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  • MONOGRAPHS

Moretti, L. (under contract). Causative constructions in Middle English: A usage-based account. Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL]. Mouton de Gruyter.

  • ARTICLES IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS

In preparation

Moretti, L. Make me (to) understand. The establishment of the bare infinitive with causative make. To be submitted to Studia Anglica Posnaniensia. 

Forthcoming

Moretti, L. Submitted to the Journal of Historical Linguistics. Reconstructing the causative system in Old English.

Moretti, L. Submitted to Cognitive Linguistics. Analogy drives language change: The emergence of causative cause and gar in Middle English.

Moretti, L. Accepted. Variation between bare and to-infinitive complements with Middle English causative verb. Folia Linguistics Historica.

2025

Moretti, L. Analogy in language change. In Hilary Nesi and Petar Milin (eds.), International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 3rd Edition. Elsevier.

Moretti, L. Usage-based approaches to language change. In Hilary Nesi and Petar Milin (eds.), International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 3rd Edition. Elsevier.

Moretti, L. Breban, T., Börjars, K. Multiple source explanation in language change: the emergence of auxiliary do in Middle English. Diachronica. https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/dia.24060.bre

2024

Moretti, L. A quantitative exploration of the functions of auxiliary do in Middle English. English Language and Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1360674324000030

2023

Moretti, L. The functions of auxiliary do in Middle English poetry: A quantitative study. Journal of English Linguistics, 3-29. https://doi.org/10.1177/00754242221139881

2022

Moretti, L. A multivariate analysis of causative do and causative make in Middle English. Linguistics Vanguard 8(1), 165-176. 10.1515/lingvan-2022-0070

  • ARTICLES IN EDITED VOLUMES

Moretti, L. forth. Usage-based approaches to language change. In Hilary Nesi and Petar Milin (eds.), International Encyclopaedia of Language and Linguistics, 3rd edition. Elsevier.

Moretti, L. forth. Analogy in language change. In Hilary Nesi and Petar Milin (eds.), International Encyclopaedia of Language and Linguistics, 3rd edition. Elsevier.

Moretti, L. 2020. Semantic and morphological features of causative hatan in Old English. In Nikolaos Lavidas, Elly van Gelderen and Alexander Bergs (eds.). The Naxos Papers. Volume 1: On Old and Middle English. Newcastle: C-S-P. 6-15. 

  • TALKS

Moretti, L, Breban T., Börjars, K. 2024. Multiple sources in language change: The emergence of auxiliary do. Paper presented at the 21st International Congress of Linguists, University of Poznan.

Moretti, L. 2023. Semantic swap, network reconfiguration or both? The loss
of causative do. Paper presented at the 56th Annual Meeting of the Societas
Linguistica Europaea, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. 

Moretti, L, Breban T., Börjars, K. 2023. Multiple sources, the language net-
work and language change: the emergence of auxiliary do. Paper presented at
the 22th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, University of
Sheffield.

Moretti, L. 2022. Multiple constructions and multiple factors at work: the actuation of auxiliary do. Paper presented at the 25th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, University of Oxford.

Moretti, L. 2019. How causative (ge)don became auxiliary do. Paper presented at the 24th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, The Australian National University, Canberra.

Moretti, L. 2019. Role and function of the verbal prefix ge- in Middle English. Paper presented at the 11th International Conference on Middle English, University of Florence.

Moretti, L. 2018. The origin of auxiliary do: evidence from Old English. Paper presented at the 20th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, University of Edinburgh.

Moretti, L. 2018. Proto-auxiliary do in Old English affirmative declaratives. Paper presented at the 3rd Old and Middle English Summer School, Naxos.

  • THESIS

Moretti, L. 2021. On multiple constructions and multiple factors in language change: The origin of auxiliary do. PhD thesis, University of Manchester.