Caterina Guardamagna
List of John Benjamins publications in which Caterina Guardamagna is involved.
Articles
2024 A corpus-based analysis of ‘vernacular synonyms’: Citizens, burgesses , and freemen in Early Modern English (1550–1700) International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 29:4, pp. 562–594 | Article
Against the backdrop of the significant social changes taking place during the Renaissance, this paper interrogates the lexical domain of citizenship, focusing on three words deemed near-synonymous in the historical literature: citizens, burgesses, and freemen. The study takes a quantitative… read more
2024 Microaggressions and impoliteness at the crossroads: EU academics in the UK facing hostility in the Brexit age Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict: Online-First Articles | Article
The Brexit process created a loss of rights and heightened hostility towards EU migrants within the UK, even among groups previously shielded from such animosity, notably EU academics. This paper is based on 24 clear instances of microaggressions, and two bordering hate speech involving EU… read more
2018 Type frequency, productivity and schematicity in the evolution of the Latin secundum NP construction Grammaticalization meets Construction Grammar, Coussé, Evie, Peter Andersson and Joel Olofsson (eds.), pp. 169–202 | Chapter
This paper adopts a constructional approach as a heuristic to explore the changes undergone by Latin secundum NP ‘according to NP’, considering both its frequency and its network organisation. My data demonstrate a significant syntactic and host-class expansion of secundum NP between the years BC… read more

