Verb semantics

 

PhD Dissertation

Mario SQUARTINI: On the Grammaticalization Path of Some Romance Verbal Periphrases, 1995
(relatori esterni: Ignacio Bosque, Complutense, Madrid; Bernard Comrie, USC; Östen Dahl, Stockholm).

Luca DINI: Events and their Measures, 1998
(relatori esterni: Gennaro Chierchia, Milano; Ewan Klein, Edinburgh; Hans Uszkoreit, Saarbrüccken).

Valentina Cambi: Tempo e aspetto in ittito, con particolare riferimento al suffisso -ske/a-, 2006
(relatori esterni: Giuseppe Delmonte, Pisa; Norbert Oettinger, Erlangen; Calvert Watkins, UCLA, Los Angeles)

Margherita FARINA: An Outline of Middle Voice in Syriac. Evidences of a Linguistic Category, 2009.
(relatori esterni: Piergiorgio Borbone, Pisa; Riccardo Contini, Napoli ‘L’Orientale’; Holger Gzella, Leiden; W.T. Van Peursen, Leiden)

Sara Eco CONTI: I tempi nel sistema verbale greco antico e il caso dell'imperativo, 2010.
(relatori esterni: Piero Berrettoni, Pisa; Jesús de la Villa Polo, Universidad Autónoma Madrid; Jean Lallot, Paris ENS)

Talatou Clémentine PACMOGDA: Acquisition du système temporel moore, 2012.
(relatori esterni: Sophie Kern, Lyon; Alessandro Lenci, Pisa; Norbert Nikiéma, Ouagadougou)

 

Selected publications

Pier Marco Bertinetto & Mario Squartini 2016. Tense and aspect. In Adam Ledgeway & Martin Maiden (eds.), The Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 939-953.

Pier Marco Bertinetto 2015. Ayoreo (Zamuco) as a radical tenseless language. In Maria Grazia Busà & Sara Gesuato (curr.), Lingue e contesti.Studi in onore di Alberto Mioni, Padova: CLEUP: 489-500. ISBN 978 88 6787 080 6.

Pier Marco Bertinetto, Alessandro Lenci, Eva Maria Freiberger, Sabrina Noccetti, Maddalena Agonigi. “The acquisition of tense and aspect in a morphology-sensitive framework. Data from Italian and Austrian German children”. Linguistics 53,5. 1113-1168

Pier Marco Bertinetto & Anna Lentovskaya 2015. Degree verbs. A contrastive Russian – English analysis. In Rosanna Benacchio (ed.), Глагольныйвид: Грамматическоезначениеиконтекст / Verbal Aspect: Grammatical Meaning and Context. München / Berlin / Washington D.C.: Sagner. 93-115 [ISBN: 978-3-86688-526-4.

Civardi Eugenio & Pier Marco Bertinetto 2015. The semantics of Degree Verbs and the telicity issue. Borealis 4.1, 55-77.

Pier Marco Bertinetto 2014 Non conventional uses of the Pluperfect in Italian (and German) literary prose. In Emmanuelle Labeau & Jacques Bres (eds.), Evolution in Romance Verbal Systems, Ber: Lang. 145-170.

Pier Marco Bertinetto 2014. Tenselessness in Southamerican indigenous languages with focus on Ayoreo (Zamuco), LIAMES (Línguas Indígenas Americanas) 14: 149-171 (e-ISSN2177-7160).

Pier Marco Bertinetto & Clémentine Pacmogda 2013. Le système tempo-aspectuel du moore (gur), Africana Linguistica 19: 3-52.

BATIUKOVA Olga, Pier Marco BERTINETTO, Alessandro LENCI & Alessandra ZARCONE 2012. Semantic Priming Study of Russian Aspect and Resultativity. In A. GRØNN & A. PAZELSKAYA (eds.) The Russian Verb, Oslo Studies in Language 4(1): 177-206.

BAMBINI Valentina, Alexandra KRATSCHMER & Irene RICCI 2012. Correlati comportamentali delle gradazioni epistemiche. In V. BAMBINI, I. RICCI, P.M. BERTINETTO & Collaboratori (eds.), Linguaggio e cervello – Semantica / Language and the brain – Semantics. Atti del XLII Congresso Internazionale di Studi della Società di Linguistica Italiana. Roma: Bulzoni, Vol. II.

Pier Marco Bertinetto & Alessandro Lenci 2012. Verbal pluractionality and gnomic imperfectivity. In Robert Binnick (ed.), The Oxford handbook of Tense and Aspect. New York: Oxford University Press. 852-880.

BERTINETTO Pier Marco & Anna LENTOVSKAYA 2012. A diachronic view of the actional/aspectual properties of Russian verbs. Russian Linguistics 36,1: 1-19.

BATIUKOVA Olga, Pier Marco BERTINETTO, Alessandro LENCI & Alessandra ZARCONE 2011. Identifying actional features through semantic priming: cross-Romance comparison. Proceedings of the 10th Chronos Conference, Birmingham, April 2011.

Margherita FARINA 2011. An Outline of Middle Voice in Syriac. Evidences of a Linguistic Category. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press.

Pier Marco Bertinetto & Alessandro Lenci 2010. Iterativity vs. habituality (and gnomic imperfectivity), in Quaderni del Laboratorio di Linguisticadella SNS n.9,1; 2010 n.s.

ZARCONE Alessandra & Alessandro LENCI 2010. Priming Effects on Event Types Classification: Effects of Word and Picture Stimuli. Poster presented at Cogsci 2010, Annual Meeting Of The Cognitive Science Society, Portland, OR, 11-14 August, 2010.

Pier Marco Bertinetto, Alessandro Lenci, Maddalena Agonigi & Sabrina Noccetti 2009. Metodi quantitativi nell’analisi dell’acquisizione delle strutture tempo-aspettuali, in Giacomo Ferrari, Ruben Benatti & Monica Mosca (cur.), Linguistica e modelli tecnologici di ricerca. Atti del XL Congresso Internazionale di Studi della Società di Linguistica Italiana (SLI), Roma, Bulzoni: 97-123.

BERTINETTO Pier Marco 2008. Tense-Aspect acquisition meets typology. In: NISHIDA Chiyo & Cinzia RUSSI (eds.), Building a bridge between linguistic communities of the Old and New World: Current research in tense, aspect, mood and modality, Amsterdam / New York, Rodopi: 45-68.

Pier Marco Bertinetto 2008. On implicit knowledge of aspect: Evidence from German speakers (or: Is ‘more’ really ‘better’?), in Romano Lazzeroni, Emanuele Banfi, Giuliano Bernini, Marina Chini e Giovanna Marotta (curr.), Diachronica et synchronica. Studi in onore di Anna GiacaloneRamat, Pisa, ETS: 111-130.

Pier Marco Bertinetto, Alessandro Lenci, Sabrina Noccetti, Maddalena Agonigi 2008. The indispensable complexity (When harder is easier). Lexical and grammatical expansion in three Italian L1 learners, in Marcella Bertuccelli Papi, Antonio Bertacca, Silvia Bruti (curr.), Threads in the Complex Fabric of Language. Linguistic and Literary Studies in Honour of Lavinia Merlini Barbaresi, Pisa, Felici: 37-51.

Pier Marco Bertinetto 2006. On the Tense-Aspect system of Bolivian Chaco Guaraní, in Wolf Dietrich (cur.), Guaraní y ‘Mawetí-Tupí- Guaraní’. Estudios históricos y descriptivos sobre una familia lingüística de América del Sur, LIT, Münster: 105-167.

Pier Marco Bertinetto & Sabrina Noccetti 2006. Prolegomena to ATAM acquisition. Theoretical premises and corpus labeling, Quaderni del Laboratorio di Linguistica della SNS n.7, 2006 n.s.

Pier Marco Bertinetto & Cambi Valentina 2006. Hittite temporal adverbials and the aspectual interpretation of the ške/a- suffix, in Raffaella Bombi, Guido Cifoletti, Fabiana Fusco, Lucia Innocente & Vincenzo Orioles (curr.), Studi linguistici in onore di Roberto Gusmani, L’Orso, Alessandria: 193-233.

Pier Marco Bertinetto 2005. Perfectives, imperfectives and progressives, in Keith Brown, ed. in chief, The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd edition, Elsevier, Amsterdam etc.: vol. 9, pp. 266-270.

Pier Marco Bertinetto 2003. Tempi verbali e narrativa italiana dell’Otto/Novecento. Quattro esercizi di stilistica della lingua, L’Orso, Alessandria.

Pier Marco Bertinetto 2003. Le proprietà tempo-aspettuali dell’Infinito italiano, in Mathée Giacomo Marcellesi & Alvaro Rocchetti (curr.), Il verbo italiano. Studi diacronici, sintattici, contrastivi, didattici, Bulzoni, Roma: 113-165.

Pier Marco Bertinetto 2003. On describing tense and aspect systems. A review-article, Italian Journal of Linguistics 15: 141-171.

Pier Marco Bertinetto & Valentina Bianchi 2003. Tense, aspect and syntax: A review of Giorgi & Pianesi (1997), Linguistics 41: 565-606.

Luca Dini 2002. Events and their Measures, L’Orso, Alessandria

Pier Marco Bertinetto 2001. On a frequent misunderstanding in the temporal-aspectual domain: The ‘Perfective Þ Telic Confusion’, in Carlo Cecchetto, Gennaro Chierchia & Maria Teresa Guasti (eds.), Semantic Interfaces [Reference, Anaphora and Aspect], CSLI Publications, Stanford, Cal.: 177-210.

Pier Marco Bertinetto 2001. ‘Propulsive’ tenses in modern Italian fictional prose, in Guglielmo Cinque e Giampaolo Salvi (ed.), Current Studies in Italian Syntax. Essays offered to Lorenzo Renzi, Amsterdam: North-Holland 2001: 97-115.

Pier Marco Bertinetto 2000. The progressive in Romance, as compared with English, in Ö. Dahl (ed.), Tense and Aspect in the Languages of Europe, Mouton - De Gruyter: 559-604.

Pier Marco Bertinetto, Casper De Groot & Karen Ebert 2000. The progressive in Europe, in Ö. Dahl (ed.), Tense and Aspect in the Languages of Europe, Mouton - De Gruyter: 517-558.

Pier Marco Bertinetto & Denis Delfitto 2000. Aspect vs. Actionality: Some reasons for keeping them apart, in Ö. Dahl (ed.), Tense and Aspect in the Languages of Europe, Mouton - De Gruyter: 189-225.

Delfitto Denis & Pier Marco Bertinetto 2000. Word order and quantification over times, in James Higginbotham, Fabio Pianesi & Achille Varzi (eds.), Speaking of Events, Oxford University Press, New York / Oxford: 207-243.

Lenci Alessandro & Pier Marco Bertinetto 2000. Aspect, adverbs and events: Habituality vs. perfectivity, in James Higginbotham, Fabio Pianesi & Achille Varzi (eds.), Speaking of Events, Oxford University Press, New York / Oxford: 245-287.

Squartini Mario & Pier Marco Bertinetto 2000. The Simple and Compound Past in Romance languages, in Ö. Dahl (ed.), Tense and Aspect in the Languages of Europe, Mouton - De Gruyter: 403-439.

Pier Marco Bertinetto 1999. Sperimentazioni linguistiche nella narrativa del Novecento: variazioni sul Tempo Verbale ‘propulsivo’, Atti dell’Accademia Lucchese di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, seconda serie XXVIII: 41-102.

Pier Marco Bertinetto 1998. Sui connotati azionali ed aspettuali della perifrasi continua (andare / venire + Gerundio), in Giuliano Bernini, Pierluigi Cuzzolin & Piera Molinelli (curr.), Ars linguistica. Studi offerti da colleghi ed allievi a Paolo Ramat in occasione del suo 60° compleanno, Roma, Bulzoni: 109-128.

Pier Marco Bertinetto 1998. Verso una definizione della perifrasi ‘continua’ (andare / venire + Gerundio), in Luciano Agostiniani, Maria Giovanna Arcamone, Onofrio Carruba, Fiorella Imparati e Riccardo Rizza (curr.), do-ra-qe pe-re. Studi in memoria di Adriana Quattordio Moreschini, Pisa, Giardini: 87-101.

Ravera Monica & Pier Marco Bertinetto 1998. Dall’azionalità all’aspetto. Il prefisso germanico *-ga in prospettiva diacronica, Quaderni del Laboratorio di Linguistica della SNS 12-13/1998-99.

Mario Squartini 1998. Verbal Periphrases in Romance: Aspect, Actionality and Grammaticalization, Mouton / De Gruyter, Berlin etc.

Pier Marco Bertinetto 1997. Il dominio tempo-aspettuale. Demarcazioni, intersezioni, contrasti, Torino, Rosenberg & Sellier.

Pier Marco Bertinetto 1996. Le perifrasi progressiva e continua nella narrativa dell’Otto e Novecento, in Lucio Lugnani, Marco Santagata & Alfredo Stussi (curr.), Studi offerti a Luigi Blasucci dai colleghi e dagli allievi pisani, Lucca, Pacini Fazzi: 77-100.

Pier Marco Bertinetto 1996. Notes on the progressive as a ‘partialization’ operator, Quaderni del Laboratorio di Linguistica della SNS 10/1996.

Pier Marco Bertinetto & Mario Squartini 1996. La distribuzione del Perfetto Semplice e Composto nelle diverse varietà di italiano, Romance Philology 49: 383-419.

Pier Marco Bertinetto & Denis Delfitto 1996. L’espressione della progressività-continuità: un confronto tripolare (italiano, inglese e spagnolo), in Paola Benincà, Guglielmo Cinque, Tullio De Mauro & Nigel Vincent (curr.), Italiano e dialetti nel tempo. Studi di grammatica perGiulio C. Lepschy, Roma, Bulzoni: 45-66.

Pier Marco Bertinetto & Valentina Bianchi 1996. Temporal adverbs and the notion of ‘perspective point’, in Violetta Koseska Toszewa & Danute Rytel-Kuc (eds.), Semantyka a konfrontacja jȩzykowa, Slawistyczny Ośrodek Wydawniczy, Warszawa: 11-21.

Pier Marco Bertinetto 1995. Le perifrasi abituali in italiano ed in inglese, Studi Orientali e Linguistici 6 (1995/96): 117-133.

Pier Marco Bertinetto, Valentina Bianchi, James Higginbotham & Mario Squartini 1995. Cura di: Temporal Reference, Aspect and Actionality. I: Semantic and Syntactic Perspectives, Torino, Rosenberg & Sellier.

Pier Marco Bertinetto, Valentina Bianchi, Östen Dahl & Mario Squartini 1995. Cura di: Temporal Reference, Aspect and Actionality. II: Typological Perspectives, Torino, Rosenberg & Sellier.

Pier Marco Bertinetto & Mario Squartini 1995. An attempt at defining the class of gradual completion verbs, in Pier Marco Bertinetto, Valentina Bianchi, James Higginbotham & Mario Squartini (eds.), Temporal Reference, Aspect and Actionality. I: Semantic and Syntactic Perspectives, Torino, Rosenberg & Sellier: 11-26.

Bianchi Valentina, Mario Squartini & Pier Marco Bertinetto 1995. Perspective point and textual dynamics, in Pier Marco Bertinetto, Valentina Bianchi, James Higginbotham & Mario Squartini (eds.), Temporal Reference, Aspect and Actionality. I: Semantic and Syntactic Perspectives, Torino, Rosenberg & Sellier: 309-324.

Delfitto Denis & Pier Marco Bertinetto 1995. A case study in the interaction of aspect and actionality: The Imperfect in Italian, in Pier Marco Bertinetto, Valentina Bianchi, James Higginbotham & Mario Squartini (eds.), Temporal Reference, Aspect and Actionality. I: Semantic and Syntactic Perspectives, Torino, Rosenberg & Sellier: 125-142.

Dini Luca & Pier Marco Bertinetto 1995. Punctual verbs and the ontology of events, Quaderni del Laboratorio di Linguistica della SNS 9/1995.

Pier Marco Bertinetto 1994. Statives, progressives and habituals: Analogies and divergencies, Linguistics 32: 391-423.

Pier Marco Bertinetto 1994. Against the received view that progressives are statives, Studia Kognitywne. T. 1: Semantyka kategorii aspektu i czasu / Etudes Cognitives. Vol. 1: Sémantique des catégories d’aspect et de temps, Warszawa, Polska Akademia Nauk, Instityt Slawistyki: 43-56.

Pier Marco Bertinetto 1994. Ormai, in Palmira Cipriano, Paolo Di Giovine e Marco Mancini (curr.), Miscellanea di studi linguistic in onore di Walter Belardi, Il Calamo, Roma: 789-810.

Pier Marco Bertinetto 1994. Temporal reference, Aspect and Actionality: Their neutralizations and interactions, mostly exemplified in Italian, in Carl Bache, Hans Basbøll, Carl-Erik Lindberg (eds.), Tense, Aspect and Action. Empirical and Theoretical Contributions to Language Typology, Mouton - De Gruyter, Berlin / New York: 113-137.

Pier Marco Bertinetto 1993. Due tipi di Presente ‘Storico’ nella prosa letteraria, in Michele A Cortelazzo, Erasmo Leso, Pier Vincenzo Mengaldo, Gianfelice Peron & Lorenzo Renzi (curr.), Omaggio a Gianfranco Folena, Padova, Studio Editoriale Programma, vol. III: 2327-2344.

Pier Marco Bertinetto 1992. Le strutture tempo-aspettuali dell’italiano e dell’inglese a confronto, in A. G. Mocciaro & G. Soravia (curr.), L’Europa linguistica: contatti, contrasti, e affinità di lingue, SLI, Atti XXI Congresso Internazionale di Studi, Roma, Bulzoni: 49-68.

Pier Marco Bertinetto 1992. Metafore tempo-aspettuali, Linguistica (Paulo Tekavčić! Sexagenario in honorem oblata) 32: 89-106.

Pier Marco Bertinetto 1991. Il verbo, in Lorenzo Renzi e Giampaolo Salvi (curr.), Grande Grammatica Italiana di Consultazione, vol. II, Bologna, Il Mulino: 13-161.

Pier Marco Bertinetto 1991. Avverbi pseudodeittici e restrizioni sui tempi verbali in italiano, in Luciano Giannelli, Nicoletta Maraschio, Teresa Poggi Salani, Massimo Vedovelli (curr.), Tra Rinascimento e strutture attuali. Saggi di linguistica italiana, Torino, Rosenberg & Sellier: 289-304.

Pier Marco Bertinetto 1990. Perifrasi verbali italiane: criteri di identificazione e gerarchia di perifrasticità, in Giuliano Bernini & Anna Giacalone Ramat (curr.), La temporalità nell’acquisizione di lingue seconde, Milano, Angeli: 331-50.

Pier Marco Bertinetto 1990. Le perifrasi verbali italiane: saggio di analisi descrittiva e contrastiva, Quaderni Patavini di Linguistica 8-9 (1989/90): 27-64.

Pier Marco Bertinetto 1987. Why the ‘Passé antérieur’ should be called ‘Passé immédiatement antérieur’, in Linguistics 25: 341-60.

Pier Marco Bertinetto 1987. Structure and origin of the narrative imperfect, in Anna Giacalone Ramat, Onofrio Carruba e Giuliano Bernini (eds.), Papers from the 7th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, Benjamins: 71-85.

Pier Marco Bertinetto 1986. Tempo, Aspetto e Azione nel verbo italiano. Il sistema dell’indicativo, Firenze, Accademia della Crusca.

Pier Marco Bertinetto 1982. Intrinsic and extrinsic temporal references. On restricting the notion of ‘reference time’, Journal of Italian Linguistics 7: 71-108.