The aim of this paper is to investigate the semantic value of combining the colon with connectives. For this purpose, on the basis of data obtained from the analysis of different corpora of functional written Italian, ...

This paper aims to analyze the emphatic uses of the ellipsis and of the single dash combined with the conjunction e ‘and’ in modern Italian. We will propose an empirically-based description of the textual effects produced ...

This paper aims to illustrate how punctuation in contemporary Italian language – a field which is considered poorly codified and barely codifiable – responds to specific communicativetextual regularities. Through the ...