Publications

Carlo Geraci

Ph.D.

Publications 

(Last update November 2023)

Papers in International Journals 

Abner, Natasha R., Grégoire Clarté, Carlo Geraci, Robin J. Ryder, Justine Mertz, Anah Salgat & Shi Yu. 2024. Computational phylogenetics reveal histories of sign languages. Science 383(February). 519–523. doi:10.4324/9780367854850-21.

Giustolisi, Beatrice., Angélique Jaber, Chiara Branchini, Carlo Geraci,  & Caterina Donati. 2024. Processing code-blending beyond the lexical level: evidence for a double syntactic derivation? Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728923000901 

Geraci, Carlo. 2023. Budding the tree. Towards a theory of structure removal. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 8(1). 1–59. doi:https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.5759.

Oomen, Marloes, Mirko Santoro & Carlo Geraci. 2023. Some properties of Neg-raising in three sign languages. FEAST. Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign language Theory 5. 145–155. doi:https://doi.org/10.31009/FEAST.i5.12.

Lettieri, Jessica, Mirko Santoro & Carlo Geraci. 2023. On Elicited Data in Sign Language Syntax. FEAST. Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign language Theory 5. 88–99. doi:https://doi.org/10.31009/FEAST.i5.08.

Schlenker, Philippe, Marion Bonnet, Jonathan Lamberton, Jason Lamberton, Emmanuel Chemla, Mirko Santoro & Carlo Geraci. 2023. Iconic Syntax: sign language classifier predicates and gesture sequences. Linguistics and Philosophy. 1–71.Springer Netherlands. doi:10.1007/s10988-023-09388-z.

Jaber, Angélique, Caterina Donati & Carlo Geraci. 2022. On the properties of null subjects in sign languages: the case of French Sign Language (LSF). Linguistic Review 39(4). 655–686. doi:10.1515/tlr-2022-2100.

Mertz, Justine, Chiara Annucci, Valentina Aristodemo, Beatrice Giustolisi, Doriane Gras, Giuseppina Turco, Carlo Geraci & Caterina Donati. 2022. Measuring sign complexity: Comparing a model-driven and an error-driven approach. Laboratory Phonology 13(1). 1–33. doi:10.16995/labphon.6439.

Kuhn, Jeremy, Carlo Geraci, Philippe Schlenker & Brent Strickland. 2021. Boundaries in space and time: Iconic biases across modalities. Cognition 210. Elsevier B.V. 1–16. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104596. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104596.

Mantovan, Lara, Carlo Geraci & Anna Cardinaletti. 2019. On the cardinal system in Italian Sign Language (LIS). Journal of Linguistics. 1–35. doi:10.1017/S0022226718000658.

Mantovan, Lara & Carlo Geraci. 2018. R-impersonal interpretation in Italian Sign Language (LIS). Sign Language & Linguistics 21(2). 232–256. doi:10.1075/sll.00019.man.

Checchetto, Alessandra, Carlo Geraci, Carlo Cecchetto & Sandro Zucchi. 2018. The language instinct in extreme circumstances: The transition to tactile Italian Sign Language ( LISt ) by Deafblind signers. Glossa, 3(1)(66), 1–28.

Zaira Cattaneo, Luca Rinaldi, Carlo Geraci, Carlo Cecchetto & Costanza Papagno. 2018. Spatial biases in deaf , blind , and deafblind individuals as revealed by a haptic line bisection task. Quarterly journal of experimental psychology. 1–9. doi:10.1177/1747021817741288.

Lara Mantovan and Carlo Geraci. 2017. The syntax of nominal modification in Italian Sign Language (LIS). Sign language and linguistics 20(2): 183-220.

Valentina Aristodemo and Carlo Geraci. 2017. Visible degrees in Italian Sign Language. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory (on line). Springer Science+Business Media B.V. doi:10.1007/s11049-017-9389-5. (read here)

Brent Strickland, Valentina Aristodemo, and Carlo Geraci. 2017. The categorical role of structurally iconic signs. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 42-43. doi:10.1017/S0140525X15001247, e46. (pdf here)

Mantovan, Lara, Kyle Duarte, Carlo Geraci & Anna Cardinaletti. 2016. Access to Knowledge The Issue of Deaf Students and More. Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale 50. 149–164. doi:10.14277/2499-1562/AnnOc-50-16-7.

Brent Strickland, Carlo Geraci, Emmanuel Chemla, Philippe Schlenker, Meltem Kelepir, and Roland Pfau. 2015. Event representations constrain the structure of language: Sign language as a window into universally accessible linguistic biases. PNAS, 112 (19) 5968-5973, doi:10.1073/pnas.1423080112. (pdf here)

Russo, Ludovico Orlando, Giuseppe Airò Farulla, Daniele Pianu, Alice Rita Salgarella, Marco Controzzi, Christian Cipriani, Calogero Maria Oddo, Carlo Geraci, Stefano Rosa, Marco Indaco. 2015. PARLOMA - A Novel Human-Robot Interaction System for Deaf-blind Remote Communication, International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, 12:57, 1–13. (pdf here)

Carlo Cecchetto, Alessandra Checchetto, Carlo Geraci, Mirko Santoro, Sandro Zucchi. 2015. The syntax of predicate ellipsis in Italian Sign Language (LIS), Lingua, Available online 30 January 2015, ISSN 0024-3841, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2014.12.011.

Geraci, Carlo, Robert Bayley, Anna, Cardinaletti, Carlo Cecchetto and Caterina Donati. 2015. Variation in Italian Sign Language (LIS): The Case of Wh-signs. Linguistics, Vol. 53 Issue 1, p125-151. 27p. DOI: 10.1515/ling-2014-0031.

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. 

Chinello, A. De Hevia, M.D., Geraci, C. and Girelli, L. 2012. Finding the SNARC in signed numbers: Notational effects in accessing number representation, Functional Neurology. 27(3):177-85.

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

Bolognini, N., Cecchetto, C., Geraci, C., Maravita, A., Pascual-Leone, A., Papagno, C. 2011. Hearing shapes our perception of time: temporal discrimination of tactile stimuli in deaf people. Journal of cognitive neuroscience, vol. 24, 276-286.

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. 

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.

Geraci, C. 2010. Tracing direction to contact. Commentary on Wiblur (1985). Sign Language & Linguistics 13(2), 222-227.

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. Epenthesis in Italian Sign Language. Sign Language & Linguistics 12(1), 3-51.

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. (link to article here) 

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

Cecchetto, C., Geraci, C. and Zucchi, S. 2006. Strategies of relativization in Italian Sign Language. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 24(4), 945-975. (on line first, Sept. 22 2006)

Book Chapters

Colin, Stéphanie, Carlo Geraci, Jacqueline Laybaert & Christine Petit. 2021. La scolarisation des élèves sourds en France. CSEN. doi:10.3917/hmc.039.0007.

Geraci, Carlo & Humberto Insolera. 2019. The `Language Issue’ The struggle and path to the recognition of LIS. In Maartje De Meulder, Joseph J. Murray & Rachel McKee (eds.), The Legal Recognition of Sign Languages, 176–190. Bristol, UK: Multilinugal Matters.

Donati, Caterina, Gemma Barberà, Chiara Branchini, Carlo Cecchetto, Carlo Geraci, and Josep Quer. 2017. Searching for imperatives in European sign languages. In Daniël Van Olmen & Simone Heinold (Eds.) Imperatives and Directive Strategies.

Geraci, Carlo and Valentina Aristodemo. 2016. An in-depth tour into sentential complementation in Italian Sign Language. In Annika Herrmann, Roland Pfau and Markus Steinbach (eds.), Complex Matters: Subordination in Sign Languages. Berlin: De Gruyter. 95–150. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. doi: 10.1515/9781501503238‑006.

Geraci, Carlo. 2015. Italian Sign Language. In Julie Bakken Jepsen, Goedele De Clerck, Sam Lutalo-Kiingi and William B. McGregor (eds.) Sign Languages of the World, 473-510. De Gruyter Mouton. 978-1-61451-817-4.

Battaglino, Cristina, Carlo Geraci, Vincenzo Lombardo & Alessandro Mazzei. 2015. Prototyping and Preliminary Evaluation of Sign Language Translation System in the Railway Domain. In Margherita Antona & Costantine Stephanidis (eds.), Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Access to Interaction, 339–350. Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-20681-3. http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-319-20681-3.

Geraci, C. and Quer, J. 2014. Determining argument structure in sign languages. Roy, I. and Bachrach, A. (eds.), Structuring the Argument, 45–60. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Co. 9789027208279.

Geraci, C. and Cecchetto, C. 2013. Neglected cases of rightward movement. When wh-phrases and negative quantifiers go to right. Gert Webelhuth, Manfred Sailer and Heike Walker (Eds.), Rightward Movement in a Comparative Perspective,211–241. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Co. 9789027255839.

Geraci, C., Papagno, C. and Cecchetto, C. 2010. Remembering phonologically in a language without sounds. Columbus, F. (ed.), Progress in Education, Volume 20, 141–151. Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers. 

Zucchi, S., Neidle, C., Geraci, C., Duffy, Q. and Cecchetto, C. 2010. Functional Markers in sign languages: The case of FATTO and FINISH. Brentari, D. (ed.), Sign Languages, 197–224. Cambridge University Press. (pdf here)

Geraci, C. 2009. Phase Theory, Linearization and Zig-Zag Movement. Grohmann, K. (ed.), Phases at the Interface. (Interface Explorations), 133–159. Berlin: de Gruyter.

Geraci, C. and Toffali, L. 2008. Tendenze innovatrici e conservative nell’uso delle lingue: la variabile dell’età nella Lingua dei Segni Italiana. Bella, G. and Diamantini, D. (eds.), La qualità della vita nella società dell’informazione, 97-115. Milano: Guerini e Associati.

Books

Josep Quer, Carlo Cecchetto, Roland Pfau, Caterina Donati, Markus Steinbach, Carlo Geraci & Meltem Kelepir. 2017. The SignGram Blueprint. A Guide to the Preparation of Comprehensive Reference Grammars for Sign Languages. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.

Chesi, C. and Geraci, C. 2009. Segni al computer: manuale di documentazione della Lingua dei Segni Italiana, Cantagalli, Siena (pdf here)

International Conference Proceedings

Bonnet, Marion, Caterina Donati & Carlo Geraci. 2022. Evidence for early lexical integration of speech and gestures. In Özge Bakay, Breanna Pratley, Eva Neu & Peyton Deal (eds.), NELS 52, 81–94. Amherst, MA: GLSA.

Geraci, Carlo, Marloes Oomen & Mirko Santoro. 2022. As strong as an NPI in LSF, NGT and LIS. In John R. Starr, Kim Juhyae & Öney Burak (eds.), SALT 32, 125–143. Mexico City: LSA. doi:10.3765/salt.v1i0.5353.

Abner, Natasha R., Carlo Geraci, Justine Mertz, Shi Yu, Jessica Lettieri, Justine Mertz & Anah Salgat. 2020. Getting the Upper Hand on Sign Language Families: Historical Analysis and Annotation Methods. FEAST. Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign language Theory 3. 17–29. doi:https://doi.org/10.31009/FEAST.i3.02.

Yu, Shi, Carlo Geraci & Natasha Abner. 2018. Sign Languages and the Online World Online Dictionaries & Lexicostatistics. LREC 2018 Conference Proceedigns, 4235–4240.

Hauser, Charlotte & Carlo Geraci. 2018. Relative clauses in French Sign Language (LSF): some preliminary results. FEAST. Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign language Theory. Vol 1. 17–26. (pdf here)

Mantovan Lara and Carlo Geraci. 2015 . The syntax of cardinals numerals in LIS. In Thuy Bui, Deniz Özyildiz (eds.), NELS 45: Proceedings of the Forty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, Volume 2, 155–165. GLSA. 1517317738.

Geraci Carlo. 2014. Spatial syntax in your hands. In Jyoti Iyer and Leland Kusmer (eds.), NELS 44: Proceedings of the Forty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, Volume 1, 123–134. Amherst: GLSA. (pdf here) 1501048465

Mantovan Lara and Carlo Geraci. 2014. Addressing the Cardinals Puzzle: New Insights from Non-Manual Markers in Italian Sign Language. 2014. In Onno Crasborn, Eleni Efthimiou, Evita Fotinea, Thomas Hanke, Jette Kristofferesen and Johanna Mesch (eds.), 6th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Beyond the Manual Channel Language, 113-116.

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

Geraci, Carlo, Alessandro Mazzei and Marco Angster. 2014. Some issues on Italian to LIS automatic translation. The case of train announcements. In Roberto Basili, Alessandro Lenci and Bernardo Magnini (eds.), The First Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics, 190–196. Pisa University Press. (pdf here)

Bayley, Robert, Carlo Geraci, Anna Cardinaletti, Carlo Cecchetto, and Caterina Donati. 2012, Variation in the Position of WH-signs in Italian Sign Language (LIS). In Proceedings of the LSA 2012.

Ruggeri, Alice, Cristina Battaglino, Gabriele Tiotto, Carlo Geraci, Daniele P. Radicioni, Alessandro Mazzei, Rossana Damiano & Leonardo Lesmo. 2011. Where should I put my hands? Planning hand location in sign languages. CoSLI 2011, 24–31. Tilburg-NLD: CEUR. (pdf here)

Geraci, Carlo, Robert Bayley, Chiara Branchini, Anna Cardinaletti, Carlo Cecchetto, Caterina Donati, Serena Giudice, Emiliano Mereghetti, Fabio Poletti, Mirko Santoro, and Sandro Zucchi. 2010. Building a corpus for Italian Sign Language: Methodological issues and some preliminary results. In LREC 2010, 4th Workshop on Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Corpora and Sign Language Technologies. La Valletta, Malta, 17-23, Maggio, 2010. (pdf here)

Conte, Genny, Mirko Santoro, Carlo Geraci, and Anna Cardinaletti. 2010. Why are you raising your eyebrows?. In LREC 2010, 4th Workshop on Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Corpora and Sign Language Technologies. La Valletta, Malta, 17-23, Maggio, 2010. (pdf here)

Geraci, Carlo. 2009. Real World and Copying Epenthesis: The Case of Classifier Predicates in Italian Sign Language. Schardl, A., Walkow, M. and Abdurrahman, M. (eds.), Proceedings of NELS 38, 237-250. GLSA, Amherst, MA. (pdf here)

Geraci, Carlo, Cecchetto, Carlo, and Sandro Zucchi. 2008. Sentential complementation in Italian Sign Language. Grosvald, M. and Soares, D. (eds.), Proceedings of the thirty-eighth Western Conference On Linguistics, WECOL 2008, 46-58. (pdf here)

Geraci, Carlo, Marta Gozzi, Costanza Papagno, and Carlo Cecchetto. 2008. Short Term Memory and Sign Languages: Reduced Resources and Full Languages. In Proceedings of the IX Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina – UFSC Trindade - Florianópolis - Santa Catarina – Brasil, 140-147. (pdf here)

Geraci, Carlo 2006. Sign languages: a puzzle for successive cyclic linearization? Davis C., Deal, A., R. and Zabbal, Y. (eds.), Proceedings of NELS 36, 291-302. GLSA, Amherst, MA. (pdf here)

Geraci, Carlo. 2006. Negation in LIS (Italian Sign Language). Bateman, L., Ussery, C. (eds.), Proceedings of NELS 35, 217-229. GLSA, Amherst, MA. (pdf here)

 National Conference Proceedings

Geraci, Carlo, Roland Pfau, Pietro Braione & Carlo Cecchetto. 2020. Hidden languages in a digital world : The case of sign language archives. Studi AISV 6. 31–47. doi:10.17469/O2106AISV000002.

Geraci, Carlo. 2020. La finestra sul cortile. In Andrea Sansò (ed.), Insegnare Linguistica: basi epistemologiche, metodi, applicazioni, 115–130. Roma: SLI.

Battaglia, K., Cardinaletti, A., Cecchetto, C., Donati, C., Geraci, C., Mereghetti, E. 2012. La variazione nel lessico della lingua dei segni italiana. Proceedings of the XLIV Congresso Internazionale della SLI, Lessico e Lessicologia. Viterbo, 27-29 Sept. 2010.

Geraci, C. (2008). Comparative Correleative in LIS. Bagnara, C, Corazza, S., Fontana, S. and Zuccalà, A. (eds.), I segni parlano. Prospettive di ricerca sulla Lingua dei Segni Italiana. Atti del III Convegno Nazionale sulla lingua dei segni italiana, Dall’Invisibile al Visibile, 95-104. Milano: FrancoAngeli.

Geraci, C. (2004). L’ordine delle parole nella LIS. In Leoni, F., A., Cutugno, F., Pettorino, M. and Savy, R. (eds.), AA. VV., PARLATO ITALIANO in cd-rom, Atti del Convegno nazionale della Società di Linguistica Italiana. Napoli, 13-15 Feb. 2003. Napoli: D’Auria Editore. (pdf here)

Ph. D. Dissertation

Geraci, C. (2006). LIS (lingua dei segni italiana) tra ricerca e divulgazione. Tesi di dottorato. Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca. (pdf here)

Tesi di laurea Magistrale

Geraci, C. (2002). L'ordine dei segni nella LIS (lingua dei segni italiana). Tesi di Laurea. Università degli Studi di Milano. (pdf here)