La ricerca nell'ambito della linguistica cognitiva si è avvicinata negli ultimi anni ad approcci funzionalisti (Croft e Cruse, 2004), gettando così le basi per l'emergere di un modello teorico di riferimento a discipline ...

In contrast to the persuasiveness of a public discourse, or with the universal vocation of journalism, the gossip (always underestimated, ignored or even despised for being informal and petty act) should be thought of as ...

Information Technology is the matrix and engine of innovation and change. Thanks to it, various disciplines and sciences evolve and permeate each other. Terminology is one such example. InterActive Terminology for Europe ...

Negli ultimi anni, lo studio del ritmo avviene tramite modelli definiti metriche ritmiche (cfr. Ramus et al. 1999, Grabe & Low 2002, Dellwo 2006, Bertinetto & Bertini 2008). La maggior parte degli studi sul ritmo sperimentano ...

In Computational Linguistics there is an essential dichotomy between Linguists and Computer Scientists. The rst ones, with a strong knowledge of language structures, have not engineering skills. The second ones, ...

This dissertation is a corpus-based study of motion encoding in Ancient Greek. Among the conceptual components of motion identified in the relevant literature, the focus is on Path, i.e. the trajectory traced by the ...

The following doctoral thesis, titled “A particle-centred approach on Italian Verb Particle Constructions” (hereinafter VPCs) aims at showing that the particle characterizing Italian Phrasal verbs such as su (up), giù ...

In order to improve and to be competitive, enterprises should know how to get opportunities coming from data provided from the Web. The strategic vision implies a high level of communication sharing and the integration of ...

The present study analyses the use of vague quantifiers in spoken Italian and German. Vague quantifiers are linguistic expressions through which speakers approximately or imprecisely quantify, estimate and approximate ...