Giuliana Giusti
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 409869 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Giuliana Giusti |
| PRENOMES | Giuliana |
| SOBRENOME | Giusti |
| ASSINATURA | GIUSTI G |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Ca' Foscari University of Venice |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4574-3866 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1992 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Introduction to LaGendA 2024
This section provides an overview of the collection of selected papers from the LaGendA Conference, held at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice on October 3–4, 2024. The papers cover four areas of research i) guidelines, communication strategies, and adaptations; ii) cultural stereotypes and grammatical gender in specific languages; iii) interpreting and translating into languages with grammatical gender; iv) gender issues in Artificial Intelligence…
On (in)definite ART in Italian and Italo-Romance varieties
This paper addresses the challenging nature of definiteness and indefiniteness, focusing on several non-canonical interpretations of the definite article (ART) in Italian. The core objective is to demonstrate that so-called “indefinite definites” should be unified with canonical indefinites, rather than being grouped with other non-canonical uses like “weak definites” (WDs) or “reference to kind”. Using cross-Romance diagnostics, the paper shows …
Clitic climbing across Italy
This study discusses clitic placement in restructuring contexts in Italian and the Italo-Romance dialects spoken in Italy. The data come from AIS map 1086 and a judgement task experiment conducted on bilectal speakers of Italian and the dialect at six representative points in the Italian territory. The variation between clitic climbing and enclisis turns out to be much more complex than previous literature has suggested. The two clitic positions …
On the property-denoting clitic ne and the determiner de/di
The clitic pronoun ne and the functional element de introducing nominal constituents have many nominal and prepositional functions across Romance languages. In this article, we focus on the nominal functions, singling out three different bundles of semantic features that characterize both ne and de. They can denote properties of individual entities, properties of kinds, or predicate properties. The article shows that Catalan ne and de display the…
Variation in the Occurrence and Interpretation of Articles in Malagasy
In languages that have a definite article but no indefinite article, the definite article typically maps to definites, and the bare noun maps to indefinites. We investigate this mapping in Malagasy, which imposes an additional restriction: bare nouns cannot be subjects. We ask whether the subject can be interpreted as indefinite, given the obligatory nature of the article. We also look at DPs in other positions (direct object, clefted subjects) t…
Partitive Determiners, Partitive Pronouns and Partitive Case
Although the interest in the concept of partitivity has continuously increased in the last decades and has given rise to considerable advances in research, the fine-grained morpho-syntactic and semantic variation displayed by partitive elements across European languages is far from being well-described, let alone well-understood. There are two main obstacles to this: on the one hand, theoretical linguistics and typological linguistics are fragmen…
Indefinite determiners in informal Italian
This paper presents the results of a pilot study on the distribution of indefinite determiners in contexts with narrow scope interpretation in current informal Italian. It individuates the available forms and presents their diatopic distribution. The research is based on data collected through an online questionnaire designed to detect optionality. The results show that in narrow scope indefinite contexts, i. e., negative statements, both the zer…
Psychological verbs as a vulnerable syntactic domain
Quantified Expressions and Quantitative Clitics
This chapter provides a discussion of the major issues raised by the syntax of quantified expressions and quantitative clitics, starting from the very early stages of the Extended Standard Theory up to recent developments in generative grammar. It addresses the issue of the categorial status of the quantity items and quantified phrases, some of which occur with quantitative clitics, showing how the literature has accounted for such possible and i…
Analisi comparativa del doppio accusativo latino
This paper proposes a comparative analysis of some ditransitive verbs in Latin and English which assign accusative case to both internal arguments (theme and recipient). In English, these verbs also display the possibility to realize the recipient as the object of the preposition to. In the passive, the two constructions behave differently. Whilst in the double accusative construction the subject is the recipient (Mary was given a book), in the p…
The syntax of the Italian indefinite determiner dei
Functional Heads
Motion Verbs as Functional Heads
In (1), the verb following the motion verb is infinitive. In (2), it is inflected for mood (indicative), for tense (present), and for agreement (3rd person singular). We call (1) the “infinitival construction” and (2) the “inflected construction.” In this chapter, we show that the status of the motion verb is different in the two constructions and, in particular, that the motion verb in the inflected construction is a functional element, much lik…
The Functional Structure of Noun Phrases
The goal of this chapter is to give a general overview of recent studies on the syntax of determiners, particularly in Romance, Germanic, and Balkan languages, which can shed some light on general theoretical issues. In so doing, I will reconsider some proposals of mine, as well as of other linguists in light of the recent framework of bare phrase structure as developed by Chomsky (1993, 1995, 1999). The essay is organized in three sections. In s…
Possessors in the Bulgarian DP
Advances in Roumanian Linguistics
1. Introduction (by Cinque, Guglielmo) 2. Rumanian Genitive Constructions (by Cornilescu, Alexandra) 3. Clitic Clusters in Rumanian: Deriving Linear Order from Hierachical Structure (by Dobrovie-Sorin, Carmen) 4. Agreement and Pronominal Reference (by Farkas, Donka F.) 5. Heads and Modifiers among Determiners: Evidence from Rumanian (by Giusti, Giuliana) 6. Free Relatives with Missing Prepositions in Rumanian and Universal Grammar (by Grosu, Alex…
Enclitic articles and double definiteness
Malgre leur difference typologique et leur eloignement genetique, le scandinave et le roumain partagent deux phenomenes importants concernant la structure nominale: la nature enclitique de l'article defini et sa cooccurrence avec un demonstratif. L'A. analyse la syntaxe de l'article suffixe dans les deux langues, faisant decouler la difference de comportement en presence d'un adjectif d'une propriete du N-mouvement des langues germaniques vs les …
Nuovi saggi di linguistica italiana, Studi linguistici e semiologi/29
The syntax of the Italian indefinite determiner dei
Indefinite determiners in informal Italian
This paper presents the results of a pilot study on the distribution of indefinite determiners in contexts with narrow scope interpretation in current informal Italian. It individuates the available forms and presents their diatopic distribution. The research is based on data collected through an online questionnaire designed to detect optionality. The results show that in narrow scope indefinite contexts, i. e., negative statements, both the zer…
Psychological verbs as a vulnerable syntactic domain
Analisi comparativa del doppio accusativo latino
This paper proposes a comparative analysis of some ditransitive verbs in Latin and English which assign accusative case to both internal arguments (theme and recipient). In English, these verbs also display the possibility to realize the recipient as the object of the preposition to. In the passive, the two constructions behave differently. Whilst in the double accusative construction the subject is the recipient (Mary was given a book), in the p…
On the property-denoting clitic ne and the determiner de/di
The clitic pronoun ne and the functional element de introducing nominal constituents have many nominal and prepositional functions across Romance languages. In this article, we focus on the nominal functions, singling out three different bundles of semantic features that characterize both ne and de. They can denote properties of individual entities, properties of kinds, or predicate properties. The article shows that Catalan ne and de display the…
Nuovi saggi di linguistica italiana, Studi linguistici e semiologi/29
Enclitic articles and double definiteness
Malgre leur difference typologique et leur eloignement genetique, le scandinave et le roumain partagent deux phenomenes importants concernant la structure nominale: la nature enclitique de l'article defini et sa cooccurrence avec un demonstratif. L'A. analyse la syntaxe de l'article suffixe dans les deux langues, faisant decouler la difference de comportement en presence d'un adjectif d'une propriete du N-mouvement des langues germaniques vs les …
Advances in Roumanian Linguistics
1. Introduction (by Cinque, Guglielmo) 2. Rumanian Genitive Constructions (by Cornilescu, Alexandra) 3. Clitic Clusters in Rumanian: Deriving Linear Order from Hierachical Structure (by Dobrovie-Sorin, Carmen) 4. Agreement and Pronominal Reference (by Farkas, Donka F.) 5. Heads and Modifiers among Determiners: Evidence from Rumanian (by Giusti, Giuliana) 6. Free Relatives with Missing Prepositions in Rumanian and Universal Grammar (by Grosu, Alex…
Possessors in the Bulgarian DP
The Functional Structure of Noun Phrases
The goal of this chapter is to give a general overview of recent studies on the syntax of determiners, particularly in Romance, Germanic, and Balkan languages, which can shed some light on general theoretical issues. In so doing, I will reconsider some proposals of mine, as well as of other linguists in light of the recent framework of bare phrase structure as developed by Chomsky (1993, 1995, 1999). The essay is organized in three sections. In s…
Motion Verbs as Functional Heads
In (1), the verb following the motion verb is infinitive. In (2), it is inflected for mood (indicative), for tense (present), and for agreement (3rd person singular). We call (1) the “infinitival construction” and (2) the “inflected construction.” In this chapter, we show that the status of the motion verb is different in the two constructions and, in particular, that the motion verb in the inflected construction is a functional element, much lik…
Functional Heads
Analisi comparativa del doppio accusativo latino
This paper proposes a comparative analysis of some ditransitive verbs in Latin and English which assign accusative case to both internal arguments (theme and recipient). In English, these verbs also display the possibility to realize the recipient as the object of the preposition to. In the passive, the two constructions behave differently. Whilst in the double accusative construction the subject is the recipient (Mary was given a book), in the p…
The syntax of the Italian indefinite determiner dei
Quantified Expressions and Quantitative Clitics
This chapter provides a discussion of the major issues raised by the syntax of quantified expressions and quantitative clitics, starting from the very early stages of the Extended Standard Theory up to recent developments in generative grammar. It addresses the issue of the categorial status of the quantity items and quantified phrases, some of which occur with quantitative clitics, showing how the literature has accounted for such possible and i…
Psychological verbs as a vulnerable syntactic domain
Indefinite determiners in informal Italian
This paper presents the results of a pilot study on the distribution of indefinite determiners in contexts with narrow scope interpretation in current informal Italian. It individuates the available forms and presents their diatopic distribution. The research is based on data collected through an online questionnaire designed to detect optionality. The results show that in narrow scope indefinite contexts, i. e., negative statements, both the zer…
Partitive Determiners, Partitive Pronouns and Partitive Case
Although the interest in the concept of partitivity has continuously increased in the last decades and has given rise to considerable advances in research, the fine-grained morpho-syntactic and semantic variation displayed by partitive elements across European languages is far from being well-described, let alone well-understood. There are two main obstacles to this: on the one hand, theoretical linguistics and typological linguistics are fragmen…
Variation in the Occurrence and Interpretation of Articles in Malagasy
In languages that have a definite article but no indefinite article, the definite article typically maps to definites, and the bare noun maps to indefinites. We investigate this mapping in Malagasy, which imposes an additional restriction: bare nouns cannot be subjects. We ask whether the subject can be interpreted as indefinite, given the obligatory nature of the article. We also look at DPs in other positions (direct object, clefted subjects) t…
On the property-denoting clitic ne and the determiner de/di
The clitic pronoun ne and the functional element de introducing nominal constituents have many nominal and prepositional functions across Romance languages. In this article, we focus on the nominal functions, singling out three different bundles of semantic features that characterize both ne and de. They can denote properties of individual entities, properties of kinds, or predicate properties. The article shows that Catalan ne and de display the…
On (in)definite ART in Italian and Italo-Romance varieties
This paper addresses the challenging nature of definiteness and indefiniteness, focusing on several non-canonical interpretations of the definite article (ART) in Italian. The core objective is to demonstrate that so-called “indefinite definites” should be unified with canonical indefinites, rather than being grouped with other non-canonical uses like “weak definites” (WDs) or “reference to kind”. Using cross-Romance diagnostics, the paper shows …
Clitic climbing across Italy
This study discusses clitic placement in restructuring contexts in Italian and the Italo-Romance dialects spoken in Italy. The data come from AIS map 1086 and a judgement task experiment conducted on bilectal speakers of Italian and the dialect at six representative points in the Italian territory. The variation between clitic climbing and enclisis turns out to be much more complex than previous literature has suggested. The two clitic positions …
Introduction to LaGendA 2024
This section provides an overview of the collection of selected papers from the LaGendA Conference, held at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice on October 3–4, 2024. The papers cover four areas of research i) guidelines, communication strategies, and adaptations; ii) cultural stereotypes and grammatical gender in specific languages; iii) interpreting and translating into languages with grammatical gender; iv) gender issues in Artificial Intelligence…
Philosophy (13 obras) · Linguistics (11 obras) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (9 obras) · Computer Science (8 obras) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (6 obras) · Mathematics (5 obras) · Noun (5 obras) · Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition (4 obras) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (4 obras) · Philosophy (4 obras)