Books

Publications

Research interests:

 

Syntactic microvariation

Italian dialects, in particular Southern Italian ones

The syntax of Abruzzese

Agreement

Impersonal pronouns

Tense, aspect and mood

Articles/Handouts

Articles/Handouts

Books

Research interests

 

2010

Syntactic variation.

The dialects of Italy

 

 

Ed. with Adam Ledgeway and Ian Roberts

Cambridge University Press

 

2008

Agreement restrictions

 

 

Ed. with Susann Fischer and Gunnar Hrafn Hrafnbjargarson

 Mouton de Gruyter

 

2007

Impersonal si constructions

 

 

Mouton de Gruyter

[on googlebooks]

 

in preparation

The syntax of Abruzzese and Molisano

 

 

 

with Adam Ledgeway

 

in preparation

Syntactic Agreement

Key Topics in Syntax series

Cambridge University Press

2011

manuscript

Agreement, ergativity, and the parameterization of Probes

2011

handout

Non–Romance features in Italo-Romance.

A look into southern Italian dialects

CIDSM 6, Cambridge, 16-17 June 2011

2010

handout

Eccentric agreement,  feature hierarchies, and language continua

RALFe, Paris, 14-16 October 2010

 

 

2010

handout

The diachrony of Abruzzese complementation

X Incontro di  dialettologia

Bristol, 22-24 September 2010

(with Claudio Di Felice)

 

 

2010

handout

Southern Italian Vocative Morphology at the interface between syntax and  phonology.

Workshop on Theoretical Morphology 5/WOTM 5

Leipzig, 25 June

(with Marc van Oostendorp)

 

 

2010

handout

Eccentric agreement in Italo-Romance.

A closer look into feature bundles 

Cambridge, 22 Feb

 

 

in preparation

 

Syntactic doubling and Voice.

The syntax-PF interface 

(with Theresa Biberauer)

 

 

2010

Soggetti non canonici in Abruzzese: i pronomi impersonali nome ed anne

This is a draft of the paper which appeared on Archivio Glottologico Italiano 2010/2

 

 

 

in preparation

The asymmetric development of the complementizer system in Southern Italian dialects. A new view from Abruzzese

(with Claudio Di Felice)

 

 

 

2010

Past participle agreement in Abruzzese: Split auxiliary selection and the null-subject parameter

(with Ian Roberts)Natural Language and Linguistic Theory  (Open Access)

 

 

 

2010

At the C-T boundary: investigating Abruzzese complementation.

(with Adam Ledgeway) 

Lingua

 

 

 

2010

On the role of gemination in passives: the case of Abruzzese

(with Theresa Biberauer)

 

 

 

2009

draft

The Abruzzese T-v system: feature spreading and the double-auxiliary construction.

(with Adam Ledgeway). Appeared in D’Alessandro, Ledgeway & Roberts 2010. Syntactic Variation. Cambridge University Press

 

 

2009

draft

The verbal domain: TP-VP structure and auxiliaries.

appeared in D’Alessandro, Ledgeway & Roberts 2010. Syntactic Variation. CUP

 

 

2009

Proper Subset Relation and Concord: agreement in Abruzzese Possessive Copular Constructions.

(with Anna Maria Di Sciullo) 

In Proceedings of NELS 38.

 

 

2009

Agreement Mismatch. A look from Italian Dialects

Paper presented at the Workshop on Agreement, Doubling and the DP [more elaborated version of the Probe-Goal paper], at the Meertens Instituut and at the Bristol Dialectology Meeting

 

 

2009

Syntactic Change in progress: insights from the case of angore. (with Theresa Biberauer)

Paper presented at the LAGB 50, Edinburgh and at CIDSM 4, Cambridge

 

 

2009

Subject doubling in Italo-Romance varieties. An overview.

Paper presented at Meertens Instituut Workshop on Doubling

 

 

2008

Syntaktische und pragmatische Merkmale: Eine Fallstudie.

In Remberger & Mensching (eds). Romanische Syntax – minimalistisch. Tübingen: Narr Verlag.

 

 

2008

Movement and agreement in Italian past participles and defective phases (with Ian Roberts)

Linguistic Inquiry 39:3