Chiara Zanini
List of John Benjamins publications in which Chiara Zanini is involved.
Article
2019 Chapter 8. Different degrees of abstraction from visual cues in processing concrete nouns Perspectives on Abstract Concepts: Cognition, language and communication, Bolognesi, Marianna and Gerard J. Steen (eds.), pp. 167–184 | Chapter
Concreteness has been defined as a semantic property related to physical perception. In this paper we tackle the concreteness issue from the viewpoint of countability by arguing that uncountable expressions (e.g., some cake), although concrete, are more abstract than countable ones (e.g., one… read more