@article {6623, title = {Unprobed movement: three case studies}, journal = {Syntax}, year = {Soumis}, abstract = {

This paper investigates the status of unmotivated movement in syntax, which, following current minimalist terminology, we call \‘unprobed movement\’. \ By elaborating on the theory of labeling developed by Cecchetto \& Donati (2015a), in which the label is provided by the probe of the merging operation, we assume that unprobed movement is possible in principle but is severely restricted in practice, as it leads to the creation of an object without a label.

Given this framework, we re-consider three movement configurations: the intermediate step of successive movement, which has no obvious trigger and is intrinsically unstable; QR, which has no morphological reflex, is systematically covert and appears to be clause-bounded; and head movement, which again has peculiar locality restrictions and correlates with extended projections and the creation of complex lexical items. The basic idea is that these three movements are instances of unprobed operations creating unlabeled syntactic objects. In particular, unlabeled syntactic objects, being invisible to syntax, can occur only in those points of the derivation where the syntactic derivation can stop (or has already stopped): post-cyclically, namely after the syntactic derivation has ended and unlabeled nodes bring no harm (QR,); at the phase edge, where the derivation stops and ships the phase to the interface, thus destroying any unlabeled syntactic node and putting the moved item back into the working space where it can be probed again (successive cyclic movement); again at the phase edge, when an unprobed item labels the syntactic object it forms thanks to its being a word, hence endowed with an intrinsic labeling capacity (head movement).

By putting successive cyclicity, QR and head movement into a new natural class, that of unprobed movements, we provide a new explanation to old problems and we make a strong case in favor of a label-driven syntax in response to recent attempts (cf. Chomsky 2013) to expunge labels from syntax and relegate them to the interface.

}, author = {Carlo Cecchetto and Caterina Donati} } @inbook {6649, title = {Relative clauses in the Romance languages}, booktitle = {Oxford Research Enclyclopedia of Romance Linguistics}, year = {Sous presse}, author = {Carlo Cecchetto and Caterina Donati} } @book {7204, title = {La grammatica generativa. Idee, storia, modelli}, year = {2022}, pages = {177}, publisher = {Carocci}, organization = {Carocci}, address = {Rome}, issn = {978-88-290-1606-8}, author = {Caterina Donati and Graffi, G.} } @article {7202, title = {Labeling reduced sentences: when VPs are sentences? }, journal = {Linguistic Inquiry}, year = {2022}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1162/ling_a_00460}, author = {Cecchetto, C. and Caterina Donati} } @article {6987, title = {Measuring sign complexity: comparing a model driven and an error driven approach}, journal = {Laboratory phonology}, volume = {13}, year = {2022}, pages = {1-33}, type = {Review article}, chapter = {1}, doi = {doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/labphon.6439}, author = {Justine Mertz and Chiara Annucci and Valentina Aristodemo and Beatrice Giustolisi and Doriane Gras and Giuseppina Turco and Carlo Geraci and Caterina Donati} } @article {mertz:halshs-03881917, title = {Measuring sign complexity: Comparing a model- driven and an error-driven approach}, journal = {13}, volume = {1}, number = {4}, year = {2022}, pages = {1-33}, publisher = {De Gruyter}, doi = {10.16995/labphon.6439}, url = {https://shs.hal.science/halshs-03881917}, author = {Justine Mertz and Chiara Annucci and Valentina Aristodemo and Beatrice Giustolisi and Doriane Gras and Giuseppina Turco and Carlo Geraci and Caterina Donati} } @article {mertz:hal-03509734, title = {Measuring sign complexity: Comparing a theory-driven and a data-driven approach.}, journal = {Laboratory Phonology : Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology}, year = {2022}, publisher = {De Gruyter}, url = {https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03509734}, author = {Justine Mertz and Chiara Annucci and Valentina Aristodemo and Beatrice Giustolisi and Doriane Gras and Giuseppina Turco and Carlo Geraci and Caterina Donati} } @article {aristodemo:hal-03509677, title = {On the nature of role shift: insights from a comprehension study in different populations of LIS, LSC and LSF signers.}, journal = {Natural Language and Linguistic Theory}, year = {2022}, publisher = {Springer Verlag}, doi = {10.1007/s11049-022-09539-0}, url = {https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03509677}, author = {Valentina Aristodemo and Beatrice Giustolisi and Giorgia Zorzi and Doriane Gras and Charlotte Hauser and Sala, Rita and Amat, Jordina S{\'a}nchez and Caterina Donati and Cecchetto, Carlo} } @article {7203, title = {On the reliability of the notion of Native speaker, and its risks}, journal = {Frontiers in Psychology, Special issue on the Notion of the native speaker put to the test: recent research advances}, year = {2022}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.716554}, author = {Zorzi, G. and Beatrice Giustolisi and Valentina Aristodemo and Cecchetto, C. and Sanchez, J. and Quer, J. and Caterina Donati} } @article {7201, title = {Is role shift direct quotation? An argument coming from effects of age of first exposure to (sign) language}, journal = {Natural Language and Linguistic Theory}, year = {2022}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s11049-022-09539-0}, author = {Valentina Aristodemo and Beatrice Giustolisi and Hauser, C. and Zorzi, G. and Cecchetto, C. and Caterina Donati} } @article {6985, title = {Subject advantage in covert dependencies: the case of wh-questions comprehension in French Sign Language. }, journal = {Syntax}, year = {2022}, abstract = {

Languages of the world vary with respect to the position in which wh-expressions are

displayed in content questions. In some languages they are typically dislocated in a peripheral

position, while in others they are left in situ, and some languages allow for both options. Studies

on sentence-processing have shown that, as all A-bar dependencies, content questions involving

wh-movement display a subject advantage, but very little is known about wh-in situ questions. The

aim of this paper is to fill in this gap and explore whether a subject advantage can be found in

wh-in situ questions. It reports the results of a sentence-to-picture matching task with in situ whquestions

in French Sign Language (LSF). Three adult populations with different age of exposure

to sign language are included: native signers, early signers and late signers. Results show that

comprehension of wh-in situ questions in LSF displays a subject advantage. This result is argued

to be relevant for the analysis of wh-in situ, supporting a covert movement analysis against alternatives

involving some instance of (unselective) binding. Moreover, comparison across populations

show that delayed exposure to language has an impact on the comprehension of wh-questions,

confirming that the effects of early language deprivation affect language competence in adulthood.

}, author = {Caterina Donati and Charlotte Hauser and Valentina Aristodemo} } @inbook {7209, title = {Unprobed movement and labeling: tree trimming as a key to understand successive cyclicity. }, booktitle = {Building on Babel{\textquoteright}s rubble }, year = {2022}, pages = {377-394}, publisher = {PUF}, organization = {PUF}, edition = {Boneh, N. et al. (eds.). }, address = {Paris}, author = {Cecchetto, Carlo and Caterina Donati} } @article {6648, title = {Whatever his arguments, whatever relatives are headed relatives. A reply to Caponigro{\textquoteright}s reply}, journal = {Linguist Inquiry}, volume = {53}, year = {2022}, pages = {522{\textendash}550}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1162/ling_a_00413}, author = {Caterina Donati and Foppolo, F. and Konrad, I. and Cecchetto, C.} } @article {7205, title = {Wh-features and exclamatives in LIS (Italian Sign Language)}, journal = {Revista de Estudos Lingu{\'\i}sticos da Universidade do Porto}, year = {2022}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.21747/978-989-9082-02-1/ling}, author = {Checchetto, A. and Cecchetto, C. and Caterina Donati} } @article {hauser:hal-03509743, title = {Asymmetries in relative clause comprehension in three European sign languages}, journal = {Glossa: a journal of general linguistics (2021-...)}, volume = {6}, number = {1}, year = {2021}, publisher = {Open Library of Humanities}, doi = {10.5334/gjgl.1454}, url = {https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03509743}, author = {Charlotte Hauser and Giorgia Zorzi and Valentina Aristodemo and Beatrice Giustolisi and Doriane Gras and Sala, Rita and Amat, Jordina S{\'a}nchez and Cecchetto, Carlo and Caterina Donati} } @article {hauser:hal-03246691, title = {Asymmetries in relative clause comprehension in three European sign languages}, journal = {Glossa: a journal of general linguistics (2016-2021)}, volume = {6}, number = {1}, year = {2021}, pages = {72}, publisher = {Ubiquity Press}, keywords = {age of exposure, comprehension, cross-linguistic and cross-modal typology, relative clauses, Sign language, Subject/Object asymmetries}, doi = {10.5334/gjgl.1454}, url = {https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03246691}, author = {Charlotte Hauser and Giorgia Zorzi and Valentina Aristodemo and Beatrice Giustolisi and Doriane Gras and Sala, Rita and Amat, Jordina S{\'a}nchez and Cecchetto, Carlo and Caterina Donati} } @inbook {7210, title = {Bimodal bilingual grammars. Theoretical and empirical perspectives}, booktitle = {Handbook of theoretical and experimental sign language research}, year = {2021}, pages = {614-635. }, publisher = {Routledge,}, organization = {Routledge,}, edition = {Hermann, Pfau and Quer (eds.), }, address = {London}, author = {Caterina Donati} } @article {6813, title = {The Romance Inter-Views: Syntax}, journal = {Isogloss. Open Journal Of Romance Linguistics}, volume = {7}, year = {2021}, pages = {1-11}, type = {interview}, chapter = {1}, issn = {2385-4138 }, doi = {https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/isogloss.112}, url = {https://revistes.uab.cat/isogloss/article/view/v7-armstrong-arregi-declercq-et-al/112-pdf-en}, author = {Grant Armstrong and Karlos Arregi and Karen De Clercq and Caterina Donati and Antonio F{\`a}bregas and Rizzi, Luigi and Saab, Andr{\'e}s and Schifano, Norma} } @article {7206, title = {The Romance Inter-Views: Syntax}, journal = {Isogloss}, year = {2021}, doi = {. https:// 10.5565/rev/isogloss.112}, author = {Arregi, K. and De Clercq, Karen and Caterina Donati and F{\`a}bregas, Antonio and Rizzi, Luigi and Schifano, Norma} } @unpublished {6897, title = {A subject advantage in covert dependencies: the case of wh-questions comprehension in French Sign Language}, year = {2021}, author = {Charlotte Hauser and Valentina Aristodemo and Caterina Donati} } @article {6615, title = {Avoiding gaps in Romance: a processing foundation for the Merge over Move principle?}, journal = {Syntax}, year = {2020}, abstract = {

Existing evidence suggests that the parser avoids positing a movement dependency if the grammar allows it. By investigating the processing of two syntactic ambiguities that have not been previously studied, we provide more conclusive evidence for this parsing bias in two Romance languages: French and Italian. In two acceptability judgment experiments and two self-paced reading studies, we found that sentences that involved a filler-gap dependency (indirect questions in Italian and free relatives in French) were dispreferred compared to sentences involving the same lexical material but no filler-gap dependency (declarative complement clauses in both languages). Crucially, the filler-gap dependency was not dispreferred when there was no available competitor. We discuss these results as also relevant for syntactic theory and for the questionable status of Merge over Move as a grammatical principle.

}, author = {Ingrid Konrad and Massimo Burattini and Carlo Cecchetto and Francesca Foppolo and Adrian Staub and Caterina Donati} } @inbook {4990, title = {Bimodal bilingual grammars. Theoretical and empirical perspectives}, booktitle = {Handbook of theoretical and experimental sign language research}, year = {2020}, publisher = {Routledge}, organization = {Routledge}, edition = {Hermann, Pfau and Quer (eds.)}, address = {New York}, issn = {1138801992}, author = {Caterina Donati} } @inbook {6619, title = {A contrastive analysis of interrogative constructions in Romance: microvariation and theory}, booktitle = {Contrastive studies in morphology and syntax}, number = {Bloomsbury Studies in Theoretical Linguistics}, year = {2020}, publisher = {Bloomsbury}, organization = {Bloomsbury}, address = {London}, abstract = {

The article is a brief survey of what we know about wh-questions across languages, and an

introduction to the specific contribution of Romance languages within a contrastive analysis.

Wh-movement displays some crosslinguistically stable properties and some parameters of

variation, that we are briefly reviewed. As for Romance, the phenomenon of wh-in situ in

French, of the ungoing grammaticalization of special complementizers, and of the systematic

ambiguity of free relatives and light headed relatives are briefly addressed

}, issn = { 9781350079182}, author = {Caterina Donati} } @unpublished {6760, title = {Experiment on complementizer-less subject relatives in English}, year = {2020}, abstract = {

This is an acceptability rating experiment assessing the acceptability of complementizer-less subject relatives in English.\ 

}, author = {Caterina Donati and Francesca Foppolo and Ingrid Konrad and Carlo Cecchetto} } @inbook {6618, title = {Relabeling participial Construction}, booktitle = {In Linguistic Variation: Structure and Interpretation {\textendash} A Festschrift in Honour of M. Rita Manzini in occasion of her 60th birthday. }, year = {2020}, publisher = {Mouton de Gruyter}, organization = {Mouton de Gruyter}, address = {Berlin}, keywords = {labeling, participials, relatives}, author = {Carlo Cecchetto and Caterina Donati} } @article {6616, title = {Against the parallelism between the NP and the clause: Evidence from idioms.}, journal = {Linguistics}, year = {2019}, pages = {1-38}, abstract = {

We argue that the counterpart of Marantz\’s generalization does not hold

in the nominal domain, because there are idioms in which the determiner and the

noun receive an idiomatic meaning while the PP that modifies the noun is not part

of the idiom (we call these \“PP-less idioms\”). We show that PP-less idioms are fully

expected if the hypothesis of parallelism between nominal structure and clausal

structure is dropped and it is assumed that the first step of the derivation in the

nominal domain involves merge of D and N.

As for the mirror image of PP-less idioms, \“PP-containing idioms\”, namely

DPs where N and the PP that follows the noun receive an idiomatic reading

while D does not, we suggest that they are not generated by syntax but are

rather the output of the morphological component.

}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2019-0014}, author = {Carlo Cecchetto and Caterina Donati} } @inbook {6620, title = {Pour une grammaire des listes}, booktitle = {Le pouvoir des listes au Moyen-Age 1: Ecritures de la liste }, year = {2019}, publisher = {Editions de la Sorbonne}, organization = {Editions de la Sorbonne}, address = {Paris}, author = {Caterina Donati} } @article {6617, title = {Subject object asymmetries in the production of relative clauses in Cantonese}, journal = {Studies in Chinese Linguistics}, volume = {40}, year = {2019}, pages = {168-202}, abstract = {

\ In the literature about processing of relative clauses (RCs), subject relatives (SRs) are reported to be easier than object relatives (ORs) in a number of languages, but the status of prenominal ORs in languages where the object follows the verb (SVO) is still partly controversial. This study explores the production of RCs in Cantonese in two elicited production experiments and two corpus studies. In the first elicited experiment, an overwhelming preference for SRs was observed. In two corpus studies where the context and the feature of arguments were uncontrolled, the reverse pattern was observed. In order to reconcile the two datasets, we speculate that what counts in object dependencies is the featural endowment of the subject, as in the intervention hypothesis implemented in Friedmann et al. 2009. A second elicited experiment was run to test this hypothesis. The results suggest that production of RCs in Cantonese displays a subject preference in general and that object dispreference is modulated by featural mismatch.\ 

}, keywords = {adult production, Cantonese, relative clauses, syntax}, author = {Jiaying Huang and Caterina Donati} } @inproceedings {6645, title = {The acquisition of French ambiguous embedded structures introduce by ce que. }, year = {2018}, publisher = {Cascadilla University Press}, edition = { A.B. Bertolini and M.J. Kaplan (eds.)}, address = {Cascadilla, MA. }, author = {Ingrid Konrad and Yair Haendler and Caterina Donati} } @article {6642, title = {Clause avoidance: evidence for a structural parsing principle}, journal = {Journal of memory and language }, volume = {98}, year = {2018}, pages = {26-44}, abstract = {

The Minimal Chain Principle (MCP; De Vincenzi, 1991) proposes

that the parser avoids postulating unnecessary filler-gap dependencies,

but does not delay postulating required dependency members. A large body

of research has confirmed the second of these principles, under the

heading of \&$\#$39;active gap filling,\&$\#$39; but there have been few tests of the

first principle. The present study investigated the processing of strings

such as The information that the health department provided, where the

that-clause can be analyzed either as a relative clause (RC; The

information that the health department provided reassured the tour

operators), which involves a filler-gap dependency, or as a nominal

complement clause (CC; The information that the health department

provided a cure reassured the tour operators), which does not. In three

eye movement experiments, readers showed difficulty upon disambiguation

toward the RC analysis, indicating that they initially adopted the CC

analysis. Readers also showed facilitated processing of the ambiguous

material itself when the CC analysis was available, again indicating that

they adopted this analysis in preference to the difficulty-inducing RC

analysis. Notably, the bias of a specific head noun (e.g., information)

to appear with a CC did not modulate these effects. These results support

the MCP\&$\#$39;s first principle, and confirm that processing of filler-gap

dependencies is guided by structural principles rather than lexicallyspecific

argument structure biases.

}, author = {Adrian Staub and Caterina Donati and Francesca Foppolo and Carlo Cecchetto} } @conference {7471, title = {Diagnosing Phase Boundaries in Participial Relative Clauses}, year = {2017}, author = {Chris Reintges and Caterina Donati} } @inbook {4922, title = {Searching for imperative in European sign languages}, booktitle = {Imperatives and Other Directive Strategies}, year = {2017}, pages = {111-155}, publisher = {Benjamins}, organization = {Benjamins}, edition = {Van Olmen, D. and S. Heinold }, address = {Amsterdam}, author = {Caterina Donati and G. Barbera and Carlo Cecchetto and Carlo Geraci and Josep Quer} } @book {6621, title = {The SignGram Blueprint. A Guide to the Preparation of Comprehensive Reference Grammars for Sign Languages}, year = {2017}, publisher = {Mouton de Gruyter}, organization = {Mouton de Gruyter}, address = {Berlin}, issn = {ISBN 978-1-5015-1570-5}, author = {Josep Quer and Carlo Cecchetto and Caterina Donati and Carlo Geraci and Kelepir, Meltem and Pfau, Roland and Markus Steinbach} } @inbook {6647, title = {Symmetry and Antisymmetry in the definition of syntactic operations: Merge and Labels}, booktitle = {The importance of Being called Ernesto. Reference, Truth and Logical Form}, year = {2017}, pages = {279-298}, publisher = {Padova University Press}, organization = {Padova University Press}, edition = {A. Bianchi, Morato and G. Spolaor}, address = {Padova}, author = {Caterina Donati} } @conference {5535, title = {Are (all) adverbial clauses adjuncts~? }, year = {2016}, month = {07/2016}, author = {Caterina Donati and Carlo Cecchetto} } @article {6643, title = {Assessing Lexicalism through bimodal eyes}, journal = {GLOSSA}, volume = {48}, year = {2016}, pages = {1-30}, abstract = {

The relation holding between words and syntax is at the core of a lively debate. Two competing proposals have been advanced: the\ lexicalist\ view, claiming that the lexicon and the syntax are distinct modules of the grammar, and what we shall refer to as the\ constructionist\ view typically represented by models like Distributed Morphology, advocating for the redundancy of a notion such as the lexicon and arguing for no divide between syntax and word formation. By facing the debate from the privileged point of view of the mixed production of bimodal bilinguals (Italian \– Italian Sign Language), namely users of a sign and a vocal language simultaneously produced, we discuss the interaction of the two grammars at play with respect to their word order, morphology and phonology and draw some consequences relevant to the debate.

}, keywords = {bimodal bilingualism, code mixing, code -blending, distributed morphology, Italian Sign Language (LIS), lexicalism, word order}, doi = {http://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.29}, author = {Caterina Donati and Chiara Branchini} } @conference {5532, title = {Diagnosing phase boundaries in participial relative clauses}, year = {2016}, month = {12/2016}, address = {KU Leuven (Brussels)}, author = {Chris Reintges and Caterina Donati} } @article {6644, title = {The extent of language co-activation in bimodal bilinguals}, journal = {Linguistic Approaches to bilingualism}, volume = {6}, year = {2016}, pages = {763-767}, author = {Caterina Donati and Chiara Branchini} } @article {7207, title = {The extent of language co-activation in bimodal bilinguals.}, journal = {Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism}, volume = {6}, year = {2016}, pages = {763-767}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.6.6.05bra}, author = {Caterina Donati and Branchini Chiara} } @conference {5536, title = {Il n{\textquoteright}y a pas trente-six fa{\c c}ons of building an NP structure}, year = {2016}, month = {04/2016}, author = {Carlo Cecchetto and Caterina Donati} } @article {7208, title = {Relative clauses are not adjuncts: an experimental investigation of a corollary of the raising analysis}, journal = {Linguistische Berichte}, year = {2016}, pages = {139-169}, author = {Vernice, Mirta and Cecchetto, Carlo and Caterina Donati and Moscati, Vincenzo} } @article {4910, title = {Relative clauses are not adjuncts : an experimental investigation of a corollary of the raising analysis}, journal = {Linguistische Berichte }, volume = {246}, year = {2016}, pages = {169}, chapter = {139}, author = {Vernice, Mirta and Carlo Cecchetto and Caterina Donati and Moscati, Vincenzo} } @conference {5537, title = {The SignGram Blueprint: providing a tool for sign language grammar description }, year = {2016}, author = {Carlo Geraci and Josep Quer and Carlo Cecchetto and Caterina Donati and Markus Steinbach} } @book {4918, title = {Sintassi. Regole e strutture}, series = {Le strutture del linguaggio}, year = {2016}, publisher = {Il Mulino}, organization = {Il Mulino}, address = {Bologna}, author = {Caterina Donati} } @conference {5534, title = {Strong islands and cyclic transfer }, year = {2016}, month = {12/2016}, address = {Bruxelles}, author = {Caterina Donati and Carlo Cecchetto} } @article {4911, title = {The Case of Wh-signs}, journal = {Sign Language Linguistics }, volume = {53}, year = {2015}, pages = {125-151}, chapter = {125}, author = {Carlo Geraci and R. Bayley and Cardinaletti Anna and Carlo Cecchetto and Caterina Donati} } @conference {5538, title = {Frequency of grammatical constructions and syntactic priming }, year = {2015}, month = {09/2015}, author = {Carlo Cecchetto and Caterina Donati} } @inbook {4928, title = {Gli enunciati mistilingui bimodali: un esperimento naturale}, booktitle = {Grammatica applicata: apprendimento, patologie, insegnamento}, year = {2015}, publisher = {AITLA}, organization = {AITLA}, edition = { E. and E. Favilla Nuzzo, }, address = {Milano.}, author = {Chiara Branchini and Caterina Donati} } @conference {4985, title = {Merge and labeling in the language faculty}, year = {2015}, month = {11/2015}, address = {Trento. }, author = {Caterina Donati} } @conference {5004, title = {Object relative clauses: An unexpected difference between children and adults.}, year = {2015}, month = {09/2015}, address = {Nantes}, author = {Carlo Cecchetto and Caterina Donati and Ingrid Konrad and Carla Soares-Jesel} } @conference {5005, title = {Object relative clauses: explaining an unexpected difference between children and adults.}, year = {2015}, month = {10/2015}, address = {Venise}, author = {Carlo Cecchetto and Caterina Donati and Ingrid Konrad and Carla Soares-Jesel} } @inbook {4926, title = {Please do not Move That remnant too much!}, booktitle = {Remnant Movement}, year = {2015}, pages = { 179-200.}, publisher = {Mouton de Gruyter}, organization = {Mouton de Gruyter}, edition = {Grewendorf}, address = {Berlin}, author = {Carlo Cecchetto and Caterina Donati} } @conference {5540, title = {Quattro passi into the NP structure }, year = {2015}, month = {06/2015}, author = {Caterina Donati and Carlo Cecchetto} } @book {4395, title = {(Re)labeling}, series = {Linguistic Inquiry Monographs }, volume = {70}, year = {2015}, pages = {190}, publisher = {The MIT Press}, organization = {The MIT Press}, edition = {1}, address = {Cambridge, Massachusetts}, keywords = {islands, labels, movement, relativization, words}, issn = {{\c c}9780262527217}, author = {Carlo Cecchetto and Caterina Donati} } @conference {5539, title = {A relabeling analysis of reduced relatives }, year = {2015}, month = {07/2015}, author = {Carlo Cecchetto and Caterina Donati} } @inbook {4923, title = {Relativization in Italian Sign Language (LIS): The missing link of relativization}, booktitle = {Complex sentences and beyond,}, year = {2015}, pages = {93-128}, publisher = {Berlin}, organization = {Berlin}, edition = {Herrmann, Pfau and Steinbach}, address = {Mouton de Gruyter}, author = {Carlo Cecchetto and Caterina Donati} } @inbook {6646, title = {Relativization in Italian Sign Language (LIS): The missing link of relativization.}, booktitle = {Complex sentences and beyond}, year = {2015}, pages = {93-128. }, publisher = {Mouton De Gruyter}, organization = {Mouton De Gruyter}, edition = { H. Hermann, R. Pfau and M. Steinbach}, address = {Berlin}, author = {Carlo Cecchetto and Caterina Donati} } @inbook {4924, title = {Subject Intervention in free relatives}, booktitle = { Structures, strategies and beyond}, year = {2015}, pages = { 369-392}, publisher = {Benjamins}, organization = {Benjamins}, edition = {E. Di Domenico, C. and S. Hamann Matteini (eds.).}, address = {Amsterdam}, author = {Carlo Cecchetto and Caterina Donati} } @conference {5541, title = {An authentic wh-sign in LIS.}, year = {2014}, month = {06/2014}, author = {Caterina Donati} } @conference {5542, title = {Deciding between the external and internal definition of label }, year = {2014}, month = {03/2014}, author = {Caterina Donati and Carlo Cecchetto} } @conference {4987, title = {Gross Minimality. A Locality Constraint on untriggered movement. }, year = {2014}, month = {10/2014}, address = {Universit{\'e} Paris Diderot. October }, author = {Caterina Donati} } @conference {5543, title = {Gross Minimality and relative clauses in child grammar}, year = {2014}, month = {03/2014}, author = {Carlo Cecchetto and Caterina Donati and Guasti, Maria Teresa} } @conference {4988, title = {Mixed Utterances in a Bimodal setting}, year = {2014}, month = {04/2014}, address = {Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in the humanities and Social Sciences}, author = {Caterina Donati and Chiara Branchini} } @conference {5545, title = {Gross Minimality in child grammar }, year = {2013}, month = {11/2013}, author = {Carlo Cecchetto and Caterina Donati and Guasti, Maria Teresa} } @conference {4986, title = {Nouns do not take complements. A theoretical claim and a psycholinguistic experiment. }, year = {2013}, month = {03/2013}, address = {Keio Tokyo}, author = {Caterina Donati} } @inproceedings {4992, title = {Nouns do not take complements: A theoretical claim and a psycholinguistic experiment {\guillemotright} }, year = {2013}, pages = {1-16}, publisher = {Hituzi Syobo Publishing}, edition = {Otsu, Y}, address = {Tokyo}, author = {Carlo Cecchetto and Caterina Donati} } @conference {5544, title = {Please do not Move that remnant too much! }, year = {2013}, month = {10/2013}, author = {Carlo Cecchetto and Caterina Donati} } @conference {5546, title = {Towards a grammar for code blending (and code switching)}, year = {2013}, month = {07/2013}, author = {Caterina Donati and Chiara Branchini} } @article {4912, title = {WH-duplication in Italian Sign Language (LIS)}, journal = {Sign Language and Linguistics}, volume = {16}, year = {2013}, pages = {157-188}, chapter = {157}, author = {Chiara Branchini and Cardinaletti Anna and Carlo Cecchetto and Caterina Donati and Carlo Geraci} } @inbook {4929, title = {Challenging linearization: simultaneous mixing in the production of bimodal bilinguals.}, booktitle = { Challenges to linearization. }, year = {2012}, pages = {93-128.}, publisher = {Mouton de Gruyter}, organization = {Mouton de Gruyter}, edition = {T. Biberauer; I. Roberts (ed.)}, address = {Berlin}, author = {Caterina Donati and Chiara Branchini} } @inbook {4930, title = {La variazione nel lessico della Lingua dei Segni Italiana}, booktitle = {La variazione nel lessico della Lingua dei Segni Italiana {\guillemotright}. Atti del Congresso SLI Universit{\`a} di Viterbo}, year = {2012}, pages = {271-280}, publisher = {Bulzoni}, organization = {Bulzoni}, edition = { Silvana Ferreri (ed.)}, address = {Roma}, author = {K. Battaglia and Cardinaletti Anna and Carlo Cecchetto and Caterina Donati and Carlo Geraci and E. Merghetti} } @article {4913, title = {The LIS corpus project. A discussion of sociolinguistic variation in the lexicon}, journal = {Sign Language studies}, volume = {11}, year = {2011}, pages = {574}, chapter = {528}, author = {Carlo Geraci and K. Battaglia and Cardinaletti Anna and Carlo Cecchetto and Caterina Donati and S. Giudice and Mereghetti Emiliano} } @article {4045, title = {Relabeling Heads: A Unified Account for Relativization Structures}, journal = {Linguistic Inquiry}, volume = { 42}, year = {2011}, pages = {560}, chapter = {519}, author = {Caterina Donati and Carlo Cecchetto} } @article {4044, title = {On Labeling: Principle C and Head Movement}, journal = {Syntax}, volume = {13}, year = {2010}, pages = {278}, chapter = {241}, author = {Caterina Donati and Carlo Cecchetto} } @inbook {6640, title = { Relative clauses in the Romance languages. }, booktitle = {Oxford Research Enclyclopedia of Linguistics}, author = {Carlo Cecchetto and Caterina Donati} } @article {6641, title = {Whatever his arguments, whatever relatives are headed relatives. A reply to Caponigro{\textquoteright}s reply.}, journal = {Linguistic Inquiry}, author = {Carlo Cecchetto and Caterina Donati} } @article {6622, title = {Whatever his arguments, whatever relatives are headed relatives. A reply to Caponigro{\textquoteright}s reply}, journal = {Linguistic Inquiry}, abstract = {

This is a reply to Caponigro 2019, which argues that the phrase structure theory proposed by Donati and Cecchetto (2011;2015) falls short of accounting for the attested patterns of free relative clauses. The core of that paper is a criticism concerning the reliability of the data that were taken as evidence for D\&C\’s analysis of ever-relatives as not being free relatives. This paper reports the results of 5 controlled experiments on English and Italian involving about 200 participants, focusing on five main properties that set apart free relatives from full relatives (occurrence with a complementizer and with a relative pronoun, infinitival use, absolute use, adverbial use). Crucially, ever-relatives do not pattern with free relatives in any of these five domains, either in Italian or in English. This clearly shows that ever-relatives are not a counterexample against D\&C\’s phrase structure theory. Another potential counterexample, Romanian free relatives, is also discussed.

}, keywords = {free relatives; full relatives; ever-relatives; labeling}, author = {Carlo Cecchetto and Caterina Donati} }