Francesco Ursini

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Francesco Ursini is a linguist with a background in cognitive sciences. He specializes in English linguistics, but carries cross-linguistics research as well. His main research interests are morphology, semantics and discourse analysis, with a focus on spatial language and cognition. He works on theoretical and experimental topics, using a variety of methods (e.g. corpus linguistics, on-line sentence processing, written questionnaire). In recent times, Francesco has begun to carry out research in comics studies and science fiction literature. 

 

Biography

2000-2004, B.A. in English literature and Linguistics, Philosophy, L'Aquila U. (ITA)/Kostanz U. (DE)

2004-2006 M.Phil. in Linguistics, Utrecht U. (NL)

2007-2011 Ph.D. in Cognitive Sciences, Macquarie U. (AUS)

2011-2012 Post.Doc in Linguistics, Institute of Linguistics Sciences (HUN)

2012-2016 Lecturer, English Department, Stockholm U. (SVE) 

Article

Ursini, F. (2017). David Bowie's Influence on JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship, 7. More information
Ursini, F. (2017). Themes, Focalization and the Flow of Information: The Case of Shingeki no Kyojin Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship, 7. More information
Ursini, F. (2016). Literal and metaphoric readings in spatial prepositions Semantics-Syntax Interface, 3(1), 73-107. More information
Ursini, F., Giannella, A. (2016). On the polysemy of Spanish spatial Ps Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 5(2), 253-312. More information
Ursini, F. (2016). Metaphors below the sentence level: The case of appositives SKY Journal of Linguistics, 29, 179-196. More information
Ursini, F. (2015). On the syntax and semantics of Italian spatial Ps Acta Linguistica Hungarica, 62(1), 63-110. More information
Ursini, F. (2015). Metaphoric and Literal Readings for Spatial Prepositions: The Case of Boolean Phrases Language and Semiotic Studies, 1(3), 52-79. More information
Ursini, F. (2015). Ave' and Tene': Another look at auxiliary selection in Aquilan Dialectologia, 115-143. More information
Ursini, F. (2015). Language and thought in The Invisibles ImageTexT, 8(2). More information
Ursini, F., Mahmutovic, A., Bramlett, F. (2015). Which Side are You On?: The worlds of Grant Morrison ImageTexT, 8(2). More information
Ursini, F., Akagi, N. (2014). The interpretation of plural definites in discourse: the case of spatial adpositions Linguistics and the human sciences, 9(2), 201-227 Sheffield: Equinox Publishing . More information
Ursini, F. (2014). The Morphology of Spatial P: A Look Inside Adpositions And Case Recherches Linguistiques de Vincennes, 43(2), 370-298. More information
Ursini, F. (2014). Experimental entailments: The case of spatial prepositions Nordic Journal of English Studies, 13(3), 112-138. More information
Ursini, F. (2013). The interpretation of Spatial 'At': An Experimental Study Journal of Cognitive Science, 14(1), 47-76 Seoul: Seoul National University . More information
Ursini, F. (2013). On the Syntax and Semantics of Haber and Tener Lingue e linguaggio, 12(1), 89-120. More information
Ursini, F. (2013). Which model of biological plausibility for language? The case of “What Darwin Got Wrong” Language and information society, 19(1), 103-139. More information
Ursini, F. (2013). On The Syntax and Semantics of Spanish Spatial Prepositions Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2(1), 117-166. More information
Ursini, F. (2013). Esse and sta: auxiliary selection in the Aquilan dialect Dialectologia, 107-134 Barcelona: Universitat de Barcelona . More information
Ursini, F. (2013). Another look at spatial prepositions and the modification problem IBERIA: An International Journal of Theoretical Linguistics, 5(2), 1-40. More information

Doctoral thesis

Ursini, F. (2011). The Language Of Space: The Acquisition And Interpretation of Spatial Adpositions In English (Doctoral thesis, Sydney, Australia: Macquarie University Printing services). More information

Book chapter

Ursini, F. (2017). Objects and nouns: An account of the vision-language interface. In: Jordan Zlatev, Göran Sonesson and Piotr Konderak (Ed.), Meaning, mind and communication: Explorations in cognitive semiotics (pp. 379 -389). More information
Ursini, F. (2017). On the structure of toponyms. In: Lívia Kőrtvélyessy, Pavol Štekauer, Salvador Valera (Ed.), Word formation universals Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing More information
Ursini, F. (2016). Punk "Bodies" and the "do it yourself" ethics.. In: Field, Chris, Keegan Lannon, Michael MacBride, and Christopher Douglas. Jefferson. (Ed.), The Punk Aesthetics in Comics (pp. 108 -126). More information
Ursini, F. (2016). Objects and Nouns: An Informorphic theory of the Vision-Language Interface. In: J. Zlatev, Å. Konderak & G. (Ed.), Introducing Cognitive Semiotics (pp. 330 -342). More information
Huang, A., Ursini, F. (2016). The acquisition of the<em> wh</em>-pronoun<em> duo-shao</em> 'much-little' in child Mandarin. In: Nakayma, M. Ching, Y. Su & A. Huang (Ed.), A Festschrift for Stephen Crain (pp. 170 -198). More information
Ursini, F. (2015). Another look at preposition stranding. In: Philip Shaw, Britt Erman, Gunnel Melchers, Peter Sundkvist (Ed.), From clerks to corpora: essays on the English language yesterday and today: essays in honour of Nils-Lennart Johannesson (pp. 319 -343). Stockholm: Stockholm University Press More information

Review

Ursini, F. (2016). Jerrold M. Saddock. 2012. The Modular Architecture of Grammar. More information
Ursini, F. (2014). Antonio Fábregas and Sergio Scalise. 2012. Morphology: From data to theories.. More information
Ursini, F. (2013). Review of "Anaphora and Language Design". More information
Ursini, F. (2013). Book review “Language, Cognition and Space: The State of The Art and New Directions”. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter More information

Conference paper

Ursini, F., Huang, A. (2014). Objects and Nouns: Ontologies and Relations. Second Workshop on Action, Perception and Language (APL 2). More information
Ursini, F. (2013). On the Distributed Morphology of Spatial Prepositions and Anaphors. 15th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG 15): Seoul, South Korea, 07-Aug-2013 - 10-Aug-2013. More information
Ursini, F., Nobuaki, A. (2013). The Acquisition of English Spatial Prepositions: The Case of Logical Relations. Perth: Australian Linguistics Society, The 2012 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society, University of Western Australia,Perth,December 5th to 7th 2012. More information

Collections

(2015). The Worlds of Grant Morrison A special issue of ImageTexT. Tampa Bay: University Press of Florida More information