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Positions
Senior scientist at the French national centre for scientific research (CNRS).
Adjunct professor at Université Côte d’Azur, Nice.
Deputy director of BCL Lab (UMR 7320, Nice).
Associate editor of Isogloss.
I have previously held research and teaching appointments at the Universities of Zurich, Frankfurt, Bristol and Padua, where I obtained my PhD in Linguistics.
Research
I’m a linguist with main interest in comparative grammar and theoretical syntax.
For my research on Romance comparative syntax, I have been awarded two Marie Curie Fellowships.
I'm the P.I. of the project ViGramm (Visualizing Grammars across space and time)
Contact
diego.pescarini [...] univ-cotedazur.fr
UMR 7320: Bases, Corpus, Langage (BCL)
Université Côte d'Azur
Pôle universitaire Saint Jean d'Angély
Bâtiment de l’Horloge (SJA3 / MSHS-SE)
25 avenue François Mitterrand
06300 Nice CEDEX 4
Selected publications
On (Romance) clitics
2021a. Romance object clitics. Microvariation and Linguistic Change. Oxford University Press. | First draft: https://hal.science/hal-02420360/file/Pescarini%202020%20book%20on%20clitics.pdf
2022 (with Rita Manzini) The clitic string as a pair merge sequence. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 45(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.6571 hal-03906191
Quantitative approaches to syntactic microvariation
2022 Expletive Subject Clitics in Northern Italo-Romance. Languages 2022, 7, 265. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages7040265 hal-03906253, v1
2022 ‘A quantitative approach to microvariation: negative marking in central Romance’ Languages 7: 87. | https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/7/2/87
2022 ‘Microvariation in agreement inflection. Subject clitics vs inflection’ Word Structure 15(3): 358-379. | Preprint: https://hal.science/hal-03485387v1/file/Word%20structure%20161221%20HAL.pdf
(Micro)comparative Romance syntax
2021f. ‘Pronoun Systems across Romance’ in Francesco Gardani and Michele Loporcaro (eds.), Oxford Encyclopedia of Romance Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. | Preprint: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01763989 | Publication: https://oxfordre.com/linguistics/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.001.0001/acrefore-9780199384655-e-655
2021b. Microvariation in verbal and nominal agreement: An analysis of two Lombard Alpine dialects. Probus: ahead of print: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/probus-2021-0003/html | Preprint : https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03094907
2021c. Intra-clade contact from an I-language perspective. The noun phrase in the Ligurian/Occitan amphizone. Languages 6: 77. | https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/6/2/77
2022 with M. Loporcaro, ‘Variation in Romance’ in A. Ledgeway & M. Maiden, Cambridge Handbook of Romance Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press | Preprint: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02420353v1
2019b. ‘An emergentist view on functional classes’. In L. Franco, P. Lorusso, Linguistic Variation: Structure and Interpretation – A Festschrift in Honour of M. Rita Manzini in occasion of her 60th birthday. Berlin, Mouton De Gruyter, 531-560. | Preprint : https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01764016v1
2018. (with Giulia Donzelli) 'Concealed pseudo-clefts. Evidence from a Lombard dialect', Mirko Grimaldi et al. (eds), Structuring Variation in Romance Linguistics and Beyond. In honour of Leonardo M. Savoia. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 119–129. | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/la.252.08pes | Preprint: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01991867/document
2016. (with R. D’Alessandro) ‘Agreement Restrictions and agreement oddities’, in S. Fischer and Christoph Gabriel (ed.), Manual of Grammatical Interfaces in Romance. Berlin – New York: De Gruyter, 267-294. | https://lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/002602
2014d. ‘Evidence for Double Object Constructions in Italian’ in Hsin-Lun Huang, Ethan Poole, Amanda Rysling, NELS 43: Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society: Volume Two. Amherst (Mass.): GLSA, 55-66.
Romance si/se
2018a. ‘Parametrising arbitrary constructions’ Probus 30.1: 67-91. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/probus-2017-0005 | preprint: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01764001
2018b. ‘Subject and impersonal clitics in northern italian dialects’ in R. Petrosino, P. Cerrone, H. van der Hulst (eds.), Beyond the veil of Maya - from sounds to structures. Berlin, Mouton De Gruyter, 409-431. | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501506734-014 | Preprint: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01764013
Clitic clusters
2023. ‘Clitic cluster restrictions’. In Peter Ackema, Sabrina Bendjaballah, Eulàlia Bonet, Antonio Fábregas (eds), The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Morphology. Oxford – New York: Wiley Blackwell. | https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/view/index/docid/3338448
2017b. ‘Clitic Clusters’ in Martin Everaert & Henk van Riemsdijk, The Blackwell Companion to Syntax, 2nd edition, 5 voll. Oxford – New York: Blackwell.
2016b. ‘The X0 syntax of ‘dative’ clitics and the make-up of clitic combinations in Gallo-Romance’. In Christina Tortora, Marcel den Dikken, Ignacio L. Montoya and Teresa O'Neill, Romance Linguistics 2013: Selected papers from the 43rd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), New York, 17-19 April, 2013. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 321–339. doi: https://doi.org/10.1075/rllt.9.17pes
2016c. ‘Clitic pronominal systems: morphophonology’ in Adam Ledgeway & Martin Maiden, The Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 742-757.with Paola Benincà. 2014. ‘Clitic placement in the dialect of S. Valentino in Abruzzo citeriore’. Archivio Glottologico Italiano 99.1: 37-65. ISSN: 0004-0207 | https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01762664/document
2015b. ‘On the emergence of two classes of clitic clusters in (Italo)Romance’ In Jason Smith and Tabea Ihsane, Romance Linguistics 2012: Selected papers from the 42nd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Cedar City, Utah, 20-22 April 2012. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 171 – 184. [https://doi.org/10.1075/rllt.7.11pes]
with Andrea Calabrese. 2014a. ‘Clitic metathesis in the Friulian dialect of Forni di Sotto’. Probus 26.2: 275-308.
2010a. ‘Elsewhere in Romance: evidence from clitic clusters’. Linguistic Inquiry 41.3: 427-444 ISSN 0024-3892 | download: https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/10.1162/LING_a_00003
Historical morphophonology
2018c. ‘Stressed enclitics are not weak pronouns: a plea for allomorphy’ In Ordóñez, Francisco and Lori Repetti (eds.), Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 14: Selected papers from the 46th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Stony Brook, NY. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 231–244. ISBN 9789027200976 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/rllt.14.13pes | Preprint: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01763923
2014b. 'The evolution of Italo-Romance clitic clusters. Prosodic restructuring and morphological opacity'. In: Ledgeway A, Benincà P, Vincent N. (eds.) Diachrony and Dialects: Grammatical Change in the Dialects of Italy. New York - Oxford: Oxford University Press, 155-176.
2013b. ‘Clitic clusters in early Italo-Romance and the syntax/phonology interface’ in Christine Meklenborg Salvesen & Hans Petter Helland, Challenging Clitics. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 255-282 [https://doi.org/10.1075/la.206.11pes]
2011a. ‘The evolution of Lat. illum in Old Veronese: apocope and related phenomena’. Vox Romanica 70: 63-78. | Preprint: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01762662/document
Northern Italo-Romance
[in press] Northern regional Italian. In A. Ledgeway & M. Maiden, Oxford Handbook of Italian Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
[in press] Northern Italian Dialects. In A. De Cesare & M.G. Salvi, Manual of Romance Word Classes. Berlin: De Gruyter.
with Mair Parry e Paola Benincà. [2016] ‘The dialects of northern Italy’, in Martin Maiden, Adam Ledgeway (eds.), The Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 185-205.
History of linguistics
2022. ‘The Reception of Generativism in Romance Linguistics’ in Francesco Gardani and Michele Loporcaro (eds.), Oxford Encyclopedia of Romance Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. | https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02446807
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