

Edited by Anna Giacalone Ramat, Caterina Mauri and Piera Molinelli

The focus of this volume is on the relation between synchrony and diachrony. It is examined in the light of the most recent theories of language change and linguistic variation. What has traditionally been treated as a dichotomy is now seen rather in terms of a dynamic interface. The contributions… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 133] 2013. xi, 450 pp.

Mauri, Caterina 2021 Chapter 2. Ad hoc categorization in linguistic interaction Building Categories in Interaction: Linguistic resources at work, Mauri, Caterina, Ilaria Fiorentini and Eugenio Goria (eds.), pp. 9–34 | Chapter

The aim of this paper is to describe and explain the role that linguistic interaction plays in category construction and communication, by looking at naturally occurring data of spoken language. First, it will be argued that there is a way of building categories that is inherently interactional… read more

Mauri, Caterina, Ilaria Fiorentini and Eugenio Goria 2021 Chapter 1. Building categories in interaction: Theoretical and empirical perspectives Building Categories in Interaction: Linguistic resources at work, Mauri, Caterina, Ilaria Fiorentini and Eugenio Goria (eds.), pp. 1–8 | Chapter

Mauri, Caterina, Eugenio Goria and Ilaria Fiorentini 2019 Non-exhaustive lists in spoken language: A construction grammatical perspective On the Role of Pragmatics in Construction Grammar, Finkbeiner, Rita (ed.), pp. 290–316 | Article

The aim of this paper is to analyze how speakers refer to non-exhaustive sets in spoken discourse, by means of open lists. We will propose an analysis of non-exhaustivity in terms of indexicality and we will therefore consider open lists as having an inherently pragmatic component. Based on… read more

Giacalone Ramat, Anna, Caterina Mauri and Andrea Sansó 2017 Chapter 12. Dubitative-corrective constructions in Italian Pragmatic Markers, Discourse Markers and Modal Particles: New perspectives, Fedriani, Chiara and Andrea Sansó (eds.), pp. 335–367 | Chapter

This paper investigates the properties of a set of poorly described Italian constructions characterized, at the same time, by (i) a dubitative component, challenging a presupposition generated by the preceding context and (ii) a corrective function. These constructions revolve around four… read more

Giacalone Ramat, Anna, Caterina Mauri and Piera Molinelli 2013 Synchrony and diachrony: Introduction to a dynamic interface Synchrony and Diachrony: A dynamic interface, Giacalone Ramat, Anna, Caterina Mauri and Piera Molinelli (eds.), pp. 1–24 | Article

Mauri, Caterina 2008 The irreality of alternatives: Towards a typology of disjunction Studies in Language 32:1, pp. 22–55 | Article

This paper investigates the variety of morphosyntactic strategies that languages use to encode the relation of alternative between states of affairs. A semantic definition of disjunction will be given, based on the notion of alternative meaning proposed by Dik 1968. After defining the functional… read more

Mauri, Caterina 2007 Conjunctive, disjunctive and adversative constructions in Europe: Some areal considerations Europe and the Mediterranean as Linguistic Areas: Convergencies from a historical and typological perspective, Ramat, Paolo and Elisa Roma (eds.), pp. 183–213 | Article

The aim of this paper is to show the areal distribution of the semantic and morphosyntactic features characterizing conjunctive, disjunctive and adversative constructions in the languages of Europe. The analysis will be carried out on two levels. On the one hand, I will examine the cross-linguistic… read more