Alessandro Carlucci

List of John Benjamins publications in which Alessandro Carlucci is involved.

Title

The Progressive Revisited: Historical and Quantitative Studies in Germanic and Romance Languages

Edited by Alessandro Carlucci and Jerzy Nykiel

This volume consists of corpus-based analyses of progressive aspect constructions in Germanic and Romance. By adopting a variety of methodologies and theoretical frameworks, these studies provide valuable insights into the development, grammaticalization and use of various progressive structures… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 236] 2025. xi, 356 pp.

Articles

Carlucci, Alessandro 2025 Theoretical and methodological issues in language contact and change: The case of English influence on Italian stare + gerund The Progressive Revisited: Historical and Quantitative Studies in Germanic and Romance Languages, Carlucci, Alessandro and Jerzy Nykiel (eds.), pp. 255–288 | Chapter

This chapter revisits the hypothesis that contact with English is among the causes of the expansion of the Italian progressive verb periphrasis stare ‘stand’ + gerund. Within a multicausal theory of language change, I argue that there has so far been no comprehensive and methodologically… read more

Carlucci, Alessandro and Jerzy Nykiel 2025 Introduction The Progressive Revisited: Historical and Quantitative Studies in Germanic and Romance Languages, Carlucci, Alessandro and Jerzy Nykiel (eds.), pp. 1–20 | Chapter

Carlucci, Alessandro 2022 Opinions about perceived linguistic intelligibility in late-medieval Italy Revue Romane 57:1, pp. 140–165 | Article

This article contributes to the historical study of intercomprehension between speakers of closely related languages by focusing on Italy in the period up to the mid-fifteenth century. After an introduction to the topic, the second section will be devoted to methodological questions, including… read more