Carla Vergaro

List of John Benjamins publications in which Carla Vergaro is involved.

Journal

Pragmatics & Cognition

Edited by Elly Ifantidou and Louis de Saussure

ISSN 0929-0907 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9943

Title

Cognitive Perspectives on Genre

Edited by Carla Vergaro

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 25:3 (2018) v, 214 pp.

Vergaro, Carla 2023 Linguistic and pragmatic ways of committing oneself: Evidence from commissive shell nouns in Ghanaian English Pragmatics & Cognition 30:1, pp. 120–151 | Article

In this study I focus on the complementation patterns of commissive shell nouns in Ghanaian English (GhE). Commissive shell nouns are a type of illocutionary shell noun, i.e. a noun that encapsulates a content that is usually expressed in a complement or even separate clause or sentence thereby… read more

Vergaro, Carla 2018 Introduction: Cognitive perspectives on genre Cognitive Perspectives on Genre, Vergaro, Carla (ed.), pp. 417–429 | Introduction

Vergaro, Carla 2018 A cognitive framework for understanding genre: The Entrenchment-and-Conventionalization Model Cognitive Perspectives on Genre, Vergaro, Carla (ed.), pp. 430–458 | Article

The purpose of this paper is to apply the Entrenchment-and-Conventionalization Model (EC-Model hereafter; see Schmid 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018; Schmid & Mantlik 2015) of language knowledge to genre, with the aim of showing how a unified theory of the relation between usage and linguistic… read more

Vergaro, Carla and Hans-Jörg Schmid 2017 Do the meanings of abstract nouns correlate with the meanings of their complementation patterns? A case study on English commissive shell nouns Pragmatics & Cognition 24:1, pp. 91–118 | Article

There is a widespread assumption in Construction Grammar (but also before and elsewhere) that the meanings of verbs correlate with or even determine their complementation forms and patterns. There is much less research on noun complementation, however, although this category is even more… read more