Francesca Dell’Oro
List of John Benjamins publications in which Francesca Dell’Oro is involved.
Articles
2025 Volition ascription to the addressee in a diachronic perspective: A unifying hypothesis for some post-volitional developments of Latin uolo Journal of Historical Pragmatics 26:2, pp. 232–261 | Article
Pragmatic studies have recently shown that volition ascription to the addressee corresponds to specific strategies and deserves more attention. This paper discusses a series of post-volitional developments attested by second-person forms of the Latin verb uolo (‘I want’). Whilst these… read more
2015 What role for inscriptions in the study of syntax and syntactic change in the old Indo-European languages? The pros and cons of an integration of epigraphic corpora Perspectives on Historical Syntax, Viti, Carlotta (ed.), pp. 271–290 | Article
It happens that scholars dealing with syntactic problems (especially of a theoretical nature) tend to dismiss inscriptional records of ancient I.-E. languages as being “not useful” or “too difficult to investigate”. In this paper, I will try firstly to understand where this attitude towards… read more