Research
Books
In Preparation (with Francesca Panzeri UniMilano Bicocca) Lingua e Pensiero. Teorie e ricerca sperimentale, Carocci Editore.
2017 Concealed Questions, Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics, Oxford University Press.
Selected articles and talks
2023 The Evidential Future in Italian (with Paula Menendez-Benito, University of Tuebingen), in Natural Language Semantics 31. View open access here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11050-023-09205-0https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11050-023-09205-0
2022 X-marking and the Italian reportative conditional (with Paula Menendez-Benito, University of Tuebingen). Talk at SinFoniJa 15, September 22-24 University of Udine.
2020 Making WorldsAccessible. Essays in Honor of Angelika Kratzer, Scholarwork at UMass Amherst (edited volume with Rajesh Bhatt and Paula Menendez Benito)
2020 Concealed Questions, in Daniel Gutzmann, L. Matthewson, C. Meier, H. Rullmann and T. E. Zimmermann (eds.), The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Semantics, Wiley’s Linguistics Companion Series.
2019 Bias and Evidence. The case of the Evidential Future in Italian (with Paula Menendez-Benito, University of Tuebingen), in Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT 29), UCLA (link to paper).
2019 Attitudes in Discourse: Italian Polar Questions and the particle mica (with Kyle Rawlins, Johns Hopkins University) in Semantics and Pragmatics, vol. 12 . DOI: https://doi.org/dd8z
2018 Derived Nominals and Concealed Propositions (with Keir Moulton, University of Toronto), in New Frontiers of Artificial Intelligence, JSAI-isAI Workshops, Springer.
2018 Propositional Interpretations of Derived Nominals (with Keir Moulton, Simon Fraser University), talk given at Incontro Grammatica Generativa (IGG 44), Università di Roma 3. (slides).
2017 Modality in the Nominal Domain. The case of Adnominal Conditionals. In A. Arregui, M. Rivero and A. Salanova (eds.) Modality Across Syntactic Categories, Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics, Oxford University Press.
2016 Italian Mica in Assertions and Questions (with Kyle Rawlins, Johns Hopkins University), in N. Bade et al (eds.), Proceedings of SuB 20 (downloadable paper here).
2016 Attitudes in Discourse. The case of Italian mica. Invited talk at the workshop The Grammar of Attitudes 2016, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain (slides: Mica_Barcelona.pdf).
2016 Attitudes in Discourse. The case of Italian mica. Invited talk at Swarthmore College. (handout Mica_Swarthmore_final.pdf)
2016 Italian Mica as a Common Ground Management Operator (with Kyle Rawlins, Johns Hopkins University), Talk at IGG 42 (Incontro Grammatica Generativa), Lecce Italy. Winner of the Marica De Vincenzi Award (handout Mica_IGG_final.pdf)
2015 Italian Negation in Mica-Questions and Assertions (with Kyle Rawlins, Johns Hopkins University), presentation at SuB 20.
2015 Embedding the Epistemic Future in Italian and Spanish (with Paula-Menendez-Benito, UPF), SuB 20 (futureposterSuB2015.pdf)
2014 Epistemic biases in Polar Questions. The case of Italian mica. Invited talk at the University of Connecticut.
2013 Mica Questions and Bias (with Kyle Rawlins), NELS 44 (mica_nels_poster.pdf)
2013 Quantified Concealed Questions, Natural Language Semantics, volume 21, Issue 2, pp 179-218 (paper open access)
2012 Covert Nominal Modality. The case of Adnominal Conditionals. Invited talk presented at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (slides: AC-BA.pdf)
2012 Adnominal Conditionals and Modal NPs. Talk given at the workshop Modality at Ottawa, University of Ottawa, Canada.
2011 (with Kyle Rawlins, Johns Hopkins University) Unconditional concealed questions and the nature of Heim’s ambiguity. In Proceedings of SALT 21, pp. 495-514. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University (downloadable paper). A talk based on this material was also presented by K. Rawlins at the University of Maryland Linguistics colloquia series (slides)
2010 Quantified Concealed Questions and descriptive traces. Talk given at NELS 41, UPenn. (paper published in Proceedings of NELS 41, Amherst GLSA, 2013)
2010 Concealed Questions. In search of Answers, PhD dissertation, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Committee members: Angelika Kratzer (chair), Rajesh Bhatt, Philip Bricker, Irene Heim.
2010 Copular Questions and Concealed Questions. In Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 14, pp. 134-150. (downloadable paper)
2007 The Role of discourse prominence in the resolution of referential ambiguities. Evidence from co-reference in Italian. (Poster presented at CUNY 20, paper forthcoming in Semantics and Processing UMOP, Amherst GLSA)
2006 The de re analysis of concealed questions: a unified approach to definite and indefinite concealed questions. In Proceedings of SALT 16. (downloadable paper)