Invited Talks
The ladder from belief to action:
structural size at the syntax-semantics interface
with Achille Fusco
CISCL Research Seminar
- University of Siena
10/04/2025
Seminar
When infinitives are not under control:
the Growing Trees Hypothesis and the developmental advantage
of restructuring verbs
Seminari di Linguistica
- University of Padua
12/12/2024
Seminar
Upcoming presentations
2025
LLMs as a window into the cognitive bases of the Universal Functional Hierarchy: the case of Restructuring Verbs
with Asya Zanollo and Cristiano Chesi
GoingRomance 2025
Ca' Foscari University of Venice
3-5/12/2025
Talk
Syntactic maps or surface hacks? Testing restructuring verb order and clitic placement in LLMs
with Asya Zanollo and Cristiano Chesi
1st International Workshop on Language and Language Models
University of Budapest
21/11/2025
Talk
Structural Size at the Syntax/Semantics Interface in the Non-Finite Domain of Italian
with Achille Fusco
CSSP 2025
Université Paris 8 & SFL
12-14/11/2025
Talk
Structural sensitivity does not entail grammaticality: Assessing LLMs against the Universal Functional Hierarchy
with Asya Zanollo and Cristiano Chesi
CLiC-it 2025
University of Cagliari
24-26/10/2025
Talk
Extending the Growing Trees Hypothesis:
The Role of Structural Complexity and Featural Intervention
in older children's syntactic development
with Giacomo Presotto and Jacopo Torregrossa
GALA17
University of Tours
11-13/09/2025
Talk
Eye Tracking's Insights
into Children's Processing of Copular Structures
with Veronica D'alesio, Andrea Moro,
Anna Teresa Porrini, Matteo Greco
GALA17
University of Tours
11-13/09/2025
Poster
Crosslinguistic Variation in Root Infinitives:
A Unified Analysis of Feature Inheritance and Labeling Theory
Child Language Symposium
University of Reading
8-10/09/2025
Lightning Talk
Structural Complexity and Featural Intervention:
Extending the Growing Trees Hypothesis Beyond Infancy
with Giacomo Presotto and Jacopo Torregrossa
Child Language Symposium
University of Reading
8-10/09/2025
Lightning Talk
Fare+Che+Infinitives in Turinese Italian:
Focus Sensitivity and Information Structure
58th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE58)
Université Bordeaux Montaigne
26-29/08/2025
Talk
The Diachronic Development of Italian Restructuring Verbs: a Case of Deauxiliation
Workshop on the Syntax and Semantics of Auxiliaries
Université Paris 8 Vincennes - Saint-Denis
23-24/06/2025
Talk
Apparent Gaps within Cinque's Universal Hierarchy:
The Case of Restructuring Verbs in the Diachrony of Italian
Rencontres Autour de la Linguistique Formelle (RALFe)
University of Lille
4-6/06/2025
Poster
Thinking about Beliefs and Thinking about Intentions:
on a semantic alternation within the Italian non-finite domain
with Achille Fusco
Rencontres Autour de la Linguistique Formelle (RALFe)
University of Lille
4-6/06/2025
Talk
Root Infinitives in Child Language: A Split-Feature Inheritance Approach
26th Annual International Conference of The English Department (AICED26)
University of Bucharest
29-31/05/2025
Talk
The Labeling of Root Infinitives - A Split-Feature Inheritance Approach
Formal Linguistics in the Nordic Countries (FLiNC)
NTNU Trondheim
20-21/05/2025
Talk
Root Infinitives in Child Language: A Split-Feature Inheritance Approach
Colloquium on Generative Grammar (CGG34)
National University of Distance Education (UNED) - Madrid
07-09/05/2025
Poster
Belief or Action? Semantic Ambiguity in Italian Non-finite Domain
with Achille Fusco
Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW47)
University of Frankfurt
25/03/2025
Poster
Infinitives that are not under control:
the developmental advantage of restructuring verbs and the Growing Trees Hypothesis
50th Incontro di Grammatica Generativa (IGG50)
- University of Padua
20/02/2025
Poster
Structural size and the belief/intention alternation
in Italian convincere
with Achille Fusco
50th Incontro di Grammatica Generativa (IGG50)
- University of Padua
21/02/2025
Talk
Current Linguistic Changes in Contemporary Italian:
The Cases non io che and essere tipo
with Sarah Rossi
Conference of SOLE (ConSOLE33)
- Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
31/01/2025
Talk
Belief-Intention alternation with Italian convincere
with Achille Fusco
Workshop on Agency and Intentions in Language (5)
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (virtual)
29/01/2025
Talk
Fare+Che+Infinitives in Turinese Italian
Insights into the low-vP periphery
Conference of SOLE (ConSOLE33)
- Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
29/01/2025
Poster
2024
Split-Feature Inheritance and the Labeling of Root Infinitives
Current issues in syntax, semantics and pragmatics
workshop at Ă–LT - Ă–sterreichische Linguistiktagung 2024
- University of Innsbruck
19/12/2024
Talk
The Acquisition of Infinitival Clauses and The Developmental Advantage of Restructuring Verbs:
A Growing Trees Perspective
Multimodality and Interaction in Language Learning (MILLing)
University of Gothenburg
14-15/10/2024
Poster
Functional Restructuring and the Growing Trees Hypothesis: Insights from Language Acquisition
Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition (GALA16)
NOVA University of Lisbon
12-14/09/2024
Talk
Exploring the Role of Restructuring Verbs in Early Italian under the Growing Trees Hypothesis
57th Meeting of Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE57)
- University of Helsinki
21-24/08/2024
Talk
The developmental advantage of restructuring verbs: a Growing Trees perspective
Child Language Symposium
- University of Newcastle
09-11/07/2024
Talk
Functional Restructuring and the Growing Trees Hypothesis: Insights from Italian Corpus data
Manchester Forum in Linguistics (MFiL24)
- University of Manchester
25-26/06/2024
Talk
The developmental advantage of restructuring verbs: a Growing Trees perspective
STaPs21 (virtual)
- The doctoral school of linguistics, Budapest
28/02/2024
Poster