Maria Napoli

List of John Benjamins publications in which Maria Napoli is involved.

Title

Exploring Intensification: Synchronic, diachronic and cross-linguistic perspectives

Edited by Maria Napoli and Miriam Ravetto

This book is the first collective volume specifically devoted to the multifaceted phenomenon of intensification, which has been traditionally regarded as related to the expression of degree, scaling a quality downwards or upwards. In spite of the large amount of studies on intensifiers, there is… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 189] 2017. vii, 394 pp.

Napoli, Maria and Miriam Ravetto 2017 New insights on intensification and intensifiers Exploring Intensification: Synchronic, diachronic and cross-linguistic perspectives, Napoli, Maria and Miriam Ravetto (eds.), pp. 1–12 | Chapter

Napoli, Maria and Miriam Ravetto 2017 Chapter 16. Ways to intensify: Types of intensified meanings in Italian and German Exploring Intensification: Synchronic, diachronic and cross-linguistic perspectives, Napoli, Maria and Miriam Ravetto (eds.), pp. 327–352 | Chapter

Intensification has traditionally been regarded as a category that is closely related to the concept of degree, i.e., to gradability (since Bolinger 1972). However, as has been shown by, among others, Paradis (2001, 2008), intensifiers are used not only with gradable bases (as adjectives typically… read more

Napoli, Maria 2013 Semantic constraints on the Latin impersonal passive: On telicity and agentivity Argument Structure in Flux: The Naples-Capri Papers, Gelderen, Elly van, Jóhanna Barðdal and Michela Cennamo (eds.), pp. 373–404 | Article

This paper focuses on a specific type of impersonal construction in Latin, the so-called impersonal passive, which is based on the third person singular of the passive voice. Using a corpus-based analysis of the Latin data, I will investigate the introduction of a prepositional agentive phrase in… read more

Napoli, Maria 2009 Aspects of definiteness in Greek Studies in Language 33:3, pp. 569–611 | Article