• Defining the Concept of Manner: An Attempt to Order Chaos 

      Stosic, Dejan Stosi (Roma : Carocci, 2020)
      The concept of manner is extensively used in many fields of linguistics. It alo appears to ordinary speakers, students and grammarians as an intuitively clear and meaninful notion that does not need any precise definition. ...
    • Quelques aspects sémantiques des verbes de déplacement transitifs directs: expérience didactique en classe de FLE 

      Bevilacqua, Michele (Roma : Carocci, 2020)
      The teaching of notion of movement in foreign language classroom can be a particularly difficult didactic task, since object of the research is the study of an extralinguistic notion, such as physical movement. Our ...
    • La reduplicazione nella codifica della maniera 

      Benigni, Valentina; Lo Baido, Maria Cristina (Roma : Carocci, 2020)
      Reduplication display a number of functiond ranging from the expression of plurality to the encoding of progressive aspect and intensity. In Italian, it can also convey manner, specifying the way a given processi s carries ...
    • Il contributo delle costruzioni senza verbo nell'espressione delle relazioni spaziali nel parlato 

      Sammarco, Carmela (Roma : Carocci, 2020)
      The work presents a corpus-based analysis of the spatial relations in 282 verbless constructions (Cx[ØVP]) of spoken Italian and French. In Cx[ØVP] the traits can be espressed through the lexical semantics of the constituents ...
    • Participi passati predicativi 

      Mastrantonio, Davide (Roma : Carocci, 2020)
      This paperi s about the syntax of past participles in italian; more specifically, we aim at defining a “predicative” function, separate from “attributive” and “circumstantial” function. To do that, we first see how past ...
    • Questione di 'stile'. L'espressione analitica della maniera indessicale 

      Masini, Francesca; Mauri, Caterina (Roma : Carocci, 2020)
      This contribution aims to explore the semantic and structural properties of the construction [‘stile’ N], an analytical construction that is taking hold in contemporry Italian to express manner starting from nouns. The ...
    • Est modus in… verbo. Valori della maniera e associa 

      Buoniconto, Alfonsina (Roma : Carocci, 2020)
      The present study investigates the semantics of manner of motion verbs used as predicative heads of constructions expressing motion events in Italian, French and Spanish. The corpus-based investigation, carried out on a ...
    • Verbi di ‘maniera’ e predicazione elementare in una prospettiva interlinguistica 

      Franco, Ludovico; Lorusso, Paolo (Roma : Carocci, 2020)
      In this paper we argue that the fact that a verb can be interpreted as a ‘manner’ or ‘result’ predicate mainly depends on properties of the syntactic structure in which (nominal) roots are incorporates. Specifically, we ...
    • Spazio e percorso in siciliano antico: analisi di un corpus 

      Mocciaro, Egle (Roma : Carocci, 2020)
      In ancient Sicilian, basic spatial relations are encoded by means of prepositional phrases introduced by ‘da’ and ‘di’ (origin), ‘a’, ‘in’ and ‘intra’ (location and direction), ‘per/pir/pri’ (path). This contribution offers ...
    • Grid for Decoding Motion Encoding 

      Iacobini, Claudio; Corona, Luisa; Buoniconto, Alfonsina (Roma : Carocci, 2020)
      The need of cumulability of data and replicability of resultus in motion event description has led to the construction of a prototype of an annotation tool named Modeg (Motion DEcoding Grid). This classification grid ...
    • Just a Matter of ‘Manner’? Modeling Action Verb Semantics in an Inter-Linguistic Perspective 

      Cominetti, Federica; Panunzi, Alessandro (Roma : Carocci, 2020)
      Action vebs are important testing ground for the study of lexical encoding of the ‘manner’ feature. In this respect, the opposition between ‘manner’ and ‘result’ verbs has definitely become one of the central nodes to ...
    • Recensioni e letture 

      Amato, Gioacchino; Fiorenza, Elisa; Maniglia, Valentina (Roma : Carocci, 2020)