University of Verona

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

La «cavalleria umanistica» italiana / The Italian “Humanistic Chivalry”: Enyego d’Àvalos (Inico d’Àvalos) e ‘Curial e Guelfa’ / Enyego d’Àvalos (Inico d’Àvalos) and ‘Curial e Guelfa’

Edited by Antoni Ferrando & Anna Maria Babbi

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

[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature: Studies, Editions and Translations, 29] 2021. | edited volume

Lexical Issues in the Architecture of the Language Faculty: Special issue of Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 2:1 (2020)

Edited by Andrea Padovan

Subjects Cognition and language | Evolution of language | Historical linguistics | Language acquisition | Neurolinguistics | Psycholinguistics

[Evolutionary Linguistic Theory, 2:1] 2020. | special issue

Shakespeare and Crisis: One hundred years of Italian narratives

Edited by Silvia Bigliazzi

Subjects Narrative Studies | Theoretical literature & literary studies

[Shakespeare in European Culture, 2] 2020. | edited volume

Empirical Studies of Literariness: Special issue of Scientific Study of Literature 8:1 (2018)

Edited by Massimo Salgaro & Paul Sopčák

Subjects Applied linguistics | Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Theoretical literature & literary studies

[Scientific Study of Literature, 8:1] 2019. | special issue

Revisiting Shakespeare's Language: Special issue of English Text Construction 11:1 (2018)

Edited by Annalisa Baicchi, Roberta Facchinetti, Silvia Cacchiani & Antonio Bertacca

Subjects Applied linguistics | English linguistics | English literature & literary studies | Theoretical literature & literary studies

[English Text Construction, 11:1] 2018. | special issue

Transdisciplinary Approaches to Literature and Empathy: Special issue of Scientific Study of Literature 6:1 (2016)

Edited by Paul Sopčák, Massimo Salgaro & J. Berenike Herrmann

Subjects Applied linguistics | Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Theoretical literature & literary studies

[Scientific Study of Literature, 6:1] 2016. | special issue

More about 'Tirant lo Blanc' / Més sobre el 'Tirant lo Blanc': From the sources to the tradition / De les fonts a la tradició

Edited by Anna Maria Babbi & Vicent Josep Escartí

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

[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature: Studies, Editions and Translations, 10] 2015. xiv, 173 pp. |

Certainty-uncertainty – and the Attitudinal Space in Between

Edited by Sibilla Cantarini, Werner Abraham & Elisabeth Leiss

Subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Philosophy | Pragmatics | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 165] 2014. x, 365 pp. |

EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 11 (2011)

Edited by Leah Roberts, Gabriele Pallotti & Camilla Bettoni

Subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching | Multilingualism

[EUROSLA Yearbook, 11] 2011. | yearbook

200 Years of Syntax: A critical survey

Giorgio Graffi

Subjects History of linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 98] 2001. xiv, 551 pp. | monograph

Mendhakar, Akshay, Katarzyna Sierak, Kirren Chana & Helmut Leder 2025 Does the reading platform matter?: An eye-tracking study

Keywords: reading | medium | eye-tracking | digital | screen | technology

AILA Review 38:1 pp. 105–128 | article | open access

Giraudo, Hélène, Karla Orihuela & Serena Dal Maso 2025 Morphological salience effects of prefixes and suffixes embedded in French words

Keywords: affix processing | letter-search task | word recogniton | morphological salience | French

The Mental Lexicon | Online First Publication, 22 pp. | article

Graffi, Giorgio 2024 Can linguistics and historiography of linguistics profit from each other?

Keywords: predication | constituent | word group | paradigm | research tradition

In: History of Linguistics 2021: Selected papers from the 15th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS 15), Milan, 28 August–1 September, Raynaud, Savina, Maria Paola Tenchini & Enrica Galazzi (eds.) [Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 133] pp. 14–30

Melloni, Chiara & Maria Vender 2024 Morphological awareness in L2 Italian children with a migrant background

Keywords: morphological awareness | Wug Test | vocabulary | bilingualism | L2 Italian children

In: Multilingual Acquisition and Learning: An ecosystemic view to diversity, Babatsouli, Elena (ed.) [Studies in Bilingualism, 67] pp. 500–528

Płużyczka, Monika, Ainur Kakimova & Akshay Mendhakar 2024 Processing and appreciation of literary metaphors in English as a foreign language: An eye-tracking study

Keywords: literary metaphors | English as a foreign language | processing metaphors in a foreign language | appreciation of metaphors | comprehension of metaphors | eye tracking | experiment | foregrounding elements

AILA Review | Online First Publication, 29 pp. | article | open access

Mannoni, Michele & Silvia Cavalieri 2024 Metaphors for legal terms concerning vulnerable people

Keywords: vulnerable people | metaphor studies | discourse dynamics framework (DDF) | legal linguistics | English and Mandarin contrastive terminology

Terminology 30:1 pp. 134–158 | article

Graffi, Giorgio 2024 New tools for understanding Hjelmslev*

Historiographia Linguistica 52:1 pp. 102–124 | review article

Tomaselli, Alessandra & Ermenegildo Bidese 2025 On the threefold typology of Scheinsubjekte : From Karl Brugmann to Cimbrian syntax

Keywords: expletives | Brugmann | Scheinsubjekte | syntax | Cimbrian | Northern Italian dialects

Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 6:1/2 pp. 158–191 | article

Tagliani, Marta & Jelena Živojinović 2023 Tracking Jespersen’s cycle in Veronese and Bresciano: Diatopic variation in sentential negation

Keywords: Jespersen's cycle | sentential negation | Italo-Romance | Veronese | Bresciano

In: Different Slants on Grammaticalization, Hancil, Sylvie & Vittorio Tantucci (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 232] pp. 104–123

Kruijt, Anne, Patrizia Cordin & Stefan Rabanus 2023 On the validity of crowdsourced data

In: Corpus Dialectology, Pustka, Elissa, Carmen Quijada Van den Berghe & Verena Weiland (eds.) [Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 110] pp. 10–33

Franceschi, Valeria 2023 Disalignment in the EU: Disagreement and face threats in international European Committee debates

Keywords: parliamentary discourse | disagreement | face-threatening acts | multilingualism | English as a lingua Franca

Journal of Language and Politics 23:2 pp. 219–238 | article

Andreolli, Giorgia 2023 A qualitative study of endometriosis-related pain: Metaphorical expressions beyond physical damage

Keywords: Conceptual Metaphor Theory | corpus linguistics | endometriosis | metaphors of pain

Metaphor and the Social World 14:1 pp. 1–21 | article

Delfitto, Denis & Gaetano Fiorin 2023 Inside names: A contextualist approach to the syntax and semantics of direct reference

Keywords: names | complex names | character of names | syntax of reference | rigid reference | contextualism

Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 4:2 pp. 153–190 | article

Frassi, Paolo 2022 La représentation de la polysémie et des termes complexes de type locution faible dans une base de données terminologique: Travail et son entourage dans le domaine du commerce international

Keywords: polysemy | complex terms | weak idioms | terminological network | international commerce

Terminology 28:1 pp. 103–128 | article

Tagliani, Marta & Stefan Rabanus 2023 The cycle in language change: Insights from diachronic phonology and syntax of negation

Keywords: linguistic cycle | sentential negation | Italo-Romance | Germanic | sound shifts | Grimm’s Law | Verner’s Law | Jespersen’s cycle

Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 4:2 pp. 191–228 | article

Melloni, Chiara & Serena Dal Maso 2022 For a topology of derivational paradigms

Keywords: network | constructional schema | morphological family | derivation | inflection

In: Paradigms in Word Formation: Theory and applications, Ruz, Alba E., Cristina Fernández-Alcaina & Cristina Lara-Clares (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 225] pp. 21–56

Guariglia, Federico 2022 Quelques notes à propos de l’olivier dans la chanson de geste

Keywords: olive tree | Bible | French literature | Chanson de geste | Epics | Roland

Revue Romane 58:1 pp. 1–20 | article

De Paolis, Paolo 2021 Letture scolastiche e trasmissione del testo di Cicerone in epoca antica [School readings and the tradition of Cicero’s works in the antiquity]

In: Overarching Greek Trends in European Philosophy, Coronel Ramos, Marco Antonio (ed.) [IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature: Studies, Editions and Translations, 30] pp. 165–184

Cantalupi, Cecilia 2021 The troubadour material in Curial e Güelfa : A fine-tuning

Keywords: Curial e Guelfa | Raimbaut de Vaqueiras | Rigaut de Berbezilh | Novellino | Curial e Guelfa | Raimbaut de Vaqueiras | Rigaut de Berbezilh | Novellino

In: La «cavalleria umanistica» italiana / The Italian “Humanistic Chivalry”: Enyego d’Àvalos (Inico d’Àvalos) e ‘Curial e Guelfa’ / Enyego d’Àvalos (Inico d’Àvalos) and ‘Curial e Guelfa’, Ferrando, Antoni & Anna Maria Babbi (eds.) [IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature: Studies, Editions and Translations, 29] pp. 17–30

Babbi, Anna Maria 2021 Aspetti della marginalità sessuale in alcuni romanzi medievali: Aspects of sexual marginality in some medieval novels

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. 225–232

Nicolini, Andrea 2021 The mystery of obedience: La Boétie, Foucault at the margins of power

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. 183–192

Padovan, Andrea 2020 Introduction: The role of the lexicon in the language faculty

Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 2:1 pp. 1–4 | introduction

Bonadonna, Maria Francesca 2020 Using lexical functions to describe adjectives in terminography

Keywords: adjective | adjectival term | lexical function | paradigmatic relation | polysemy | specialised collocation | syntagmatic relation | term banks

Terminology 26:1 p. 7 | article

Bigliazzi, Silvia 2020 1916: Italian narratives of the Tercentenary crisis

Keywords: Shakespeare’s Tercentenary | A Book of Homage to Shakespeare | Il Marzocco | Croce on Shakespeare

In: Shakespeare and Crisis: One hundred years of Italian narratives, Bigliazzi, Silvia (ed.) [Shakespeare in European Culture, 2] pp. 25–49

Bigliazzi, Silvia 2020 Fascist crises: Shakespeare, ‘thou art mighty yet!’

Keywords: Fascism | Shakespeare | Julius Caesar | censorship

In: Shakespeare and Crisis: One hundred years of Italian narratives, Bigliazzi, Silvia (ed.) [Shakespeare in European Culture, 2] p. 95

Bigliazzi, Silvia & Guido Avezzù 2020 Allegorising and minoritising Richard III

Keywords: Shakespeare’s Richard III | Carmelo Bene | Deleuze | minority theatre

In: Shakespeare and Crisis: One hundred years of Italian narratives, Bigliazzi, Silvia (ed.) [Shakespeare in European Culture, 2] pp. 175–211

Bigliazzi, Silvia 2020 Notes on Shakespeare, simulacra, and the aporias of ‘acting’

Keywords: Hamlet | Julius Caesar | Macbeth | Romeo and Juliet | Collettivo Teatro Due | simulacra | adaptation | Massimo Cacciari

In: Shakespeare and Crisis: One hundred years of Italian narratives, Bigliazzi, Silvia (ed.) [Shakespeare in European Culture, 2] pp. 215–243

Bigliazzi, Silvia 2020 Introduction

In: Shakespeare and Crisis: One hundred years of Italian narratives, Bigliazzi, Silvia (ed.) [Shakespeare in European Culture, 2] pp. 1–21

Bigliazzi, Silvia 2020 Afterword

In: Shakespeare and Crisis: One hundred years of Italian narratives, Bigliazzi, Silvia (ed.) [Shakespeare in European Culture, 2] pp. 277–282

Bigliazzi, Silvia 2020 Shakespeare and Crisis: One hundred years of Italian narratives

In: Shakespeare and Crisis: One hundred years of Italian narratives, Bigliazzi, Silvia (ed.) [Shakespeare in European Culture, 2] p.  ff.

Arcangeli, Alessandro 2020 Review of L’Arte de’ cenni di Giovanni Bonifacio by Silvia Gazzola (2018)

Gesture 18:1 pp. 110–113 | book review

Graffi, Giorgio 2019 Origin of language and origin of languages

Keywords: history of linguistics | language origin | monogenesis of languages | polygenesis of languages | population genetics

Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 1:1 p. 6 | article

Delfitto, Denis, Chiara Melloni & Maria Vender 2019 The (en)rich(ed) meaning of expletive negation

Keywords: non-standard negation | expletive negation | implicated meaning | implicature denial | negation processing

Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 1:1 pp. 57–89 | article

Casalicchio, Jan & Andrea Padovan 2019 Contact-induced phenomena in the Alps

Keywords: language contact | Ladin | Cimbrian | clitic climbing | complementizer

In: Italian Dialectology at the Interfaces, Cruschina, Silvio, Adam Ledgeway & Eva-Maria Remberger (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 251] pp. 237–255

Salgaro, Massimo 2019 Historical introduction to the special issue on literariness

Scientific Study of Literature 8:1 p. 6 | introduction

Sopčák, Paul, Massimo Salgaro & David I. Hanauer 2019 Introduction to the special issue

Scientific Study of Literature 8:1 pp. 1–5 | introduction

Baicchi, Annalisa, Roberta Facchinetti, Silvia Cacchiani & Antonio Bertacca 2018 Shakespeare’s language revisited in the 21st century: An introduction

English Text Construction 11:1 pp. 1–9 | introduction

Salgaro, Massimo 2019 Who is David Miall?

Scientific Study of Literature 8:1 pp. 19–20 | introduction

Paramei, Galina V., Mauro D’Orsi & Gloria Menegaz 2018 Diatopic variation in the referential meaning of the “Italian blues”

Keywords: Italian blues | diatopic variation | unconstrained colour naming | referential volume | convex hull

In: Progress in colour studies: Cognition, language and beyond, MacDonald, Lindsay W., Carole P. Biggam & Galina V. Paramei (eds.)  p. 83

Degani, Marta 2018 From the light of truth to the dark alleys of tyranny : The evocative power of metaphor in American political speeches

Keywords: American political discourse | political speeches | conceptual metaphors | light and dark metaphors | corpus linguistics

Metaphor and the Social World 8:2 pp. 157–183 | article

Calvi, Lisanna 2017  Giulietta e Romeo : From early nineteenth-century Italian adaptations to Ernesto Rossi’s Shakespearean debut (1869)

Keywords: nineteenth-century Italian theatre | Luigi Scevola | Giuseppe Morosini | Angelica Palli | Cesare Della Valle | Ernesto Rossi | Romeo and Juliet

In: Romeo and Juliet in European culture, Cerdá, Juan F., Dirk Delabastita & Keith Gregor (eds.) [Shakespeare in European Culture, 1] pp. 139–158

Alber, Birgit & Marta Meneguzzo 2016 Germanic and Romance onset clusters – how to account for microvariation

Keywords: Cimbrian | consonant clusters | microvariation | Mòcheno | sonority | Trentino dialects | typological analysis | Tyrolean

In: Theoretical Approaches to Linguistic Variation, Bidese, Ermenegildo, Federica Cognola & Manuela Caterina Moroni (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 234] pp. 25–52

Padovan, Andrea 2016 Why a bed can be slept in but not under: Variation in V+P constructions

Keywords: applicative constructions | English | passive | prepositional verbs | stranding

In: Theoretical Approaches to Linguistic Variation, Bidese, Ermenegildo, Federica Cognola & Manuela Caterina Moroni (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 234] pp. 119–144

Graffi, Giorgio 2017 Harris, Chomsky and the origins of transformational grammar

Keywords: Harris | Chomsky | grammar | syntax | transformation

Lingvisticæ Investigationes 39:1 pp. 48–87 | article

Babbi, Anna Maria & Vicent Josep Escartí 2015 Introductory note

In: More about 'Tirant lo Blanc' / Més sobre el 'Tirant lo Blanc': From the sources to the tradition / De les fonts a la tradició, Babbi, Anna Maria & Vicent Josep Escartí (eds.) [IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature: Studies, Editions and Translations, 10] pp. vii–x

Babbi, Anna Maria & Vicent Josep Escartí 2015 Nota introductoria

In: More about 'Tirant lo Blanc' / Més sobre el 'Tirant lo Blanc': From the sources to the tradition / De les fonts a la tradició, Babbi, Anna Maria & Vicent Josep Escartí (eds.) [IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature: Studies, Editions and Translations, 10] pp. xi–xiv

Arcodia, Giorgio F., Bianca Basciano & Chiara Melloni 2016 Areal perspectives on total reduplication of verbs in Sinitic

Keywords: Reduplication | Sinitic | total reduplication | East- and Southeast Asian languages | iconicity

Studies in Language 39:4 pp. 836–872 | article

Salgaro, Massimo 2016 How literary can literariness be?: Methodological problems in the study of foregrounding

Keywords: literariness | rhetorical figures | foregrounding | low frequency words

Scientific Study of Literature 5:2 pp. 229–249 | article

Resi, Rossella 2014 Chapter 7. Noun phrasal complements vs. adjuncts

In: Noun Valency, Spevak, Olga (ed.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 158] pp. 161–182

Onysko, Alexander & Marta Degani 2014 Finding a wooden jandal in the jandal wood: The role of bilingualism for the interpretation of headedness in novel English compounds

Keywords: left-headed interpretations | Maori-English bilinguals | structural transfer | word formation

In: Multilingual Cognition and Language Use: Processing and typological perspectives, Filipović, Luna & Martin Pütz (eds.) [Human Cognitive Processing: Cognitive Foundations of Language Structure and Use, 44] pp. 309–332

Bucciarelli, Paola, Ramona Bongelli, Andrzej Zuczkowski, Sibilla Cantarini & Christine Berthold 2014 Uncertainty markers in a corpus of German biomedical papers from Spektrum der Wissenschaft (1993-2012)

In: Communicating Certainty and Uncertainty in Medical, Supportive and Scientific Contexts, Zuczkowski, Andrzej, Ramona Bongelli, Ilaria Riccioni & Carla Canestrari (eds.) [Dialogue Studies, 25] pp. 341–368

Bettoni, Camilla 2013 Review of Numeri per parlare. Da ‘quattro chiacchiere’ a ‘grazie mille’ by Rosa Pugliese & Ering Strudsholm (2011)

Revue Romane 48:2 pp. 368–369 | book review

Rizza, Alfredo & Paola Cotticelli Kurras 2013 Reconstructing Proto-Indo-European categories: The reflexive and the middle in Hittite and in the Proto-language

Keywords: Hittite particle -za | middle | Proto-Indo-European verbal system | Baltic suffix -si | reflexive category

Journal of Historical Linguistics 3:1 p. 7 | article

Bettoni, Camilla & Bruno Di Biase 2011 Beyond canonical order: The acquisition of marked word orders in Italian as a second language

EUROSLA Yearbook 11:1 pp. 244–272 | article

Melloni, Chiara & Antonietta Bisetto 2010 Parasynthetic compounds: Data and theory

In: Cross-Disciplinary Issues in Compounding, Scalise, Sergio & Irene Vogel (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 311] pp. 199–218

Graffi, Giorgio 2010 The “linguistic wars”: A tentative assessment by an outsider witness

In: Chomskyan (R)evolutions, Kibbee, Douglas A. (ed.)  pp. 395–420 | open access

Degani, Marta & Anna Belladelli 2009  ‘I wouldn’t think you might agree’ : (Inter)subjective uses of English modalised syntactic patterns

English Text Construction 2:1 pp. 18–47 | article

Facchinetti, Roberta & Elisabetta Adami 2008 Intersubjective patterns of English modalised mental state verbs

English Text Construction 1:2 pp. 198–225 | article

Delfitto, Denis 2008 On Facts in the Syntax and Semantics of Italian

In: Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2003: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’ 2003, Nijmegen, 20–22 November, Geerts, Twan, Ivo van Ginneken & Haike Jacobs (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 270] pp. 15–35

Facchinetti, Roberta 2002 Review of Hypothetical Modality. Grammaticalisation in an L2 Dialect by Debra Ziegeler (2000)

Journal of Historical Pragmatics 3:2 pp. 337–340 | book review

Facchinetti, Roberta 2003 Review of A Wealth of English. Studies in Honour of Göran Kjellmer by Karin Aijmer ((2001))

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 7:2 pp. 295–300 | book review

Graffi, Giorgio 2003 The asterisk from historical to descriptive and theoretical linguistics: An historical note

Historiographia Linguistica 29:3 pp. 329–338 | article

Rubino, Antonia & Camilla Bettoni 1998 Language maintenance and language shift: Dialect vs Italian among Italo-Australians

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 21:1 pp. 21–39 | article

Graffi, Giorgio 1998 A survey of syntactic theories in the 20th century

Historiographia Linguistica 25:3 pp. 373–385 | review article

Graffi, Giorgio 1998 The treatment of syntax by some early 19th-century linguists: New insights and the continuity of general grammar

Historiographia Linguistica 25:3 pp. 257–284 | article

Balmas, Nerina Clerici 1986 Le Langage Secret De Marc Papillon

Lingvisticæ Investigationes 10:2 pp. 267–274 | article

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