Francesca Masini
Biographic Data
| ID | 1720970 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Francesca Masini |
| GIVEN NAMES | Francesca |
| FAMILY NAME | Masini |
| SIGNATURE | MASINI F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bologna |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2354-4612 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Multimodal OXYmorons
This paper introduces the concept of multimodal oxymorons. Multimodal oxymorons extend the traditional oxymoron theory by constructing and communicating meaning through the interplay of multiple modalities (such as visual and textual) rather than relying solely on language. The paper argues that multimodal oxymorons are central mechanisms of meaning-making in contemporary communication, as evidenced by the use of memes as an example. While textua…
What makes an awfully good oxymoron
Oxymorons combine two opposite terms in a paradoxical manner. They are closely intertwined with antonymy, since the union of antonymous items creates the paradoxical effect of the oxymoron and generates a new meaning. Compared to other forms of figurative language, oxymorons are largely underinvestigated. We explored what makes good oxymorons through a crowdsourcing task in which we asked participants to judge the acceptability, comprehensibility…
Discontinuous reduplication
The paper investigates discontinuous reduplication (DR), a pattern where reduplicant and base are separated by other material, by annotating a 214-example dataset collected from a 99-language sample. Several items turned out to serve as interposing elements, although their nature does not seem to correlate with function, unlike the category of the base. DR’s functions are a subset of those associated with reduplication cross-linguistically. All l…
Syntactic discontinuous reduplication with antonymic pairs
This article aims at giving a comprehensive account of a so far undescribed reduplicative pattern in Italian namedsyntactic discontinuous reduplication with antonymic pairs(SDRA). This pattern, characterized by the non-contiguous repetition of the same element within a larger fixed configuration defined by two spatial antonyms, can be schematized as iAdv1XiAdv2>, where Adv1and Adv2are antonyms (e.g.,di qua'here'∼ di là'there'). After describing i…
The Oxford Handbook of Morphological Theory
Morphology, the science of words, is a complex theoretical landscape, where a multitude of frameworks, each with their own tenets and formalism, compete for the explanation of linguistic facts. The Oxford Handbook of Morphological Theory is a comprehensive guide through this jungle of morphological theories. It provides a rich and up-to-date overview of theoretical frameworks, from Structuralism to Optimality Theory and from Minimalism to Constru…
Oxford Handbook of Morphological Theory
Construction Morphology
The chapter provides an outline of Construction Morphology (Booij 2010), a recent model of morphology. The theory follows the basic tenets of Construction Grammar in treating form-meaning pairs ('constructions') as the basic units of language and assuming a continuum rather than a split between grammar and lexicon. Words and multi-word units are stored in memory if they have noncompositional properties and/or are conventionalized and frequent. Le…
Distributed Morphology
This chapter surveys the key principles of the framework of Distributed Morphology (Halle & Marantz 1993, 1994). This summary distinguishes itself from other such summaries by focusing primarily on DM's morphological properties rather than its syntactic ones. Thus it focuses on morphological concerns such as the morpheme-based hypothesis, realizational morphology, morphological rules, segmentability, derivation vs. inflection, underspecification,…
Contrastive Studies in Verbal Valency
In recent years, issues of verbal valency, valency alternations and verb classes have seen a new upsurge of interest from a variety of perspectives. This book comprises articles investigating valency phenomena on a contrastive basis within Romance, Germanic and Slavic, and also in Basque and in the West-African language Ga, as well as classical Greek and Sanskrit. Phenomena include transitive and ditransitive constructions and alternations, invol…
Binominal constructions in Italian of the N1- di -N2 type
Phrasal lexemes and shortening strategies in Russian
Nomi sintagmatici in russo
Russian is a language with a very rich lexeme-formation system. Besides strictly morphological mechanisms (derivation and compounding), the Russian language also displays a wide number of so-called “phrasal lexemes”, namely constructions that have a phrasal structure, but are lexical in nature. These constructions are attested in a number of languages and can belong to different word classes, thus creating phrasal nouns, phrasal verbs, and so on.…
Magari
We propose a constructionist approach to the polyfunctionality of the Italian focus particle magari (roughly corresponding to ‘maybe’, but also ‘I wish’). The sheer syntactic versatility of this word leads us to detect its formal regularities at the level of discourse configurations. This level of analysis, identified within the French linguistic tradition, is defined by the maintenance of a predicate-argument-adjunct structure in discourse. The …
The emergence of verb-particle constructions in Italian
The emergence of verb-particle constructions in Italian
Construction Morphology
The chapter provides an outline of Construction Morphology (Booij 2010), a recent model of morphology. The theory follows the basic tenets of Construction Grammar in treating form-meaning pairs ('constructions') as the basic units of language and assuming a continuum rather than a split between grammar and lexicon. Words and multi-word units are stored in memory if they have noncompositional properties and/or are conventionalized and frequent. Le…
Magari
We propose a constructionist approach to the polyfunctionality of the Italian focus particle magari (roughly corresponding to ‘maybe’, but also ‘I wish’). The sheer syntactic versatility of this word leads us to detect its formal regularities at the level of discourse configurations. This level of analysis, identified within the French linguistic tradition, is defined by the maintenance of a predicate-argument-adjunct structure in discourse. The …
Distributed Morphology
This chapter surveys the key principles of the framework of Distributed Morphology (Halle & Marantz 1993, 1994). This summary distinguishes itself from other such summaries by focusing primarily on DM's morphological properties rather than its syntactic ones. Thus it focuses on morphological concerns such as the morpheme-based hypothesis, realizational morphology, morphological rules, segmentability, derivation vs. inflection, underspecification,…
Binominal constructions in Italian of the N1- di -N2 type
Syntactic discontinuous reduplication with antonymic pairs
This article aims at giving a comprehensive account of a so far undescribed reduplicative pattern in Italian namedsyntactic discontinuous reduplication with antonymic pairs(SDRA). This pattern, characterized by the non-contiguous repetition of the same element within a larger fixed configuration defined by two spatial antonyms, can be schematized as iAdv1XiAdv2>, where Adv1and Adv2are antonyms (e.g.,di qua'here'∼ di là'there'). After describing i…
Phrasal lexemes and shortening strategies in Russian
The emergence of verb-particle constructions in Italian
Magari
We propose a constructionist approach to the polyfunctionality of the Italian focus particle magari (roughly corresponding to ‘maybe’, but also ‘I wish’). The sheer syntactic versatility of this word leads us to detect its formal regularities at the level of discourse configurations. This level of analysis, identified within the French linguistic tradition, is defined by the maintenance of a predicate-argument-adjunct structure in discourse. The …
Nomi sintagmatici in russo
Russian is a language with a very rich lexeme-formation system. Besides strictly morphological mechanisms (derivation and compounding), the Russian language also displays a wide number of so-called “phrasal lexemes”, namely constructions that have a phrasal structure, but are lexical in nature. These constructions are attested in a number of languages and can belong to different word classes, thus creating phrasal nouns, phrasal verbs, and so on.…
Phrasal lexemes and shortening strategies in Russian
Binominal constructions in Italian of the N1- di -N2 type
Contrastive Studies in Verbal Valency
In recent years, issues of verbal valency, valency alternations and verb classes have seen a new upsurge of interest from a variety of perspectives. This book comprises articles investigating valency phenomena on a contrastive basis within Romance, Germanic and Slavic, and also in Basque and in the West-African language Ga, as well as classical Greek and Sanskrit. Phenomena include transitive and ditransitive constructions and alternations, invol…
The Oxford Handbook of Morphological Theory
Morphology, the science of words, is a complex theoretical landscape, where a multitude of frameworks, each with their own tenets and formalism, compete for the explanation of linguistic facts. The Oxford Handbook of Morphological Theory is a comprehensive guide through this jungle of morphological theories. It provides a rich and up-to-date overview of theoretical frameworks, from Structuralism to Optimality Theory and from Minimalism to Constru…
Oxford Handbook of Morphological Theory
Construction Morphology
The chapter provides an outline of Construction Morphology (Booij 2010), a recent model of morphology. The theory follows the basic tenets of Construction Grammar in treating form-meaning pairs ('constructions') as the basic units of language and assuming a continuum rather than a split between grammar and lexicon. Words and multi-word units are stored in memory if they have noncompositional properties and/or are conventionalized and frequent. Le…
Distributed Morphology
This chapter surveys the key principles of the framework of Distributed Morphology (Halle & Marantz 1993, 1994). This summary distinguishes itself from other such summaries by focusing primarily on DM's morphological properties rather than its syntactic ones. Thus it focuses on morphological concerns such as the morpheme-based hypothesis, realizational morphology, morphological rules, segmentability, derivation vs. inflection, underspecification,…
Discontinuous reduplication
The paper investigates discontinuous reduplication (DR), a pattern where reduplicant and base are separated by other material, by annotating a 214-example dataset collected from a 99-language sample. Several items turned out to serve as interposing elements, although their nature does not seem to correlate with function, unlike the category of the base. DR’s functions are a subset of those associated with reduplication cross-linguistically. All l…
Syntactic discontinuous reduplication with antonymic pairs
This article aims at giving a comprehensive account of a so far undescribed reduplicative pattern in Italian namedsyntactic discontinuous reduplication with antonymic pairs(SDRA). This pattern, characterized by the non-contiguous repetition of the same element within a larger fixed configuration defined by two spatial antonyms, can be schematized as iAdv1XiAdv2>, where Adv1and Adv2are antonyms (e.g.,di qua'here'∼ di là'there'). After describing i…
What makes an awfully good oxymoron
Oxymorons combine two opposite terms in a paradoxical manner. They are closely intertwined with antonymy, since the union of antonymous items creates the paradoxical effect of the oxymoron and generates a new meaning. Compared to other forms of figurative language, oxymorons are largely underinvestigated. We explored what makes good oxymorons through a crowdsourcing task in which we asked participants to judge the acceptability, comprehensibility…
Multimodal OXYmorons
This paper introduces the concept of multimodal oxymorons. Multimodal oxymorons extend the traditional oxymoron theory by constructing and communicating meaning through the interplay of multiple modalities (such as visual and textual) rather than relying solely on language. The paper argues that multimodal oxymorons are central mechanisms of meaning-making in contemporary communication, as evidenced by the use of memes as an example. While textua…
Linguistics (10 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (9 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Mathematics (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Construction Grammar (3 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (3 works) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (3 works)