Adverbes et compléments adverbiaux / Adverbs and adverbial complements
Edited by Jan Radimský and Ignazio Mauro Mirto
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 36:2 (2013) v, 149 pp.
Ignazio Mauro Mirto
List of John Benjamins publications in which Ignazio Mauro Mirto is involved.
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25th Lexis and Grammar Conference
Edited by Ignazio Mauro Mirto
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 31:2 (2008) 208 pp.
2013 Bene: Adverb or noun? Ten tests for clarification Adverbes et compléments adverbiaux / Adverbs and adverbial complements, Radimský, Jan and Ignazio Mauro Mirto (eds.), pp. 298–310 | Article
When Italian bene ‘good / well’ occurs with fare ‘do / make’, several constructs with remarkably different argument frames are involved. This paper deals with three of them: (a) Il latte fa bene ai bambini ‘Milk is good for children’; (b) Fa bene il suo lavoro ‘She does her job well’, and (c)… read more
2013 Introduction Adverbes et compléments adverbiaux / Adverbs and adverbial complements, Radimský, Jan and Ignazio Mauro Mirto (eds.), pp. 179–183 | Article
2009 Interrogatives et pseudo-clivées portant sur le prédicat: un parallèle Actes du «27e colloque international sur le lexique et la grammaire» (L'Aquila, 10-13 septembre 2008). Première partie, De Gioia, Michele (dir.), pp. 200–211 | Article
A parallel is drawn between two clause-types carrying an obligatory pro-form: wh-questions and the so-called free relative of pseudo-clefts. In the analysis both types are derived from a single counterpart which is structurally simpler. The constituent targeted in the former and focused in the… read more
2007 Complex nominal determiners: A contrastive study Europe and the Mediterranean as Linguistic Areas: Convergencies from a historical and typological perspective, Ramat, Paolo and Elisa Roma (eds.), pp. 215–243 | Article
This paper advances the idea that in German, Italian and English multi-word determiner phrases, termed Complex Nominal Determiners (CND), exist which are formed by at least a noun (N1) followed by a preposition ( von, di, of ). CNDs either quantify the referent of the noun they determine (N2) or… read more
2004 Italian People at Work: Jobs in Lexical Syntax Lexique, Syntaxe et Lexique-Grammaire / Syntax, Lexis & Lexicon-Grammar: Papers in honour of Maurice Gross, Leclère, Christian, Éric Laporte, Mireille Piot and Max Silberztein (eds.), pp. 325–341 | Article
Italian is the only major Romance language featuring a clause type exclusively devoted to expressing people's jobs. This type, the Job-fare-Construction (JFC), is constructed with a human subject and the verb fare 'do' followed by an obligatorily definite noun. The JFC has thus the appearance of a… read more