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Tesi etd-05072019-132215


Tipo di tesi
Tesi di dottorato di ricerca
Autore
BUSSO, LUCIA
URN
etd-05072019-132215
Titolo
Coercing Italian: Psycholinguistic investigations on Italian Valency coercion
Settore scientifico disciplinare
L-LIN/01
Corso di studi
FILOLOGIA, LETTERATURA E LINGUISTICA
Relatori
tutor Prof. Lenci, Alessandro
controrelatore Prof.ssa Romagno, Domenica
controrelatore Prof. Hilpert, Martin
controrelatore Prof.ssa Sorianello, Patrizia
Parole chiave
  • Argument structure
  • Coercion
  • Construction Grammar
  • Distributional semantics
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Usage-based theories
Data inizio appello
15/05/2019
Consultabilità
Non consultabile
Data di rilascio
15/05/2089
Riassunto
The present dissertation concerns the first in-depth experimental investigation of the linguistic phenomenon of valency coercion in Italian. The perspective taken for the question is rooted in the theoretical framework of (Cognitive) Construction Grammar (Goldberg, 1995, 2006; Hilpert, 2014), in which “coercion” refers to a mismatch between a lexical element and the construction in which it is embedded. In particular, valency coercion refers to the process in which the mismatching element is a verb, “coerced” by the general argument structure construction into a different meaning. Valency coercion phenomena have never been investigated for Italian; the aim of the present work is to – at least partially –fill this gap in the literature.
The study of valency coercion phenomena is intended as a mean to investigate the cognitive reality of Italian constructions and to contribute to the understanding of how Italian argument constructions interact with the verbs with whom they can occur. An integraed approach of psycholinguistic and computational experimental methods is used in order to thoroughly investigate the phenomenon at hand.
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