Andrea Drocco
List of John Benjamins publications in which Andrea Drocco is involved.
Articles
2019 Lexicalization patterns in color naming: The case of Modern Hindī Lexicalization patterns in color naming: A cross-linguistic perspective, Raffaelli, Ida, Daniela Katunar and Barbara Kerovec (eds.), pp. 191–212 | Chapter
The aim of this chapter is to draw attention to the various lexicalization patterns which are used in Modern Hindī to define colors, starting from basic color terms and including the lexicalization strategies which are employed to describe different shades. The following analysis, grounded in a… read more
2016 The restoration of the ergative case marking of ‘A’ in perfective clauses in New Indo-Aryan: The case of the Braj language* Indo-Aryan Ergativity in Typological and Diachronic Perspective, Dahl, Eystein and Krzysztof Stroński (eds.), pp. 201–236 | Article
The development of the ergative construction in the New Indo-Aryan period is still not totally clear. In particular we don’t know the process of grammaticalization of the new analytical ergative marker, the postposition ne, found, among others, in Hindī and Pañjābī. This study tries to demonstrate… read more