University of Genoa

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with University of Genoa*

Language in Place: Stylistic perspectives on landscape, place and environment

Edited by Edited byDaniela Francesca Virdis, Elisabetta Zurru & Ernestine Lahey

Subjects Theoretical literature & literary studies

[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 37] 2021. | edited volume

Figurative Meaning Construction in Thought and Language

Edited by Annalisa Baicchi

Subjects Cognition and language | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Figurative Thought and Language, 9] 2020. | edited volume

Sociobiological Bases of Information Structure

Edited by Viviana Masia

Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Psycholinguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Advances in Interaction Studies, 9] 2017.  | monograph

The Diachrony of Negation

Edited by Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen & Jacqueline Visconti

Subjects Functional linguistics | Historical linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 160] 2014. v, 258 pp. |

Strik-Lievers, Francesca & Chiara Fedriani 2026 A love story: A culturally informed diachronic account of love metaphors between Latin and Italian

Keywords: love | conceptual metaphors | diachrony | corpus-based approach

In: At the Crossroads of Historical and Cognitive Linguistics, Rogos-Hebda, Anna & Heli Tissari (eds.) [Figurative Thought and Language, 21] pp. 200–221

Benati, Chiara & Marialuisa Caparrini 2026 Terminological variation and change across the German translations of Lanfranc of Milan’s Chirurgia parva

Keywords: Lanfranc of Milan | Chirurgia parva | German translations | terminology | variation

In: Lexical Variation and Knowledge Construction across Historical, Methodological, and Cultural Ecologies, Latorraca, Rossella, Rita Calabrese, Jacqueline Aiello & Dirk Geeraerts (eds.) [Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 25] pp. 22–39

Grassi, Lucrezia, Carmine Tommaso Recchiuto & Antonio Sgorbissa 2025 Moderating multi-party conversations with social robots: Design and evaluation of control policies

Keywords: social robotics | multi-party interaction | group conversation dynamics | interaction management

Interaction Studies 26:3 pp. 392–421 | article

Pittaluga, Stefano 2024 Latin literature on the “discovery” of America

Keywords: discovery of America | linguistic communication | European travelers | Native Americans | Peter Martyr of Anghiera | Latin “Columbian” epic | sixteenth century | Aeneas | classical myth | “noble savage” | aurea aetas

In: Latin Literatures of Medieval and Early Modern Times in Europe and Beyond: A millennium heritage, Stella, Francesco, Lucie Doležalová & Danuta Shanzer (eds.) [Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XXXIV] pp. 324–334

Coppola, Claudia, Giorgia Mannaioli & Edoardo Lombardi Vallauri 2024 Vagueness and ambiguity are very different (persuasion devices)

Keywords: vagueness | ambiguity | persuasion | epistemic vigilance | implicit meaning | cognitive linguistics | experimental pragmatics

In: Vagueness, Ambiguity, and All the Rest: Linguistic and pragmatic approaches, Fiorentini, Ilaria & Chiara Zanchi (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 347] pp. 51–83

Loporcaro, Fabio, Juan Ramón Guijarro Ojeda & María Felisa Bermejo Calleja 2024 Estudio de corpus del español europeo sobre la selección modal en las oraciones valorativas encabezadas por el artículo neutro: <lo + adjetivo/verbo + ser que + indicativo/subjuntivo> [A corpus-based analysis on European Spanish mood selection in evaluative clauses with neutral article]

Keywords: alternancia modal | indicativo y subjuntivo | oraciones valorativas | subordinadas sustantivas con lo | oraciones copulativas enfáticas | pragmática del modo | gramaticalización | lingüística de corpus | mood selection | indicative and subjunctive | evaluative clauses | substantive subordinate clause with lo | emphatic copulative clauses | mood pragmatics | grammaticalization | corpus linguistics

Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 37:2 pp. 396–423 | article

Lombardi, Giulia 2024 Forme e funzioni delle virgolette negli atti di parte

Keywords: act proceedings | quotation marks | italics | scare quotes

Revue Romane 59:2 pp. 302–320 | article

Winter, Bodo & Francesca Strik-Lievers 2023 Semantic distance predicts metaphoricity and creativity judgments in synesthetic metaphors

Keywords: metaphor identification | norms | ratings | synesthetic metaphor | perception | perceptual metaphor | cosine similarity

Metaphor and the Social World 13:1 pp. 59–80 | article

Baicchi, Annalisa 2022 Kinaesthetic embodied schemas in emotion language: A contrastive comparison between manner-framed and path-framed languages

Keywords: emotive factive construction | emotion adjectives | locative and directional prepositions | embodied schemas | contrastive linguistics | talmy’s binary typology.

In: Figurativity and Human Ecology, Bagasheva, Alexandra, Bozhil Hristov & Nelly Tincheva (eds.) [Figurative Thought and Language, 17] pp. 151–180

Fedriani, Chiara & Piera Molinelli 2023 Managing turns, building common ground, planning discourse: Discursive and interpersonal functions of Italian no(?)

Keywords: alignment | turn-management | common ground | register variation | spoken Italian

Pragmatics & Cognition 29:2 pp. 347–369 | article

Broccias, Cristiano 2022 A Cognitive Grammar approach to ‘metonymy’

Keywords: metonymy | reference point ability | conceptual integration | active zones | facets | conversion

In: Figurative Thought and Language in Action, Brdar, Mario & Rita Brdar-Szabó (eds.) [Figurative Thought and Language, 16] pp. 37–58

Lecco, Margherita 2023 Un Apprenti Sorcier medievale: Per la storia di un motivo narrativo tra cultura dotta e folclorica

Reinardus 34 pp. 129–139 | article

Li, Yezhou & Luca Onnis 2021 Properties of child-directed speech in bilingual parents: A study on partial repetitions

Keywords: bilingualism | child-directed speech | corpus analyses | partial repetitions | variation sets

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 12:6 pp. 715–747 | article

Fedriani, Chiara 2021 

Journal of Historical Linguistics 11:2 pp. 348–356 | book review

Virdis, Daniela Francesca, Elisabetta Zurru & Ernestine Lahey 2021  Language in Place: Stylistic perspectives on landscape, place and environment

In: Language in Place: Stylistic perspectives on landscape, place and environment, Virdis, Daniela Francesca, Elisabetta Zurru & Ernestine Lahey (eds.) [Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 37]

Virdis, Daniela Francesca, Elisabetta Zurru & Ernestine Lahey 2021 Introduction

Keywords:  

In: Language in Place: Stylistic perspectives on landscape, place and environment, Virdis, Daniela Francesca, Elisabetta Zurru & Ernestine Lahey (eds.) [Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 37] pp. 1–16

Zurru, Elisabetta 2021 “Your planet needs you”: An ecostylistic analysis of an ecology-oriented interactive exhibition

Keywords: ecostylistics | interactive narrative | point of view | lexical choices | multimodal metaphors

In: Language in Place: Stylistic perspectives on landscape, place and environment, Virdis, Daniela Francesca, Elisabetta Zurru & Ernestine Lahey (eds.) [Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 37] pp. 209–228

Broccias, Cristiano 2020  Falling to one’s death in multiple landscapes: From blending to typology

Keywords: resultative | metonymy | Unique Path Constraint | blending | verb-framed language | satellite-framed language

In: Figurative Meaning Construction in Thought and Language, Baicchi, Annalisa (ed.) [Figurative Thought and Language, 9] pp. 107–128

Baicchi, Annalisa 2020 Figurativeness all the way down: By way of introduction

In: Figurative Meaning Construction in Thought and Language, Baicchi, Annalisa (ed.) [Figurative Thought and Language, 9] pp. 1–10

Baicchi, Annalisa 2020 Frame-Constructional Verb Classes

In: Figurative Meaning Construction in Thought and Language, Baicchi, Annalisa (ed.) [Figurative Thought and Language, 9] p.  ff.

Fedriani, Chiara & Piera Molinelli 2021 Functional expansions of temporal adverbs and discursive connectives: From Latin tum, tunc, dumque to Old Italian dunque

Keywords: discursive connectives | functional expansion | inference-driven change | Latin | Old Italian | temporal adverbs

Journal of Historical Pragmatics 21:2 pp. 182–207 | article

Baicchi, Annalisa & Paolo Della Putta 2019 Constructions at work in foreign language learners’ mind: A comparison between two sentence-sorting experiments with English and Italian learners

Keywords: constructional priming | L2 learners | sentence-sorting experiments | construction-based L2 pedagogy | language typology

Review of Cognitive Linguistics 17:1 pp. 219–242 | article

Székely, Marcell, Henry Powell, Fabio Vannucci, Francesco Rea, Alessandra Sciutti & John Michael 2019 The perception of a robot partner’s effort elicits a sense of commitment to human-robot interaction

Keywords: commitment | effort | human-robot interaction | joint action

Interaction Studies 20:2 pp. 234–255 | article

Baicchi, Annalisa & Aneider Iza Erviti 2020 Genre as cognitive construction: An analysis of discourse connectors in academic lectures

Keywords: academic lecture genre | cognition | complementary alternation | discourse construction

Pragmatics & Cognition 25:3 pp. 576–601 | article

Masia, Viviana 2017 A sociobiological account of indirect speech

Keywords: Theory of Mind | exaptation | political discourse | cognitive fallacies

Interaction Studies 18:1 pp. 142–160 | article

Fedriani, Chiara 2017  Nulla sum, nulla sum: Tota, tota occidi : Repetition as a (rare) strategy of intensification in Latin

Keywords: repetition | degree intensification | illocutionary intensification | pragmatics | Latin

In: Exploring Intensification: Synchronic, diachronic and cross-linguistic perspectives, Napoli, Maria & Miriam Ravetto (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 189] pp. 147–170

Strik Lievers, Francesca 2017 Figures and the senses: Towards a definition of synaesthesia

Keywords: synaesthesia | perception | metaphor | metonymy | hypallage | simile

Review of Cognitive Linguistics 15:1 p. 83 | article

Fedriani, Chiara & Michele Prandi 2016 Exploring a diachronic (re)cycle of roles: The Dative complex from Latin to Romance

Keywords: dative | grammaticalization | Latin | role complex | Romance languages

In: Advances in Research on Semantic Roles, Kittilä, Seppo & Fernando Zúñiga (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 88] pp. 133–171

Ricca, Davide & Jacqueline Visconti 2014 On the development of the Italian truth adverbs davvero and veramente

In: Diachronic Corpus Pragmatics, Taavitsainen, Irma, Andreas H. Jucker & Jukka Tuominen (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 243] pp. 133–154

Mosegaard Hansen, Maj-Britt & Jacqueline Visconti 2014 The diachrony of negation: Introduction

In: The Diachrony of Negation, Mosegaard Hansen, Maj-Britt & Jacqueline Visconti (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 160] pp. 1–12

Fedriani, Chiara & Michele Prandi 2014 Exploring a diachronic (re)cycle of roles: The Dative complex from Latin to Romance

Keywords: grammaticalization | dative | Latin | role complex | Romance languages

Studies in Language 38:3 pp. 566–604 | article

Domaneschi, Filippo, Elena Carrea, Alberto Greco & Carlo Penco 2016 Propositional attitudes towards presuppositions: An experimental approach

Keywords: propositional attitudes | presuppositions | experimental pragmatics

Pragmatics & Cognition 22:3 pp. 291–308 | article

Broccias, Cristiano 2013 Guerrero Medina, P. (Ed.). (2011). Morphosyntactic alternations in English: Functional and cognitive Perspectives

Review of Cognitive Linguistics 11:1 pp. 215–226 | other

Broccias, Cristiano 2012 Oriented -ingly adjuncts in Late Modern English

In: English Historical Linguistics 2008: Selected papers from the fifteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 15), Munich, 24-30 August 2008. Volume II: Words, texts and genres, Sauer, Hans & Gaby Waxenberger (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 324] pp. 147–164

Broccias, Cristiano 2011 Motivating the flexibility of oriented -ly adverbs

In: Motivation in Grammar and the Lexicon, Panther, Klaus-Uwe & Günter Radden (eds.) [Human Cognitive Processing: Cognitive Foundations of Language Structure and Use, 27] pp. 71–88

Penco, Carlo 2008 Keeping track of individuals: Brandom's analysis of Kripke's puzzle and the content of belief

Keywords: anaphora | belief | context | disquotational principle | holism | idiolect | indexical | opacity | pronoun | translation

In: The Pragmatics of Making it Explicit, Stekeler-Weithofer, Pirmin (ed.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 15] pp. 163–185

Broccias, Cristiano 2006 The construal of simultaneity in English with special reference to as-clauses

Keywords: simultaneity | as-clause | while-clause | path event | property | progressive

Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics 4:1 p. 97 | article

Penco, Carlo 2005 Keeping track of individuals: Brandom’s analysis of Kripke’s puzzle and the content of belief

Keywords: idiolect | indexical | opacity | pronoun | anaphora | belief | translation | context | disquotational principle | holism

Pragmatics & Cognition 13:1 pp. 177–201 | article

Broccias, Cristiano 2005 The cognitive basis of adjectival and adverbial resultative constructions

Keywords: reference point ability | raising construction | resultative construction | billiard-ball model | property ascription

Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics 2:1 pp. 103–126 | article

Salmon Kovarski, Laura 2008 Anthroponyms, acronyms and allocutives in interpreting from Russian

In: Interpreting in the 21st Century: Challenges and opportunities, Garzone, Giuliana & Maurizio Viezzi (eds.) [Benjamins Translation Library, 43] pp. 83–94

*Please note that this list may be inaccurate for older publications.