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De Gruyter eBooks, Aug 1, 1987

Mouton de Gruyter (formerly Mouton, The Hague) is a Division of Walter de Gruyter & Co., ... more Mouton de Gruyter (formerly Mouton, The Hague) is a Division of Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin. Original edition published under the title Linguistica tipologica by II Mulino, Bologna, 1984 Translated by AP Baldry Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Ramat, ...

John Benjamins Publishing Company eBooks, 1994

Key points of the paper: 1. contacts between Latin syntax and the syntax of the Western European ... more Key points of the paper: 1. contacts between Latin syntax and the syntax of the Western European Languages (WELs); 2. the timing of the Latin-based syntactic innovations and their grammaticalization processes

Archivio glottologico italiano, 2018

On the names of the "we"-type as opposed to "the others"

De Gruyter eBooks, Aug 1, 1987

John Benjamins Publishing Company eBooks, 1994

Archivio glottologico italiano, 2018

On the names of the "we"-type as opposed to "the others"

The Oxford Handbook of Grammaticalization. Ed. by Heiko Narrog and Bernd Heine. Oxford University Press 2011: 502-510, 2011

Chapt. 40. Adverbial Grammaticalization Paolo Ramat 0. Definition of ADVERB. Though not present i... more Chapt. 40. Adverbial Grammaticalization Paolo Ramat 0. Definition of ADVERB. Though not present in all languages, the linguistic category adverb (ADV), may be given a universally valid definition which applies to all languages that have adverbs. We have to distinguish between definition and implementation of categories, but a categorial definition cannot be languagebound (see Ramat 1999) 1. From a functional point of view, the ADV category presents a wide range of values which go from manner to time, space, degree, and modifies other categories (see next paragraph). As we shall see below, some values are more grammaticalizable than others (e.g. in Turkish and Malay reduplication of an adjective (ADJ) or, respectively, a verb (VB) to form the corresponding manner ADV is grammaticalized, and produces a real category change: Turk. derin derin 'deeply' (derin 'deep') with ADJ  ADV, Malay diam-diam 'silently' (diam 'to be silent') with VB  ADV). 2 Here is a viable definition of adverb: ADV is a grammatical category of invariable lexemes which are syntactically dispensable (cf. The news she had just received deeply surprised her and The news she had received surprised her: the second sentence is absolutely grammatical). ADV is a lexical element which cannot represent a sentence by itself, unless it is used in a conversational answer turn. 3 From the semantic-functional point of view it is clear that just and deeply modify the sense of the sentence. Hence we can say that ADV is a modifier of predicates

The Oxford Guide to Romance Languages, 2016

A typological description of the main features of the Romance languages

Language across Languages. New perspectives in Translation, 2015

This volume collects most of the papers presented at a workshop on 'Translation' held in Pavia on... more This volume collects most of the papers presented at a workshop on
'Translation' held in Pavia on October 3-4, 2013 and organized by the
LETiSS , a research centre at the Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori, IUSS, in Pavia. The general topic of the volume could be summarized by the title of section 1 of the Introduction by Emanuele Miola and Paolo Ramat: 'Bringing Language across Languages: New challenges for translator and translation studies.

Ascoli, Salvioni e i Neogrammatici, 2018

Società di Linguistica Italiana 63 <<La cultura linguistica italiana a confronto con le culture l... more Società di Linguistica Italiana 63
<<La cultura linguistica italiana a confronto con le culture linguistiche di altri paesi europei dall'Ottocento in poi.
Atti del Congr. Intern. SLI, Milano, Settembre 2016.
Roma, Bulzoni 2018

Plenary speech at the XLIX International Congress of the Società di Linguistica Italiana (SLI). ... more Plenary speech at the XLIX International Congress of the
Società di Linguistica Italiana (SLI). Malta, 24-26 Sept. 2015: "Tipologia e 'dintorni': il metodo tipologico alla intersezione di piani d'analisi"
Roma, Bulzoni Editore 2018, pp.229-253
Title of the speech:<<Tipologia diacronica, areale e 'dintorni'>>

Since the first written documents in the history of mankind (produced at the end of the 4th mille... more Since the first written documents in the history of mankind (produced at the end of the 4th millennium BC), translation has always played a pivotal role in human societies. Translators were needed whenever the need for contact between different-speaking communities arose, such as for the purposes of communication, commerce, and declarations of war, or peace.

Translation is even more important in today’s world. Globalization has brought the nations of the Earth closer, to the extent that books, movies and television programs released or aired far away in the world are just a click of the mouse away. However, such cultural products still have to be translated in order to be enjoyed by a wider audience. In international relations, diplomacies work very much on the basis of what is said and written, meaning that official documents and political charts need to be correctly and precisely translated.

Hi-tech devices, such as tablets and smartphones, have their software translated into an increasing number of languages, in order to be accessible to a larger number of people.

The challenging issues that arise for translation studies from these socio-cultural changes in Western Europe and all over the world are tackled in this volume according to two intertwined viewpoints: From a strictly linguistic perspective, typological differences between genetically unrelated languages challenge linguists in gaining an overall understanding of what language really is: how can linguistic categories, be they verbal, nominal or pertaining to other domains of the grammar, be defined? How are they shaped in syntax?

From the point of view of anthropological linguistics, on the other hand, the cross-linguistic differences that come to the fore illustrate that translating – as well as language itself – is one of the basic cognitive strategies of the human mind.

This volume presents the proceedings of the first Workshop organized by the Postgraduate Research... more This volume presents the proceedings of the first Workshop organized by the Postgraduate Research Centre LETiSS (Lingue d’Europa: Tipologia, Storia e Sociolinguistica – Languages of Europe: Typology, History and Sociolinguistics), specifically dedicated to the linguistic situation of Europe, approached from a variety of perspectives. The massive immigration wave of the last fifty years has deeply changed the linguistic constellation of Europe, leading to the formation of alloglottic communities more or less integrated in the local, social, and sociolinguistic fabric: because of these reasons, LETiSS has chosen to deepen the study of European languages according to the three dimensions announced in its acronym. The Centre wants to create a reference point for research on the linguistic dynamics of Europe and favor international cooperation, especially by gathering young researchers from many different countries and different cultural as well as linguistic traditions: workshops and spring schools should lead to establish new research networks as an outcome of these fruitful interactions between European and non-European researchers.
The papers collected in the present volume deal with the manifold subject of language death and endangered languages following two thematic areas, namely socio-cultural-political conditions of endangered languages, and linguistic phenomena associated with the decay and death of a language.

BBook review of Ledgeway, From Latin to Romance, 2013

Adam Ledgeway (d'ora in poi A.L.) è uno dei maggiori esperti di lingue e dialetti romanzi, specia... more Adam Ledgeway (d'ora in poi A.L.) è uno dei maggiori esperti di lingue e dialetti romanzi, specialmente dell'Italia meridionale, autore di numerose monografie come A Comparative Syntax of the Dialects of Southern Italy (2000), o la Grammatica diacronica del napoletano (2009).

“Linguistics”34/1996: 841-55., 1996

Book review of Martin Haspelmath, Ekkehard König (eds.): Converbs in Cross-Linguistic Perspectiv... more Book review of
Martin Haspelmath, Ekkehard König (eds.): Converbs in Cross-Linguistic Perspective. Structure and Meaning of Adverbial Forms - Adverbial Participles, Gerunds-. Berlin / New York: Mouton de Gruyter 1995. x + 565 pp. (“Empirical Approaches to Language Typology”, 13)

"Archivio Glottologico Italiano" 101, pp. 225-233, 2016

Review of MURIEL NORDE, FREEK VAN DE VELDE (eds.), Exaptation and Language Change. Amsterdam & Ph... more Review of MURIEL NORDE, FREEK VAN DE VELDE (eds.), Exaptation and Language Change.
Amsterdam & Philadelphia, Benjamins 2016, pp. viii+411 (‘Current Issues in
Linguistic Theory’, 336). ISBN 978 90 272 4855 8 (HB) – 978 90 272 6747 4 (ebook).

Rendiconti Accad. dei Lincei, serie IX, vol.XXXI, 2021

The abstract can be read at the beginning of the short article. The title is a replication of th... more The abstract can be read at the beginning of the short article.
The title is a replication of the title Benvenuto Terracini (1886-1968) gave to an article he published 1935 and deals with the linguistic writings of William Dwight Whitney (1827-1894)

Archivio Glottologico Italiano, vol. 102, 2017

Book review of Muriel NORDE & Freek van de VELDE (eds.), Exaptation and Language Change. Amsterda... more Book review of
Muriel NORDE & Freek van de VELDE (eds.), Exaptation and Language Change. Amsterdam & Philadelphia, Benjamins 2016.
Reviewed in "Archivio Glottologico Italiano", vol. CI,fasc.2 (2016),pp. 225-233.

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this file lists all my publications (including reviews and reports) up to Dec. 31 2021