Livio Gaeta
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 750076 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Livio Gaeta |
| PRENOMES | Livio |
| SOBRENOME | Gaeta |
| ASSINATURA | GAETA L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Turin |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9669-012X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1998 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Back-formation in a new theoretical universe
Back-formation is defined as a type of morphological change in which a base word is created ex novo paralleling an extant morphological alternation that serves as a model as in the verb to televise from the noun television. This analogical procedure is generally held to aim at increasing paradigm regularity. In this survey, several questions will be discussed with respect to the nature, the extension and the inner motivation of back-formation as …
Il genere grammaticale in tedesco, italiano e inglese
The general tendencies regarding the gender of nouns are dealt with in the paper with the specific aim of building a contrastive microtypology of German, Italian and English. In particular, up to six different types and functions of gender will be distinguished and will be tested against the background of empirical data drawn from the three languages. Interesting phenomena of convergence and divergence at all levels of the respective linguistic s…
Intense Language Contact and Collapse of Lexical Strata
In Töitschu, a variety of Walser German spoken in the language island of Issime in Aosta Valley, a verbalizing suffix - urun is found with a significant number of verbs. In the paper, its enhanced productivity is argued to result from the merger of two different patterns. This is the consequence of the leveling of the native Germanic and of the non-native Romance lexical strata due to the combined effect of two distinct phonological changes forci…
Corpus linguistics for low-density varieties. Minority languages and corpus-based morphological investigations
Corpus linguistics grew up in the domain of written (and literary) varieties, while its recent methodological revolution is due to the computer-assisted capacity of elaborating massive amounts of text data. On the other hand, the so-called ‘low-density varieties’, including spoken varieties as well as varieties spoken in minority communities, have been confined to a rather marginal role. Among others, this is due to the technical problems connect…
Contact phenomena in the verbal complex
In the context of the Alps – a broad region characterized by common geographical and cultural features – the isolation caused by the geographical setting makes it possible for conservative strategies to survive from the Middle Ages through present times. This isolation, however, does not exclude that conservative patterns evolve into innovative strategies. To illustrate this, we surveyed causative and progressive constructions in the historical G…
A specter is haunting Europe
As is well-known, the Alps are a zone of long-standing, intensive contact and multilingualism among Germanic, Romance and Slavic languages and varieties. In this introductory paper, some reflections are presented on the viability of the Sprachbund hypothesis to encompass the occurring phenomena of convergence observed throughout the whole area
Categorial shift and morphological differentiation
Stripping paradigmatic relations out of the syntax
Between VP and NN
This paper is concerned with the classification and analysis of different types of German synthetic compounds headed by deverbal agent nouns in -er , such as Romanleser ‘novel-reader’ or Gedankenleser ‘mind-reader’, where the non-head is seen to saturate an argument of the head lexeme while adhering to the semantic interpretation found in corresponding VPs (e.g. the distinct senses of read in the previous examples). In contrast to several previou…
Existential constructions
Existential constructions are normally defined as sentences in which some entity is associated with some location giving rise to the so-called locative paradigm which also involves the locative and the possessive construction (cf. Freeze 2001). In spite of the apparent simplicity of this approach, the assumption of an allegedly universal locative paradigm leaves unaccounted a broad variety of languages in which existential constructions cannot be…
Multiple sources for the German scandal construction
The interaction of several cases of grammaticalization going back to different source constructions may have dramatic consequences on a linguistic system. This paper discusses the so-called German scandal construction, which consists of a verbal complex displaying a number of synchronic form-meaning mismatches. The scandal is solved if a diachronic point of view is adopted, which shows that the mismatches result from the intraference of two diffe…
Das Deutsche als kompositionsfreudige Sprache
Die Komposition ist ein hochproduktiver Wortbildungsprozess des Deutschen, zumindest im Bereich der nominalen Komposition. Weit weniger deutlich ist jedoch, wo die Grenzen zu anderen Wortbildungsmustern zu ziehen sind. Unklar ist auserdem, welche Auswirkungen diese Kompositionsfreudigkeit fur das gesamte (etwa prosodisch-phonologische, morphologische, syntaktische, informationsstrukturelle) Sprachsystem hat. Dabei ist beispielsweise an die Entste…
Synthetic compounds
This chapter focuses on a traditional issue of word formation, namely synthetic compounds. The three basic approaches to the question will be reviewed and analyzed with the help of a large text corpus. The latter is of paramount importance for the analysis because dictionaries usually are not reliable for investigating highly productive word formation patterns and especially German compounding. It is shown that purely syntactic approaches do not …
Constituent order in compounds and syntax
On the double nature of productivity in inflectional morphology
Productivity in Italian word formation
The quantitative approach to morphological productivity first proposed by Baayen crucially refers to the relation between the number of hapax legomena formed with a given affix occurring in a sufficiently large corpus and the total number of tokens of that affix sampled in the corpus. Most criticism against this measure focuses on its neglecting the role played by frequency in the evaluation of productivity. As an improvement of Baayen’s procedur…
Italian prefixes and productivity
The quantitative approach to morphological productivity developed by Baayen and collaborators is crucially based on the count of hapax legomena in a given, very large textual corpus. In this paper, Baayen's main idea is applied to the little explored domain of Italian prefixation, on the basis of a 75,000,000-token newspaper corpus, and a significant improvement of his procedure is proposed by calculating productivity values at equal token number…
Umlaut extension in German Modals as natural change
The umlauted forms of the German modals dürfen , mögen , müssen and können are unexpected from the viewpoint of the sound laws, and must be therefore explained in other ways. Despite more than one century of research, a convincing solution to this problem is still lacking. In this paper, a new solution is proposed, which attempts to consider the several factors implied by this linguistic change. As observed by Lühr (1987), mögen and müssen seem t…
Gapping in Classical Greek prose
The order of gapping has repeatedly been connected with the basic word order of a language. Such a view is inadequate for free word order languages, such as Classical Greek. Classical Greek allows both right- and leftward gapping; besides, some cases of bi-directional gapping are also attested. All types of gapping can occur both with VO and with OV order. The preference for rightward gapping, rather than pointing toward a certain basic word orde…
Certamen Phonologicum III
Where does the Umlaut come from? Retelling the story of German modals
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Productivity in Italian word formation
The quantitative approach to morphological productivity first proposed by Baayen crucially refers to the relation between the number of hapax legomena formed with a given affix occurring in a sufficiently large corpus and the total number of tokens of that affix sampled in the corpus. Most criticism against this measure focuses on its neglecting the role played by frequency in the evaluation of productivity. As an improvement of Baayen’s procedur…
Stripping paradigmatic relations out of the syntax
On the double nature of productivity in inflectional morphology
Categorial shift and morphological differentiation
Constituent order in compounds and syntax
Where does the Umlaut come from? Retelling the story of German modals
...
Certamen Phonologicum III
Gapping in Classical Greek prose
The order of gapping has repeatedly been connected with the basic word order of a language. Such a view is inadequate for free word order languages, such as Classical Greek. Classical Greek allows both right- and leftward gapping; besides, some cases of bi-directional gapping are also attested. All types of gapping can occur both with VO and with OV order. The preference for rightward gapping, rather than pointing toward a certain basic word orde…
Umlaut extension in German Modals as natural change
The umlauted forms of the German modals dürfen , mögen , müssen and können are unexpected from the viewpoint of the sound laws, and must be therefore explained in other ways. Despite more than one century of research, a convincing solution to this problem is still lacking. In this paper, a new solution is proposed, which attempts to consider the several factors implied by this linguistic change. As observed by Lühr (1987), mögen and müssen seem t…
Italian prefixes and productivity
The quantitative approach to morphological productivity developed by Baayen and collaborators is crucially based on the count of hapax legomena in a given, very large textual corpus. In this paper, Baayen's main idea is applied to the little explored domain of Italian prefixation, on the basis of a 75,000,000-token newspaper corpus, and a significant improvement of his procedure is proposed by calculating productivity values at equal token number…
Productivity in Italian word formation
The quantitative approach to morphological productivity first proposed by Baayen crucially refers to the relation between the number of hapax legomena formed with a given affix occurring in a sufficiently large corpus and the total number of tokens of that affix sampled in the corpus. Most criticism against this measure focuses on its neglecting the role played by frequency in the evaluation of productivity. As an improvement of Baayen’s procedur…
On the double nature of productivity in inflectional morphology
Constituent order in compounds and syntax
Synthetic compounds
This chapter focuses on a traditional issue of word formation, namely synthetic compounds. The three basic approaches to the question will be reviewed and analyzed with the help of a large text corpus. The latter is of paramount importance for the analysis because dictionaries usually are not reliable for investigating highly productive word formation patterns and especially German compounding. It is shown that purely syntactic approaches do not …
Das Deutsche als kompositionsfreudige Sprache
Die Komposition ist ein hochproduktiver Wortbildungsprozess des Deutschen, zumindest im Bereich der nominalen Komposition. Weit weniger deutlich ist jedoch, wo die Grenzen zu anderen Wortbildungsmustern zu ziehen sind. Unklar ist auserdem, welche Auswirkungen diese Kompositionsfreudigkeit fur das gesamte (etwa prosodisch-phonologische, morphologische, syntaktische, informationsstrukturelle) Sprachsystem hat. Dabei ist beispielsweise an die Entste…
Existential constructions
Existential constructions are normally defined as sentences in which some entity is associated with some location giving rise to the so-called locative paradigm which also involves the locative and the possessive construction (cf. Freeze 2001). In spite of the apparent simplicity of this approach, the assumption of an allegedly universal locative paradigm leaves unaccounted a broad variety of languages in which existential constructions cannot be…
Multiple sources for the German scandal construction
The interaction of several cases of grammaticalization going back to different source constructions may have dramatic consequences on a linguistic system. This paper discusses the so-called German scandal construction, which consists of a verbal complex displaying a number of synchronic form-meaning mismatches. The scandal is solved if a diachronic point of view is adopted, which shows that the mismatches result from the intraference of two diffe…
Between VP and NN
This paper is concerned with the classification and analysis of different types of German synthetic compounds headed by deverbal agent nouns in -er , such as Romanleser ‘novel-reader’ or Gedankenleser ‘mind-reader’, where the non-head is seen to saturate an argument of the head lexeme while adhering to the semantic interpretation found in corresponding VPs (e.g. the distinct senses of read in the previous examples). In contrast to several previou…
Categorial shift and morphological differentiation
Stripping paradigmatic relations out of the syntax
Contact phenomena in the verbal complex
In the context of the Alps – a broad region characterized by common geographical and cultural features – the isolation caused by the geographical setting makes it possible for conservative strategies to survive from the Middle Ages through present times. This isolation, however, does not exclude that conservative patterns evolve into innovative strategies. To illustrate this, we surveyed causative and progressive constructions in the historical G…
A specter is haunting Europe
As is well-known, the Alps are a zone of long-standing, intensive contact and multilingualism among Germanic, Romance and Slavic languages and varieties. In this introductory paper, some reflections are presented on the viability of the Sprachbund hypothesis to encompass the occurring phenomena of convergence observed throughout the whole area
Corpus linguistics for low-density varieties. Minority languages and corpus-based morphological investigations
Corpus linguistics grew up in the domain of written (and literary) varieties, while its recent methodological revolution is due to the computer-assisted capacity of elaborating massive amounts of text data. On the other hand, the so-called ‘low-density varieties’, including spoken varieties as well as varieties spoken in minority communities, have been confined to a rather marginal role. Among others, this is due to the technical problems connect…
Il genere grammaticale in tedesco, italiano e inglese
The general tendencies regarding the gender of nouns are dealt with in the paper with the specific aim of building a contrastive microtypology of German, Italian and English. In particular, up to six different types and functions of gender will be distinguished and will be tested against the background of empirical data drawn from the three languages. Interesting phenomena of convergence and divergence at all levels of the respective linguistic s…
Intense Language Contact and Collapse of Lexical Strata
In Töitschu, a variety of Walser German spoken in the language island of Issime in Aosta Valley, a verbalizing suffix - urun is found with a significant number of verbs. In the paper, its enhanced productivity is argued to result from the merger of two different patterns. This is the consequence of the leveling of the native Germanic and of the non-native Romance lexical strata due to the combined effect of two distinct phonological changes forci…
Back-formation in a new theoretical universe
Back-formation is defined as a type of morphological change in which a base word is created ex novo paralleling an extant morphological alternation that serves as a model as in the verb to televise from the noun television. This analogical procedure is generally held to aim at increasing paradigm regularity. In this survey, several questions will be discussed with respect to the nature, the extension and the inner motivation of back-formation as …
Philosophy (19 obras) · Linguistics (18 obras) · Computer Science (14 obras) · History (9 obras) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (9 obras) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (9 obras) · Linguistic research and analysis (8 obras) · German (7 obras) · Natural language processing (7 obras) · Artificial Intelligence (5 obras)