Publications

BOOKS

1. Garraffa M., & Mazzaggio, G. (2025). Pragmatics in Health Sciences. Cambridge Elements, Elements in Pragmatics, Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 9781009496025. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009496018

2. Mazzaggio, G. (2021) Tanto per intenderci. Breve introduzione alla pragmatica sperimentale. Franco Cesati Editore, Collana: Pillole. ISBN 978-88-7667-874-5
   

EDITED VOLUMES

1. Mazzaggio, G., Lorusso, P. (2023). Proceedings of the International Summer School of Bilingualism and Multilingualism (ISSBM2022). University of Nova Gorica Press. ISBN 978-961-7025-30-9 (PDF). https://books.ung.si/issbm2022/

SCIENTIFIC PAPERS

1. Altavilla, D., Mazzaggio, G., Deriu, V., Garello, S., Vecchi, A., Adornetti, I., Chiera, A., Canali, S., Ferretti, F. (2025). Metaphor as a cognitive and relational tool: a qualitative‑quantitative analysis of metaphorical production in self‑narratives of the experience of addiction. Frontiers in Psychology, section Addictive Behaviors, 16. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1658238 

2. Scontras, G., Manzini, M.R., Mazzaggio, G. (2025). Italian Adjective Order Is Not Predicted by Syntactic Hierarchies and Movement. Linguistic Inquiry, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1162/LING.a.62 

3. Schirato, F., Franco, L., Mazzaggio, G. (2025). Exploring the Molti-tude of uses: Tanto and molto in Italian. Quaderni Di Linguistica E Studi Orientali, 11.  https://doi.org/10.36253/qulso-2421-7220-18660 

4. Mazzaggio, G., Longo, F., Stateva, P., van Tiel, B. (2025). Scalar diversity and second-language processing of scalar inferences: A cross-linguistic analysis. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728925000392 

5. Mazzaggio, G. (2024). Explicit Gender Stereotyping in Bilingualism: The Impact of the Foreign Language Effect.  Quaderni Di Linguistica E Studi Orientali, 10, 91–105. https://doi.org/10.36253/qulso-2421-7220-16573.

6. Mazzaggio, G., Stateva, P. (2024). Negative pragmatic transfer in bilinguals: cross-linguistic influence in the acquisition of quantifiers. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 53, 67. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-024-10101-9

7. Mazzaggio, G., Ludovico, L.A., Vena, M.V., Manzini, M.R., Savoia, L.M. (2024). Morphosyntax of Italian and Romance varieties: presentation of the Manzini and Savoia (2005) corpus and its digitalization. Il Bollettino dell'Atlante Linguistico Italiano, III Serie, 47, pp. 185-210.

8. Mazzaggio, G., Zappoli, A., Mazzarella, D. (2023). Verbal Irony and the Implicitness of the Echo: the Processing of Young and Older Adults. Pragmatics & Cognition, 30(2), 412-443. https://doi.org/10.1075/pc.00036.maz

9. Mazzaggio, G., & Binazzi, N. (2024). Valorizzare il patrimonio immateriale: un’esperienza di digitalizzazione del dialetto. DILEF, III, 1-19. doi: https://doi.org/10.35948/DILEF/2024.4348 

10. Mazzaggio, G., Stateva, P. (2023). Two “many”-Words in Italian? On Molto-Tanto and Cross-Linguistic Differences in Quantification. Atti di Convegno per l’Incontro di Grammatica Generativa (IGG48), Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali / Working Papers in Linguistics and Oriental Studies, 9, 117–134. https://doi.org/10.36253/qulso-2421-7220-15155

11. Mazzaggio, G., Moussaid, Y. (2023). The Role of Metaphors in Code-switching: A Qualitative Analysis of Italian-Arabic Bilingual Speakers. Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali / Working Papers in Linguistics and Oriental Studies, 9, 297–314. https://doi.org/10.36253/qulso-2421-7220-15152

12. Foppolo, F., Mazzaggio, G., Franco, L., Manzini M.R. (2023). A group of researchers are testing pseudopartitives in Italian: notional number is not the key to the facts. Glossa Psycholinguistics, 2(1): 10, pp. 1–34. https://doi.org/10.5070/G6011145

13. Panzeri, F., Mazzaggio, G., Giustolisi, B., Silleresi, S., Surian, L. (2022). The atypical pattern of irony comprehension in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Applied Psycholinguistics, 1-28. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716422000091 

14. Marocchini, E., Di Paola, S., Mazzaggio, G., Domaneschi, F. (2021). Understanding indirect requests in High-Functioning Autism. Cognitive Processing, ISSN: 1612-4782. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-021-01056-z

15. Mazzaggio, G., Foppolo, F., Job, R., Surian, L. (2021) Ad-hoc and Scalar Implicatures in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of Communication Disorders, 90. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcomdis.2021.106089

16. Mazzaggio, G., Panizza, D., & Surian, L. (2021). On the Interpretation of Scalar Implicatures in First and Second Language. Journal of Pragmatics, 171, 62-75. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2020.10.005

17. Mazzaggio, G., Franco, L., Manzini M.R. (2020). Pseudopartitives, measures and agreement: an experimental study. Lingue e Linguaggio, XIX, 2, 159–192. https://doi.org/10.1418/99002 

18. Foppolo, F., Mazzaggio, G., Panzeri, F., & Surian, L. (2020). Scalar and ad-hoc pragmatic inferences in children: guess which one is easier. Journal of Child Language, 48(2), 350- 372. https://doi.org/10.1017/S030500092000032X

19. Mazzaggio, G., Shield, A. (2020) The Production of Pronouns and Verb Inflections by Italian Children with ASD: A New Dataset in a Null Subject Language. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 50(4), 1425–1433. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-019-04349-7 

20. Mazzaggio, G. (2019): Echolalia as a communicative strategy: a Kleefstra-syndrome case study. Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali / Working Papers in Linguistics and Oriental Studies. https://doi.org/10.13128/QULSO-2421-7220-25975

21. Mazzaggio, G. (2019). La citazione meccanica. Una rassegna sul fenomeno dell’ecolalia. Parole Rubate. Rivista Internazionale di Studi sulla Citazione, 19, 203-212.

22. Mazzaggio, G., & Surian, L. (2018). A diminished propensity to compute scalar implicatures is linked to autistic traits. Acta Linguistica Academica, 65(4), 651-668. https://doi.org/10.1556/2062.2018.65.4.4

23. Mazzaggio, G. (2016). Uso dell'inglese L2 e correzione degli errori: corpus di due lezioni alla scuola secondaria di primo grado. Scuola e Lingue Moderne, v. 2016, 16-24.

CHAPTERS

1. Foppolo, F., Mazzaggio, G. (2024). Conversational Implicature and Communication Disorders. In Ball, J.M., Müller, N., Spencer, L. The Handbook of Clinical Linguistics, 2nd edition. Wiley Online Books. 978-1-119-87590-1 (ISBN). https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119875949.ch2

2. Mazzaggio, G., Lorusso, P. (2023). Assessing metalinguistic awareness in multilingual classes. The ISSBM2022 Case Study. In Mazzaggio, G., Lorusso, P. (Eds.). Proceedings of the International Summer School of Bilingualism and Multilingualism (ISSBM2022). PressBook. https://books.ung.si/issbm2022/front-matter/assessing-metalinguistic-awareness-in-multilingual-classes/ 

3. Mazzaggio, G. (2016). Problemi di traduzione della metafora lessicalizzata: analisi contrastiva del romanzo "La sombra del viento" di Carlos Ruiz Zafón e della sua traduzione in italiano. In Sorella, Antonio (a cura di), Boccaccio, Dante e Verdone, Firenze: Franco Cesati Editore, 2016. ISBN: 978-88-7667-605-5

PROCEEDINGS

1. Zoli, C., Mazzaggio, G., & Binazzi, N. 2025. Small Codes: a platform for digital resources and tools for minority languages and dialects. In S. Campana, D. Ferdani, H. Graf, G. Guidi, Z. Hegarty, S. Pescarin, and F. Remondino (Editors). DIGITAL HERITAGE (2025). The Eurographics Association. ISBN: 978‑3‑03868‑277‑6. https://doi.org/10.2312/dh.20253331 

2. Mazzaggio, G., Zoli, C., Binazzi, N., Ludovico, L.A., Vena, M.V., Manzini, M.R., & Savoia, L.M. 2025. Morphosyntactic Variation in Italian and Romansh Dialects: The Manzini & Savoia (2005) Corpus Within Project CHANGES. In S. Campana, D. Ferdani, H. Graf, G. Guidi, Z. Hegarty, S. Pescarin, and F. Remondino (Editors). DIGITAL HERITAGE (2025). The Eurographics Association. ISBN: 978‑3‑03868‑277‑6. https://doi.org/10.2312/dh.20253066 

3. Mazzaggio, G., Stateva, P. (2023). Two “many”-Words in Italian? On Molto-Tanto and Cross-Linguistic Differences in Quantification. Atti di Convegno per l’Incontro di Grammatica Generativa (IGG48), Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali / Working Papers in Linguistics and Oriental Studies, 9, 117–134. https://doi.org/10.36253/qulso-2421-7220-15155

4. Mazzaggio, G. 2016. The Theory of Mind’s role in pronoun acquisition: The phenomenon of pronoun reversal in typically developing children. In: Proceedings of the Seventh Meeting of the Illinois Language and Linguistics Society. Studies in the Linguistic Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana‑Champaign, 55‑69. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/101447

SCIENTIFIC TRANSLATIONS
1. Zaccarello, M., Mazzaggio, G., Wayne, S. H., & Mcgann, J. (2019). Teoria e forme del testo digitale (Vol. 1183, pp. 1-232). Roma, Carocci. 

CORPORA

1.  Savoia, L. M., Manzini, M. R., Mazzaggio, G., Luca Andrea, L., Vena, M. V., Zoli, C., Baldi, B., Franco, L., & Binazzi, N. 2025. The Manzini & Savoia (2005) Corpus: Morphosyntactic Variation in Italian and Romansh Dialects [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14803999