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Conference talks and posters (peer reviewed)
Areal typology of reduplicative patterns in the Pacific Northwest. General session, Syntax of the World’s Languages X, University of Potsdam, Potsdam (Germany). 8-11 Sep ‘25.
Distributive constructions in Indigenous languages of North America: A cross-linguistic perspective (with Filippo Sergio). General session, Syntax of the World’s Languages X, University of Potsdam, Potsdam (Germany). 8-11 Sep ‘25.
Reduplication in the Pacific Northwest: A typological and areal account. General session, 58th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. University of Bordeaux Montaigne, Bordeaux (France). 29 Aug ‘25.
Towards a typology of distributive markers: Evidence from North America (with Filippo Sergio). General session, 58th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. University of Bordeaux Montaigne, Bordeaux (France). 28 Aug ‘25.
Space and the rest: a first diachronic typology of pluractional constructions (with Chiara Zanchi). 27th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and University Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago de Chile (Chile),18-22 Aug '25.
Reduplicative patterns in the languages of the Pacific Northwest: A comprehensive typological and areal investigation. SNAIL - Symposium on Northwest American Indigenous Languages, University of Oregon, Eugene (OR, USA). 12-13 Jul ‘25.
Distributive constructions in the languages of the Northwest Coast: A contrastive-typological survey (with Filippo Sergio). SNAIL - Symposium on Northwest American Indigenous Languages, University of Oregon, Eugene (OR, USA). 12-13 Jul ‘25.
Reduplicative patterns in spoken Italian: A corpus-based investigation. General session, 57th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. University of Helsinki, Helsinki (Finland). 21 Aug ‘24.
Verbalizers as sources for anticausative markers (with Andrea Sansò). General session, Syntax of the World’s Languages IX, PUCP, Lima (Peru). 25 Jul ‘24.
Diachronic typology of pluractional markers in South America (with Olga Krasnoukhova). General session, Syntax of the World’s Languages IX, PUCP, Lima (Peru). 24 Jul ‘24.
Verbalizers as sources for anticausative markers (with Andrea Sansò). Workshop “Diachronic and Typological Perspectives on Anticausativization”, University of Turin, Turin (Italy). Convenors: G. Inglese, E. Goria, L. Ferrarotti. 9 Nov ‘23.
Nuove risposte a vecchie domande: considerazioni sul continuum linguistico italiano alla luce dell’ASJP (with Emanuele Miola). LVI International Conference of the Società di Linguistica Italiana, University of Turin, Turin (Italy). 14 Sep ‘23.
Diachronic typology of pluractional markers in South America (with Olga Krasnoukhova). 56th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. Workshop “Diachronic Morphosyntax in South American Languages”, Convenors: B. Estigarribia & F. Ferraz Gerardi. 29 Aug ‘23.
On the diachrony of pluractional constructions: a first typological survey (with Chiara Zanchi). General session, 14th Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin (USA). 17 Dec ‘22.
Duplication, triplication and beyond: a cross-linguistic investigation (with Francesca Masini). General session, 14th Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin (USA). 15 Dec ‘22.
The semantics of ti’tuik prarö in Akawaio (Cariban): A general extender in the Amazon. General session, 55th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, University of Bucharest, Bucarest (Romania). 26 Aug ‘22.
A typology of denominal verb formation (with A. Sansò). 13th Mediterrean Morphology Meeting (MMM), University of the Aegean, Rhodes (Greece). 20 May ‘22.
The ListTyp Database (with Francesca Masini and Stefano Dei Rossi). Poster, 8th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it), University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan (Italy). 29 Jun ‘22.
Costruzioni a lista tra forma e funzione: uno studio sull’italiano parlato [List constructions between form and function: A study on spoken Italian] (with Roberta Cicchirillo & Francesca Masini). LIV International Conference of the Società di Linguiistica Italiana, University of Florence, Florence (Italy). Workshop “La modalità parlata e il suo ruolo nei modelli grammaticali [Spoken modality and its role within grammatical models]”, Convenors: C. Andorno, E. Calaresu & A. Sansò. 9 Sep ‘21.
A socio-typological approach to conditionals: focus on counterfactuals (with Alessandra Barotto and Caterina Mauri). 54th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, OSF Platform. Workshop “Integrating sociolinguistics and typological perspectives on language variation”, Convenors: S. Ballarè, F. Di Garbo, G. Inglese & E. Kashima. 2 Sep ‘21.
A typology of denominal verb formation (with Andrea Sansò). General session, 54th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, OSF Platform. (presentation available here). 1 Sep ‘21.
Introduction (with Alessandra Barotto). 53rd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, OSF Platform. Workshop “Discourse phenomena in typological perspective”, Convenors: A. Barotto & S. Mattiola. 27 Aug ‘20.
Discontinuous reduplication: A typological sketch (with Francesca Masini). General session, 13th Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology, University of Pavia, Pavia (Italy). (presentation available here). 4 Sep ‘19.
Lists meet typology: how to face cross-linguistic research with non-conventional categories (with Francesca Masini). Poster, 13th Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology, University of Pavia, Pavia (Italy). 4 Sep ‘19.
Morphological embedded general extenders: Consequences for morphological theory (with Francesca Masini). 52nd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, University of Leipzig, Leipzig (Germany). Workshop “Extravagant morphology”, Convenors: M. Eitelmann & D. Haumann. 22 Aug ‘19.
“Prendere e V” nell’italiano contemporaneo: una costruzione emergente? (with Francesca Masini and Greta Vecchi). LII International Conference of the Società di Linguistica Italiana, University of Bern, Bern (Switzerland). (presentation available here). 6 Sep ‘18.
The Hittite suffix -ške/a between verbal aspect and pluractionality: a typological approach (with Guglielmo Inglese). General session, Syntax of the World Languages 8, INALCO (France). (handout available here). 3 Sep ‘18.
Syntactic discontinuous reduplication in Italian (and beyond) (with Francesca Masini). 51st Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, University of Tallinn, Tallinn (Estonia). (presentation available here). 30 Aug ‘18.
Nominal reduplication in cross-linguistic perspective: from plurality to referentiality (with Alessandra Barotto). 4th Usage-Based Linguistics Conference, Tel Aviv University (Israel). (presentations available here). 6 Jul ‘18.
The non-universality of linguistic categories: evidence from pluractional constructions. 14th Conference on Typology and Grammar for Young Scholars, Institute for Linguistic Studies - Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg (Russia). 23 Nov ‘17.
The non-universality of linguistic categories: evidence from pluractional constructions. 50th Conference of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, University of Zürich, Zürich (Switzerland). Workshop “Linguistic categories, language description and linguistic typology”, Convenors: G. F. Arcodia & P. Ramat. 11 Sep ‘17.
A semantic map of pluractional constructions. 13th Conference on Typology and Grammar for Young Scholars, Institute for Linguistic Studies - Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg (Russia). 24 Nov ‘16.
The semantic domain of pluractional constructions. General session, 49th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, University of Naples Federico II, Naples (Italy). 3 Sep ‘16.
Two corpus planning and one language: the case of Ladin. 2nd International Conference on Contested Languages in the Old World, University of Turin, Turin (Italy). 6 May ‘16.
Pluractionality in cross-linguistic perspective. 4th Transalpine Typology Meeting, Laboratory Dinamique du Langage-CNRS, Lyon (France). 8 Oct ‘15.
Invited talks
Unifying annotation: Alternations and semantic roles. PaVeDa Workshop, University of Pavia, Pavia (Italy). Convenor: S. Luraghi. 14 Nov ‘24.
Osservazioni su alcune perifrasi verbali in bolognese (with Silvia Ballarè and Emanuele Miola). Workshop “Nuovi sguardi sui patrimoni linguistici minoritari e dialettali”, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Bologna (Italy). 17 Oct ‘24.
Towards a typology of pluractional constructions. Colloquium, Department of Linguistics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (USA). 3 Mar ‘23.
L’intercomprensione e l’intellegibilità nella questione lingua/dialetto: una revisione critica [Inter-comprehension and intelligibility in the language/dialect question: A critical review]. CLUB Day 2020 “La comprensione come problema: le prospettive della linguistica [Comprehension as a problem: The point of view of linguistics]”. Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, Bologna (Italy). 15 Sep ‘22.
La tipologia incontra il parlato: metodologia e applicazioni (with Alessandra Barotto). CLUB Day 2020 “Parola al parlato”. Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, Bologna (Italy). 1 Oct ‘20.
Pluractionality: A cross-linguistic perspective. Colloquium, ISFAS, University of Kiel, Kiel (Germany). 21 Jan ‘20.
La semantica di ti’tuik prarö in Akawaio (Cariban). CLUB Day 2019 “L’ambiguità nelle lingue e tra le lingue: prospettive a confronto”. Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, Bologna (Italy). 3 Oct ‘19.
universaLIST: List constructions in typological and cognitive perspective. Workshop on Language Documentation and Revitalization. University of Oregon, Eugene, OR (USA). 1 Mar ‘19.
Fare tipologia oltre le categorie tradizionali: spunti e riflessioni dal progetto universaLIST. CLUB Day 2018 “Tipologia e diacronia: alla ricerca di sinergie”. Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, Bologna (Italy). 22 May ‘18.
Verso una tipologia delle costruzioni plurazionali nelle lingue del mondo. CLUB Work in Progress. Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, Bologna (Italy). 7 Nov ‘17.
Pluractionality in the languages of the world: an overview. LLACAN-CNRS, Villejuif (France). 19 Jun ‘15.