Chiara Cappellaro
List of John Benjamins publications in which Chiara Cappellaro is involved.
Articles
2018 Genesis and diachronic persistence of overabundance: Data from Romance languages Reorganising Grammatical Variation: Diachronic studies in the retention, redistribution and refunctionalisation of linguistic variants, Dammel, Antje, Matthias Eitelmann and Mirjam Schmuck (eds.), pp. 119–148 | Chapter
This article investigates the genesis and diachronic persistence of ‘overabundance’ (Thornton 2011) or variation at the level of individual cells in a lexeme’s paradigm (e.g. Italian pst.ptcp forms sepolto/seppellito ‘buried’). Two main genetic paths are identified: emergence (i) via form… read more
2017 The semantic specialization of third person pronoun ‘esso’ as (−human) in standard Italian Revue Romane 52:2, pp. 113–136 | Article