Sibilla Cantarini

• University of Verona

"A Semantic Classification of Weil-clauses. In the present study, we will elaborate a classification of clauses introduced by weil ‘because’; this classification combines different views on the concepts of cause and motive and their respective linguistic realization. In this paper, the three-dimensional model proposed by Sweetser (1990) will be com...

The treatment of collocations in bilingual German–Italian and Italian–German dictionaries. This paper shows how collocations are treated in the general bilingual German–Italian and Italian–German dictionaries used in Italy. Some definitions and classifications of collocations are given in the first part of the paper, while the second part provides...

Rhetorical tradition recognizes two distinct pairs of tropes within a homogeneous area – metaphor and a broad definition of metonymy on the one hand, and 'live' figures of speech and lexical extension on the other. Metaphor and metonymy are seen as different outcomes of a transfer of concepts, whereas lexical extensions are seen as the outcome of a...

Il presente contributo è uno studio tipologico delle forme di espressione della causa in france­se e tedesco. Si descrivono molteplici mezzi linguistici che attualizzano la causalità. In modo particolare, sono prese in esame la causa a effetto e la causa esplicativa, di cui si descrivono ca­ratteristiche sintattiche e semantiche. La disamina riguar...

This volume is a collection of 18 papers on the communication of certainty and uncertainty. The first part introduces recent theoretical developments and general models on the topic and its relations with modality, subjectivity, inter-subjectivity, epistemicity, evidentiality, hedging, mitigation and speech acts. In the second part, results from em...

This paper focuses mainly on negative polar questions. Following on from the relevant literature, we distinguish between two types of negative polar questions-those with inner negation and those with outer negation-showing that each is associated with specific morphosyntactic and semantic properties. Previous studies have revealed that there is a s...

ENThis paper presents a comparative analysis of the compositionality of the conjunctive phrases that introduce final clauses in German, French and Italian, a phenomenon that is seldom described in dictionaries and traditional grammars. Based on several fundamental studies on conjunctive phrases of purpose in the abovementioned languages, the phenom...

The possibilities for combining words with other words are traditionally considered from a syntactic point of view. W. Porzig was the first linguist to draw attention, in 1934, to the fact that syntagmatic combinability has not only to do with grammatical characteristics, but also with aspects of meaning. For the syntagmatic lexical relations he de...

The primary and secondary categories are also considered in pedagogic grammars as prototypical categories: “peripheral” 281 phenomena such as conjunctive, prepositional and adverbial phrases are therefore part of “conjunction”, “preposition” and “adverb” categories. Focusing on the syntactic behaviour of the conjunctive phrases mit der Folge, dass…...

RésuméLes prédicats nominaux sont actualisés par les verbes fonctionnels. Lestravaux sur les verbes fonctionnels sont nombreux et remontent en Allemagne auxannées 1960 ; quant au terme de support dans son emploi moderne, il apparaît pour la première fois en France vers la fin des années 1970.Les études allemandes sur les Funktionsverbgefüge décrive...

The topic of nominal predicates depicting events has long been neglected in German linguistics. The present article gives a syntactic and semantic definition of the supporting verb constructions with nominal predicates depicting events, e.g. Das Erdbeben dauerte einige Stunden 'The earthquake lasted a number of hours' and Eine tiefe Wandlung hatte...