University of Florence

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

Elementary Predicates and Related Categories

Ludovico Franco

Subjects Generative linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 285] 2024. | monograph

Biological Evolution: More than a metaphor for grammar change. Special issue of Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 3:1 (2021)

Edited by Maria Rita Manzini

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

[Evolutionary Linguistic Theory, 3:1] 2021. | special issue

In search of basic units of spoken language: A corpus-driven approach

Edited by Shlomo Izre’el, Heliana Mello, Alessandro Panunzi & Tommaso Raso

Subjects Corpus linguistics | Phonetics | Phonology | Theoretical linguistics

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 94] 2020. | edited volume

Letter Writing in Late Modern Europe

Edited by Marina Dossena & Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti

Subjects Discourse studies | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 218] 2012. vii, 254 pp. | edited volume

The Language of Business Studies Lectures: A corpus-assisted analysis

Belinda Crawford Camiciottoli

Subjects Corpus linguistics | Pragmatics

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 157] 2007. xvi, 236 pp. | monograph

C-ORAL-ROM: Integrated Reference Corpora for Spoken Romance Languages

Edited by Emanuela Cresti & Massimo Moneglia

Subjects Corpus linguistics | Electronic/Multimedia Products | Romance linguistics

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 15] 2005. xviii, 304 pp. (incl. DVD) | edited volume

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

Mind and Causality

Edited by Alberto Peruzzi

Subjects Cognitive psychology | Consciousness research | Philosophy

[Advances in Consciousness Research, 55] 2004. xiv, 235 pp. | edited volume

Awakening and Sleep–Wake Cycle Across Development

Edited by Piero Salzarulo & Gianluca Ficca

Subjects Consciousness research | Neuropsychology

[Advances in Consciousness Research, 38] 2002. vi, 283 pp. | edited volume

Manzini, Maria Rita & Anna Roussou 2025 Empty categories as Copy and No Transfer: Non-obligatory control and partial null subjects

Keywords: Control | null subject | Copy | Transfer | phase

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. 80 | open access

Cecconi, Elisabetta 2025 British ideologies in the (re)-shaping of the American identity: A corpus-based analysis of the possessive our in American newspapers (1764–1783)

Keywords: American newspapers | American Revolution | corpus-based analysis | possessive our | ideologies | discursive identity | Britishness | Americanness | property | stance

In: News with an Attitude: Ideological perspectives in the historical press, Claridge, Claudia (ed.) [Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 105] pp. 12–32

Samson, Christina 2025 Inducing sympathies and antipathies: A corpus-assisted analysis of letters from the 1857–1858 Indian uprisings in the press

Keywords: letters | press | uprisings | sepoys | ideology | emotivity | identity | corpus linguistics | semantic patterns | colonialism

In: News with an Attitude: Ideological perspectives in the historical press, Claridge, Claudia (ed.) [Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 105] pp. 56–81

Martini, Isabella 2025 Language and ideology: The representation of the Armenian question in letters to the editor of The Times (1914–1926)

Keywords: historical English | news discourse | letters to the editor | corpus linguistics | discourse analysis

In: News with an Attitude: Ideological perspectives in the historical press, Claridge, Claudia (ed.) [Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 105] pp. 133–153

Brownlees, Nicholas 2025 Female-male relations in letters to the editor in The Orphan Reviv'd: or, Powell’s Weekly Journal (1719–1720)

Keywords: eighteenth-century | newspapers | Elizabeth Powell | The Orphan Reviv'd | female-male relations | letters to the editor | discourse | evaluation | female agency

In: News with an Attitude: Ideological perspectives in the historical press, Claridge, Claudia (ed.) [Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 105] pp. 156–176

Micali, Irene 2025 Endangered Occitan varieties in Italy: Some microcontact effect on morphosyntax

Keywords: Occitan varieties | endangered languages | morphosyntax | change in contact | microcontact | subject clitics | negation

Linguistic Variation 26:1 pp. 113–131 | article

Cacioli, Caterina 2025 Combining corpora and video-based descriptions: A multimodal approach to the contrastive analysis of verbs and events

Keywords: semantics | Contrastive Analysis | multimodality

Review of Cognitive Linguistics 23:2 pp. 345–374 | article

Tucker, Paul 2024 Argumentation and the “interaction of minds” in text: The case of discourse on art

Keywords: argumentation | interaction | cognition | text | discourse | speech act | predication | discourse on art

In: Persuasion in Specialized Discourse: A multidisciplinary perspective, Degano, Chiara, Dora Renna & Francesca Santulli (eds.) [Argumentation in Context, 22] pp. 169–188

Franco, Ludovico 2024 Elementary predicates and related categories

In: Elementary Predicates and Related Categories, Franco, Ludovico[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 285]

Wegener, Anna 2023 Review of La letteratura italiana in Svezia. Autori, editori, lettori (1870–2020) by Cecilia Schwartz (2021)

Revue Romane 58:1 pp. 178–183 | book review

Cacioli, Caterina & Paola Vernillo 2023 How did you break that?: Semantic boundaries of Italian and English action verbs encoding breaking events

Keywords: action verbs | breaking events | contrastive analysis | corpus | semantic categorization | English/Italian

Languages in Contrast 23:1 p. 93 | article

Mazzaggio, Greta, Alessandra Zappoli & Diana Mazzarella 2024 Verbal irony and the implicitness of the echo: The processing of young and older adults

Keywords: irony comprehension | echoic account | degree of explicitness | ageing

Pragmatics & Cognition 30:2 pp. 412–443 | article

König, Ekkehard & Letizia Vezzosi 2022 On the development of OE swā to ModE so and related changes in an atypical group of demonstratives

Keywords: demonstratives (of manner, quality, degree) | exophoric and endophoric uses | ‘similarity’ | grammaticalisation | text corpora | Germanic languages | Romance languages

In: English Historical Linguistics: Change in structure and meaning. Papers from the XXth ICEHL, Los, Bettelou, Claire Cowie, Patrick Honeybone & Graeme Trousdale (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 358] pp. 309–344

Manzini, M. Rita & Paolo Lorusso 2022 A bisentential syntax for a/bare finite complements in South Italian varieties: Motion verbs and the progressive

Keywords: complementizer | inflection | clitic | preposition | progressive

In: Pseudo-Coordination and Multiple Agreement Constructions, Giusti, Giuliana, Vincenzo Nicolò Di Caro & Daniel Ross (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 274] pp. 65–98

Castorina, Miriam 2021 The Vocabolario Italiano-Cinese of Joseph M. Pruggmayr (OCD; 1713–1791)

In: Missionary Linguistics VI: Missionary Linguistics in Asia. Selected papers from the Tenth International Conference on Missionary Linguistics, Rome, 21–24 March 2018, Zwartjes, Otto & Paolo De Troia (eds.) [Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 130] pp. 129–152

Manzini, Maria Rita 2021 Introduction: Language evolution: Beyond the metaphor

Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 3:1 pp. 1–5 | introduction

Franco, Ludovico, M. Rita Manzini & Leonardo M. Savoia 2020 Locative Ps as general relators: Location, direction, DOM in Romance

Keywords: Locative | Oblique | Adposition | Passive | Differential Object Marking

Linguistic Variation 21:1 pp. 135–173 | article

Cresti, Emanuela 2020 The pragmatic analysis of speech and its illocutionary classification according to the Language into Act Theory

Keywords: speech activity | illocutions | spoken corpora | prosody | information structure

In: In search of basic units of spoken language: A corpus-driven approach, Izre’el, Shlomo, Heliana Mello, Alessandro Panunzi & Tommaso Raso (eds.) [Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 94] pp. 181–220

Cresti, Emanuela & Massimo Moneglia 2020 Some notes on the Hearts and Navy excerpts according to the Language into Act Theory

Keywords: reference units | illocutionary force | information structure | prosodic structure | compositionality

In: In search of basic units of spoken language: A corpus-driven approach, Izre’el, Shlomo, Heliana Mello, Alessandro Panunzi & Tommaso Raso (eds.) [Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 94] pp. 383–402

Panunzi, Alessandro, Lorenzo Gregori & Bruno Rocha 2020 Comparing annotations for the prosodic segmentation of spontaneous speech: Focus on reference units

Keywords: spoken language models | segmentation criteria | prosodic breaks | annotation comparison | agreement

In: In search of basic units of spoken language: A corpus-driven approach, Izre’el, Shlomo, Heliana Mello, Alessandro Panunzi & Tommaso Raso (eds.) [Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 94] pp. 403–432

Izre’el, Shlomo, Heliana Mello, Alessandro Panunzi & Tommaso Raso 2020 In search of a basic unit of spoken language: Segmenting speech

In: In search of basic units of spoken language: A corpus-driven approach, Izre’el, Shlomo, Heliana Mello, Alessandro Panunzi & Tommaso Raso (eds.) [Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 94] pp. 1–32

Izre’el, Shlomo, Heliana Mello, Alessandro Panunzi & Tommaso Raso 2020 Same texts, different approaches to segmentation: An introduction to the second part of the volume

In: In search of basic units of spoken language: A corpus-driven approach, Izre’el, Shlomo, Heliana Mello, Alessandro Panunzi & Tommaso Raso (eds.) [Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 94] pp. 303–308

Cecconi, Elisabetta 2020 Paratext and ideology in 17th-century news genres: A comparative discourse analysis of paratextual elements in news broadside ballads and occasional news pamphlets

Keywords: 17th-century English news | paratext | metadiscourse | interactive markers | interactional markers | ideology | Church | realistic reportage | broadside ballad | occasional news pamphlet

In: The Dynamics of Text and Framing Phenomena: Historical approaches to paratext and metadiscourse in English, Peikola, Matti & Birte Bös (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 317] pp. 137–162

Sicari, Ilaria 2020 Paratext as weapon: The role of Soviet criticism in the cultural Cold War

Keywords: reception of foreign literature in the USSR | Soviet literary criticism and censorship | Italo Calvino | Kurt Vonnegut

Translation and Interpreting Studies 15:3 pp. 354–379 | article

De Cesare, Anna-Maria, Ana Albom, Doriana Cimmino & Marta Lupica Spagnolo 2019 Domain adverbials in the news: A corpus-based contrastive study of English, German, French, Italian and Spanish

Keywords: domain adverbials | Germanic languages | Romance languages | journalistic prose | adverbial formation patterns

Languages in Contrast 20:1 pp. 31–57 | article

Manzini, Maria Rita 2019 Parameters and the design of the Language Faculty: Northern Italian partial null subjects

Keywords: parameter | externalization | lexicon | null subject | microvariation

Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 1:1 pp. 24–56 | article

Vezzosi, Letizia 2019 What does āgen mean in the Lindisfarne Gospels?

NOWELE 72:2 pp. 245–272 | article

Manzini, M. Rita & Ludovico Franco 2019 ‘Agreement of structural obliques’ parameter: dom and pseudopartitives

Keywords: dom | pseudopartitives | agreement | oblique | labelling

Lingvisticæ Investigationes 42:1 p. 82 | article

Baldi, Benedetta, Ludovico Franco & Leonardo M. Savoia 2019 Alternative truths and delegitimization pragmatic strategies around the 2018 Italian elections

Keywords: political discourse | delegitimizing rhetoric strategies | pragmatic tools | alternative truths

Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 7:2 pp. 293–320 | article

Manzini, Maria Rita & Leonardo M. Savoia 2019 N morphology and its interpretation: Romance feminine singular/plural -a

Keywords: agreement | gender | number | feminine | plural | nominal class

In: Italian Dialectology at the Interfaces, Cruschina, Silvio, Adam Ledgeway & Eva-Maria Remberger (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 251] pp. 257–293

Manzini, Maria Rita & Leonardo Maria Savoia 2019 Finite and non-finite complementation, particles and control in Aromanian, compared to other Romance varieties and Albanian

Keywords: complementizer | wh-pronoun | subjunctive particle | control | prepositional complementizer | oblique case

Linguistic Variation 18:2 pp. 215–264 | article

Cresti, Emanuela & Massimo Moneglia 2018 The illocutionary basis of information structure: The Language into Act Theory (L-AcT)

In: Information structure in lesser-described languages: Studies in prosody and syntax, Adamou, Evangelia, Katharina Haude & Martine Vanhove (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 199] p.  ff.

Lai, Rosangela 2018 Language planning and language policy in Sardinia

Keywords: Sardinian | Limba Sarda Comuna | Limba Sarda Unificada | standardization | orthography development

Language Problems and Language Planning 42:1 pp. 70–88 | article

Cresti, Emanuela & Massimo Moneglia 2018 The definition of the TOPIC within Language into Act Theory and its identification in spontaneous speech corpora

Keywords: topic | speech | prosody | information function | illocution

Revue Romane 53:1 pp. 30–62 | article

Brownlees, Nicholas 2018 “He tells us that”: Strategies of reporting adversarial news in the English Civil War

Keywords: animadversion | controversies | English Civil War | historical (socio)pragmatics | news pamphlets

Journal of Historical Pragmatics 18:2 pp. 235–251 | article

Manzini, Maria Rita 2015 Italian adverbs and discourse particles: Between recategorization and ambiguity

In: Discourse-oriented Syntax, Bayer, Josef, Roland Hinterhölzl & Andreas Trotzke (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 226] p. 93

Fioretti, Chiara & Andrea Smorti 2016 How emotional content of memories changes in narrating

Keywords: personal narratives | emotions | autobiographical memories | language

Narrative Inquiry 25:1 pp. 37–56 | article

Moneglia, Massimo & Tommaso Raso 2014 Appendix: Notes on the Language into Act Theory

In: Spoken Corpora and Linguistic Studies, Raso, Tommaso & Heliana Mello (eds.) [Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 61] pp. 468–495

Panunzi, Alessandro & Maryualê M. Mittmann 2014 The IPIC resource and a cross-linguistic analysis of information structure in Italian and Brazilian Portuguese

In: Spoken Corpora and Linguistic Studies, Raso, Tommaso & Heliana Mello (eds.) [Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 61] pp. 129–151

Marchese, Maria Pia 2013  Ferdinand de Saussure. Science du langage: De la double essence du langage et autres documents du ms. BGE Arch. de Saussure 372 Éd. par René Amacker

Historiographia Linguistica 40:1/2 pp. 283–286 | book review

Luceri, Marco 2013 The digital body in contemporary American cinema

In: Moving Imagination: Explorations of gesture and inner movement, De Preester, Helena (ed.) [Advances in Consciousness Research, 89] p. 87

Manzini, Maria Rita & Leonardo Maria Savoia 2011 (Definite) denotation and case in Romance: History and variation

In: Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2009: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' Nice 2009, Berns, Janine, Haike Jacobs & Tobias Scheer (eds.) [Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 3] pp. 149–166

Smorti, Andrea 2012 Autobiographical memory and autobiographical narrative: What is the relationship?

Keywords: autobiographical memory | autobiographical narrative | coherence | externalization

Narrative Inquiry 21:2 pp. 303–310 | article

Manzini, Maria Rita & Leonardo M. Savoia 2011 Reducing ‘case’ to denotational primitives: Nominal inflections in Albanian

Linguistic Variation 11:1 p. 76 | article

Tamm, Anne 2009 The Estonian partitive evidential: Some notes on the semantic parallels between aspect and evidential categories

In: Cross-linguistic Semantics of Tense, Aspect, and Modality, Hogeweg, Lotte, Helen de Hoop & Andrej L. Malchukov (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 148] pp. 365–402

Solly, Martin 2008 9. Implementing the Bologna process in Italy: A distinctive approach to language learning in domain-specific contexts

In: ESP in European Higher Education: Integrating language and content, Fortanet-Gómez, Inmaculada & Christine A. Räisänen (eds.) [AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 4] pp. 199–211

Del Lungo Camiciotti, Gabriella 2004 Abstracts

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 9:1 pp. 161–165 | other

Salzarulo, Piero 2003 Awakening: Which changes across development?

In: Awakening and Sleep–Wake Cycle Across Development, Salzarulo, Piero & Gianluca Ficca (eds.) [Advances in Consciousness Research, 38] pp. 1–5

Del Lungo Camiciotti, Gabriella 2002 Performative aspects of late medieval English wills

Journal of Historical Pragmatics 3:2 pp. 205–227 | article

Cocchi, Gloria 2008 Free clitics and bound affixes: Towards a unitary analysis

In: Clitics in Phonology, Morphology and Syntax, Gerlach, Birgit & Janet Grijzenhout (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 36] p. 85

Zambelli, Paola 2002 Pietro Pomponazzi’s De immortalitate and his clandestine De incantationibus: Aristotelianism, eclecticism or libertinism?

Bochumer Philosophisches Jahrbuch für Antike und Mittelalter 6:1 p. 87 | other

Fici, Francesca 2001 Review of Transitivity in Discourse: A Comparison of Greek, Polish and Swedish by Ann Lindvall (1998)

Functions of Language 7:2 pp. 310–313 | book review

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