Francesca Masini

Fields

• Lexicon and lexeme formation
  
• Lexical semantics and grammatical semantics
• Syntax and discourse
  
• Construction Grammar and constructionalization
  

Phenomena

• List constructions (http://www.lilec.it/list/)
  
• Emergent constructions (https://sites.google.com/unisa.it/s2g)
• Argument structure constructions and the lexicon-syntax interface
  
• Multi-word expressions and figurative language
  
• Concept-naming strategies and crosslinguistic variation (lexical typology)
  
• Competition between constructions in natural language
• Linguistic expression of approximation (or intentional vagueness)
• Linguistic expression of intensification

Methodology

Phenomena can be analyzed from different perspectives (intralinguistic, contrastive, typological), preferably with empirical and corpus-based methodology.