Carlo Geraci: HDR

Carlo Geraci

Researcher CR-2, CNRS, Institut Jean-Nicod, Paris & École Normale Supérieure

Director of the IJN Sign Language Group

Address: Institut Jean-Nicod, Pavillon Jardin, 29, Rue d'Ulm, 75005, Paris

E-Mail: carlo.geraci76@gmail.com

Website: https://sites.google.com/site/carlogeraci76/

This page contains the documents for the Habilitation à diriger des recherches (HDR):

Document summarising my main contribution to the field (mémoire HDR) and summary in English and French (pdf here)

  1. Curriculum Vitae (pdf here)
  2. Selection of papers that is representative of my research (see below)

Selection of Papers

The selection of papers I am presenting here reflects my four research areas. However, rather than trying being balanced across the areas, I am submitting i) a series of papers on one specific topic and ii) a sample from each area.

The complete list of my scientific production can be found here (if you are interested in the pdf version of any of them, just let me know.).

Slides of recent talks can be found here.

The case of wh-signs in LIS

Cecchetto, C., Geraci, C. and Zucchi, S. 2009. Another way to mark syntactic dependencies. The case for right peripheral specifiers in sign languages. Language, 85(2), 278-320. (pdf here)

Geraci, C. 2009. Phase Theory, Linearization and Zig-Zag Movement. Grohmann, K. (ed.), Phases at the Interface. (Interface Explorations), Berlin: de Gruyter. (pdf here)

Geraci, Carlo, Robert Bayley, Anna, Cardinaletti, Carlo Cecchetto and Caterina Donati. 2015. Variation in Italian Sign Language (LIS): The Case of Wh-signs. Linguistics, 53(1): 125 – 151.(pdf here)

Branchini, Chiara, Cardinaletti, Anna, Cecchetto, Carlo, Donati, Caterina and Geraci, Carlo. 2013. Wh-duplication in Italian sign language (LIS), Sign language and Linguistics 16(2), 157-188. (pdf here)

Geraci, C. and Cecchetto, C. 2013. Neglected cases of rightward movement. When wh-phrases and negative quantifiers go right. Gert, H., M. (ed.), Rightward Movement in a Comparative Perspective. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Co. 211-241. (pdf here)

Theoretical Linguistics

Geraci, C. 2007. Comparative Correlatives in Italian Sign Language. Traitement Automatique des Langues, 48(3), 55-92. (pdf here)

Geraci, C. 2009. Epenthesis in Italian Sign Language. Sign Language & Linguistics 12(1), 3-51. (pdf here)

Geraci Carlo. 2014. Spatial syntax in your hands. NELS 44: Proceedings of the Forty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society_vol1. (Ed.) Jyoti Iyer & Leland Kusmer. 123-134. (pdf here)

Sign Language and Cognition

Geraci, C., Gozzi, M., Papagno, C. and Cecchetto, C. 2008. How grammar can cope with limited short-term memory: Simultaneity and seriality in sign languages. Cognition, 106, 780-804. (pdf here)

Gozzi, M., Geraci, C., Cecchetto, C., Perugini, M. and Papagno, C. 2011. Looking for an explanation for the low sign span. Is order involved? Journal of deaf studies and deaf education, 16(1), 101-107. (pdf here)

Unpublished manuscript

Strickland, Brent, Carlo Geraci, Emmanuel Chemla, Philippe Schlenker, Meltem Kelepir, & Roland Pfau. (Submitted). Event representations constrain the structure of language: Sign language as a window into universally accessible linguistic biases. Manuscript submitted to PNAS. (pdf here)

Sociolinguistics

Geraci, C. 2012. Language Policy and Planning: The Case of Italian Sign Language. Sign Language Studies, 12(4), 494-518. (pdf here)

Geraci, C., Battaglia, K., Cardinaletti, A., Cecchetto, C., Donati, C., Giudice, S., Mereghetti, E. 2011. The LIS Corpus Project. A discussion of sociolinguistic variation in the Lexicon. Sign Language Studies, 11(4), 528-574. (pdf here)

Computational linguistics

Geraci, Carlo and Alessandro Mazzei. 2014. Last train to “Rebaudengo Fossano”: the case of some names in avatar translation. In 6 th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Beyond the Manual Channel Language. (Ed.) Onno Crasborn, Eleni Efthimiou, Evita Fotinea, Thomas Hanke, Jette Kristofferesen & Johanna Mesch. 63-66. (pdf here)

This page contains the documents for the Habilitation à diriger des recherches (HDR):

Document summarising my main contribution to the field (mémoire HDR) and summary in English and French (pdf here)

  1. Curriculum Vitae (pdf here)
  2. Selection of papers that is representative of my research (see below)

Selection of Papers

The selection of papers I am presenting here reflects my four research areas. However, rather than trying being balanced across the areas, I am submitting i) a series of papers on one specific topic and ii) a sample from each area.

The complete list of my scientific production can be found here (if you are interested in the pdf version of any of them, just let me know.).

Slides of recent talks can be found here.

The case of wh-signs in LIS

Cecchetto, C., Geraci, C. and Zucchi, S. 2009. Another way to mark syntactic dependencies. The case for right peripheral specifiers in sign languages. Language, 85(2), 278-320. (pdf here)

Geraci, C. 2009. Phase Theory, Linearization and Zig-Zag Movement. Grohmann, K. (ed.), Phases at the Interface. (Interface Explorations), Berlin: de Gruyter. (pdf here)

Geraci, Carlo, Robert Bayley, Anna, Cardinaletti, Carlo Cecchetto and Caterina Donati. 2015. Variation in Italian Sign Language (LIS): The Case of Wh-signs. Linguistics, 53(1): 125 – 151.(pdf here)

Branchini, Chiara, Cardinaletti, Anna, Cecchetto, Carlo, Donati, Caterina and Geraci, Carlo. 2013. Wh-duplication in Italian sign language (LIS), Sign language and Linguistics 16(2), 157-188. (pdf here)

Geraci, C. and Cecchetto, C. 2013. Neglected cases of rightward movement. When wh-phrases and negative quantifiers go right. Gert, H., M. (ed.), Rightward Movement in a Comparative Perspective. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Co. 211-241. (pdf here)

Theoretical Linguistics

Geraci, C. 2007. Comparative Correlatives in Italian Sign Language. Traitement Automatique des Langues, 48(3), 55-92. (pdf here)

Geraci, C. 2009. Epenthesis in Italian Sign Language. Sign Language & Linguistics 12(1), 3-51. (pdf here)

Geraci Carlo. 2014. Spatial syntax in your hands. NELS 44: Proceedings of the Forty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society_vol1. (Ed.) Jyoti Iyer & Leland Kusmer. 123-134. (pdf here)

Sign Language and Cognition

Geraci, C., Gozzi, M., Papagno, C. and Cecchetto, C. 2008. How grammar can cope with limited short-term memory: Simultaneity and seriality in sign languages. Cognition, 106, 780-804. (pdf here)

Gozzi, M., Geraci, C., Cecchetto, C., Perugini, M. and Papagno, C. 2011. Looking for an explanation for the low sign span. Is order involved? Journal of deaf studies and deaf education, 16(1), 101-107. (pdf here)

Unpublished manuscript

Strickland, Brent, Carlo Geraci, Emmanuel Chemla, Philippe Schlenker, Meltem Kelepir, & Roland Pfau. (Submitted). Event representations constrain the structure of language: Sign language as a window into universally accessible linguistic biases. Manuscript submitted to PNAS. (pdf here)

Sociolinguistics

Geraci, C. 2012. Language Policy and Planning: The Case of Italian Sign Language. Sign Language Studies, 12(4), 494-518. (pdf here)

Geraci, C., Battaglia, K., Cardinaletti, A., Cecchetto, C., Donati, C., Giudice, S., Mereghetti, E. 2011. The LIS Corpus Project. A discussion of sociolinguistic variation in the Lexicon. Sign Language Studies, 11(4), 528-574. (pdf here)

Computational linguistics

Geraci, Carlo and Alessandro Mazzei. 2014. Last train to “Rebaudengo Fossano”: the case of some names in avatar translation. In 6 th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Beyond the Manual Channel Language. (Ed.) Onno Crasborn, Eleni Efthimiou, Evita Fotinea, Thomas Hanke, Jette Kristofferesen & Johanna Mesch. 63-66. (pdf here)