Luisa Seguin
List of John Benjamins publications in which Luisa Seguin is involved.
Articles
2026 The syntax and pragmatics of clause-internal wh-phrases in Valdôtain Patois Italo-Romance Morphosyntax: Theoretical and empirical issues, Ciconte, Francesco Maria and Michela Cennamo (eds.), pp. 203–220 | Article
In Valdôtain Patois, an understudied Francoprovençal language spoken in Aosta Valley (Italy), wh-phrases can either be fronted or occur clause-internally. In this paper, I analyze the syntax and pragmatics of clause internal wh-phrases, showing that they require to be either activated in the… read more
2020 Language contact in the Balkan Sprachbund: A study of transparency in Bulgarian, Romanian, Russian, Italian, and Greek Language Ecology 4:2, pp. 151–174 | Article
This study investigates the meaning-form interface in the Balkan Sprachbund (BS), by researching five different languages: Italian, Russian, Bulgarian, Romanian, and Greek. I consider two models that account for recurring properties of the relevant languages in the Sprachbund: convergence and… read more
2020 Transparency and language contact: The case of Haitian Creole, French, and Fongbe Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 35:2, pp. 218–252 | Article
When communicating speakers map meaning onto form. It would thus seem obvious for languages to show a one-to-one correspondence between meaning and form, but this is often not the case. This perfect mapping, i.e. transparency, is indeed continuously violated in natural languages, giving rise to… read more