2026

The Labeling of Root Infinitives: a Split-Feature Inheritance Approach

Tommaso Sgrizzi

to appear Catalan Journal of Linguistics

Belief or Action? Semantic ambiguity in the Italian non-finite domain

Achille Fusco, Tommaso Sgrizzi

Proceedings Proceedings of GLOW 47
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From recursion to incrementality: return to recurrent neural networks

Cristiano Chesi, Matilde Barbini, Veronica Bressan, Achille Fusco, Sofia Neri, Maria Letizia Piccini Bianchessi, Sarah Rossi, Tommaso Sgrizzi

Journal Linguistics Vanguard
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2025

Fare+Che+Infinitives in Turinese Italian: Insights into the low-vP periphery

Tommaso Sgrizzi

Proceedings Proceedings of the 33rd Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe (CONSOLe XXXIII)
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Current linguistic changes in contemporary Italian: The cases of non io che and essere tipo

Sarah Rossi, Tommaso Sgrizzi

Proceedings Proceedings of the 33rd Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe (CONSOLe XXXIII)
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Structural sensitivity does not entail grammaticality: assessing LLMs against the Universal Functional Hierarchy

Tommaso Sgrizzi, Asya Zanollo, Cristiano Chesi

Proceedings Proceedings of CLiC-it 2025: Eleventh Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics
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Acquisition in Babies and Machines: Comparing the Learning Trajectories of LMs in Terms of Syntactic Structures (ATTracTSS Test Set)

Sarah Rossi, Guido Formichi, Sofia Neri, Tommaso Sgrizzi, Asya Zanollo, Veronica Bressan, Cristiano Chesi

Proceedings Proceedings of CLiC-it 2025: Eleventh Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics
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BLiMP-IT: Harnessing Automatic Minimal Pair Generation for Italian Language Model Evaluation

Matilde Barbini, Maria Letizia Piccini Bianchessi, Veronica Bressan, Achille Fusco, Sofia Neri, Sarah Rossi, Tommaso Sgrizzi, Cristiano Chesi

Proceedings Proceedings of CLiC-it 2025: Eleventh Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics
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Linguistic Units as Tokens: Intrinsic and Extrinsic Evaluation with BabyLM

Achille Fusco, Maria Letizia Piccini Bianchessi, Tommaso Sgrizzi, Asya Zanollo, Cristiano Chesi

Proceedings Proceedings of the First BabyLM Workshop, Association for Computational Linguistics, Suzhou
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2024

When infinitives are not under control: the Growing Trees Hypothesis and the developmental advantage of restructuring verbs

Tommaso Sgrizzi

Journal Rivista di Grammatica Generativa (RGG) 46(4), 1–39, Lingbuzz Press
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Proceedings of the 32nd Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe (eds.)

Federica Longo, Leonardo Russo Cardona, Tommaso Sgrizzi, Atefeh Shahbazi, Hadis Tamleh

Edited volume Leiden University
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Different Ways to Forget: Linguistic Gates in Recurrent Neural Networks

Cristiano Chesi, Veronica Bressan, Matilde Barbini, Achille Fusco, Maria Letizia Piccini Bianchessi, Sofia Neri, Sarah Rossi, Tommaso Sgrizzi

Proceedings Proceedings of The 2nd BabyLM Challenge at the 28th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning
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Recurrent networks are (linguistically) better? An experiment on small-LM training on child-directed speech in Italian

Achille Fusco, Matilde Barbini, Maria Letizia Piccini Bianchessi, Veronica Bressan, Sofia Neri, Sarah Rossi, Tommaso Sgrizzi, Cristiano Chesi

Proceedings Proceedings of CLiC-it 2024: Tenth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics
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