Pragmatic Markers, Discourse Markers and Modal Particles: New perspectives
Edited by Chiara Fedriani and Andrea Sansó
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 186] 2017. ix, 492 pp.
Chiara Fedriani
List of John Benjamins publications for which Chiara Fedriani plays a role.
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Subjects Pragmatics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2024 Chapter 3. Cultural products, passing fashions, and linguistic changes: A view from the Italian pragmatic marker ma vieni Language Change in the 20th Century: Exploring micro-diachronic evolutions in Romance languages, Pons Bordería, Salvador and Shima Salameh Jiménez (eds.), pp. 95–119 | Chapter
This study explores the emergence and conventionalization of the Italian pragmatic marker ma vieni ‘hooray’ (lit. ‘but come’) in the short micro-diachrony of the past thirty years, considering both extra-linguistic and systemic factors. We show that a number of audio-visual media helped trigger… read more
2022 Managing turns, building common ground, planning discourse: Discursive and interpersonal functions of Italian no(?) Discourse-pragmatic markers, fillers and filled pauses: Pragmatic, cognitive, multimodal and sociolinguistic perspectives, Beeching, Kate, Grant Howie, Minna Kirjavainen and Anna Piasecki (eds.), pp. 347–369 | Article
This paper discusses the discursive and interpersonal functions conveyed by the Italian negative operator no(?) ‘no’, suggesting a possible pathway of functional enrichment that can account for its high degree of polyfunctionality. Drawing on the KIParla corpus of contemporary spoken Italian, we… read more
2020 Functional expansions of temporal adverbs and discursive connectives: From Latin tum, tunc, dumque to Old Italian dunque The Role of Pragmatics in Cyclic Language Change, Mosegaard Hansen, Maj-Britt (ed.), pp. 182–207 | Article
This paper examines the synchronic competition and diachronic substitution of three Latin temporal expressions: tum, tunc (‘at that time’, ‘then’), and later dumque (originally, ‘while-and’), and its Old Italian outcome dunque (‘then’). Besides providing a new path of development and a new… read more
2017 Chapter 7. Nulla sum, nulla sum: Tota, tota occidi: Repetition as a (rare) strategy of intensification in Latin Exploring Intensification: Synchronic, diachronic and cross-linguistic perspectives, Napoli, Maria and Miriam Ravetto (eds.), pp. 147–170 | Chapter
Repetition of a linguistic form is a widespread strategy in the world’s languages to express a number of related functions, such as pluralization, distribution, collectivity and, crucially, intensification. This last function is the core meaning expressed by word repetition in Latin, a language… read more
2017 Chapter 5. Quapropter, quaeso? ‘Why, for pity’s sake?’: Questions and the pragmatic functions of quaeso, obsecro, and amabo in Plautus Pragmatic Approaches to Latin and Ancient Greek, Denizot, Camille and Olga Spevak (eds.), pp. 83–110 | Chapter
This contribution aims to shed further light on some well-studied deverbal Latin Pragmatic Markers (PMs), that is, procedural elements originally derived from verbs which become frozen in form and acquired new intersubjective meanings. In particular, I will focus on quaeso, obsecro, and amabo… read more
2017 Introduction. Pragmatic Markers, Discourse Markers and Modal Particles: What do we know and where do we go from here? Pragmatic Markers, Discourse Markers and Modal Particles: New perspectives, Fedriani, Chiara and Andrea Sansó (eds.), pp. 1–33 | Chapter
2016 Ontological and orientational metaphors in Latin: Evidence from the semantics of feelings and emotions Embodiment in Latin Semantics, Short, William Michael (ed.), pp. 115–140 | Article
Ontological and orientational metaphors arise from general cognitive processes and rely on our embodied experience of the physico-spatial world, providing us with image schemas that we commonly exploit in order to interpret and express abstract notions in terms of spatial configurations. This is… read more
2016 Exploring a diachronic (re)cycle of roles: The Dative complex from Latin to Romance Advances in Research on Semantic Roles, Kittilä, Seppo and Fernando Zúñiga (eds.), pp. 133–171 | Article
In this chapter we explore the struggle between the use of the Dative case and the competing strategy featuring the preposition ad ‘to’ and the Accusative from Latin to Early Romance. Unlike the Dative, the prepositional strategy is semantically transparent, since ad ‘to’ has a clear allative… read more
2014 Exploring a diachronic (re)cycle of roles: The Dative complex from Latin to Romance Advances in research on semantic roles, Kittilä, Seppo and Fernando Zúñiga (eds.), pp. 566–604 | Article
In this paper we explore the struggle between the use of the Dative case and the competing strategy featuring the preposition ad ‘to’ and the Accusative from Latin to Early Romance. Unlike the Dative, the prepositional strategy is semantically transparent, since ad ‘to’ has a clear allative… read more
2013 The me pudet construction in the history of Latin: why and how fast non-canonical subjects come and go The Diachronic Typology of Non-Canonical Subjects, Seržant, Ilja A. and Leonid Kulikov (eds.), pp. 203–230 | Article
In this paper I investigate the diachronic development and downfall of the meACC pudet3SG ‘I am ashamed’ construction in Latin, with a view to exploring the factors that played a significant role in the process of constructional analogization that lead this impersonal pattern to be reinterpreted as… read more
2013 Gradualness in contact-induced constructional replication: The Abstract Possession construction in the Circum-Mediterranean area Synchrony and Diachrony: A dynamic interface, Giacalone Ramat, Anna, Caterina Mauri and Piera Molinelli (eds.), pp. 391–418 | Article
It is widely appreciated that the linguistic category of possession does not reduce to any single, familiar value, such as ownership. A moment’s thought reveals the extraordinary variety of the relationships coded by possessive constructions. (Langacker 1991: 169)In this paper we investigate the… read more
2013 Introduction The Diachronic Typology of Non-Canonical Subjects, Seržant, Ilja A. and Leonid Kulikov (eds.), pp. ix–xxvi | Article