University of Pisa

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

Controversies and interdisciplinarity: Beyond disciplinary fragmentation for a new knowledge model

Edited by Jens Allwood, Olga Pombo, Clara Renna & Giovanni Scarafile

Subjects Philosophy

[Controversies: Ethics and Interdisciplinarity, 16] 2020. | edited volume

Controversies in the Contemporary World

Edited by Adriano Fabris & Giovanni Scarafile

Subjects Philosophy

[Controversies: Ethics and Interdisciplinarity, 15] 2019. | edited volume

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

Science and Democracy: Controversies and Conflicts

Edited by Pierluigi Barrotta & Giovanni Scarafile

Subjects Communication Studies | Philosophy

[Controversies: Ethics and Interdisciplinarity, 13] 2018. | edited volume

Lexical Creativity, Texts and Contexts

Edited by Judith Munat

Subjects Lexicography | Morphology

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 58] 2007. xvi, 294 pp. | edited volume

Studies in Baltic and Indo-European Linguistics: In honor of William R. Schmalstieg

Edited by Philip Baldi & Pietro U. Dini

Subjects Balto-Slavic linguistics | Historical linguistics

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 254] 2004. xlvi, 302 pp. | edited volume

Cerri, Adriano 2026 On the loss of Lithuanian in former East Prussia: A case of “Linguistic Necrosis”

In: The Loss of Primordial Language and the Future of National Languages, Capdevila, Irene & Francesc Feliu (eds.) [IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature: Studies, Editions and Translations, 47] p. 88

Blache, Philippe, Giulia Rambelli, Emmanuele Chersoni & Alessandro Lenci 2026 Composing or not composing?: Towards Distributional Construction Grammar

Keywords: compositionality | construction grammar | distributional semantics | comprehension | hybrid access to the meaning

Constructions and Frames | Online First Publication, 49 pp. | article

Busso, Lucia & Ottavia Tordini 2025 How do media talk about the COVID-19 pandemic?: Metaphorical thematic clustering in Italian online newspapers

Keywords: metaphor analysis | COVID-19 | structural topic modelling | corpus linguistics | Italian newspapers | conceptual metaphor theory

In: COVID-19: Metaphor and metonymy across languages and cultures, Wen, Xu, Wei-lun Lu, Joe Lennon & Zoltán Kövecses (eds.) [Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 11] pp. 10–39

Mattiello, Elisa & Wolfgang U. Dressler 2025 English and German suffixoids and their Italian equivalents

Keywords: affixoids | transitional morphology | morphopragmatics | aggressiveness | English/German/Italian

Languages in Contrast 26:1 pp. 137–160 | article

Candotti, Maria Piera & Tiziana Pontillo 2024 Constituent-order in Sanskrit Bahuvrīhi compounds: The role of the qualifier1

Keywords: Sanskrit Bahuvrīhi | head in compounds | word-order in compounds | Pāṇini | qualifier-qualificand relation

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. 129–144

Mattiello, Elisa 2024 A contrastive analysis of English deverbal -er synthetic compounds and their Italian equivalents

Keywords: synthetic compounds | translation procedures | transitional morphology | English/Italian

Languages in Contrast 25:2 pp. 157–184 | article

Petrucci, Aldo 2023 Lo status giuridico della donna nel diritto romano della tarda Repubblica e del Principato (II secolo a.C. – inizi del III secolo d.C.)

Keywords: woman | marriage | tutela mulierum | SC Velleianum | loco filiae

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. 16–41

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

Senesi, Rosso Manuel 2024 Latin < XS >: Seeing double

Keywords: Latin | Greek | standardization | orthography | spelling | writing systems | orthography-phonology interface | graphematics | historical linguistics

Written Language & Literacy 26:1 p. 96 | article

Bruti, Silvia & Serenella Zanotti 2023 “Don’t talk out loud, you lower the IQ of the whole street”: Impoliteness strategies in Sherlock across AVT modes and languages

Keywords: impoliteness | telecinematic language | TV series | Sherlock | dubbing | subtitling

In: Pragmatics and Translation, Locher, Miriam A., Daria Dayter & Thomas C. Messerli (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 337] pp. 148–172

Kolb, Waltraud, Wolfgang U. Dressler & Elisa Mattiello 2023 Human and machine translation of occasionalisms in literary texts: Johann Nestroy’s Der Talisman and its English translations

Keywords: literary translation | machine translation | human–machine interaction | occasionalism | nonce word

Target 35:4 pp. 540–572 | article

Mattiello, Elisa 2022 Slang and verbal aggression: A morphopragmatic analysis of the compound families X-ass, X-brain, X-face, and X-head

Keywords: verbal aggression | English slang | morphopragmatics | compound families

Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 11:1 pp. 101–120 | article

Mattiello, Elisa 2022 Derivational paradigms: The case of English combining forms

Keywords: derivational paradigms | paradigmatic morphology | combining forms | secretion | analogy

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. 129–152

Romagno, Domenica 2021 Strong resultative constructions in Romance between usage and norm: Evidence from Northern Calabria

Keywords: Southern Italian varieties | resultative constructions | adjectival predicates | object animacy | sociolinguistic variables

Belgian Journal of Linguistics 34 pp. 295–305 | article

Busso, Lucia, Alessandro Lenci & Florent Perek 2020 Valency coercion in Italian: An exploratory study*

Keywords: coercion | argument structure constructions | Italian | acceptability ratings | age grading

Constructions and Frames 12:2 pp. 171–205 | article

Romagno, Domenica 2020 Strategies for aligning syntactic roles and case marking with semantic properties: The case of the accusative of respect in ancient Greek

Keywords: ancient Greek | accusative case | inalienable possession | possessor ascension | syntactic roles | animacy hierarchy | semantic roles | actionality

In: Historical Linguistics 2017: Selected papers from the 23rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, San Antonio, Texas, 31 July–4 August 2017, Drinka, Bridget (ed.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 350] p. 9

Neri, Veronica 2020 Controversial images: ‘Listening to’ the visual, for a new communication ethics

Keywords: controversial | ethics | image | listening | social | visual communication

In: Controversies and interdisciplinarity: Beyond disciplinary fragmentation for a new knowledge model, Allwood, Jens, Olga Pombo, Clara Renna & Giovanni Scarafile (eds.) [Controversies: Ethics and Interdisciplinarity, 16] pp. 199–215

Scarafile, Giovanni 2020 The pointer finger and the pilgrim shell: Ethics of listening, resistance to change and interdisciplinarity

Keywords: reframing | change | connection | invisibility | human factor

In: Controversies and interdisciplinarity: Beyond disciplinary fragmentation for a new knowledge model, Allwood, Jens, Olga Pombo, Clara Renna & Giovanni Scarafile (eds.) [Controversies: Ethics and Interdisciplinarity, 16] pp. 235–254

Barrotta, Pierluigi & Roberto Gronda 2020 What is the meaning of biodiversity?: A pragmatist approach to an intrinsically interdisciplinary concept

Keywords: biodiversity | fact-value entanglement | measurement | pluralism | pragmatic maxim | pragmatism

In: Controversies and interdisciplinarity: Beyond disciplinary fragmentation for a new knowledge model, Allwood, Jens, Olga Pombo, Clara Renna & Giovanni Scarafile (eds.) [Controversies: Ethics and Interdisciplinarity, 16] pp. 115–131

Allwood, Jens, Olga Pombo & Giovanni Scarafile 2020 Crossing borderlines: Beyond the structure of parallel world views

In: Controversies and interdisciplinarity: Beyond disciplinary fragmentation for a new knowledge model, Allwood, Jens, Olga Pombo, Clara Renna & Giovanni Scarafile (eds.) [Controversies: Ethics and Interdisciplinarity, 16] pp. 1–4

Crawford Camiciottoli, Belinda 2019 Cornelia Ilie and Neal R. Norrick (eds.), Pragmatics and its Interfaces

Pragmatics and Society 10:3 pp. 486–491 | book review

Mattiello, Elisa 2019 On the productivity of the Italian suffix -ista and the English -ist

Keywords: Italian | English | suffix -ista | suffix -ist | productivity | neologisms

Languages in Contrast 20:1 pp. 1–30 | article

Romagno, Domenica 2019 State representation and dynamic processes in Homeric Greek: The aorist in -ην in Homeric Greek

Keywords: state representation | intransitivity | causative/anticausative alternation | aorist | perfect | middle | ancient Greek

In: Historical Linguistics 2015: Selected papers from the 22nd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Naples, 27–31 July 2015, Cennamo, Michela & Claudia Fabrizio (eds.) Parlato, Renato[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 348] pp. 271–286

Scarafile, Giovanni 2019 Leibniz beyond Leibniz: Rationality, controversies and the ethics of communication

Keywords: alterity | audience | controversy | dialogue | ethics of communication | misunderstandings | Leibniz | Locke | pragmatics | rhetoric

In: Controversies in the Contemporary World, Fabris, Adriano & Giovanni Scarafile (eds.) [Controversies: Ethics and Interdisciplinarity, 15] p. 7

Rovai, Francesco 2019 Impersonal passives and the suffix -r in the Indo-European languages

Keywords: impersonal passive | non-promotional constructions | transitivity | action nominals | Latin | Oscan | Umbrian

In: Historical Linguistics 2015: Selected papers from the 22nd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Naples, 27–31 July 2015, Cennamo, Michela & Claudia Fabrizio (eds.) Parlato, Renato[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 348] pp. 187–216

Ciampi, Debora 2019 Constructing youth identities in dubbed movies: A view from Italy

Keywords: youth culture | sensitive topics | dubbing | English | Italian

In: Reassessing Dubbing: Historical approaches and current trends, Ranzato, Irene & Serenella Zanotti (eds.) [Benjamins Translation Library, 148] pp. 263–280

Lazzeroni, Romano 2019 Effecting a change: Perfect and middle in some Indo-European languages

Keywords: stative endings | middle voice | perfect | Indo-European | language change

In: Historical Linguistics 2015: Selected papers from the 22nd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Naples, 27–31 July 2015, Cennamo, Michela & Claudia Fabrizio (eds.) Parlato, Renato[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 348] pp. 287–300

Strik Lievers, Francesca & Irene De Felice 2019 Metaphors and perception in the lexicon: A diachronic perspective

Keywords: adjectives | perception | sensory modalities | synaesthesia | metaphor | directionality | Latin | Italian | diachrony

In: Perception Metaphors, Speed, Laura J., Carolyn O’Meara, Lila San Roque & Asifa Majid (eds.) [Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 19] p. 85

Fabris, Adriano 2019 Introduction

In: Controversies in the Contemporary World, Fabris, Adriano & Giovanni Scarafile (eds.) [Controversies: Ethics and Interdisciplinarity, 15] pp. 1–3

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

Bertuccelli Papi, Marcella 2020 Satire as a genre

Keywords: complex systems | emergence | genre | pragmatic inferences | satire

Pragmatics & Cognition 25:3 pp. 459–482 | article

Malloggi, Patrizio 2017 Intensifying structures of adjectives across German and Italian

Keywords: intensification | structures of adjective intensification in German and Italian | equivalences and divergences between German and Italian

In: Exploring Intensification: Synchronic, diachronic and cross-linguistic perspectives, Napoli, Maria & Miriam Ravetto (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 189] pp. 251–264

Foschi, Marina 2017 The coordination of identical conjuncts as a means of strengthening expressions in German and Italian

Keywords: intensification | coordination | grammar vs. style | German-Italian contrastive linguistics

In: Exploring Intensification: Synchronic, diachronic and cross-linguistic perspectives, Napoli, Maria & Miriam Ravetto (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 189] pp. 265–288

Cosentino, Gianluca 2017 Stress and tones as intensifying operators in German

Keywords: prosodic intensification | accents | tones | contour choice | information structure | conversation structure | speakers’ attitudes

In: Exploring Intensification: Synchronic, diachronic and cross-linguistic perspectives, Napoli, Maria & Miriam Ravetto (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 189] pp. 193–206

Nuti, Andrea 2016 A matter of perspective: Aspect, deixis, and textual exploitation in the prototype semantics of eo and venio

Keywords: aspect | cognitive phenomena | deixis | Latin motion verbs | prototype semantics | textual exploitation

In: Embodiment in Latin Semantics, Short, William Michael (ed.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 174] pp. 15–56

Longobardi, Giuseppe, Cristina Guardiano, Giuseppina Silvestri, Alessio Boattini & Andrea Ceolin 2015 Toward a syntactic phylogeny of modern Indo-European languages

In: Proto-Indo-European Syntax and its Development, Kulikov, Leonid & Nikolaos Lavidas (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 75] pp. 125–156

Lenci, Alessandro 2014 Carving verb classes from corpora

In: Word Classes: Nature, typology and representations, Simone, Raffaele & Francesca Masini (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 332] pp. 17–36

Franceschi, Daniele 2014 Licensing and blocking factors in the use of BEGIN verbs: A lexical-constructional and pragmatic analysis

Keywords: lexical constraints | metaphor | metonymy | construal | begin verbs | initiate | argument structure | start | begin | commence | cognitive constraints | construction

Review of Cognitive Linguistics 12:2 pp. 304–341 | article

Longobardi, Giuseppe, Cristina Guardiano, Giuseppina Silvestri, Alessio Boattini & Andrea Ceolin 2013 Toward a syntactic phylogeny of modern Indo-European languages

Keywords: Parametric Comparison Method | syntactic distances | historical reconstruction | nominal domain | quantitative phylogenies

Journal of Historical Linguistics 3:1 pp. 122–152 | article

Marotta, Giovanna & Linda Meini 2012 13. Spatial prepositions in Italian L2: Universal and language-specific principles

Keywords: L1 system | L2 acquisition | linguistic variation | spatial reference | universal principles

In: Space and Time in Languages and Cultures: Linguistic diversity, Filipović, Luna & Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt (eds.) [Human Cognitive Processing: Cognitive Foundations of Language Structure and Use, 36] pp. 289–324

Bertuccelli Papi, Marcella 2009 Implicitness

In: Key Notions for Pragmatics, Verschueren, Jef & Jan-Ola Östman (eds.) [Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights, 1] pp. 139–162

Napoli, Maria 2009 Aspects of definiteness in Greek

Studies in Language 33:3 pp. 569–611 | article

Viti, Carlotta 2008 The phylogenesis of hypotaxis in Vedic

Keywords: adverbial | phylogenesis | ontogenesis | Vedic | hypotaxis

Diachronica 25:3 pp. 386–409 | article

Munat, Judith 2008 Lexical creativity as a marker of style in science fiction and children's literature

In: Lexical Creativity, Texts and Contexts, Munat, Judith (ed.) [Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 58] pp. 163–185

Munat, Judith 2008 Iconic functions of phraseological units and metaphor

In: Outside-In — Inside-Out, Maeder, Costantino, Olga Fischer & William J. Herlofsky (eds.) [Iconicity in Language and Literature, 4] pp. 389–410

Bertuccelli Papi, Marcella 2000 Is a diachronic speech act theory possible?

Journal of Historical Pragmatics 1:1 pp. 57–66 | article

Cignoni, Laura, Stephen Coffey & Rosamund Moon 2002 Idiom variation in Italian and English: Two corpus-based studies

Keywords: Idioms | Variability | English/Italian

Languages in Contrast 2:2 pp. 279–300 | article

Dini, Pietro U. 1999 The dispute among vilnius humanists regarding Latin, Lithuanian, and Ruthenian

Historiographia Linguistica 26:1/2 pp. 23–36 | article

Campanile, Enrico 1993 Réflexions Sur La Reconstruction De La Phraséologie Poétique Indo-Européenne

Diachronica 10:1 pp. 1–12 | article

Bologna, Maria Patrizia 1986 Whitney in Italia

Historiographia Linguistica 13:1 pp. 43–70 | article

Tavoni, Mirko 1982 The 15th-Century Controversy on the Language Spoken by the Ancient Romans: An Inquiry Into Italian Humanist Concepts of ‘Latin’, ‘Grammar’, and ‘Vernacular’

Historiographia Linguistica 9:3 pp. 237–264 | article

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