Michele Prandi

List of John Benjamins publications in which Michele Prandi is involved.

Title

The Building Blocks of Meaning: Ideas for a philosophical grammar

Michele Prandi

The shaping of complex meanings depends on punctual and relational coding and inferencing. Coding is viewed as a vector which can run either from expression to content or from concepts to (linguistic) forms to mark independent conceptual relations. While coding relies on systematic resources… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 13] 2004. xviii, 520 pp.

Articles

Fedriani, Chiara and Michele Prandi 2016 Exploring a diachronic (re)cycle of roles: The Dative complex from Latin to Romance Advances in Research on Semantic Roles, Kittilä, Seppo and Fernando Zúñiga (eds.), pp. 133–171 | Article

In this chapter we explore the struggle between the use of the Dative case and the competing strategy featuring the preposition ad ‘to’ and the Accusative from Latin to Early Romance. Unlike the Dative, the prepositional strategy is semantically transparent, since ad ‘to’ has a clear allative… read more

Fedriani, Chiara and Michele Prandi 2014 Exploring a diachronic (re)cycle of roles: The Dative complex from Latin to Romance Advances in research on semantic roles, Kittilä, Seppo and Fernando Zúñiga (eds.), pp. 566–604 | Article

In this paper we explore the struggle between the use of the Dative case and the competing strategy featuring the preposition ad ‘to’ and the Accusative from Latin to Early Romance. Unlike the Dative, the prepositional strategy is semantically transparent, since ad ‘to’ has a clear allative… read more

Prandi, Michele 2010 Review of Bazzanella (2009): La Forza cognitiva della metafora Paradigmi, Rivista di critica filosofica Pragmatics & Cognition 18:1, pp. 203–210 | Review