The semantics of the italian adverb “magari”: a threshold-based approach to its polysemy
The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that the several uses of the Italian adverbial magari (the optative, short answer, hypothetical, concessive and imperative uses) can be led back to one basic core meaning. This core meaning is taken to account for all the uses of the item without reference to...
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| Language: | English |
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Firenze University Press
2020-09-01
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| Series: | Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali |
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| Online Access: | https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-qulso/article/view/9694 |