Cristofaro Sonia
- Status accademico:
- Professore associato
- Ricevimento:
- su appuntamento: sonia.cristofaro@unipv.it
- Telefono:
- +39 382 984687
- Fax:
- [Non presente]
- E-mail:
- sonia.cristofaro (at) unipv.it
Elenco corsi A.A. 2012/2013
- 2012/2013
- GLOTTOLOGIA
- 2012/2013
- Linguistica tipologica (c.p.)
Info e materiale didattico
A.a. 2012-13
Glottologia
Linguistica tipologica
Curriculum
Associate professor (Ph. D., University of Pavia, 1998). Her research interests focus on typology, historical linguistics, and cognitive linguistics. Her publications include two books, `Subordination' (Oxford University Press, 2003) and `Aspetti sintattici e semantici delle frasi cmpletive in greco antico' (La Nuova Italia, 1996), as well as several scholarly articles published in peer-reviewed international journals and volumes.
Education
1998 Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Pavia
1995 European Master's degree in Linguistics, Universities of Berlin and Manchester
1993 BA in Linguistics, University of Pavia
Academic positions
2001-present Associate professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Pavia
1999-2001 Researcher, Department of Germanic and Slavic languages, University of Verona
Professional activities
Editor, `Language and Linguistics Compass' (Typology section)
Member of the Editorial Board, `Folia Linguistica'
Rewiever for the following national and international organizations: European Research Council, European Science Foundaton, Netherland
Reviewer for the following journals and publishing companies: Cognitive Linguistics, International Journal of American Linguistics, Language Sciences, Linguistic Typology, Functions of Language, Studies in Language, The Linguistic Review, Oxford University Press, Routledge, John Benjamins.
Member of the Georg von der Gabelenz Award committee, Association for Linguistic Typology, 2009
Visiting appointmens
1999, 2000, 2002 Visiting scholar, Department of Linguistics, Max-Planck Institut fuer evolutionaere Anthropologie, Leipzig
Ambiti di ricerca
Pubblicazioni
Books
2003 Subordination. Oxford, Oxford University Press.
1996 Aspetti sintattici e semantici delle frasi completive in greco antico. Firenze, La Nuova Italia.
Articles
Submitted Competing motivations and diachrony: What evidence for what motivations? In A. Malchukov, E. Moravcsik and B. MacWhinney (Eds.) Competing motivations. Oxford University Press.
To appear The referential hierarchy: Reviewing the evidence in diachronic perspective. In D. Bakker and M. Haspelmath (Eds.) Languages Across Boundaries: Studies in the Memory of Anna Siewierska. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
To appear Is subordination a syntactic category of particular languages? In I.Herlin, J.Kalliokoski and L. Visapää (Eds.) Contexts of subordination – cognitive, typological and discourse perspectives. John Benjamins
2012a Cognitive explanations, distributional evidence, and diachrony. Studies in Language 36: 645-70.
2012b Descriptive notions vs. grammatical categories: unrealized states of affairs and `irrealis' Language Sciences 34: 131-46
2012c Participial and infinitival complement sentences in Ancient Greek. In V. Gast and H. Diessel (Eds.) Clause Linkage in Cross-Linguistic Perspective. Berlin and New Your: Mouton de Gruyter: 335-62
2011 Language universals and linguistic knowledge. In Jae Jung Song (ed.), Handbook of linguistic typology. Oxford: Oxford University Press: 227-49
2010a Semantic maps and mental representation. Linguistic Discovery 8: 35-52
2010b What multifunctionality patterns tell us. Author's reply to Croft 2009 and van Trijp 2009. Linguistic Discovery 8: 64-69
2010c Positing grammatical categories: linguists' vs. speakers' generalizations. Comment on Boye 2009. Linguistic Discovery 8: 23-9
2010d Language Universals In K. Malmkjaer The Routledge Linguistics Encyclopedia (3rd Edition). London: Routledge.
2010e Teaching and Learning Guide for: Grammatical Categories and Relations: Universality vs. Language-Specificity and Construction-Specificity. Language and Linguistics Compass 4, 1116-25
2009 Grammatical categories and relations: universality vs. language-specificity and construction-specificity. Language and Linguistics Compass 3, 441-79.
2008a A constructional approach to complementation: evidence from Ancient Greek. Linguistics 46, 571-606.
2008b Asymmetric events, subordination, and grammatical categories. In Barbara Lewandowska-Tomasczyk (Ed.) Asymmetric Events. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 151-72.
2008c La tipologia tra sincronia e diacronia: sulle implicazioni teoriche delle mappe semantiche. In Romano Lazzeroni et a. (a cura di) Diachronica et synchronica. Studi in onore di Anna Giacalone Ramat. Pisa: ETS
2007 Deconstructing categories: Finiteness in a functional-typological perspective. In: Irina Nikolaeva (Ed.) Finiteness: All over the clause. OXFORD: Oxford University Press.
2006 The organization of reference grammars: A typologist’s user point of view. In: FELIX AMEKA, ALAN DENCH AND NICHOLAS D. EVANS EDS.. Catching Language: The Art and Craft of Grammar Writing. BERLIN: Mouton de Gruyter
2005a When clauses. In Bernard Comrie, Matthew Dryer, David Gil and Martin Haspelmath (eds.), World Atlas of Language Structures. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2005b Purpose clauses. In Bernard Comrie, Matthew Dryer, David Gil and Martin Haspelmath (eds.), World Atlas of Language Structures. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2005c Reason clauses. In Bernard Comrie, Matthew Dryer, David Gil and Martin Haspelmath (eds.), World Atlas of Language Structures. Oxford: Oxford University Press
2005d Utterance complements. In Bernard Comrie, Matthew Dryer, David Gil and Martin Haspelmath (eds.), World Atlas of Language Structures. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2005e Linguistic universals (Greenberghian). In: KEITH BROWN ED.. Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. OXFORD: Elsevier
2005f Linguistic universals (Chomskyan). In: KEITH BROWN ED.. Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. OXFORD: Elsevier
2005g Relativization in Sardinian. [with Anna Giacalone Ramat], in P.Ramat & Th. Stolz (eds.), Mediterranean Languages. Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschungen.
2004 Past habituals and irrealis. In: YURI A. LANDER, VLADIMIR A. PLUNGIAN AND ANNA YU. URMANCHIEVA EDS. Irrealis and Irreality. MOSCOW: Gnosis, pagg. 256-72.
2002 Tipologia linguistica. In Cristina Lavinio (a c. di), La linguistica italiana alle soglie del 2000. Roma, Bulzoni.
2001 Relativization patterns in Mediterranean languages, with particular reference to the relativization of time circumstantials. [with Anna Giacalone Ramat], in P.Ramat & Th. Stolz (eds.), Mediterranean Languages. Papers from the Med-Typ Workshop, Tirrenia, June 1-3, 2000, Bochum: Brockmeyer.
2000 Linguistic areas, typology and historical linguistics: an overview with particular respect to Mediterranean languages. In S. Cristofaro & I. Putzu (eds.), Languages in the Mediterranean: Typology and Convergence. Milano, Franco Angeli.
1999a Introduzione. [con Paolo Ramat]. In Sonia Cristofaro e Paolo Ramat (eds.), Introduzione alla tipologia linguistica. Roma, Carocci, pagg. 15-32.
1999b Premesse dei curatori. [con Paolo Ramat]. In Sonia Cristofaro & Paolo Ramat (a cura di), Introduzione alla tipologia linguistica. Roma, Carocci, pagg. 33-38, 61-3, 75-8, 107-11, 141-3, 171-5, 215-17, 247-51.
1998a Deranking and Balancing in Different Subordination Relations: A Typological Study. Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschungen 51.1, pagg. 3-42.
1998b Aspetti diacronici e sincronici della subordinazione infinitiva in alcuni dialetti calabresi e pugliesi e nelle lingue balcaniche: una prospettiva tipologico-funzionalista. In Paolo Ramat & Elisa Roma (a cura di), Sintassi storica. Atti del XXX Congresso della Società di Linguistica Italiana. Roma, Bulzoni, pagg. 495-518.
1998c Grammaticalization and clause linkage strategies: a typological approach with particular reference to Ancient Greek. In Anna Giacalone Ramat & Paul Hopper (eds.), The Limits of Grammaticalization. Amsterdam, John Benjamins, pagg. 59-88.
1997a Aspetti semantici e pragmatici della distribuzione di hoti e hos: un'analisi fondata sul concetto di categoria prototipica. In Emanuele Banfi (ed.), Studi di linguistica greca. II. Milano, Franco Angeli, pagg. 57-70.
1997b Modalità, grammaticalizzazione e iconicità: proposta di alcune gerarchie implicazionali. Archivio Glottologico Italiano LXXXII.II, pagg. 129-170.
1995a La complementazione frasale dopo verbi di «dire» e «pensare». In Pierluigi Cuzzolin (a cura di), Studi di linguistica greca. Milano, Franco Angeli, pagg. 91-112.
1995b Lo sviluppo dei complementatori come modello di grammaticalizzazione: il caso del greco antico. Archivio Glottologico Italiano LXXX.I/II, pagg. 102-121.
Edited volumes
1999 Sonia Cristofaro & Paolo Ramat (a cura di), Introduzione alla tipologia linguistica. Roma: Carocci.
2000 Sonia Cristofaro & Ignazio Putzu (eds.), Languages in the Mediterranean: Typology and Convergence. Milano, Franco Angeli.
Reviews
2000a Review of 'F. De Haan, The Interaction of Modality and Negation. New York / London: Garland. 1997'. Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschungen 53.2: 211-226.
2000b Review of 'R. D. Van Valin & R. J. LaPolla, Syntax. Cambridge: Cambridge University press, 1997'. Archivio Glottologico Italiano LXXXV.I: 121-34.
2010. Review of E. J. Vajda (Ed) 2008. Subordination and coordination strategies in North Asian languages. Studies in Language 34: 680–688