University of Siena

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

The Ziggurat of Grammar: In honor of Ur Shlonsky

EditorLena Baunaz, Giuliano Bocci & Andrew Nevins

Subjects Generative linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Language Faculty and Beyond: Internal and External Variation in Linguistics, 20] 2025. | edited volume | open access

Latin Literatures of Medieval and Early Modern Times in Europe and Beyond: A millennium heritage

Edited by Francesco Stella, Lucie Doležalová & Danuta Shanzer

Subjects Classical literature & literary studies | Medieval literature & literary studies | Romance literature & literary studies | Theoretical literature & literary studies

[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XXXIV] 2024. | reference work

Structures, Strategies and Beyond: Studies in honour of Adriana Belletti

Edited by Elisa Di Domenico, Cornelia Hamann & Simona Matteini

Subjects Generative linguistics | Language acquisition | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 223] 2015. xxvi, 421 pp. |

The Acquisition of Italian: Morphosyntax and its interfaces in different modes of acquisition

Adriana Belletti & Maria Teresa Guasti

Subjects Language acquisition | Morphology | Romance linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 57] 2015. xiv, 326 pp. | course book

Advances in Sociophonetics

Edited by Chiara Celata & Silvia Calamai

Subjects Phonetics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics

[Studies in Language Variation, 15] 2014. vi, 214 pp. |

Patterns and Meanings in Discourse: Theory and practice in corpus-assisted discourse studies (CADS)

Alan Partington, Alison Duguid & Charlotte Taylor

Subjects Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 55] 2013. xiii, 371 pp. | course book

Strategies in Academic Discourse

Edited by Elena Tognini-Bonelli & Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti

Subjects Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 19] 2005. xii, 212 pp. | edited volume

Patterns and Meanings: Using corpora for English language research and teaching

Alan Partington

Subjects Corpus linguistics

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 2] 1998. x, 158 pp. | course book

Ganau, Gabriele & Jan Casalicchio 2026 The inverse vocative in Sicilian regional Italian: Evidence for a null Vocative head

Keywords: inverse vocatives | null elements | Vocative Phrase | “fake” vocatives | syntactic gemination | truncation | deixis | Sicilian Regional Italian | benefactive

In: Null or Nothing: Zero elements in Romance syntax and morphology, Herbeck, Peter & Natascha Pomino (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 291] pp. 308–333

Bentea, Anamaria, Adriana Belletti, Luigi Rizzi & Stephanie Durrleman 2025 Featural mismatches and the comprehension of relative clauses in French: Comparing gender and number

Keywords: language acquisition | comprehension | relative clauses | intervention | features | gender | number | agreement

In: The Ziggurat of Grammar: In honor of Ur Shlonsky, Baunaz, Lena, Giuliano Bocci & Andrew Nevins (eds.) [Language Faculty and Beyond: Internal and External Variation in Linguistics, 20] p. 2 | open access

Bianchi, Valentina 2025 Subjects and situations in copular sentences

Keywords: subject positions | copular sentences | situation semantics | presuppositionality | Italian

In: The Ziggurat of Grammar: In honor of Ur Shlonsky, Baunaz, Lena, Giuliano Bocci & Andrew Nevins (eds.) [Language Faculty and Beyond: Internal and External Variation in Linguistics, 20] pp. 185–199 | open access

Baunaz, Lena, Giuliano Bocci & Ur Shlonsky 2025 Long wh questions in French: Negation doesn’t intervene where?

Keywords: wh in situ | long-distance wh questions | negation | Relativized Minimality | intervention effects | French

In: The Ziggurat of Grammar: In honor of Ur Shlonsky, Baunaz, Lena, Giuliano Bocci & Andrew Nevins (eds.) [Language Faculty and Beyond: Internal and External Variation in Linguistics, 20] pp. 532–551 | open access

Stella, Francesco 2024 A “postcolonial” approach to medieval Latin literature?

Keywords: post-colonial Middle Ages | second language acquisition | secundary literature | non-native culture

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. 335–344

Bartoli, Elisabetta 2024 The art of letter-writing: A medieval Latin invention

Keywords: medieval letters | letters collection | ars dictandi | rhetoric | literacy | women’s writing | medieval history | medieval power | love letters | consolation letters

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. 507–522

Moscati, Vincenzo 2024 “Nobody” isn’t in time: On-line processing of Negative Concord Items in Italian and its implications for the delay of double negation readings in young children

Keywords: negative concord | universal quantifiers | eye-tracking | Italian

In: Language Acquisition in Romance Languages, Torrens, Vicenç (ed.) [Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 18] pp. 198–211

Stella, Francesco, Lucie Doležalová & Danuta Shanzer 2024 Foreword

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. ix–xviii

Novello, Federico 2025 Una traduzione occitana del Bestiaire d’Amours : Contesto e fonti

Reinardus 36 pp. 167–189 | article | open access

Graverini, Luca 2023 Tarsia nel lupanare: Ruoli femminili, generi letterari e tecniche narrative

Keywords: ancient narrative | female characters | controversiae | hagiography | Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri | emotions

In: The Reality of Women in the Universe of the Ancient Novel, López Martínez, María Paz, Carlos Sánchez-Moreno Ellart & Ana Belén Zaera García (eds.) [IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature: Studies, Editions and Translations, 40] pp. 260–276

Smith, Giuditta, Roberta Spelorzi, Antonella Sorace & Maria Garraffa 2023 Inter-generational attrition: Language transmission between long-term UK residents and heritage speakers of Italian on production of clitic pronouns

Keywords: clitics | attrition | heritage speakers | Italian | intergenerational attrition

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 15:2 pp. 179–211 | article

Selvi, Eleonora 2024 Koineization and the Pamphylian alphabet: Instability and compromise

Keywords: Pamphylian alphabet | Greek alphabets | Pamphylian epigraphy | koineization | Epichoric alphabets | Pamphylian dialect | Hellenistic Asia Minor | Hellenistic Greek

Written Language & Literacy 26:1 pp. 76–95 | article

Gráf, Tomáš, Lan-fen Huang & Luca Cilibrasi 2024 Oral reading tasks as proficiency indicators: Insights from a learner corpus study

Keywords: reading fluency | L2 proficiency | reading rate | reading disfluencies | proficiency in learner corpora

International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 9:2 pp. 155–179 | article

de la Torre García, Nuria, María Cecilia Ainciburu & Kris Buyse 2021 Morphological complexity and rated writing proficiency: The case of verbal inflectional diversity in L2 Spanish

Keywords: linguistic complexity | inflectional diversity | Morphological Complexity Index | L2 Spanish writing | rated proficiency

ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 172:2 pp. 290–318 | article

Bellomi, Paola 2021 Brujas y conversas: Una lectura cultural de los procesos de la Inquisición Veneciana [Witches and converts]

In: Biografies invisibles / Invisible Biographies: Marginats i marginals / Marginates and marginals, Escartí, Vicent Josep (ed.) [IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature: Studies, Editions and Translations, 28] pp. 41–56

Mavrou, Irini & María Cecilia Ainciburu 2019 Medidas de longitud en la investigación empírica de ASL: ¿Medidas de complejidad sintáctica o de fluidez?

Keywords: complejidad linguística | fluidez | medidas de longitud | expresión escrita | análisis factorial común | linguistic complexity | fluency | measures of mean length | written production | common factor analysis

Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 32:1 pp. 125–154 | article

Scala, Gavino 2020 La frontière entre l’homme et l’animal: Différences entre le droit naturel, le droit des animaux et le droit humain dans la première traduction française du De regimine principum

Reinardus 31:1 pp. 164–181 | article

Castelfranchi, Cristiano 2016 Pretense as deceptive behavioral communication

Keywords: signification | deception | Behavioral communication | simulation | pretense | signaling

Pragmatics & Cognition 23:1 pp. 16–52 | article

Bianchi, Valentina, Giuliano Bocci & Silvio Cruschina 2015 Focus fronting and its implicatures

In: Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2013: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' Amsterdam 2013, Aboh, Enoch O., Jeannette Schaeffer & Petra Sleeman (eds.) [Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 8] pp. 1–20

Celata, Chiara & Silvia Calamai 2014 Introduction: Sociophonetic perspectives on language variation

In: Advances in Sociophonetics, Celata, Chiara & Silvia Calamai (eds.) [Studies in Language Variation, 15] pp. 1–14

Sornicola, Rosanna & Silvia Calamai 2014 Sound archives and linguistic variation: The case of the Phlegraean diphtongs

In: Advances in Sociophonetics, Celata, Chiara & Silvia Calamai (eds.) [Studies in Language Variation, 15] pp. 169–186

Benedetti, Marina 2013 Non-canonical subjects in clauses with noun predicates

In: Argument Structure in Flux: The Naples-Capri Papers, van Gelderen, Elly, Jóhanna Barðdal & Michela Cennamo (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 131] pp. 15–32

Bianchi, Valentina 2013 On ‘focus movement’ in Italian

In: Information Structure and Agreement, Camacho-Taboada, Victoria, Ángel L. Jiménez-Fernández, Javier Martín-González & Mariano Reyes-Tejedor (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 197] pp. 193–216

Chesi, Cristiano 2013 Rightward movement from a different perspective

In: Rightward Movement in a Comparative Perspective, Webelhuth, Gert, Manfred Sailer & Heike Walker (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 200] pp. 243–280

Robins, Ben, Kerstin Dautenhahn, Ester Ferrari, Gernot Kronreif, Barbara Prazak-Aram, Patrizia Marti, Iolanda Iacono, Gert Jan Gelderblom, Tanja Bernd, Francesca Caprino & Elena Laudanna 2012 Scenarios of robot-assisted play for children with cognitive and physical disabilities

Interaction Studies 13:2 pp. 189–234 | article

Moscati, Vincenzo 2011 Discourse under control in ambiguous sentences

In: Experimental Pragmatics/Semantics, Meibauer, Jörg & Markus Steinbach (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 175] pp. 63–77

Bianchi, Valentina 2011 Some notes on the ‘specificity effects’of optional resumptive pronouns

In: Resumptive Pronouns at the Interfaces, Rouveret, Alain (ed.) [Language Faculty and Beyond: Internal and External Variation in Linguistics, 5] pp. 319–342

Marti, Patrizia 2010 Robot companions: Towards a new concept of friendship?

Interaction Studies 11:2 pp. 220–226 | article

Gualmini, Andrea & Vincenzo Moscati 2009 The early steps of modal and negation interactions: Evidence from child Italian

In: Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’ Amsterdam 2007, Aboh, Enoch O., Elisabeth van der Linden, Josep Quer & Petra Sleeman (eds.) [Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 1] pp. 131–144

Morley, John & Alan Partington 2009 A few Frequently Asked Questions about semantic — or evaluative — prosody

Keywords: semantic prosody | co-selection | evaluation | lexical priming | connotation | language change

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 14:2 pp. 139–158 | article

Morley, John 2008 Lexical cohesion and rhetorical structure

Keywords: corpus linguistics | discourse analysis | ESP | lexical cohesion | newspaper discourse | rhetoric

In: Lexical Cohesion and Corpus Linguistics, Flowerdew, John & Michaela Mahlberg (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 17] p. 5

Morley, John 2006 Lexical cohesion and rhetorical structure

Keywords: lexical cohesion | discourse analysis | corpus linguistics | rhetoric | newspaper discourse | ESP

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 11:3 pp. 265–282 | article

Guasti, Maria Teresa, Marina Nespor, Anne Christophe & Brit van Ooyen 2008 Pre-lexical Setting of the Head: Complement Parameter through Prosody

Keywords: Head–Complement parameter | prosodic hierarchy | Rythymic activation principle | V2 parameter

In: Approaches to Bootstrapping: Phonological, lexical, syntactic and neurophysiological aspects of early language acquisition. Volume 1, Weissenborn, Jürgen & Barbara Höhle (eds.) [Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 23] pp. 231–248

Salani, Teresa Poggi 1982 Venticinque Anni di Lessicografia Italiana Delle Origini (Leggere, Scrivere E "Politamente Parlare"): Note Sull’Idea di Lingua

Historiographia Linguistica 9:3 pp. 265–297 | article

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