Guglielmo Inglese
Assistant professor (RTDb) in Linguistics at the University of Torino (Department of Humanities).
After graduating in Classics (BA, 2013) and in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (MA, 2015) at the University of Pavia, I obtained my PhD in Linguistics at the University of Pavia/University of Bergamo in 2019, with a dissertation titled "The Hittite middle voice" (main supervisor: Silvia Luraghi). From 2020-2022 I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the KU Leuven (Department of Linguistics), where I carried out the FWO-funded project "Towards a diachronic typology of the middle voice".
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After graduating in Classics (BA, 2013) and in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (MA, 2015) at the University of Pavia, I obtained my PhD in Linguistics at the University of Pavia/University of Bergamo in 2019, with a dissertation titled "The Hittite middle voice" (main supervisor: Silvia Luraghi). From 2020-2022 I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the KU Leuven (Department of Linguistics), where I carried out the FWO-funded project "Towards a diachronic typology of the middle voice".
Check my personal website: https://sites.google.com/view/guglielmoinglese
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into a number of well-defined parameters pertaining to the initial situation in the language, the developmental mechanisms leading to the new alignment pattern, and the effects of the change. These various parameters are effectively implemented into a searchable format. This systematization enables users to easily retrieve and compare various type of information concerning the emergence of alignment patterns in the world’s languages.
into a number of well-defined parameters pertaining to the initial situation in the language, the developmental mechanisms leading to the new alignment pattern, and the effects of the change. These various parameters are effectively implemented into a searchable format. This systematization enables users to easily retrieve and compare various type of information concerning the emergence of alignment patterns in the world’s languages.
the noun ādi- ‘beginning’ in Sanskrit. When used as second member of a
compound, ādi- is commonly translated as ‘etcetera’ and the resulting compound displays a number of semantic and morphological oddities, as observed in reference grammars. Based on a thorough corpus analysis, we show that ādicompounds are in fact associated with different functions, and that among other things they can be employed for the task of on-line categorization. Specifically, we argue that they can also encode ad hoc categories. In the second part of the paper, we describe the diachronic process whereby ādi-compounds developed into ad hoc category markers. In so doing, we adopt the perspective of constructionalization and suggest, against the traditional analysis of these forms as compounds, that when meaning ‘etcetera’, ādi- behaves as an affixoid. In this respect, the findings of this paper contribute to the general understanding of the diachronic typology of ad hoc category markers.
In this paper, we aim to review the traditional analysis of the -ške/a- suffix by grounding its interpretation on recent typological insights on aspect and verbal number. Drawing from a complete survey of verbs showing the -ške/a- suffix in Old Hittite texts, we investigate the aspectual construal of these forms according to Croft’s (2012) cognitive approach to verbal aspect, and show that they are by no means limited to the encoding of imperfectivity as defined by Cambi (2007). Moreover, we argue that -ške/a- can be better explained in terms of pluractionality, as the different functions that this suffix encodes are basically the same covered cross-linguistically by the so-called pluractional constructions (cf. Newman 1990). Specifically, we investigate to what extent the functions associated to the suffix -ške/a- can be arranged in a network that complies with the conceptual space of pluractional constructions put forward by Mattiola (2017).
Finally, by also taking into account comparative evidence from cognate suffixes in other IE languages, as e.g. Latin -sc- (cf. Haverling 2000), we also set out to establish the original function of the Hittite suffix and explain the diachronic processes whereby the different functions developed out of this core meaning.