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Research paper thumbnail of Growing trees: The acquisition of the left periphery

Research paper thumbnail of Relativized relatives: Types of intervention in the acquisition of A-bar dependencies

Research paper thumbnail of On the Syntax and Pragmatics of Some Clause-Peripheral Positions

Research paper thumbnail of The CP of clefts

Research paper thumbnail of Subject inversion in L2 Italian

Eurosla Yearbook, Sep 3, 2004

Research paper thumbnail of Moving Verbal Chunks in the Low Functional Field

Oxford University Press eBooks, Jun 20, 2012

Research paper thumbnail of (a-)Topics and animacy

Research paper thumbnail of (Reflexive) Si as a route to passive in Italian

De Gruyter eBooks, Nov 18, 2019

The present article explores the hypothesis that some Italian sentences involving the reflexive c... more The present article explores the hypothesis that some Italian sentences involving the reflexive clitic si may represent a possible route to access the passive computation in the course of acquisitio

Research paper thumbnail of Kinds of relative clauses in Italian corpora

Research paper thumbnail of Unaccusatives as Case Assigners

Research paper thumbnail of Relative clauses from the input: syntactic considerations on a corpus-based analysis of Italian

Research paper thumbnail of Los verbos psicológicos y la teoría temática

... Ayuda; Cambiar idioma Idioma Català. Cambiar. Los verbos psicológicos y la teoría temática. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Frasi ridotte assolute

... meccanismo dell'accordo nele FRA. Lo studio delle FRA sembra dal canto suo rivelare una ... more ... meccanismo dell'accordo nele FRA. Lo studio delle FRA sembra dal canto suo rivelare una serie di astetti "nascost" di un fenomeno tanto centrale quanto fino ad ora poco chia-riti quale Faccrrdo verbale. Il terzo e ultimo punto ...

Research paper thumbnail of Notes on Passive Object Relatives

Oxford University Press eBooks, Oct 24, 2014

Research paper thumbnail of The Role of D-Linking and Lexical Restriction in Locality Violations

Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali, Sep 29, 2023

e major contrast discussed in the literature to show an obviation of the wh-island effect often i... more e major contrast discussed in the literature to show an obviation of the wh-island effect often involves a bare wh-element in the role of the intervener (e.g. who) and a "complex" wh-phrase (e.g. which book) in the role of the moved item. is contrast is not minimal, since it is not sufficient to disentangle the role of D-linking (Pesetsky 1987) from that of the so-called "lexical restriction" (Friedmann, Belletti, and Rizzi 2009). In this work we try to fill this gap by contrasting, in an argumental wh-island configuration (e.g. "… [who read …]"), which NP vs. what NP both in English and in Italian (e.g. which/what book and quale/che libro). We argue that while both wh-phrases can be genuinely considered "lexically restricted", the first, and not the second, has properties that make it allegedly D-linked (i.e. a canonical partitive interpretation is available). Our acceptability studies show that (in both languages) no significant difference is revealed in the scores attributed to the two extracted wh-phrases and no significant variance (e.g. indicating a binomial distribution) is observed in the condition what NP. e first result indicates that the "D-linking" hypothesis as an independent source of amelioration is inadequate; the second result suggests that also the hypothesis that the condition what/che NP might be ambiguous between a D-linked and a non-D-linked reading is unlikely.

Research paper thumbnail of The Acquisition of Italian: Morphosyntax and its interfaces in different modes of acquisition

It was a pleasure to write this book and thus have the opportunity to collect the available rich ... more It was a pleasure to write this book and thus have the opportunity to collect the available rich production of theoretically oriented studies on the acquisition of Italian. This type of enterprise inevitably owns a lot to many people. We cannot even attempt to explicitly try to mention them all. We will only mention here a few of them most directly involved in joint work with us; many, however, will recognize their presence throughout the following pages. First of all, we want to express our deepest gratitude to all our students and young collaborators for their precious role in constantly stimulating new research questions, the careful analysis of available results and, in many cases, the conception of new designs; most of all we thank them for their enthusiasm which is for us the best and constant source of inspiration. We thank our closest collaborators and colleagues for their comments and remarks during many years of joint work and collaboration, and for their often crucial role in running some of the experiments discussed in this book:

Research paper thumbnail of Sobre la naturaleza y el lenguaje

... Por ejemplo, encontramos reveladoras oscilaciones sobre este tema en el Cours de linguistique... more ... Por ejemplo, encontramos reveladoras oscilaciones sobre este tema en el Cours de linguistique genérale de Fer-dinand de Saussure. ... con las que subyacen a las oraciones más simples (Chomsky, 1957), a los sistemas de estructura sintagmática recursiva (Katz y Postal, 1964 ...

Research paper thumbnail of Answering with a 'cleft': the role of the null subject parameter and the VP periphery

Research paper thumbnail of Intervention in grammar and processing

Cambridge University Press eBooks, Sep 12, 2013

A unification of the principles and mechanisms constraining both grammar and processing is explor... more A unification of the principles and mechanisms constraining both grammar and processing is explored in terms of the crucial concept of "intervention"

Research paper thumbnail of The Case of Unaccusatives

Research paper thumbnail of Growing trees: The acquisition of the left periphery

Research paper thumbnail of Relativized relatives: Types of intervention in the acquisition of A-bar dependencies

Research paper thumbnail of On the Syntax and Pragmatics of Some Clause-Peripheral Positions

Research paper thumbnail of The CP of clefts

Research paper thumbnail of Subject inversion in L2 Italian

Eurosla Yearbook, Sep 3, 2004

Research paper thumbnail of Moving Verbal Chunks in the Low Functional Field

Oxford University Press eBooks, Jun 20, 2012

Research paper thumbnail of (a-)Topics and animacy

Research paper thumbnail of (Reflexive) Si as a route to passive in Italian

De Gruyter eBooks, Nov 18, 2019

The present article explores the hypothesis that some Italian sentences involving the reflexive c... more The present article explores the hypothesis that some Italian sentences involving the reflexive clitic si may represent a possible route to access the passive computation in the course of acquisitio

Research paper thumbnail of Kinds of relative clauses in Italian corpora

Research paper thumbnail of Unaccusatives as Case Assigners

Research paper thumbnail of Relative clauses from the input: syntactic considerations on a corpus-based analysis of Italian

Research paper thumbnail of Los verbos psicológicos y la teoría temática

... Ayuda; Cambiar idioma Idioma Català. Cambiar. Los verbos psicológicos y la teoría temática. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Frasi ridotte assolute

... meccanismo dell'accordo nele FRA. Lo studio delle FRA sembra dal canto suo rivelare una ... more ... meccanismo dell'accordo nele FRA. Lo studio delle FRA sembra dal canto suo rivelare una serie di astetti "nascost" di un fenomeno tanto centrale quanto fino ad ora poco chia-riti quale Faccrrdo verbale. Il terzo e ultimo punto ...

Research paper thumbnail of Notes on Passive Object Relatives

Oxford University Press eBooks, Oct 24, 2014

Research paper thumbnail of The Role of D-Linking and Lexical Restriction in Locality Violations

Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali, Sep 29, 2023

e major contrast discussed in the literature to show an obviation of the wh-island effect often i... more e major contrast discussed in the literature to show an obviation of the wh-island effect often involves a bare wh-element in the role of the intervener (e.g. who) and a "complex" wh-phrase (e.g. which book) in the role of the moved item. is contrast is not minimal, since it is not sufficient to disentangle the role of D-linking (Pesetsky 1987) from that of the so-called "lexical restriction" (Friedmann, Belletti, and Rizzi 2009). In this work we try to fill this gap by contrasting, in an argumental wh-island configuration (e.g. "… [who read …]"), which NP vs. what NP both in English and in Italian (e.g. which/what book and quale/che libro). We argue that while both wh-phrases can be genuinely considered "lexically restricted", the first, and not the second, has properties that make it allegedly D-linked (i.e. a canonical partitive interpretation is available). Our acceptability studies show that (in both languages) no significant difference is revealed in the scores attributed to the two extracted wh-phrases and no significant variance (e.g. indicating a binomial distribution) is observed in the condition what NP. e first result indicates that the "D-linking" hypothesis as an independent source of amelioration is inadequate; the second result suggests that also the hypothesis that the condition what/che NP might be ambiguous between a D-linked and a non-D-linked reading is unlikely.

Research paper thumbnail of The Acquisition of Italian: Morphosyntax and its interfaces in different modes of acquisition

It was a pleasure to write this book and thus have the opportunity to collect the available rich ... more It was a pleasure to write this book and thus have the opportunity to collect the available rich production of theoretically oriented studies on the acquisition of Italian. This type of enterprise inevitably owns a lot to many people. We cannot even attempt to explicitly try to mention them all. We will only mention here a few of them most directly involved in joint work with us; many, however, will recognize their presence throughout the following pages. First of all, we want to express our deepest gratitude to all our students and young collaborators for their precious role in constantly stimulating new research questions, the careful analysis of available results and, in many cases, the conception of new designs; most of all we thank them for their enthusiasm which is for us the best and constant source of inspiration. We thank our closest collaborators and colleagues for their comments and remarks during many years of joint work and collaboration, and for their often crucial role in running some of the experiments discussed in this book:

Research paper thumbnail of Sobre la naturaleza y el lenguaje

... Por ejemplo, encontramos reveladoras oscilaciones sobre este tema en el Cours de linguistique... more ... Por ejemplo, encontramos reveladoras oscilaciones sobre este tema en el Cours de linguistique genérale de Fer-dinand de Saussure. ... con las que subyacen a las oraciones más simples (Chomsky, 1957), a los sistemas de estructura sintagmática recursiva (Katz y Postal, 1964 ...

Research paper thumbnail of Answering with a 'cleft': the role of the null subject parameter and the VP periphery

Research paper thumbnail of Intervention in grammar and processing

Cambridge University Press eBooks, Sep 12, 2013

A unification of the principles and mechanisms constraining both grammar and processing is explor... more A unification of the principles and mechanisms constraining both grammar and processing is explored in terms of the crucial concept of "intervention"

Research paper thumbnail of The Case of Unaccusatives