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Books
Amato, Irene. 2023. Auxiliary Selection in Italo-Romance: A Nested-Agree Approach. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Journal articles (peer-reviewed)
Amato, Irene. 2025. Apparent minimality violations solved by Nested Agree. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11049-025-09682-4
Amato, Irene. 2024. Too weak to be pronounced: pro-drop and PF-LF mismatches in pronouns. RLLT22, eds Anna Gavarró, Jaume Mateu, Jon Ander Mendia & Francesc Torres-Tamarit. Special Issue of Isogloss. Open Journal of Romance Linguistics10(3)/10, 1-34. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/isogloss.323
Amato, Irene. 2024. Auxiliary selection in Italian restructuring: an insight into the size of the clause. Syntax. https://doi.org/10.1111/synt.12265
Amato, Irene. 2022. Auxiliary selection is Agree: person-driven and argument-structure-based splits. In: RLLT17, eds. O. Matushansky, L. Roussarie, M. Russo, E. Soare & S. Wauquier, special issue of Isogloss Open Journal of Romance Linguistics 8(2)/10, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/isogloss.131
Lee, Hyunjung and Irene Amato. 2018. A Hybrid Locality Constraint on Allomorphy: Evidence from Korean. In: Snippets 34, Special issue on Non-local Contextual Allomorphy, eds. I. Kastner and B. Moskal, Led on Line, 14-16. http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2018-034-leam
Papers in edited volumes (peer-reviewed)
Amato, Irene and Alessandro Lenci. 2017. Story of a construction: Statistical and distributional analysis of the development of the Italian gerundival construction. In: Strutture linguistiche e dati empirici in diacronia e sincronia, eds. G. Marotta and F. Strik Lievers, Pisa University Press, 135-158.
Conference proceedings and working papers
Amato, Irene. 2021. Auxiliary Selection in Italo-Romance. In: Proceedings of the 38th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, eds. D. K. E. Reisinger and M. Huijsmans, Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project, 59-67.
Amato, Irene. 2019. Length as strength: a new account of Raddoppiamento Fonosintattico. In: Proceedings of 49th North-Eastern Linguistic Society, eds. M. Baird and J. Pesetsky, GLSA, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 39-48.
Amato, Irene. 2018. A morphosyntactic account of verbal number in Mupun. In: Proceedings of the 26th Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe, eds. A. van Alem, A. Ionova and C. Pots, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, 20-43.
Lee, Hyunjung and Irene Amato. 2018. Locality Constraint GIVEs and Insight into Suppletion. In: Proceedings of the 26th Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe, eds. A. van Alem, A. Ionova and C. Pots, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, 44-58.
Articles currently under review
Amato, Irene and Artemis Alexiadou. Overt path in Italian motion verbs: child language as a magnifier for event structure.
Amato, Irene and Adrian Stegovec. Disjunction under single referent: voiding the ban on clitic coordination.
Unpublished manuscripts
Amato, Irene. Gradient Symbolic Representations: A unified account for Tuscan Gorgia and Raddoppiamento Fonosintattico.