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Publications

The publications available for download are those with a link in bold in square brackets.

You can also find my publications at https://lingue.academia.edu/CristianoBroccias.

Authored books

1. Broccias, Cristiano. 2003. The English Change Network. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter. (Cognitive Linguistics Research Series, no.22) [2003 ECN]

Edited books

1. Baicchi, Annalisa, Cristiano Broccias, and Andrea Sansò (eds.). 2005. Modelling Thought and Constructing Meaning: Cognitive Models in Interaction. Milano: Franco Angeli.

2. Baicchi, Annalisa and Cristiano Broccias (eds.). 2024. Constructional and Cognitive Explorations of Contrastive Linguistics. Springer. 

3. Broccias, Cristiano, Sara Dickinson, and Annalisa Baicchi (eds.). 2024. Dalla forma alla socità: studi linguistici e culturali. Genova: Genova University Press.

Papers

1. Broccias, Cristiano. 1997. Binding Theory and Its Consequences for Minimalist Syntax. Rivista di Grammatica Generativa 22: 93-121. [1997 RGG]

2. Broccias, Cristiano. 1998. Breve introduzione all’alternanza dativa inglese (‘A short introduction to the English dative alternation’). Quaderni del Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere, Università di Genova, 10: 327-342.

3. Broccias, Cristiano. 2000. The Need for the Resultative Network. In: Conathan, Lisa J., Jeff Good, Darya Kavitskaya, Alyssa B. Wulf, and Alan C.L. Yu. (eds.). Proceedings of the twenty-sixth annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General session and parasession on aspect. 41-52.

4. Broccias, Cristiano. 2001. Allative and Ablative At-Constructions. In: Andronis, Mary, Christopher Ball, Heidi Elston and Sylvain Neuvel (eds.). CLS 37: The Main Session. Papers from the 37th Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. Vol. 1. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society. 67-82.

5. Broccias, Cristiano. 2001. Grammatica e Football English. Linguistica e Filologia 13:151-183.

6. Broccias, Cristiano. 2001. The English Resultative Construction: A Schematic Analysis. In: Dehé, Nicole and Anja Wanner (eds.). Structural Aspects of Semantically Complex Verbs. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. 35-64.

7. Broccias, Cristiano. 2002. Alignment and Complexity of English Resultative Constructions. Papers on Linguistics of the University of Manchester 2002: 28-40.

8. Broccias, Cristiano. 2003. Quantity, causality and temporality in change constructions. In: Nowak, Pawel M., Corey Yoquelet and David Mortensen (eds.). Proceedings of the twenty-ninth annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General session and parasession on Phonetic Sources of Phonological Patterns. Berkeley, California: Berkeley Linguistics Society. 67-78.

9. Broccias, Cristiano. 2003. Abstractness and the Verb Give. Quaderni del Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere, Università di Genova, 12: 223-250.

10. Broccias, Cristiano. 2004. Adjective Selection in Resultative Sentences. In: Torsello Taylor, Carol, Maria Grazia Busà and Sara Gesuato (eds.). Lingua inglese e mediazione interlinguistica. Padova: Unipress. 241-260.

11. Broccias, Cristiano. 2004. A Note on the History of Power. In: Barisone, Ermanno, Maria Luisa Maggioni, Paola Tornaghi (eds). The History of English and the Dynamics of Power. Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso. 305-314.

12. Broccias, Cristiano. 2004. The Cognitive Basis of Adjectival and Adverbial Resultative Constructions. Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics 2: 103-126. [2004 ARCL]

13. Broccias, Cristiano and Daniele Canepa. 2005. The body, the mind and the arts: An investigation into the major metaphor types used in football match reports. ESP Across Cultures 2: 21-33. [2005 ESP]

14. Broccias, Cristiano. 2005. Non-causal Change Constructions. In: Baicchi, Annalisa, Cristiano Broccias, Andrea Sansò (eds.). Modelling Thought and Constructing Meaning: Cognitive Models in Interaction. Milano: Franco Angeli.

15. Broccias, Cristiano. 2006. The construal of constructions: Causal and temporal interpretations in change constructions. Constructions SV1-4/2006. [2006 Constructions]

16. Broccias, Cristiano. 2006. Cognitive approaches to grammar. In: Kristiansen, Gitte, Michel Achard, René Dirven and Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez (eds.). Cognitive Linguistics: Current Applications and Future Perspectives. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter. 81-115.

17. Broccias, Cristiano. 2006. The English simultaneity network: The case of as and while-clauses. LACUS Forum XXXII: 33-41. [2006 LACUS]

18. Broccias, Cristiano. 2006. The Construal of Simultaneity in English with special reference to as-clauses. Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics 4. [2006 ARCL]

19. Broccias, Cristiano. 2007. The progressive aspect in simultaneity as and while-clauses. Filologia e Linguistica 24: 39-64.

20. Broccias, Cristiano and Willem Hollmann. 2007. Do we need scanning in (Cognitive) grammar? Cognitive Linguistics 18.4: 487-522. [2007 CL]

21. Broccias, Cristiano. 2007. The classification of English accents by advanced L2 students: A preliminary investigation. In: Jottini, Laura, Gabriella del Lungo and John Douthwaite (eds). Cityscapes: Islands of the Self. Language Studies. Volume 2. Cagliari: Cooperativa Universitaria Editrice Cagliaritana. 53-63. 

22. Broccias, Cristiano. 2007. Unsubcategorised Objects in English Resultative Constructions. In: Delbecque, Nicole and Bert Corneille. On Interpreting Construction Schemas. From Action and Motion to Transitivity and Causality. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 103-124.

23. Broccias, Cristiano. 2008. From symmetric to non-inheriting resultatives: On gradience and conceptual links in Resultative Constructions. Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses 57: 49-66 (Special issue: “Grammar, Constructions and Interfaces”).

24. Broccias, Cristiano. 2008. Lo sviluppo delle costruzioni resultative aggettivali inglesi: un approccio cognitivo. In: Händl, Claudia e Chiara Benati (eds.). La linguistica germanica ggi: bilanci e prospettive. Atti del XXXIV Convegno dell’Associazione Italiana di Filologia Germanica. Genova: ECIG. 195-219.

25. Broccias, Cristiano. 2008. Imperfectivity and transience: The two sides of the progressive aspect in simultaneity clauses. Journal of English Linguistics 36.2: 155-178. [2008 JEL]

26. Broccias, Cristiano. 2008. Cognitive linguistic theories of grammar and grammar teaching. In: De Knop, Sabine and Teun De Rycker (eds.). Cognitive Approaches to Pedagogical Grammar. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 67-90. [2008 CAPG]

27. Broccias, Cristiano. 2008. Imperfectivity and transience: The two sides of the progressive aspect in simultaneity as and while-clauses. In: Douthwaite, John and Domenico Pezzini (eds.). Words in Action: Diachronic and Synchronic Approaches to English Discourse. Studies in Honour of Ermanno Barisone. Genoa: Egic. 263-278.

28. Broccias, Cristiano. 2008. Sintassi. Studi Italiani di Linguistica Teorica e Applicata XXXVIII.1: 49-69. [Special issue on “Linguistica inglese: studi recenti e prospettive di ricerca” (“English linguistics: recent studies and research prospects”) edited by Giovanni Iamartino]

29. Broccias, Cristiano. 2008. Towards a history of English resultative constructions: the case of adjectival resultative constructions. English Language and Linguistics 12.1: 1-28. [2008 ELL]

30. Broccias, Cristiano and Nicholas Smith. 2010. Same time, across time: Simultaneity clauses from Late Modern to Present-Day English. English Language and Linguistics 14.3: 347-371. [2010 ELL]

31. Broccias, Cristiano. 2010. As-simultaneity clauses as complements of perception verbs: The case of watch. Textus XXIII.3: 583-602. [2010 Textus]

32. Broccias, Cristiano. 2011. Motivating the flexibility of oriented –ly adverbs. In: Panther, Klaus-Uwe and Günter Radden (eds.). Motivation in Grammar and the Lexicon. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 71-88. [2011 -ly in CG]

33. Broccias, Cristiano. 2011. A puzzle for the present: A Cognitive Grammar analysis of present tense simultaneity as-clauses. In: Bierwiaczonek, Bogusław, Bożena Cetnarowska, Anna Turula (eds.).Syntax in Cognitive Grammar. Częstochowa: Wyższa Szkoła Lingwistyczna. 259–272. [2011 as in CG]

34. Broccias, Cristiano. 2012. Oriented –ingly adjuncts in Late Modern English. In: Sauer, Hans and Gaby Waxenberger (eds.). English Historical Linguistics 2008. Selected papers from the fifteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 15), Munich, 24-30 August 2008 [CILT 324]. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 147-164. [2012 -ingly in LModE]

35. Broccias, Cristiano. 2012. The syntax-lexicon continuum (Chapter 57). In: Nevalainen, Terttu and Elizabeth Closs Traugott (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of the History of English. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 735-747. [2012 Oxford HEL Handbook]

36. Broccias, Cristiano. 2013. Cognitive Grammar. In: Trousdale, Graeme and Thomas Hoffmann (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Construction Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [2013 CG]

37. Broccias, Cristiano. 2013. Tying events tight: A reply to Iwata (2006). Language Sciences 38: 32-52. [2013 LS]

38. Broccias, Cristiano. 2014. Tight metaphors vs. deadly metonymies: A further rebuttal of Iwata’s bipartite adjectival resultatives. Language Sciences 44: 40-46. [2014 LS] [19th July 2014 IMPORTANT UPDATE. Unfortunately, the text, even in its published version, contains a mistake. In Section 2.3, the source domain should be (to) one’s death and the target (to) the ground and not vice versa, as wrongly claimed in the paper. Apologies for that.]

39. Broccias, Cristiano. 2014. Watching as-clauses in Late Modern English. In: Pfenninger, Simone E., Olga Timofeeva, Anne-Christine Gardner, Alpo Honkapohja, Marianne Hundt and Daniel Schreier (eds.). Contact, Variation, and Change in the History of English. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 137–161. [2014 as in LModE]

40. Broccias, Cristiano. 2015. The relation between hypotactic integration and complementation in Cognitive Grammar. In: Höglund, Mikko, Paul Rickman, Juhani Rudanko and Jukka Havu (eds.). Perspectives on Complementation: Theory, Structure and Variation. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 206-226. [2015 hypo]

41. Broccias, Cristiano. 2015. The as-copular construction in Middle English. Filologia Germanica – Germanic Philology 7: 1-32. [2015 as in ME]

42. Broccias, Cristiano. 2017. A radical approach to metonymy. Textus XXX.1: 185-196. [2017 Textus]

43. Broccias, Cristiano and Enrico Torre. 2018. From the VVINGPP construction to the VVING pattern. A descriptive account. Lingue e Linguaggi 26: 81-99. [2018 VVing]

44. Broccias, Cristiano. 2019. Cognitive Grammar. In: Kertész András, Moravcsik Edith and Rákosi Csilla (eds.). Current Approaches to Syntax: A Comparative Handbook. Berlin: de Gruyter Mouton. 23-48.

45. Broccias, Cristiano. 2020. Aristocratic Syntax: Interrogative and Relative Who and Whom in 19th and 20th Century Literature. In: Michelucci, Stefania, Ian Duncan and Luisa Villa (eds.). The British Aristocracy in Popular Culture. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company. 200-217.

46. Broccias, Cristiano. 2020. Falling to one's death in multiple landscapes: From blending to typology. In: Baicchi, Annalisa (ed.). Figurative Meaning Construction in Thought and Language. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 107-127. [2020 FTL]

47. Broccias, Cristiano and Enrico Torre. 2020. Attraction and differentiation in the history of the English dative and benefactive alternations. In: Fedriani, Chiara and Maria Napoli (eds.). The Diachrony of Ditransitives. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. 169-175. [2020 datives] 

48. Broccias, Cristiano. 2021. Cognitive Grammar. In: Wen, Xu and John Taylor (eds.). The Routledge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics. 30-42.

49. Broccias, Cristiano. 2021. A new look at word classes in Cognitive Grammar. Jezikoslovlje 22.2: 269-293. [2021 word classes in CG]

50. Broccias, Cristiano. 2022.  A Cognitive Grammar approach to ‘metonymy’. In: Brdar, Mario and Rita Brdar-Szabó (eds.). Figurative Thought and Language in Action. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 37-57. [2022 metonymy in CG]

51. Broccias, Cristiano, Annalisa Baicchi and Marco Bagli. 2022. Contrasting English and Italian simultaneity subordinators as/come, while/mentre, when/quando: A preliminary investigation. In:  Gallez, Françoise and Manon Hermann (eds.). Cognition and Contrast / Kognition und Kontrast: Festschrift for / für Prof. Dr. Sabine De Knop. Bruxelles: Presses de l'Université Saint-Louis. 177-194.

52. Broccias, Cristiano. 2023.  Word classes in Cognitive Grammar. In: van Lier, Eva (ed.). The Oxford Handbook of Word Classes. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 160-177. 

53. Smith, Nicholas, Cristiano Broccias, Cathleen Waters. 2024. Addressing comparability and retrieval issues in conversation corpora: A case study on the Spoken British National Corpora (1994 and 2014), using the past perfect.  Research in Corpus Linguistics 12/2: 80–110. [2024 past perfect]

54. Broccias, Cristiano and Enrico Torre. 2024. Comparing the VVingly and VVing constructions in two centuries of American fiction (1810-2000). In: Broccias, Cristiano, Sara Dickinson, and Annalisa Baicchi (eds.). Dalla forma alla socità: studi linguistici e culturali. Genova: Genova University Press. 15-44. [2024 VVing(ly)]

55. Broccias, Cristiano. 2025. 'Non-referential' subjects in Old English swa2 clauses. In: Aru, Alessandro, Florencia Ferrante and Marie Gaboriaud (eds.). Mediazioni: Percorsi testuali e interpretativi tra umanità digitali e riscrutture. Alessandria: Edizione dell'Orso. 41-62. [2025 swa2]

56. Broccias, Cristiano. 2025. The simultaneity VVing construction: A corpus-based investigation. In: Bagli. Marco (ed.). Color and Other Constructions: Writings for Jodi L. Sandford. Alessandria: Edizione dell'Orso. 49-70.

Dictionary entries

In Wörterbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (WSK) Online, section Cognitive Grammar (edited by Constanze Juchem-Grundmann with the participation of Doris Schönefeld):

1. Broccias, Cristiano. 2012. Linguistic unit/linguistische Einheit.

2. Broccias, Cristiano. 2012. Mental scanning/mentales Scannen.

3. Broccias, Cristiano. 2013. Conceived time/Wahrgenommene Zeit.

4. Broccias, Cristiano. 2013. Elaboration site/Elaborationsplatz.

5. Broccias, Cristiano. 2013. Predication/Prädikation.

6. Broccias, Cristiano. 2013. Progressive/Verlaufsform.

7. Broccias, Cristiano. 2013. There-construction/There-Konstruktion.

8. Broccias, Cristiano. 2013. Thing/Ding.

9. Broccias, Cristiano. 2013. Time-away construction/Time-away-Konstruktion.

10. Broccias, Cristiano. 2013. Valence/Valenz.

Reviews

1. Broccias, Cristiano. 2002. Review of Croft, William. 2001. Radical Construction Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press. LINGUIST List:  Vol-13-1516. Fri May 24 2002. ISSN: 1068-4875.

2. Broccias, Cristiano. 2003. Review of Rosenbach, Annette. 2002. Genitive Variation in English. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. LINGUIST List:  Vol-14-2272. Fri Aug 29 2003. ISSN: 1068-4875.

3. Broccias, Cristiano. 2004. Review of Fauconnier, Gilles and Mark Turner. 2002. The Way We Think. New York: Basic Books. Cognitive Linguistics 15-4: 575-588.

4. Broccias, Cristiano. 2005. Review of Radden, Günter and Klaus-Uwe Panther (eds.). 2004. Studies in Linguistic Motivation. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. LINGUIST List: Vol-16-872. Tue Mar 22 2005. ISSN: 1068-4875.

5. Broccias, Cristiano. 2005. Review of Schmiedtová, Barbara. 2004. At the Same Time… The Expression of Simultaneity in Learner Varieties. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. LINGUIST List: Vol-16-2449. Mon Aug 22 2005. ISSN: 1068-4875.

6. Broccias, Cristiano. 2007. Review of Bertuccelli Papi, Marcella (ed.). Studies in the semantics of lexical combinatory patterns. Pisa: Pisa University Press. Folia Linguistica 41.1/2: 171-179.

7. Broccias, Cristiano. 2012. Review of Gisborne, Nikolas. 2010. The Event Structure of Perception Verbs. Oxford: Oxford University Press. English Language and Linguistics 1: 176-183.

8. Broccias, Cristiano. 2013. Review of Guerrero Medina, Pilar (ed.). 2011. Morphosyntactic Alternations in English: Functional and Cognitive Perspectives. Sheffield: Equinox. Review of Cognitive Linguistics 11: 215-226.

9. Broccias, Cristiano. 2016 [published online 7th May 2015]. Review of Brian MacWhinney, Andrej Malchukov, and E. Moravcsik (eds.). 2014. Competing Motivations in Grammar and Usage. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Applied Linguistics 37.1: 136-139.