Books

• Donati, C. and G. Graffi, in press. Gernative Grammar. Ideas, History and Models of Analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 

• Donati C. and G. Graffi. 2022.  La grammatica generativa. Idee, storia e modelli di analisi.  Roma: Carocci. 

• Quer, J. , C. Cecchetto, C. Donati, , C. Geraci, M. Kelepir,  R. Pfau,  M. Steinbach. 2018. The SignGram Blueprint. A Guide to the Preparation of Comprehensive Reference Grammars for Sign Languages. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. downloadable here 

• C. Cecchetto et C. Donati. 2015. On (re)labelling . Linguistic Inquiry Monographs. Cambridge, Mass : The MIT Press.

Articles

• Foppolo, F. C. Cecchetto, C. Donati. 2026. Avoiding gaps or avoiding nodes? Isogloss (accepted).

• Burnett, H. , C. Donati, M. Flesch. 2026. Grammaticalizing inclusivity: French gender inclusive

doublets, STAR (accepted).

• Giustolisi, B. and C. Donati. 2026. Simultaneous processing of writing and speech: bimodal

and bilingual lexical access in unimodal bilinguals. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1-

10. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728926101266

• Donati, C., Geraci, C., Giustolisi, B., Multineddu, G., and *Branchini, C. 2025. How do L2

• learners of LIS process code-blending? RGG, 47: 1–19.

• *Li, R., D. Gras, C. Donati. 2025. The syntax of wh-in situ questions in French: an experimental investigation. Probus, 199-232. https://doi.org/10.1515/probus-2025-0002

• Liang, Y., C. Donati, H. Burnett. 2024. French subject doubling: a third path. Isogloss. 10(7), 1–28. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/isogloss.420

• Viganò, M. , C. Donati, C. Cecchetto. 2024. As small as they seem? An experimental investigation on Italian bare participial sentences. Isogloss, 10:1. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/isogloss.367

• Giustolisi, B., *Jaber, A., *Branchini, C., Geraci, C., Donati, C. 2024. Processing code-blending beyond the lexical level: evidence for a double syntactic derivation? Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728923000901  

• *Zorzi, G., V. *Aristodemo, C. Cecchetto, B. Giustolisi, C. *Hauser, C. Donati. 2023. Assessing lexical and syntactic comprehension in deaf signing adults. Journal of Deaf studies and Dead education. https://doi.org/10.1093/deafed/enad022

• *Su, P. and C. Donati. 2023. An Accessibility Hierarchy Pattern for Resumptive Pronouns in Spoken French. Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale, 57: 113-130. https://doi.org/10.30687/AnnOc/2499- 1562/2023/11/005  

• *Hauser, C. V. *Aristodemo, C. Donati. 2023. Subject advantage in covert dependencies: the case of wh-questions comprehension in French Sign Language. Syntax. https://doi.org/10.1111/synt.12257

• *Jaber, A., Geraci, C., C. Donati. 2022. On the properties of null subjects in Sign Languages: the case of French Sign Language (LSF). The linguistic review, 39: 655-686. https://doi.org/10.1515/tlr-2022-2100.

• Mertz, J. C. *Annucci, V. *Aristodemo, B. Giustolisi, D. Gras, G. Turco, C. Geraci, C. Donati. 2022. Measuring sign complexity: comparing a model driven and an error driven approach. Laboratory Phonology, 24.  https://doi.org/10.16995/labphon.6439

• *Aristodemo, V. B. Giustolisi, C. *Hauser, G. Zorzi, C. Donati and C. Cecchetto. 2022. Is role shift direct quotation? An argument coming from effects of age of first exposure to (sign) language. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11049-022-09539-0

• Donati, C. and C. Cecchetto. 2022. Labeling reduced sentences: when VPs are sentences? Linguistic Inquiry, 1-37.

• Zorzi G., B. Giustolisi, V. *Aristodemo, C. Cecchetto, C. *Hauser, J. Sanchez, G., J. Quer, C. Donati. 2022. On the reliability of the notion of Native speaker, and its risks. Frontiers in Psychology.

• Donati C., F. Foppolo, I. *Konrad, C. Cecchetto. 2022. Whatever his arguments, whatever relatives are headed relatives. A reply to Caponigro’s reply. Linguistic Inquiry, 53 (3): 522–550.

• Checchetto, A. C. Donati and C. Cecchetto. 2021. Wh-features and exclamatives in LIS (Italian Sign Language). Revista de Estudos Linguísticos da Universidade do Porto. https://doi.org/10.2174 7/978-989-9082-02-1/ling

• Hauser, C., G. Zorzi, V. Aristodemo, B. Giustolisi, D. Gras, R. Sala, J. Sánchez Amat, C. Cecchetto and C. Donati. 2021. Asymmetries in relative clause comprehension in three European sign languages. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 6(1): 72. 1–36. https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.1454

• Armstrong G., K. Arregi, K. De Clercq, C. Donati, A. Fábregas, L. Rizzi, A. Saab, N. Schifano 2021. The Romance Inter-Views: Syntax. Isogloss 7/2: 1-11. https: //doi.org/10.5565/rev/isogloss.112

• Konrad, I., M. Burattini, C. Cecchetto, F. Foppolo, A. Staub, C. Donati 2021. Avoiding gaps in Romance:  a processing foundation for the Merge over Move principle? Syntax 24 (2): 191-223. https://doi.org/10.1111/synt.12209

• Donati C., F. Foppolo, I. Konrad, C. Cecchetto 2020. Whatever his arguments, whatever relatives are headed relatives. A reply to Caponigro’s reply. Linguistic Inquiry 1-50. https://doi.org/10.1162/ling_a_00413

• Cecchetto, C.  & C. Donati 2019.  Against the parallelism between the NP and the clause: Evidence from idioms. Linguistics 1-38. https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2019-0014 

• Huang, J.  & C. Donati 2019. Subject object asymmetries in the production of relative clauses in Cantonese. Studies in Chinese linguistics 40; 168-202. here 

• Staub, A., C. Donati. F. Foppolo, C. Cecchetto 2018. Clause avoidance: evidence for a structural parsing principle. Journal of memory and language 98: 26-44. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2017.09.003

• Branchini, C.  & C. Donati 2016. Assessing Lexicalism through bimodal eyes. Glossa, 1:48: 1-30. here 

• Donati, C.  & C. Branchini 2016. The extent of language co-activation in bimodal bilinguals. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 6(6):763-767.

• Vernice, M., C. Cecchetto, C. Donati, E. Moscati. 2016. Relative clauses are not adjuncts: an experimental investigation of a corollary of the raising analysis . Linguistische Berichte 246: 139-169.

• Geraci, R. Bayley, Cardinaletti A., C. Cecchetto & C. Donati 2015. The Case of Wh-signs. Sign Language Linguistics 53: 125-151.DOI:10.1515/ling-2014-0031 

• Branchini, C. , C. Cecchetto, A. Cardinaletti, C., C. Donati, C. Geraci 2013. WH-duplication in Italian Sign Language (LIS).  Sign Language and Linguistics. 16 : 157-188.here 

• Geraci, C., K. Battaglia, A. Cardinaletti, C. Cecchetto, C. Donati, S. Giudice, E. Mereghetti 2011.  The LIS corpus project. A discussion of sociolinguistic variation in the lexicon . Sign Language studies, 11 : 528-574.here 

• Donati, C., C. Cecchetto 2011. Relabeling Heads: A Unified Account for Relativization Structures. Linguistic Inquiry, 42 : 519-560. here 

• Cecchetto, C., C. Donati 2010. On Labeling. Principle C and Head Movement. Syntax, 13 : 241-278. here 

Chapters

• Donati, C. Movement as a Labeling Device: Some Outstanding Problems. 2026. In Grohmann, K.

and E. Leivada (Eds). The Cambridge Handbook of the Minimalist Program, pp. 156-167. Cambridge University Press.

• *Branchini, C., C. Donati, C. Geraci, B. Giustolisi. 2024. Code blending nei bilingui bimodali: un caso

di continuum tra modalità segnata e parlata. Atti della Società di linguistica italiana.

• Cecchetto, C and C. Donati. 2024. On the imperialism of the copula. Addressing some puzzling properties of reduced structures in Italian. In Greco, M. & D. Mocci (eds.). A Cartesian Dream: A Geometrical Account of Syntax. In honor of Andrea Moro. Rivista di Grammatica Generativa/Research in Generative Grammar Monographs. Lingbuzz Press.

• Cecchetto, C. and C. Donati. 2023. Relative clauses in the Romance language. Oxford Encyclopedia of Romance linguistics.

• *Bonnet, M. C. Geraci, C. Donati. Evidence for early lexical integration of speech and gesture.2023. In Bakay, O., B. Pratley, E. Neu, P. Deal (Eds.). NELS 52: Proceedings of the Fifty-Second Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society: Volume 1. Amherst (MA): GSLA.

•  Cecchetto C. and C. Donati. Unprobed movement and labeling: tree trimming as a key to understand successive cyclicity. 2022. In Boneh, N. et al. (eds.). Building on Babel’s rubble, 377-394. Paris: Presses Universitaires de Vincennes.

• Donati, C. 2021. Bimodal bilingual grammars. Theoretical and empirical perspectives.  In Hermann, Pfau and Quer (eds.), Handbook of theoretical and experimental sign language research, Routledge, 614-635. 

• Cecchetto C.  & C. Donati 2020. Relabeling participial Construction. In Linguistic Variation: Structure and Interpretation – A Festschrift in Honour of M. Rita Manzini in occasion of her 60th birthday. Berlin, Mouton De Gruyter.

• Donati C. 2020. A contrastive analysis of interrogative constructions in Romance: microvariation and theory. In M. Georgiafentis, G. Giannoulopoulou, M. Koliopoulou,A. Tsokoglou (eds.), Contrastive Studies in Morphology and Syntax. Bloomsbury.

• Konrad I., Y. Haendler & C. Donati 2018. The acquisition of French ambiguous embedded structures introduce by ce que. In A.B. Bertolini and M.J. Kaplan (eds.), Proceedings of the 42nd Boston University Conference on Language Development. MA: Cascadilla Press.here 

• Donati C. & K. Antzakas 2017.  Declaratives. In J. Quer, C. Cecchetto, C. Donati, C. Geraci, M. Kelepir, R. Pfau, M. Steinbach (eds). The SignGram Blueprint. A Guide to the Preparation of Comprehensive Reference Grammars for Sign Languages, 287-290. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.

• Donati C. & K. Antzakas 2017. Exclamatives. In J. Quer, C. Cecchetto, C. Donati, C. Geraci, M. Kelepir,  R. Pfau,  M. Steinbach (eds.). The SignGram Blueprint. A Guide to the Preparation of Comprehensive Reference Grammars for Sign Languages. 315-321. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.

• Donati C. & C. Branchini 2017. Imperatives. In J. Quer, C. Cecchetto, C. Donati, C. Geraci, M. Kelepir, R. Pfau, M. Steinbach. (eds.). The SignGram Blueprint. A Guide to the Preparation of Comprehensive Reference Grammars for Sign Languages. 304-315. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.

• Donati, C. , K. Antzakas & J. Quer 2017. Negatives. In J. Quer, C. Cecchetto, C. Donati, C. Geraci, M. Kelepir,  R. Pfau,  M. Steinbach (eds). The SignGram Blueprint. A Guide to the Preparation of Comprehensive Reference Grammars for Sign Languages. 321-332. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.

• Donati C., J. Jónsson & C. Cecchetto 2017. Grammatical functions. In J. Quer, C. Cecchetto, C. Donati, , C. Geraci, M. Kelepir,  R. Pfau,  M. Steinbach. 2018. The SignGram Blueprint. A Guide to the Preparation of Comprehensive Reference Grammars for Sign Languages. 366-375. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.

• Donati C.  & C. Cecchetto (2017). Clausal Ellipsis.In J. Quer, C. Cecchetto, C. Donati, , C. Geraci, M. Kelepir,  R. Pfau,  M. Steinbach (eds). The SignGram Blueprint. A Guide to the Preparation of Comprehensive Reference Grammars for Sign Languages. 396-398. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.

• Donati C. & S. Özsoy 2017. Pronoun copying. In J. Quer, C. Cecchetto, C. Donati, C. Geraci, M. Kelepir, R. Pfau, M. Steinbach (eds.). The SignGram Blueprint. A Guide to the Preparation of Comprehensive Reference Grammars for Sign Languages. 398-403. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.

• Donati C., S. Ozsoy & A. Göksel 2017. Argument clauses. In J. Quer, C. Cecchetto, C. Donati, C. Geraci, M. Kelepir, R. Pfau,  M. Steinbach (eds.). The SignGram Blueprint. A Guide to the Preparation of Comprehensive Reference Grammars for Sign Languages. 427-442. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.

• Donati C. 2017. Comparative clauses. In  J. Quer, C. Cecchetto, C. Donati, C. Geraci, M. Kelepir, R. Pfau,  M. Steinbach (eds.). The SignGram Blueprint. A Guide to the Preparation of Comprehensive Reference Grammars for Sign Languages. 486-491.Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.

• Donati C. & S. Özsoy (2017). The structure of adjectival phrase. In J. Quer, C. Cecchetto, C. Donati, C. Geraci, M. Kelepir, R. Pfau, M. Steinbach (eds.). The SignGram Blueprint. A Guide to the Preparation of Comprehensive Reference Grammars for Sign Languages. 523-527. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.

• Donati C., G. Barbera, C. Branchini, C. Cecchetto, C. Geraci, J. Quer 2017. Searching for imperative in European sign languages. In Van Olmen, D. and S. Heinold (eds.). Imperatives and Other Directive Strategies, 111- 155. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

• Cecchetto C.  & C. Donati 2015. Relativization in Italian Sign Language (LIS): The missing link of relativization. In H. Hermann, R. Pfau and M. Steinbach (eds.), Complex sentences and beyond, 93-128. Berlin: De Gruyter.

• Cecchetto C. & C. Donati 2015. Subject Intervention in free relatives. In E. Di Domenico, C. and S. Hamann Matteini (eds.). Structures, strategies and beyond, 369-392. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

• Cecchetto C. & C. Donati 2015. Please do not Move That remnant too much! . In Grewendorf (ed), Remnant Movement, 179-200. Berlin: De Gruyter.

• Cecchetto, C. & C. Donati 2013. Nouns do not take complements: A theoretical claim and a psycholinguistic experiment. In Y. Otsu (ed.), The Proceedings of the 14th Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics, Tokyo, Hituzi Syobo Publishing: pp.1-16.

• Cecchetto, C. & C. Donati. 2014. Subject intervention in free relatives. Soumis. In E. Di Domenico (ed. ).. Amsterdam : Benjamins.

• Cecchetto, C. & C. Donati. 2014. Relativization in Italian Sign Language (LIS): The missing link of relativization. In press. In Herrmann, Pfau and Steinbach (eds.), Complex sentences and beyond. Berlin : De Gruyter.

• Cecchetto, C.  & Caterina Donati 2014. Please do not move the remnant too much !. In press. In Grewendorf (ed.). On Remnant movement. Berlin : De Gruyter.

• Donati, C. , C. Branchini 2012. Challenging linearization: simultaneous mixing in the production of bimodal bilinguals.  In: T. Biberauer; I. Roberts (ed.). Challenges to linearization. Berlin : Mouton De Gruyter,  pp. 93-128.

• Battaglia, K., A. Cardinaletti, C. Cecchetto, C. Donati, C. Geraci, E. Merghetti (2012). La variazione nel lessico della Lingua dei Segni Italiana. In: Silvana Ferreri (ed.). Atti del Congresso SLI Università di Viterbo. Roma: Bulzoni, pp. 271-280.

• Cecchetto, C. , C. Donati 2012. Perché  Rizzi is right. In: Bianchi, V. e C. Chesi (ed.). Enjoy linguistics! Papers offered to Luigi Rizzi on the occasion of his 60th birthday. CISCL Press, pp. 53-61.

• Cardinaletti, A., C. Cecchetto, C. Donati 2011. Le ragioni di questo libro. In: 35. Milano : Franco Angeli, pp. 9-26.

• Donati, C. & A. Tomaselli 2010. La nozione di accordo in grammatica generativa. Dalle strutture della sintassi al programma minimalista. In: P. Cotticelli Kurras E A. Tomaselli (ed.). La grammatica tra storia e teoria. Scritti in onore di Giorgio Graffi. Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso, pp. 27-66.