Simona Messina

List of John Benjamins publications in which Simona Messina is involved.

Articles

Messina, Simona 2019 The predicative adjectiveand its propositional arguments: A lexicon-grammar classification Lingvisticæ Investigationes 42:2, pp. 234–261 | Article

The purpose of this paper is to classify Italian adjectives that have the predicative function and accept a complement clause (Ch F) or an infinitive (V-inf) in N0 or N1 . For the formation of the word list, we have used electronic dictionaries from the “DELA” system in use in the Department of… read more

Messina, Simona 2007 Between the real and the unreal: The mimesis of Italian speech in TV series Lingvisticæ Investigationes 30:2, pp. 261–290 | Article

In this paper I present a work in progress concerning the mimesis of Italian speech, which is possible to study not only into the two traditional forms of language — written and spoken — but also in broadcast language of tv series. In order to find examples of mimesis of spoken language which are… read more