Cecilia Valentini
List of John Benjamins publications in which Cecilia Valentini is involved.
Articles
2019 Competing possessive constructions in Late Latin documents from Italy Possession in Languages of Europe and North and Central Asia, Johanson, Lars, Lidia Federica Mazzitelli and Irina Nevskaya (eds.), pp. 365–392 | Chapter
This paper illustrates the grammaticalisation of the preposition de as a genitive marker through the analysis of Early Medieval notary deeds written in northern and central Italy (Codice diplomatico longobardo, CDL). In Classical Latin, de is used mainly as a verbal adjunct; its usage at the noun… read more
Coping with formulaicity in diachronic corpora: Measuring morphosyntactic productivity in early medieval Latin charters Diachronica: Online-First Articles | Article
This study explores ways in which formulaicity affects the diachronic linguistic analysis of historical text corpora. We show that the massive presence of formulaic language in an early medieval Latin charter corpus limits the diachronic conclusions that can be drawn from lexically determined… read more