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

Paths of Bleaching: On the Subevental Structure of Restructuring Verbs
GoingRomance 2025
Ca' Foscari University of Venice
3-5/12/2025
Talk Upcoming

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 Upcoming

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 Upcoming

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 Upcoming

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 Upcoming

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 Upcoming

Crosslinguistic Variation in Root Infinitives:
A Unified Analysis of Feature Inheritance and Labeling Theory
Child Language Symposium
University of Reading
8-10/09/2025
Poster Upcoming

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
Poster Upcoming

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 Upcoming

2025

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