Luca Ciucci
List of John Benjamins publications in which Luca Ciucci is involved.
Articles
2019 Two types of morphologically expressed non-verbal predication Studies in Language 43:1, pp. 120–194 | Article
The morphological expression of non-verbal predication is a geographically widespread, although not very frequent, typological feature. This paper highlights the existence of two radically contrasting types of non-verbal predicative inflection. Construction A has already been described in the… read more
2019 A culture of secrecy: The hidden narratives of the Ayoreo Creativity in Language, Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y., Andrea Hollington, Nico Nassenstein and Anne Storch (eds.), pp. 175–194 | Article
This paper aims at discussing some aspects of the secrecy characterizing sacred texts by the Ayoreo, a Zamucoan population of the Boreal Chaco in South America, from a linguistic perspective. The magic power exerted by words in Ayoreo traditional culture is the reason why holy texts are kept… read more
2017 Possessive inflection in Proto-Zamucoan: A reconstruction Diachronica 34:3, pp. 283–330 | Article
This paper presents a comparative analysis of possessive inflection in the three known Zamucoan languages: Ayoreo and Chamacoco – still spoken in the Chaco area between Bolivia and Paraguay – plus †Old Zamuco, described by the Jesuit father Ignace Chomé in the first half of the 18th century. The… read more