Publications
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D'Alessandro, R. & S. Terenghi. In press. Non-monotonic functional sequences: A new metric for complexity in heritage languages. In: Polinsky, Putnam & Salmons (eds), Formal approaches to complexity in heritage language grammars. Language Science Press.
D'Alessandro, R. 2023. Doing Romance Linguistics in the 2020s. Keynote article, in Corr, A. et al., Romance Grammars: context and contact. Special Issue of Isogloss.
D'Alessandro, R. 2023. A complex solution to an unsolvable problem? Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism.
Forthcoming
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Chandra, P., D'Alessandro, R. & M. Putnam. Ethical concerns for theoretical research in linguistics:
Issues and best practices. To appear in Terkourafi, M. (ed.), Ethics in Linguistics. Special issue for Linguistics. -
D'Alessandro, R & M. Putnam (eds). Heritage Languages and Syntactic Theory. Oxford University Press.
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D'Alessandro, R., Andriani, L., Frasson, A., Pinto, M., Sorgini, L. & S. Terenghi. Microcontact and syntactic theory. In D'Alessandro & Putnam (eds), Heritage Languages and Syntactic Theory. OUP.
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D'Alessandro, R. & A. Frasson. Simplification or complexification: auxiliary selection and anti-agreement effect in Brazilian Venetan. In press. Catalan Journal of Linguistics.
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D'Alessandro, R. Raccogliere dati di varietà romanze in via di estinzione: il caso delle lingue ereditarie in America. Quaderni della Sezione di Italiano dell'Università di Losanna, ETS.
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D'Alessandro, R. A short history of Agree. In Grohman & Leivada (eds), Cambridge Handbook of Minimalism.
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D'Alessandro, R. A complex solution to an unsolvable problem? Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism.
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D'Alessandro, R. Doing Romance Linguistics in the 2020s. Featured article, in Corr, A. et al., Romance Grammars: context and contact.
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Andriani, L. & R. D'Alessandro, D, T, C drop in heritage Italo-Romance in NYC. A LIFE IN LINGUISTICS.A Festschrift for Alexandra Cornilescu on her 75th birthday, Bucharest University Press.
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Andriani, L., D'Alessandro, R., Frasson, A., Van Osch, B., Sorgini, L. & S. Terenghi. Adding the microdimension to the study of language change in contact. Three case studies. Glossa, 7(1).
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D'Alessandro, R. Agreement. In A. Ledgeway & M. Maiden (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Romance Linguistics (Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics, pp. 519-543). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108580410.021
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Andriani, L., Casalicchio, J., Ciconte, F.M., D'Alessandro, R., Frasson, A., Van Osch, B., Sorgini, L. & S. Terenghi. Documenting Italo-Romance minority languages in the Americas. Problems and tentative solutions. In: Nevins, A. & M. Cole (eds), Contemporary research in minority and diaspora languages of Europe, Language Science Press.
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D'Alessandro, R. 2022. Crossing domains: topic marking and doubling in Romance. In Boneh, Harbour, Matushansky & Roy (eds), Building on Babel's Rubble. PUV.
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D'Alessandro, R. Not everything is a theory. Theoretical Linguistics 47 (1-2), 53-60.
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D'Alessandro, R. Syntactic change in contact: Romance. Annual Review of Linguistics, 2021(7), 309-328.
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D'Alessandro, R., Natvig, D. & M. Putnam. Addressing challenges in formal research on moribund heritage languages: A path forward. Front. Psychol. 12, 700126.
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D'Alessandro, R . Syntactic change in contact: Romance. Annual Review of Linguistics 7(7): 309:328.
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Frasson, A., D'Alessandro, R & B. van Osch. Subject clitics in microcontact. A case study from heritage Friulian in Argentina and Brazil. Heritage Language Journal 18(1): 1-36.
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D'Alessandro, R. Sintassi semplice. Come leggere (e disegnare) i diagrammi ad albero. Utrecht University.
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D'Alessandro, R. & Marc van Oostendorp. Language Variation and Functional Heads. Magnetic Grammar. Linguistic Analysis 42, 3-4, 405-439.
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D'Alessandro, R. Agreement across the board: Topic agreement in Ripano. In Katharina Hartmann, Johannes Mursell and Peter W. Smith (eds), Agree to Agree: Agreement in the Minimalist Programme. Open Generative Syntax 4. Language Science Press.
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D'Alessandro, R. Syntax made easy. How to read (and draw) syntactic trees. Utrecht University.
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D'Alessandro, R. The achievements of Generative Grammar: a time chart and some reflections. Catalan Journal of Linguistics.
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Leivada, E., R. D'Alessandro & K. K. Grohmann. Eliciting Big Data From Small, Young, or Non-standard Languages: 10 Experimental Challenges. Front. Psychol. 10:313.
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D'Alessandro, R. & Luana Sorgini. Mə tε magnatə. Perifrasi modali in abruzzese orientale. Bollettino del Centro di studi filologici e linguistici siciliani.
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D'Alessandro, R. & D. Pescarini (eds). Advances in Italian dialectology: Sketches of Italo-Romance grammars. Leiden: Brill.
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Van Oostendorp, M. & R. D'Alessandro. Metaphony as Magnetism. In Mirko Grimaldi, Rosangela Lai, Ludovico Franco, Benedetta Baldi (eds), Structuring Variation in Romance Linguistics and Beyond. John Benjamins.
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D'Alessandro, R. & M. van Oostendorp. On the diversity of linguistic data and the integration of the language sciences. Frontiers in Psychology 8:2002.
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D'Alessandro, R. When you have too many features: auxiliaries, agreement and clitics in Italian varieties. Glossa 2(1), 50.
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D'Alessandro, R., I. Franco & A. Gallego (eds).The Verbal Domain. Oxford University Press.
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D'Alessandro, R. Come si mescolano le lingue? Lingue in contatto, prestiti, e lingua franca. In Masini, F. & N. Grandi (eds), Tutto ciò che hai sempre voluto sapere sul linguaggio e sulle lingue. Caissa Italia Editore. [1st draft]
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D'Alessandro, R. & L. Migliori. Sui possessivi (enclitici) nelle varietà italo-romanze meridionali non estreme. In D'Alessandro, Iannàccaro, Passino & Thornton (eds), Di tutti i colori. Studi linguistici per Maria Grossmann.
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D'Alessandro, R., G. Iannàccaro, D. Passino & A. M. Thornton (eds) . Di tutti i colori. Studi linguistici per Maria Grossmann. Utrecht University.
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D'Alessandro, R. & M. van Oostendorp. Abruzzese metaphony and the |A| eater. In: Francesc Torres-Tamarit, Kathrin Linke, and Marc van Oostendorp (eds), Approaches to metaphony in the languages of Italy. Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter. 2016.
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D'Alessandro, R. & D. Pescarini. Agreement restrictions and agreement oddities in Romance . In: Susann Fischer and Christoph Gabriel (eds), Manual of Grammatical interfaces in Romance. Berlin: De Gruyter.
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D'Alessandro, R. & M. van Oostendorp. When imperfections are perfect. Prosody, phi-features and deixis in Central and Southern Italian vocatives. Romance languages and Linguistic Theory 10.
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D'Alessandro, R. & C. Di Felice. The diachrony of Abruzzese complementation. Revue roumaine de Linguistique, 129-145.
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D'Alessandro, R. Null Subject. In: Antonio Fábregas, Jaume Mateu and Michael Putnam (eds), Contemporary Linguistic Parameters. London: Bloomsbury Press.
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D'Alessandro, R. & T. Scheer. Modular PIC. Linguistic Inquiry 46:4, 593-624.
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D'Alessandro, R. Death and contact-induced rebirth of impersonal pronouns. A case study. In: Diego Pescarini and Andrea Calabrese (eds), Special Issue on The Diachrony of pronominal systems. Probus 26.2., 249-274.
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D'Alessandro, R. & M. van Oostendorp. La metafonia ariellese tra fonologia e lessico. In: Diego Pescarini and Diana Passino (eds), Quaderni Linguistici dell’ASIT. Studi sui dialetti dell’Abruzzo 17, 2014. 1-18.
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D'Alessandro, R., C. Di Felice, I. Franco & A. Ledgeway. Approcci diversi alla dialettologia italiana contemporanea. Special Issue of L’Italia Dialettale ID LXXV.
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D'Alessandro, R., C. Di Felice, I. Franco & A. Ledgeway. Introduzione ad Approcci diversi alla dialettologia italiana contemporanea. Special Issue of L’Italia Dialettale ID LXXV.
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S. Lusini, D'Alessandro, R. & J. Rooryck. Phonetic aspects of polar questions in Sienese: an experimental approach. In: Johanneke Caspers, Yiya Chen, Willemijn Heeren, Jos Pacilly, Niels Schiller, and Ellen van Zanten (eds), Above and beyond the segments. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
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D'Alessandro, R. & T. Scheer. Phase-head marking. In: Hisao Tokizaki and Yoshi Dobashi (eds). Universal Syntax and Parametric Phonology. Linguistic Analysis 38:4, 305-330.
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D'Alessandro, R., A. Ledgeway & I. Roberts (eds). 2010. Syntactic variation. The dialects of Italy. Cambridge University Press.
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D’Alessandro, R. & I. Roberts. 2010. Past participle agreement in Abruzzese: Split auxiliary selection and the null-subject parameter. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 28: 41-72.
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D’Alessandro, R. & A.Ledgeway. 2010. At the C-T boundary: Investigating Abruzzese complementation. Lingua 120/8: 2040-2060.
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D’Alessandro, R. & I. Roberts. 2008. Movement and agreement in Italian past participles and defective phases. Linguistic Inquiry 39/3: 477-491.
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D’Alessandro, Roberta. 2004. Syntactic and pragmatic features: a case study. Leitura. Estudos em Syntaxe Comparativa 33: 185-202.