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Monographs

  1. [2022] Transitional Morphology: Combining Forms in Modern English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Studies in English Language Series (M. Kytö ed.). DOI: 10.1017/9781009168274 [ISBN 978-1-009-16828-1]
  2. [2022] Linguistic Innovation in the Covid-19 Pandemic. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. [ISBN: 1-5275-8435-6, ISBN13: 978-1-5275-8435-8]
  3. [2017] Analogy in Word-formation. A Study of English Neologisms and Occasionalisms. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter. Series TiLSM (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs), Vol. 309 (V. Gast ed.). [ISBN Hardcover 978-3-11-054859-4, ISBN eBook 978-3-11-055141-9, ISSN 1861-4302]
  4. [2015] The Popularisation of Business and Economic English in Online Newspapers. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. [ISBN Hardback 978-1-4438-6167-0, ISBN Paperback 978-1-4438-8000-8]
  5. [2013] Extra-grammatical Morphology in English: Abbreviations, Blends, Reduplicatives, and Related Phenomena. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter. Series TiEL (Topics in English Linguistics), Vol. 82 (E.C. Traugott ed.). [ISBN 978-3-11-029539-9]
  6. [2008] An Introduction to English Slang: A Description of its Morphology, Semantics and Sociology. Monza: Polimetrica International Scientific Publisher. [ISBN 978-88-7699-113-4]

 

Co-edited volumes

  1. [2019] Bonsignori, V., G. Cappelli and E. Mattiello (eds), Worlds of Words: Complexity, Creativity, and Conventionality in English Language, Literature and Culture. Vol. 1. Pisa: Pisa University Press.

 

Articles in journals

  1. [2026] [with Giuliana Regnoli] Extramural Language Learning: An Investigation of English Slang among Italian University Students. International Journal of English Linguistics 16(3): 72-87. Special Issue An Introduction to Informal Pathways to English Learning: Studies from the Pisa Research Unit, Silvia Bruti and Nicoletta Simi (eds). [ISSN: 1923-869X, e-ISSN: 1923-8703]
  2. [2025] [with Wolfgang U. Dressler] English and German suffixoids and their Italian equivalents. Languages in Contrast: 1-24. DOI: 10.1075/lic.00058.mat. [ISSN 1387-6759, e‑ISSN 1569-9897]
  3. [2025] [with José A. Sánchez Fajardo] From spearhead to crackhead: Unraveling the morphosemantic development of English -head through a network of constructions. Word Structure 18(1-2): 119-148. DOI: 10.3366/word.2025.0248. Edinburgh University Press.
  4. [2025] [with José A. Sánchez Fajardo] The evaluative suffixoid -head and its Spanish and Italian equivalents. Folia Linguistica. Online. DOI: 10.1515/flin-2025-0063 De Gruyter Brill.
  5. [2025] A contrastive analysis of English deverbal -er synthetic compounds and their Italian equivalents. Languages in Contrast 25(2): 157-184. DOI: 10.1075/lic.23005.mat [ISSN 1387-6759, e‑ISSN 1569-9897] (classe A area 10/L1) Online 2024.
  6. [2025] [with Wolfgang U. Dressler] Verb-Noun compounds vs. synthetic compounds in English, German and Italian. Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics. DOI: 10.1515/psicl-2025-0021. De Gruyter Brill [ISSN 1897-7499]
  7. [2024] A morphosyntactic and morphosemantic analysis of English slang suffixoids. Studi e Saggi Linguistici LXII (1): 9-41. DOI: 10.4454/ssl.v62i1.380 [ISSN 0085-6827]
  8. [2024] From Covid-free to coronapocalypse: Trendy neologisms and nonce words of the Covid-19 pandemic. Iperstoria. Testi Letterature Linguaggi 23: 129-145. Special Issue Discourses in Challenging Times, Denise Milizia and Stefania M. Maci (eds). DOI: 10.13136/2281-4582/2024.i23.1445. [ISSN 2281-4582] (classe A area 10/L1)
  9. [2024] Covidiot, elbow bump, and frontliner: Language change in the Covid-19 era. Status Quaestionis 27: 73-95. Special issue Language Variation: Perspectives on Lexis and Phraseology, Marina Bondi and Silvia Cacchiani (eds). DOI: 10.13133/2239-1983/18955 [e-ISSN 2239-1983] (classe A area 10/L1)
  10. [2023] The development of ESP lexicon through new combining forms. International Journal of English Linguistics 13(7): 5-16. Special Issue New Developments in English for Special Purposes (ESP) Lexicology and Lexicography, Daniele Franceschi and Laura Pinnavaia (eds). [ISSN: 1923-869X, e-ISSN: 1923-8703] (classe A area 10/L1)
  11. [2023] Metaphor and framing in cognition and discourse: ‘War’ and ‘Journey’ metaphors for COVID-19. Textus 1: 261-280. Special Issue Dimensions of framing: representation, cognition, interaction, Paola Catenaccio, Giuliana Garzone and Martin Reisigl (eds). [ISSN 1824-3967] (classe A area 10/L1)
  12. [2023] [with Waltraud Kolb, Wolfgang U. Dressler] Human and machine translation of occasionalisms in literary texts: Johann Nestroy’s Talisman and its English translations. Target online: 1-33. DOI: 10.1075/target.21147.kol. [ISSN 0924-1884, e‑ISSN 1569-9986]. (classe A area 10/L1)
  13. [2023] Slang and verbal aggression: A morphopragmatic analysis of the compound families X-ass, X-brain, X-face, and X-head. Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 11(1): 101-120. Online 2022. DOI: 10.1075/jlac.00074.mat. [ISSN 2213-1272, e-ISSN 2213-1280] (classe A area 10/L1)
  14. [2022] Blend recognisability in English as a Foreign Language: An experiment. Lingue e Linguaggi 54: 31-51. Special issue, Pragmatic efficiency and text comprehension in L1 and L2 spoken and written communication. DOI: 10.1285/i22390359v54p31. [ISSN 2239-0367, e-ISSN 2239-0359]. (classe A area 10/L1)
  15. [2022] [with Wolfgang U. Dressler, Katharina Korecky-Kröll, Sabrina Noccetti, Ineta Dabasinskiene, Laura Kamandulyte-Merfeldiene, Victoria V. Kazakovskaya] Communication with diminutives to young children vs. pets in German, Italian, Lithuanian, Russian, and English. Stem-, Spraak- en Taalpathologie. Special issue ter ere van het emeritaat van professor Steven Gillis 27: 53-68. DOI: 10.21827/32.8310/2022-SG-i. [ISSN 0924-7025] (scientific journal, area 10/L1)
  16. [2022] [with Wolfgang U. Dressler] Dualism and superposition in the analysis of English synthetic compounds ending in -er. Linguistics 60(2): 395–461. DOI: 10.1515/ling-2021-0235. [ISSN 0024-3949, e-ISSN 1613-396X] (classe A area 10/L1)
  17. [2021] [with Wolfgang U. Dressler] A post-loan word formation pattern: Latinate English synthetic compounds. Lingua 253, April 2021, 103029: 1-12. DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2021.103029. [ISSN: 0024-3841] (classe A area 10/L1)
  18. [2021] Blends vis-à-vis compounds in English. Italian Journal of Linguistics / Rivista di Linguistica 33(1): 3-34. DOI: 10.26346/1120-2726-165. [ISSN 2499-8125] (classe A area 10/L1)
  19. [2021] [with Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun, Wolfgang U. Dressler] Asymmetric use of diminutives and hypocoristics to pet animals in Italian, German, English, and Arabic. Language & Communication 76: 136-153. DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2020.11.004. [ISSN: 0271-5309] (classe A area 10/L1)
  20. [2020] On the productivity of the Italian suffix -ista and the English -ist. Languages in Contrast 20(1): 1-30. Published online: January 2019. DOI: 10.1075/lic.18003.mat. [ISSN 1387-6759, e-ISSN 1569-9897] (classe A area 10/L1)
  21. [2019] Figuration and obesity: Warning bells from TheGuardian.com. Token: A Journal of English Linguistics 9: 197-228. [online] DOI: 10.25951/2962. [ISSN 2299-5900, e-ISSN 2392-2087] (classe A area 10/L1)
  22. [2019] A corpus-based analysis of new English blends. Lexis – E-Journal in English Lexicology 14: 1-28. [online] DOI: 10.4000/lexis.3660. Available at http://journals.openedition.org/lexis/3660. [ISSN 1951-6215] (scientific journal, area 10/L1)
  23. [2019] ‘Designer babies’ and ‘playing God’: Metaphor, genome editing, and bioethics in popular science texts. Lingue Culture Mediazioni – Languages Cultures Mediation 6(1): 65-88. DOI: 10.7358/lcm-2019-001-matt. [ISSN 2284-1881, e-ISSN 2421-0293] (scientific journal, area 10/L1)
  24. [2019] Google Talks as a new knowledge dissemination genre. Lingue e Linguaggi 29: 359-382. DOI: 10.1285/i22390359v29p359. [ISSN 2239-0367, e-ISSN 2239-0359] (classe A area 10/L1)
  25. [2019] A corpus-based analysis of scientific TED Talks: Explaining cancer-related topics to non-experts. Discourse, Context & Media 28: 60-68. DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2018.09.004. [ISSN 2211-6958] (classe A area 10/L1)
  26. [2018] [with Wolfgang U. Dressler] The morphosemantic transparency/opacity of novel English analogical compounds and compound families. Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: An International Review of English Studies 53: 67-114. DOI: 10.2478/stap-2018-0004. [ISSN 0081-6272]
  27. [2018] Paradigmatic Morphology: Splinters, combining forms, and secreted affixes. SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics 15(1): 2-22. [online] Available at http://www.skase.sk/Volumes/JTL36/pdf_doc/01.pdf. [ISSN 1336-782X] (scientific journal, area 10/L1)
  28. [2018] Lexicogenesis, analogy and productivity: The case of -burger. Neologica – Lexique: nouveauté et productivité 12: 109-124. DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-08196-8.p.0109. [ISSN 1965-2542, ISBN 978-2-406-08195-1] (classe A area 10/L1)
  29. [2017] The impact of figuration on word-formation: The role of figurative language in the production and interpretation of novel analogical compounds. Textus XXX(1): 17-32. DOI: 10.7370/87663. [ISSN 1824-3967] (classe A area 10/L1)
  30. [2017] When mistake rolls up its sleeves and becomes slang. Altre Modernità 4: 36-47. Special Issue, Errors: Communication and its Discontents. DOI: 10.13130/2035-7680/8302. [ISSN 2035-7680] (classe A area 10/L1)
  31. [2017] The popularisation of science via TED Talks. International Journal of Language Studies 11(4): 77-106. Special Issue, English for Specific Purposes: Redefining the State of the Art. [ISSN 2157-4898, e-ISSN 2157-4901] (classe A area 10/L1)
  32. [2016] Analogical neologisms in English. Italian Journal of Linguistics / Rivista di Linguistica 28(2): 103-142. Available at http://www.italian-journal-linguistics.com/current-issue/. [ISSN 2499-8125] (classe A area 10/L1)
  33. [2013] Understatement and overstatement: The language of politicians in the UK and in Italy. RILA Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata 1: 199-212. [ISSN 0033-9725] (classe A area 10/L1)
  34. [2012] Abbreviations in English and Italian scientific discourse. ESP Across Cultures IX: 149-168. [ISSN 1972-8247, ISBN 978-88-7228-696-8] (classe A area 10/L1)
  35. [2012] Metaphor in tourism discourse: Imagined worlds in English tourist texts on the web. Textus 25(1): 69-84. [ISBN 978-88-430-6402-1] (classe A area 10/L1)
  36. [2010] Nominalization in English and Italian normative legal texts. ESP Across Cultures VII: 129-146. [ISBN 978-88-7228-625-8] (classe A area 10/L1)
  37. [2009] A morphopragmatic analysis of English and Italian negative prefixes. Studi e Saggi Linguistici XLVII: 125-156. [ISSN 0085-6827] (classe A area 10/L1)
  38. [2005] The pervasiveness of slang in standard and non-standard English. Mots Palabras Words: Studi Linguistici 6: 7-41. Available at http://www.ledonline.it/mpw/. [ISSN 1720-3708]

Chapters in volumes

  1. [2025] [con Wolfgang U. Dressler] English synthetic compounds in -er and their German and Italian correspondences. In: S. Matrisciano-Mayerhofer, J. Schnitzer and E. Peters (eds), Patterns, Variants and Change: Through the Prism of Morphology. Studies in Honor of Franz Rainer. Paris: Éditions de Linguistique et de Philologie, 287-297. [ISBN 978-2-37276-079-9]
  2. [2024] [with W.U. Dressler, V. Ritt-Benmimoun] Morphological richness and priority of pragmatics over semantics in Italian, Arabic, German, and English diminutives. In: S. Manova, L. Grestenberger and K. Korecky-Kröll (eds), Diminutives across Languages, Theoretical Frameworks and Linguistic Domains. Trends in Linguistics Series. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 335-361. DOI:10.1515/9783110792874. [ISBN 9783110792874]
  3. [2022] Underwear as overwear: Spatial particles in English fashion compounds. In: A. Baicchi and S. Biscetti (eds), The Language of Fashion: Linguistic, Cognitive, and Cultural Insights. Bern: Peter Lang, 87-104. [ISBN 9783034344289]
  4. [2022] Derivational paradigms: The case of English combining forms. In: A.E. Ruz, C. Fernández-Alcaina and C. Lara-Clares (eds), Paradigms in Word-formation: Theory and Applications. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins, 129-152. [ISBN 9789027211583]
  5. [2022] Language aggression in English slang: The case of the -o suffix. In: N. Knoblock (ed.), Grammar of Hate: Morphosyntactic Features of Hateful, Aggressive, and Dehumanizing Discourse. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 34-58. DOI: 10.1017/9781108991841. [ISBN 9781108991841]
  6. [2022] Using Google Talks in ESP educational settings: A multimodal approach. In: V. Bonsignori, B.B. Crawford and D. Filmer (eds), Analysing Multimodality in Specialized Discourse: Innovative Research Methods and Applications. Wilmington: Vernon Press, 65-89. [ISBN 978-1-64889-103-8]
  7. [2021] [with Wolfgang U. Dressler, Barbara Tumfart] Nestroy als Übersetzer und Übersetzter am Beispiel seiner Wortneubildungen (aus dem Französischen und ins Italienische und Englische). In: C. Di Meola, J. Gerdes and L. Tonelli (eds), Deutsch Übersetzen und Dolmetschen: Sprachvergleichende Perspektiven mit Blick auf die Didaktik. Berlin: Peter Lang, 231-247. [ISBN 978-3-631-84708-4]
  8. [2019] ‘Brexit, Grexit, with the possibility of Spexit’: Blend splinters and secreted affixes as creative word-formation mechanisms. In: V. Bonsignori, G. Cappelli and E. Mattiello (eds), Worlds of Words: Complexity, Creativity, and Conventionality in English Language, Literature and Culture. Vol. 1. Pisa: Pisa University Press, 525-538. [ISBN 978-88-3339-243-1]
  9. [2019] Preface. In: V. Bonsignori, G. Cappelli and E. Mattiello (eds), Worlds of Words: Complexity, Creativity, and Conventionality in English Language, Literature and Culture. Vol. 1. Pisa: Pisa University Press, 11-19. [ISBN 978-88-3339-243-1]
  10. [2018] The Tuscan paradise in e-tourism: A contrastive analysis of figuration in Italian tourism websites and their English renditions. In: M. Bielenia-Grajewska and E. Cortés de los Ríos (eds), Innovative Perspectives on Tourism Discourse. Hershey (Pennsylvania): IGI Global, 111-131. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2930-9. [ISBN13 9781522529309; ISBN10 1522529306; eISBN13 9781522529316]
  11. [2017] Reformulating political discourse: How politicians construct their identity in the Facebook era. In: M. Canepari, G. Mansfield and F. Poppi (eds), The Many Facets of Remediation in Language Studies. Beau-Bassin: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, 183-196. [ISBN 978-620-2-00373-5]
  12. [2016] Understatement and overstatement: Two powerful persuasive tools in English and Italian political speeches. In: M. Degani, P. Frassi and M.I. Lorenzetti (eds), The Languages of Politics/La politique et ses langages. Vol. 1. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 159-178. [ISBN 978-1-4438-9767-9]
  13. [2014] The influence of English slang on Italian. In: J. Coleman (ed.), Global English Slang: Methodologies and Perspectives. London/New York: Routledge, 150-159. [ISBN 978-0-415-84267-9]
  14. [2013] Initialisms & Co.: Lexical and stylistic choices in scientific terminology. In: S. Kermas and T. Christiansen (eds), The Popularization of Specialized Discourse and Knowledge across Communities and Cultures. Bari: Edipuglia, 273-296. [ISBN 978-88-7228-697-5]
  15. [2013] American slang in Friends: Morphological, semantic and sociological features. In: R. Cagliero and A. Belladelli (eds), American English(es): Linguistic and Sociocultural Perspectives. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 211-238. [ISBN 978-1-4438-4748-3]
  16. [2012] Translating the lexicon of the law: A cross-linguistic study of De Franchis’s Law Dictionary. In: R. Facchinetti (ed.), English Dictionaries as Cultural Mines. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 141-162. [ISBN 978-1-4438-3647-0]
  17. [2010] The lexicon of vision in English slang. In: L. Pinnavaia and N. Brownlees (eds), Insights into English and Germanic Lexicology and Lexicography: Past and Present Perspectives. Monza: Polimetrica International Scientific Publisher, 173-197. [ISBN 978-88-7699-082-3]
  18. [2009] Difficulty of slang translation. In: A. Chantler and C. Dente (eds), Translation Practices: Through Language to Culture. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 65-83. [ISBN 978-90-420-2533-2]
  19. [2008] [with S. Conti] Extra-grammatical morphology: English acronyms and initialisms. In: M. Bertuccelli Papi, A. Bertacca and S. Bruti (eds), Threads in the Complex Fabric of Language: Linguistic and Literary Studies in Honour of Lavinia Merlini Barbaresi. Pisa: Felici Editore, 559-573. [ISBN 978-88-6019-225-7]
  20. [2008] From sexgate to vallettopoli: Contrasting English and Italian combining forms. In: C. Vergaro (ed.), Dynamics of Language Contact in the Twenty-first Century. Vol. 2. Perugia: Guerra, 177-190. [ISBN 978-88-557-0131-0]
  21. [2007] Keeping lexical complexity in slang translation. In: M. Bertuccelli Papi, G. Cappelli and S. Masi (eds), Lexical Complexity: Theoretical Assessment and Translational Perspectives. Pisa: Edizioni Plus, 121-140. [ISBN 978-88-8492-431-5]
  22. [2005] A bomb and un casino: Intensifiers in English and Italian slanguage. In: M. Bertuccelli Papi (ed.), Studies in the Semantics of Lexical Combinatory Patterns. Pisa: Edizioni Plus, 279-326. [ISBN 88-8492-236-4]
  23. [2003] Slang compounds as one case of morphological complexity. In: L. Merlini Barbaresi (ed.), Complexity in Language and Text. Pisa: Edizioni Plus, 343-377. [ISBN 88-8492-061-2]

  

Conference proceedings

  1. [2023] Formal, semantic and pragmatic motivations for blending in English. In: K. Ackerley, E. Castello, F. Dalziel, S. Gesuato, M. T. Musacchio and G. Palumbo (eds), Proceedings of the 29th AIA CONFERENCE Thinking Out of the Box in Language, Literature, Cultural and Translation Studies: Questioning Assumptions, Debunking Myths, Trespassing Boundaries, Padua, 5-7 September 2019. Padova: Padova University Press, 35-53. [ISBN: 978-88-6938-332-8].
  2. [2011] New perspectives on echoic irony: The case of the US sitcom Friends. In: G. Di Martino, L. Lombardo and S. Nuccorini (eds), Selected papers of the XXIV AIA Conference Challenges for the 21st Century: Dilemmas, Ambiguities, Directions, Roma, 1-3 October 2009, Vol. 2. Roma: EdizioniQ, 93-102. [ISBN 978-88-903969-8-4]
  3. [2008] Lexical innovation in the language of young English people. In: S. Kermas and M. Gotti (eds), Socially-conditioned Language Change: Diachronic and Synchronic Insights, Selected papers of the XIII SLIN National Conference, Lecce, 7-9 June 2007. Lecce: Edizioni del Grifo, 471-493. [ISBN 978-88-7261-350-4]
  4. [2007] Combining forms and blends: The case of scape. In: L. Jottini, G. Del Lungo and J. Douthwaite (eds), Cityscapes: Islands of the Self. Language Studies, Vol. 2, Proceedings of the XXII AIA Conference, Cagliari, 15-17 September 2005. Cagliari: CUEC, 115-130. [ISBN 978-88-8467-394-7]

Extended abstracts

  1. [2018] ‘Designer babies’ and ‘playing God’: Metaphor, genome editing, and bioethics in popular science texts. In: D. Heaney, G. Riboni and E. Brambilla (eds), Pre-conference Proceedings Knowledge Dissemination, Ethics and Ideology in Specialised Communication: Linguistic and Discursive Perspectives. Milan: IULM University, 65-66. [ISBN 978-88-940663-3-3]

Teaching module

  1. La nominalizzazione. Linguistica Contrastiva Inglese-Italiano per la Traduzione II. Consorzio ICoN (Italian Culture on the Net), Pisa.

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