Dissertation topics suggested by the teacher.
Fields
- Lexicon (multiword expressions, word formation)
- Semantics (lexical semantics, grammatical semantics)
- Syntax and discourse
- Construction Grammar and constructionalization
Phenomena
- Multi-word expressions and figurative language
- Concept-naming strategies and crosslinguistic variation (lexical typology)
- Competition between constructions in natural language
- Evaluative semantics (approximation, intensification. etc.)
- Verbal aspect and the category of non-realization
- Complex predicates semantics (periphrases, pseudo-coordinations)
- Argument structure constructions and coercion
- Emergent constructions (https://sites.google.com/unisa.it/s2g)
- List constructions (http://www.lilec.it/list/)
Methodology
Phenomena can be analyzed from different perspectives (intralinguistic, contrastive, typological), preferably with empirical and corpus-based methodology.
Recent dissertations supervised by the teacher.
Second cycle degree programmes dissertations
- Antonimi morfologici e antonimi lessicali: uno studio esplorativo sulla competizione
- L’espressione della non-realizzazione in italiano: il ruolo delle perifrasi imminenziali
- L’espressione morfologica del disprezzo: un’analisi corpus-based
di alcuni suffissi dispregiativi italiani
- L’uso approssimante dei prefissi russi psevdo-, kvazi-, okolo-, ložno- e lže-: un’analisi corpus-based
- Lists in Cheese! A corpus-based study
- Negative Prefixation with non-: A Construction Morphology Account
- Uso e variazione di giusto in italiano: un’analisi basata su corpora
- Verbi di percezione: un quadro tipologico-lessicale
- Verbi sintagmatici e corrispondenti forme monorematiche: raccolta, descrizione e analisi
- Verbi sintagmatici in diacronia: uno studio corpus-based delle particelle fuori e via.
