The aim of this contribution is to honor Leonardo Savoia with some reflections concerning a topic which has received little attention until recent years: the case of Vocatives. If according to D’Alessandro & Van Oostendorp (2016: 78) Vocatives are perfectly regular, typological data show on the… read more
The concept expressed by expressions like qualcosa (‘something’)/qualcuno ‘someone’ has given rise to a large amount of literature. In most cases, the semantics of these markers is assimilated to the existential operator ∃. Needless to say, their actual use and their distributional constraints show… read more