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  1. Variation in language use is different from variation in genes

    Article • Evolutionary Linguistic Theory, August 2021, John Benjamins

    Professor Andrea Sansò

  2. Pragmatic Markers, Discourse Markers and Modal Particles

    Article • October 2017, John Benjamins

    Professor Andrea Sansò, Chiara Fedriani

  3. Where do antipassive constructions come from?

    Article • Diachronica, July 2017, John Benjamins

    Professor Andrea Sansò

  4. Agent-defocusing constructions from nominalized VPs

    Article • Studies in Language, December 2016, John Benjamins

    Professor Andrea Sansò

  5. Deictic motion verbs as passive auxiliaries: the case of italianandare‘go’ (andvenire‘come’).

    Article • Transactions of the Philological Society, February 2015, Wiley

    Professor Andrea Sansò, Professor Anna Giacalone Ramat

  6. The reality status of directives and its coding across languages

    Article • Language Sciences, March 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Andrea Sansò

  7. What do languages encode when they encode reality status?

    Article • Language Sciences, March 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Andrea Sansò

  8. How directive constructions emerge: Grammaticalization, constructionalization, cooptation

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, November 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Andrea Sansò

  9. Grammaticalization and prototype effects: A history of the agentive reflexive passive in Italian

    Article • Folia Linguistica Historica, January 2011, De Gruyter

    Professor Andrea Sansò

  10. From passive to impersonal

    Article • January 2011, John Benjamins

    Professor Andrea Sansò

  11. How Conceptual Are Semantic Maps?

    Article • Linguistic Discovery, January 2010, Dartmouth College Library Press

    Professor Andrea Sansò

  12. Commentary on Waelchi - The Dynamic Potential of Probabilistic Semantic Maps

    Article • Linguistic Discovery, January 2010, Dartmouth College Library Press

    Professor Andrea Sansò

  13. Men, women, and birds. An embryonic system of noun classification in Ancient Greek

    Article • Folia Linguistica, January 2009, De Gruyter

    Professor Andrea Sansò

  14. The spread and decline of indefinite man-constructions in European languages

    Article • January 2007, John Benjamins

    Professor Andrea Sansò

  15. 'Agent defocusing' revisited

    Article • January 2006, John Benjamins

    Professor Andrea Sansò

  16. Review of Croft (2001): Radical Construction Grammar. Syntactic Theory in Typological Perspective

    Article • Studies in Language, November 2003, John Benjamins

    Professor Andrea Sansò

  17. 18 Mediterranean languages

    Article • De Gruyter

    Professor Andrea Sansò

  18. Venire (‘come’) as a passive auxiliary in Italian1

    Article • De Gruyter

    Professor Andrea Sansò

  19. Go and come as sources of directive constructions

    Article • De Gruyter

    Professor Andrea Sansò