Semantics and Pragmatics

 

PhD Dissertation

Chiara FINOCCHIARO: L’elaborazione dei clitici pronominali in italiano. Un tentativo di analisi sperimentale, 2002.
(relatori esterni: Alfonso Caramazza, Harvard; Patrizia Tabossi, Trieste)

Valentina Bambini: A metaphorical window into the language-brain.context relations, 2007
(relatori esterni: Bruno G. Bara, Torino; Alfonso Caramazza, Harvard e Trento; Francesco Di Russo, IUSM Roma; Pietro Pietrini, Pisa)

Alexander MURZAKU: Albanian deictics. A Review of the Meaning and Functionality of Demonstratives and Deictic Adverbs, 2008.
(relatori esterni: Paolo Di Giovine, Roma ‘La Sapienza’; Victor Friedman, Chicago)

Marta GHIO: A cognitive and pragmatic approach to meaning. Behavioral and neural correlates of concept processing, 2013.
(relatori esterni: Valentina Bambini, IUSS Pavia; Lewis Bott, Cardiff; Marco Tettamanti, S. Raffaele, Milano)

Biancamaria CEPOLLARO: The semantics and pragmatics of slurs and thick terms, 2017 (in co-tutela con Institut ‘Jean Nicod’, Paris).
(co-direttrice di tesi: Isidora Stojanovič, ‘Jean Nicod’, Paris; relatori esterni: Claudia Bianchi, ‘S.Raffaele’, Milano; Robin Jeshion, USC, Los Angeles; Marina Sbisà, Trieste; Pekka Väyrynen, Leeds)

 

Selected publications

Martina A. Rodda, Marco S. G. Senaldi, Alessandro Lenci (2016), “Panta Rei: Tracking Semantic Change with Distributional Semantics in Ancient Greek“, Proceedings of the Third Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2016). Distinguished Young Paper Award.

Marco S. G. Senaldi, Gianluca E. Lebani, Alessandro Lenci (2016), “Determining the Compositionality of Noun-Adjective Pairs with Lexical Variants and Distributional Semantics“, Proceedings of the Third Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2016). Distinguished Young Paper Award.

Marco S. G. Senaldi, Gianluca E. Lebani, Alessandro Lenci (2016), “Lexical Variability and Compositionality: Investigating Idiomaticity with Distributional Semantic Models“, Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2016): 21-31.

Canal Paolo, Simona Di Paola, Chiara Bertini, Irene Ricci, Pier Marco Bertinetto, Andrea Moro, Valentina Vambini 2015. Grounding education on brainwaves: Evidence from semantic categorization. Poster presented at the conference of the Society for Neurobiology of Language, 15-17 Ottobre 2015, Chicago.

Gianluca E. Lebani, Marco S. G. Senaldi, Alessandro Lenci (2015), “Modeling Idiom Variability with Entropy and Distributional Semantics“, Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics.

Alessandro Lenci, Gianluca E. Lebani, Marco S. G. Senaldi, Sara Castagnoli, Francesca Masini, Malvina Nissim (2015), “Mapping the constructicon with SYMPAThy. Italian word combinations between fixedness and productivity“, in Proceedings of the NetWordS Final Conference on Word Knowledge and Word Usage: Representations and Processes in the Mental Lexicon, Pisa, Italy, March 30-April 1, 2015: 144-149.

Marco S.G. Senaldi (2015), “Casting Light on Idiom Flexibility: A Corpus-based Approach“, Master Thesis, Department of Philology, Literature and Linguistics, University of Pisa.

BAMBINI Valentina 2012. Neurolinguistics. In J.-O. ÖSTMAN & J. VERSCHUEREN (eds.), Handbook of Pragmatics. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

BAMBINI Valentina & Bruno G. BARA 2012. Neuropragmatics. In J. VERSCHUEREN et al. (eds.), Handbook of Pragmatics. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

BAMBINI Valentina & Donatella RESTA 2012. Metaphor and experimental pragmatics: When theory meets empirical investigation. Humana.Mente. Journal of Philosophical Studies 23.

SCHUMACHER Petra B., Valentina BAMBINI & H. WEILAND 2012. Event-related brain potentials of masked repetition and semantic priming while listening to sentences. Neuroscience Letters, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neulet.2012.09.057

BAMBINI V., C. GENTILI, E. RICCIARDI, P.M. BERTINETTO & P. PIETRINI 2011. Decomposing metaphor processing at the cognitive and neural level through functional magnetic resonance imaging. Brain Research Bulletin, 86(3-4): 203-16.

BAMBINI Valentina (ed.) 2010. Neuropragmatics. Special Issue of Italian Journal of Linguistics 22(1).

GHIO Marta & Marco TETTAMANTI2010. Semantic domain-specific functional integration for action-related concepts vs. abstract concepts. Brain & Language 112: 223-232.

Pier Marco Bertinetto & Diego Marconi 1984. Ma in italiano. Parte prima: Semantica e pragmatica, Lingua e Stile 19: 223-58; ...Parte seconda: Proiezioni diacroniche, ivi : 475-509.