University of Naples Federico II

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with University of Naples Federico II*

Italo-Romance Heritage Languages: Multiple approaches

EditorEugenio Goria & Margherita Di Salvo

Subjects Multilingualism | Romance linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics

[Studies in Bilingualism, 68] 2025. | edited volume

Socially Acceptable Robot Behavior: Approaches for Learning, Adaptation and Evaluation. Special issue of Interaction Studies 23:3 (2022)

Edited by Oliver Roesler, Elahe Bagheri, Amir Aly, Silvia Rossi & Rachid Alami

Subjects Artificial Intelligence | Cognition and language | Evolution of language | Interaction Studies

[Interaction Studies: Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems, 23:3] 2023. | special issue

Argument Structure in Flux: The Naples-Capri Papers

Edited by Elly van Gelderen, Jóhanna Barðdal & Michela Cennamo

Subjects Historical linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 131] 2013. viii, 578 pp. | edited volume

Stability, Variation and Change of Word-Order Patterns over Time

Edited by Rosanna Sornicola, Erich Poppe, Ariel Shisha-Halevy & Paola Como

Subjects Historical linguistics | Syntax

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 213] 2000. xxxii, 323 pp. | edited volume

The Virtues of Language: History in language, linguistics and texts. Papers in memory of Thomas Frank

Edited by Dieter Stein & Rosanna Sornicola

Subjects English literature & literary studies | Historical linguistics | History of linguistics

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 87] 1998. viii, 232 pp. | edited volume

Agresti, Giovanni 2026 Pour que les langues nationales aient un futur dans les sciences: Plaidoyer pour un label de l’édition scientifique en français et plurilingue

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] pp. 235–248

Di Salvo, Margherita 2025 Choosing between Italian, dialect and English: Linguistic repertoires across generations of first and second generation Italian migrants in Bedford (UK)

Keywords: linguistic repertoire | Italian as heritage language | language choice | Italian emigration | UK

In: Italo-Romance Heritage Languages: Multiple approaches, Goria, Eugenio & Margherita Di Salvo (eds.) [Studies in Bilingualism, 68] p. 8

Goria, Eugenio & Margherita Di Salvo 2025 Preface: Multiple approaches to Italo-Romance heritage languages

In: Italo-Romance Heritage Languages: Multiple approaches, Goria, Eugenio & Margherita Di Salvo (eds.) [Studies in Bilingualism, 68] pp. 1–7

Cennamo, Michela & Francesco Maria Ciconte 2025 Differential object marking in early Italo-Romance and old Sardinian

Keywords: Differential Object marking | Individuation hierarchy | topicality | old Sardinian | old Neapolitan | old Sicilian

In: Historical Linguistics 2022: Selected papers from the 25th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Oxford, 1–5 August 2022, Kennard, Holly, Emily Lindsay-Smith, Aditi Lahiri & Martin Maiden (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 369] pp. 150–165

D’Argenio, Elisa & Chiara Ghezzi 2024 Place names in legal texts: Vagueness and ambiguity in the Italian Medieval Lombard kingdoms

Keywords: locus ubi dicitur | legal texts | Latin | vagueness | ambiguity

In: Vagueness, Ambiguity, and All the Rest: Linguistic and pragmatic approaches, Fiorentini, Ilaria & Chiara Zanchi (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 347] pp. 259–280

Cennamo, Michela, Francesco Maria Ciconte & Luigi Andriani 2023 Syntactic and semantic constraints on differential object marking
in Old Sardinian

Keywords: differential object marking | old Sardinian (Romance) | grammaticalization | individuation | V1 syntax | (in)definiteness | discourse roles

In: Differential Object Marking in Romance: Towards microvariation, Irimia, Monica Alexandrina & Alexandru Mardale (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 280] pp. 105–134

Rossi, Alessandra, Kerstin Dautenhahn, Kheng Lee Koay & Michael L. Walters 2024 A matter of consequences: Understanding the effects of robot errors on people’s trust in HRI

Keywords: trust | social robotics | previous experiences | antecedents of trust | robots’ errors | faulty robots

Interaction Studies 24:3 pp. 380–421 | article

Di Salvo, Margherita & Naomi Nagy 2022 Differential object marking in heritage and homeland Italian

Keywords: Differential Object Marking | heritage language | Italian | comparative variationist sociolinguistics | syntactic variation | Toronto | Calabria | attrition | object pronouns | prepositions | ethnic orientation

In: Variation in Second and Heritage Languages: Crosslinguistic perspectives, Bayley, Robert, Dennis R. Preston & Xiaoshi Li (eds.) [Studies in Language Variation, 28] pp. 311–336

Roesler, Oliver, Elahe Bagheri, Amir Aly, Silvia Rossi & Rachid Alami 2023 Socially acceptable robot behavior: Approaches for learning, adaptation and evaluation

Interaction Studies 23:3 pp. 355–359 | editorial

Paladini, Mariantonietta 2021 Lucrezio in Copernico: Sulla circolazione dei manoscritti di Lucrezio in Europa

In: Overarching Greek Trends in European Philosophy, Coronel Ramos, Marco Antonio (ed.) [IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature: Studies, Editions and Translations, 30] pp. 185–206

Scarpati, Oriana 2021  Bellesa, valor, and honor : Direct speech strategies in Curial and Guelfa

Keywords: medieval poetry | medieval rhetoric | Catalan literature | Chivalric literature | Narrative and discourse | poesia medievale | retorica medievale | letteratura catalana | letteratura cavalleresca | narrativa e discorso

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. 127–138

Esposito, Eleonora & Sole Alba Zollo 2021 “How dare you call her a pig, I know several pigs who would be upset if they knew”* : A multimodal critical discursive approach to online misogyny against UK MPs on YouTube

Keywords: women MPs | misogyny | YouTube | multimodality | social media | Critical Discourse Studies

Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 9:1 pp. 47–75 | article

Compagna, Anna Maria 2021 Carlo Gesualdo, principe di Venosa: Le cameriere, l’amante e la strega, voci di dentro e identità velate [Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa]

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. 171–182

Cennamo, Michela 2020 The actualization of new voice patterns in Romance: Persistence in diversity

Keywords: voice | passive | reflexive | light verb | auxiliary

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] pp. 109–142

Zollo, Sole Alba 2020 Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis. 2020. Making Sense. Reference, agency, and structure in a grammar of multimodal meaning

Language and Dialogue 10:3 pp. 443–446 | book review

Rossi, Silvia & Martina Ruocco 2019 Better alone than in bad company: Effects of incoherent non-verbal emotional cues for a humanoid robot

Keywords: non-verbal cues | emotion recognition | coherence and incoherent composition

Interaction Studies 20:3 pp. 487–508 | article

Pascual Escagedo, Consuelo 2019 El papel del oyente en la adquisición de la competencia conversacional en ELE: Propuesta didáctica para la enseñanza de los turnos de apoyo conversacionales a estudiantes italianos de ELE de nivel C1

Keywords: competencia conversacional | didáctica de la conversación | oyente activo | turnos de apoyo | conversational competence | conversation didactics | active listener | listener’s responses

Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 32:1 pp. 220–247 | article

Cennamo, Michela 2019 Aspects of grammaticalization and reanalysis in the voice domain in the transition from Latin to early Italo-Romance

Keywords: grammaticalization | reanalysis | voice | light verbs | auxiliaries

In: Perspectives on Language Structure and Language Change: Studies in Honor of Henning Andersen, Heltoft, Lars, Iván Igartua, Brian Joseph, Kirsten Jeppesen Kragh & Lene Schøsler (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 345] pp. 205–231

Milizia, Paolo 2019 Diachrony and morphological equilibrium: The case of the southern New Indo-Aryan verb

Keywords: New Indo-Aryan | Marathi | Konkani | syncretism | morphology | verb

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. 149–170

Greco, Paolo 2020 On the notion of linguistic influence in syntax: Evidence from medieval Italo-Romance texts

Keywords: medieval Italo-romance syntax | Latin syntax | language contact | syntactic influence | Latin influence

Belgian Journal of Linguistics 33:1 pp. 11–42 | article

Matranga, Vito & Emma Milano 2019 Strategies for conservation of a minority language: Between convergence and hybridization

In: The intricacy of languages, Feliu, Francesc & Olga Fullana (eds.) [IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature: Studies, Editions and Translations, 20] pp. 227–242

Dovetto, Francesca M. 2019 An American at the origins of European Sprachwissenschaft and Italian historiographical thought: William Dwight Whitney and his approach to linguistic issues

Historiographia Linguistica 45:3 pp. 289–324 | article

Zottola, Angela 2018 Transgender identity labels in the British press: A corpus-based discourse analysis

Keywords: transgender identity | British press | corpus linguistics | discourse analysis

Journal of Language and Sexuality 7:2 pp. 237–262 | article

Milano, Emma 2016 The Spanish Quarter of Naples: The dynamics of language innovation and persistence between linguistic uses and metalinguistic reflections

In: Constructing Languages: Norms, myths and emotions, Feliu, Francesc & Josep M. Nadal (eds.) [IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature: Studies, Editions and Translations, 13] pp. 39–55

Zollo, Sole Alba 2015 Persuading through narratives: A multimodal analysis of the Council of Europe photo exhibition “Break the silence on domestic violence”

In: Persuasive Games in Political and Professional Dialogue, Săftoiu, Răzvan, Maria-Ionela Neagu & Stanca Măda (eds.) [Dialogue Studies, 26] pp. 249–274

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

Barðdal, Jóhanna & Michela Cennamo 2013 Argument structure in flux

In: Argument Structure in Flux: The Naples-Capri Papers, van Gelderen, Elly, Jóhanna Barðdal & Michela Cennamo (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 131] pp. 1–12

Gaeta, Livio 2013 Existential constructions: A semasiological perspective

In: Argument Structure in Flux: The Naples-Capri Papers, van Gelderen, Elly, Jóhanna Barðdal & Michela Cennamo (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 131] pp. 477–510

Striano, Maura 2013 Reconstructing narrative: A new paradigm for narrative research and practice

Keywords: narrative | challenges | epistemology

Narrative Inquiry 22:1 pp. 147–154 | article

Cennamo, Michela 2011 Impersonal constructions and accusative subjects in Late Latin

In: Impersonal Constructions: A cross-linguistic perspective, Malchukov, Andrej L. & Anna Siewierska (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 124] pp. 167–188

Gaeta, Livio 2010 Synthetic compounds: With special reference to German

In: Cross-Disciplinary Issues in Compounding, Scalise, Sergio & Irene Vogel (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 311] pp. 219–236

Gaeta, Livio 2010 The invisible hand of grammaticalization: West-Germanic substitutive infinitive and the prefix ge-

In: Variation and Change in Morphology: Selected papers from the 13th International Morphology Meeting, Vienna, February 2008, Rainer, Franz, Wolfgang U. Dressler, Dieter Kastovsky, Hans Christian Luschützky & Elisabeth Peters (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 310] p. 89

Cennamo, Michela 2009 Argument structure and alignment variations and changes in Late Latin

In: The Role of Semantic, Pragmatic, and Discourse Factors in the Development of Case, Barðdal, Jóhanna & Shobhana L. Chelliah (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 108] pp. 307–346

Gaeta, Livio 2008 Mismatch: Grammar distortion and grammaticalization

In: Rethinking Grammaticalization: New perspectives, López-Couso, María José, Elena Seoane & Teresa Fanego (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 76] pp. 103–127

Ficca, Gianluca 2003 Awakening from infants’ sleep: Some remarks on definitions, methodology and research issues

In: Awakening and Sleep–Wake Cycle Across Development, Salzarulo, Piero & Gianluca Ficca (eds.) [Advances in Consciousness Research, 38] pp. 47–62

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