Vittorio Ganfi
List of John Benjamins publications in which Vittorio Ganfi is involved.
2025 On the vitality of Sardinian as a heritage language: A corpus-based study Italo-Romance Heritage Languages: Multiple approaches, Goria, Eugenio and Margherita Di Salvo (eds.), pp. 199–227 | Chapter
This investigation focuses on the analysis of the vitality of Sardinian varieties in migration contexts and discusses the use of corpus linguistics methodologies to highlight the outcomes of language contact phenomena in the heritage scenarios. Despite the recent interest in the Italian heritage… read more
2023 Body part metaphors in phraseological expressions: A comparative survey of Italian, Spanish, French and English Languages in Contrast 23:1, pp. 1–33 | Article
The paper addresses the employment of body part nouns in the creation of phraseological expressions of some European languages, a topic at the crossroads of language, cognition and culture. In particular, the contrastive analysis explores the common linguistic representation of meanings through… read more
2020 Synchronic and diachronic analysis of prepositional multiword modifiers across Romance languages Les variations diatopiques dans les expressions figées, Mogorrón Huerta, Pedro, Aude Grezka et Lucía Navarro-Brotons (dir.), pp. 352–379 | Article
Lexicological and lexicographical studies on multiword expressions in Romance languages have significantly increased in recent years. Even though some attention has been paid to Multiwords functioning as adjectives and adverbs, the structural and the functional relation between them has not been… read more
2019 Usage-based account of Italian Complex Prepositions denoting the Agent Les prépositions complexes dans les langues romanes, Fagard, Benjamin, José Pinto De Lima and Dejan Stosic (eds.), pp. 141–175 | Article
This paper takes into account a particular set of Italian Complex Prepositions signaling the agent of an action (e.g. da parte di ‘by’, a nome di ‘by’). Italian exhibits several types of complex prepositions revealing a different involvement of the Agent: in particular, these complex lexemes can… read more