Francesca Di Garbo
List of John Benjamins publications in which Francesca Di Garbo is involved.
2025 Contact effects in nominal number systems: A worldwide survey Studies in Language 49:3, pp. 712–756 | Article
This paper is a comparative study of contact effects in nominal number systems, based on a sample of 49 pairs of languages in contact and focusing on pattern borrowing. Using a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods, we find that plural marking and number marking on nouns are the… read more
2024 A typological approach to language change in contact situations Demystifying New Methods in Historical Linguistics , Round, Erich (ed.), pp. 379–413 | Article
Language contact phenomena have increasingly been researched from different historical linguistic, sociolinguistic and areal-typological perspectives. However, since most of this research is based on case studies, an assessment of contact phenomena from a worldwide comparative perspective has… read more
2023 Chapter 6. Contact-induced reduction, loss, and emergence of numeral classifiers: Two case studies from East Asia Nominal Classification in Asia and Oceania: Functional and diachronic perspectives, Allassonnière-Tang, Marc and Marcin Kilarski (eds.), pp. 161–199 | Chapter
This paper examines contact-induced change in numeral classifier systems based on two case studies of East Asian languages. Study 1 investigates contact-induced loss and emergence of numeral classifiers in different languages of the Amdo Sprachbund, where Sinitic languages are engaged in a… read more
2015 Unravelling temperature terms in Sɛlɛɛ The Linguistics of Temperature, Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria (ed.), pp. 107–127 | Article
This paper investigates the encoding of temperature in Sɛlɛɛ, a Niger-Congo language of the Kwa group, spoken in Ghana. The lexicon of temperature in Sɛlɛɛ consists of six central and two non-central temperature terms, distributed among the word classes of nouns, adjectives and verbs. The… read more