Marina Benedetti
List of John Benjamins publications for which Marina Benedetti plays a role.
Articles
2020 Criteria for subjecthood and non-canonical subjects in Classical Greek Historical Linguistics 2017: Selected papers from the 23rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, San Antonio, Texas, 31 July – 4 August 2017, Drinka, Bridget (ed.), pp. 29–48 | Chapter
The dative-marked argument of the verb dokéō ‘seem’ in Classical Greek displays syntactic, semantic and pragmatic properties that qualify it as a non-canonical subject. To substantiate this claim, three phenomena are analyzed, all involving coreference resolution across clause boundaries:… read more
2013 Non-canonical subjects in clauses with noun predicates Argument Structure in Flux: The Naples-Capri Papers, Gelderen, Elly van, Jóhanna Barðdal and Michela Cennamo (eds.), pp. 15–32 | Article
The aim of this paper is to investigate Italian constructions like Gli prese paura ‘he got scared’ (lit. ‘himDAT took fear’). Their crucial property is the combination of the light verb prendere with a dative experiencer which displays syntactic subject behaviour. The analysis, in the multistratal… read more
2013 Experiencers and psychological noun predicates: From Latin to Italian The Diachronic Typology of Non-Canonical Subjects, Seržant, Ilja A. and Leonid Kulikov (eds.), pp. 121–138 | Article
This paper investigates aspects of the syntactic behaviour of Experiencers in constructions with noun predicates, and traces a diachronic development from Latin to Italian. A peculiarity of the constructions under analysis is the coexistence of different patterns sharing the same verb form: thus,… read more