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Francesco Vallerossa – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
The study investigates the reflections on tempo-aspectual morphology in Italian expressed by undergraduate multilingual learners with previous knowledge of Swedish and a Romance language (N = 22). The reflections of the participants, who were divided into four groups depending on a combination of proficiency in their background Romance language…
Descriptors: Verbs, Morphemes, Morphology (Languages), Language Proficiency
Romano, Francesco – Applied Linguistics, 2021
Conversely to plenty of studies describing how L1 transfer affects L2 systems, where the two grammars, L1/L2, often only come to interact later in life, less is known of dominant language transfer in heritage language grammars. Unlike in L2 speakers, the dominant language of the heritage speaker potentially affects its weaker language already from…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Transfer of Training, Grammar
Notarianni Burk, Gabriella – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This dissertation examines the extent to which lexical aspect and grounding influence the acquisition of tense and aspect by ninety-four instructed adult learners of Italian in two academic settings in North America. The semantic notions of tense and aspect have been extensively investigated in the domain of second language acquisition. After more…
Descriptors: Italian, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Morphemes
Pagliarini, Elena; Crain, Stephen; Guasti, Maria Teresa – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2018
This paper investigates the interpretation that Italian-speaking children and adults assign to negative sentences with disjunction and negative sentences with conjunction. The aim of the study was to determine whether children and adults assign the same interpretation to these types of sentences. The Semantic Subset Principle (SSP) (Crain et al.,…
Descriptors: Italian, Psycholinguistics, Form Classes (Languages), Semantics
Kelly, Justin Robert – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Distributed Morphology (DM; Halle & Marantz 1993; Marantz 1997) is founded on the premise that the syntax is the only computational component of the grammar. Much research focuses on how this premise is relevant to the syntax-morphology interface in DM. In this dissertation, I examine theory-internal issues related to the syntax-semantics…
Descriptors: Syntax, Semantics, Morphology (Languages), Linguistic Theory
Cubelli, Roberto; Paolieri, Daniela; Lotto, Lorella; Job, Remo – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2011
In 3 experiments, we investigated the effect of grammatical gender on object categorization. Participants were asked to judge whether 2 objects, whose names did or did not share grammatical gender, belonged to the same semantic category by pressing a key. Monolingual speakers of English (Experiment 1), Italian (Experiments 1 and 2), and Spanish…
Descriptors: Semantics, Nouns, Grammar, Monolingualism
Belacchi, Carmen; Cubelli, Roberto – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2012
The study aimed at investigating the role of nominal gender in animal categorization in preschoolers. Given the regularities characterizing gender system, at both syntactical and morphological level, Italian language is suitable to address this issue. In three experiments, participants were asked to classify pictures of animals as male or female.…
Descriptors: Animals, Speech Communication, Semantics, Form Classes (Languages)
Kousta, Stavroula-Thaleia; Vinson, David P.; Vigliocco, Gabriella – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2008
The authors investigated linguistic relativity effects by examining the semantic effects of grammatical gender (present in Italian but absent in English) in fluent bilingual speakers as compared with monolingual speakers. In an error-induction experiment, they used responses by monolingual speakers to establish a baseline for bilingual speakers…
Descriptors: Semantics, Grammar, Linguistics, Monolingualism
Colombo, Lucia; Fonti, Cristina; Stracciari, Andrea – Neuropsychologia, 2009
A group of 20 patients with probable Alzheimer disease (AD) and a control group were tested in a verb generation task, in a verb synonym task and several cognitive tests. Three types of verbs and novel verbs were presented in simple sentence frames, in two different conditions. In one condition participants were presented with the verb in the…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Semantics, Verbs, Alzheimers Disease

Rando, Gaetano – Italica, 1971
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, English, Grammar, Italian
Cardinaletti, Anna; Giusti, Giuliana – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1991
Reflecting on the important works of Alma Sabatini in the area of sexism, her work and those of other Italians is compared with researchers in other countries, particularly the United States, France, and Germany. The Italian language is analyzed, pointing out instances of sexism. (CFM)
Descriptors: Grammar, Italian, Language Research, Language Usage
Finocchiaro, Chiara; Caramazza, Alfonso – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2006
In three experiments we investigated the locus of the frequency effect in lexical access and the mechanism of gender feature selection. In Experiment 1, participants were asked to produce gender-marked verb plus pronominal clitic utterances in Italian (e.g., "portalo" (bring it [masculine]) in response to a written verb and pictured object. We…
Descriptors: Verbs, Semantics, Grammar, Word Frequency

Van Valin, Jr., Robert D. – Language, 1990
This paper argues that split-intransitive phenomena are better explained in semantic terms. A semantic analysis is carried out in Role and Reference Grammar, which assumes the theory of verb classification proposed in Dowty 1979. (49 references) (JL)
Descriptors: Caucasian Languages, Classification, Grammar, Italian
Vigliocco, Gabriella; Vinson, David P.; Siri, Simona – Cognition, 2005
Italian speakers were asked to name pictures of actions (e.g. "bere", to drink). Pictures were presented at the same time as distracter words that were semantically related or unrelated to the picture names, and were of the same or different grammatical class (verbs or nouns). Half of the participants named the actions as verbs in citation form,…
Descriptors: Semantics, Grammar, Italian, Pictorial Stimuli
Camaiora, Luisa Conti – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1979
Discusses the problems involved in teaching Italian students the English equivalents of the verb "dovere." (CFM)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Grammar, Italian, Language Instruction
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