Prof.dr. R. (Roberta) D'Alessandro
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| Telephone number: | +31 (0)71 527 2186 |
| E-Mail: | r.dalessandro@hum.leidenuniv.nl |
| Faculty / Department: | Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Leiden Univ Centre for Linguistics, LUCL Italiaans |
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Witte Singel-complex van Wijkplaats 3 2311 BX Leiden |
- Research
- Italian syntax; syntax-pragmatic interface; impersonal constructions; Italian dialects and comparative linguistics; agreement; tense/aspect/mood.
- Curriculum vitae
- Education:
2000-2004: Universität Stuttgart
Graduiertenkolleg “Linguistic representations and their interpretation”
1995-2000: University of L’Aquila
Work:
November 2007- present: Leiden University, LUCL, Italian program
Professor
2007: Université du Québec à Montréal, LAD Interface Asymmetries Research Lab
Visiting Research Associate
2005-2007: University of Cambridge
Marie Curie Post-doctoral Research fellow
2004-2005: Microsoft NLP/Butler Hill Group, Redmond, USA
Research assistant
- Teaching activities
- L’italiano contemporaneo: le variazioni e gli usi
Storia della lingua italiana
The syntax of Italian pronouns
Italian linguistics
Romaanse taalkunde (with Johan Rooryck)
- Publications
- D’Alessandro, R. (2007). Impersonal si constructions. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
D’Alessandro, R., Fischer, S. & G.H. Hrafnbjargarson, eds. (2008). Agreementrestrictions. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
D’Alessandro, R. & I. Roberts (2008). ‘Movement and agreement in Italian past participles and defective phases’. Linguistic Inquiry 39:3, 477-491.
D’Alessandro, R. Ledgeway, A. & I. Roberts, eds. (to appear). Syntactic variation. The dialects of Italy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
D’Alessandro, R. & I. Roberts (to appear). ‘Past participle agreement in Abruzzese: split auxiliary selection and the null-subject parameter’. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory.
D’Alessandro, R. (to appear) .‘The T-v system in Italian dialects’. In: R. D’Alessandro, A. Ledgeway & I. Roberts (eds), Syntactic variation. The dialects of Italy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
D’Alessandro, R. & A. Alexiadou (2006) ‘The syntax of the indefinite pronoun nom e’. Probus 18:2; 189-218.
2010
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D'Alessandro, R. (2010)
Introduction.The verbal domain: TP-VP structure and auxiliaries. In: D'Alessandro, R., Ledgeway, A., Roberts, I. (Eds.), Syntactic Variation. The dialects of Italy (in press)Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
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D'Alessandro, R. & Roberts, I. (2010)
Past participle agreement in Abruzzese:. Split auxiliary selection and the null-subject parameter. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
(Article / Letter to editor) -
D'Alessandro, R. & Ledgeway,, A. & Roberts, I. (Eds.) (2010)
Syntactic Variation. The dialects of Italy. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
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D'Alessandro, R. & Ledgeway,, A. (2010)
The Abruzzese T-v system: feature spreading and the double auxiliary construction. In: D'Alessandro, R, Ledgeway, A., Roberts, I. (Eds.), Syntactic Variation. The dialects of Italy (in press)Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
(Part of book or chapter of book)
2009
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D'Alessandro, R. & Di Sciullo, A. M. (2009)
Proper Subset Relation and Concord: agreement in Abruzzese Possessive Copular Constructions. Proceedings of NELS 38
(Article in monograph or in proceedings)
2008
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D'Alessandro, R. & Fischer, S & Hrafnbjargarson, G.H. (Eds.) (2008)
Agreement Restrictions. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
(Book editorial) -
D'Alessandro, R. & Roberts, I. (2008)
Movement and agreement in Italian past participles and defective phases. Linguistic Inquiry, 39 (3), pp. 477-491.
(Article / Letter to editor) -
D'Alessandro, R. & Fischer, S & Hrafnbjargarson, G.H. (2008)
On Agreement Restrictions. In: D'Alessandro, R, Fischer, S., Hrafnbjargarson, G.H. (Eds.), Agreement Restrictionserlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
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D'Alessandro, R. (2008)
Syntaktische und pragmatische Merkmale: eine Fallstudie. In: Mensching, G. & Remberger, E. (Eds.), Romanistische Syntax - minimalistischTuebingen: Gunther Narr Verlag.
(Part of book or chapter of book)
2007
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D'Alessandro, R. (2007)
Federica Venier. La presentatività. [Bespreking van: La presentatività].
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D'Alessandro, R. (2007)
Impersonal si constructions. Agreement and interpretation. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
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D'Alessandro, R. (2007)
. [Bespreking van: Manuale di fonetica]. In: Language, 83
(Book review)
2006
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D'Alessandro, R. (2006)
Is impersonal si in Italian definite or indefinite? In Martínez, , Alcazár, , Hernández, (Eds.) Proceedings of the thirty-third Western Conference On Linguistics (WECOL 2004)Fresno: USC Publications.
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D'Alessandro, R. & Alexiadou, A. (2006)
The syntax of the indefinite pronoun 'nome'. Praagse Perspectieven, 18 (2), pp. 189-218.
(Article / Letter to editor)
2005
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D'Alessandro, R. & De Felicis, M-C & Passino, D. & Traini, M. (Eds.) (2005)
ELI Passport junior, Italian learner’s Dictionary. Recanati: ELI, European Language Institute.
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D'Alessandro, R. (2005)
Varietà dialettali della costa occidentale dell’Adriatico. Aspetti sintattici. Adriatico/Jadran
(Article in monograph or in proceedings)
2004
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D'Alessandro, R. (2004)
Impersonal si constructions. Agreement and Interpretation. University of Stuttgart(Stuttgart, Electronic Dissertation Series, Stuttgart University Library) A., Alexiadou, I., Roberts, L., Rizzi.
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D'Alessandro, R. (2004)
Impersonal si constructions. How semantics determines agreement. Proceeding of NELS 34GSLA.
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D'Alessandro, R. (2004)
Syntactic and Pragmatic Features: a Case Study. Leitura: Estudos em syntaxe comparativa Vol. 33 (pp. 185-202).
(Article in monograph or in proceedings)
2003
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D'Alessandro, R. & Alexiadou, A. (2003)
Nome: a subject clitic in a southern Italian dialect. In Coene, M. & D'hulst, Y. (Eds.) Current Studies in Comparative Romance LinguisticsAntwerp Papers in Linguistics.
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D'Alessandro, R. (2003)
On quirky subjects and the person restriction in Icelandic and Italian. In van Koppen, , Sio, , de Vos, (Eds.) Proceedings of Console XI
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2002
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D'Alessandro, R. (2002)
Agreement in Italian impersonal Si constructions. A derivational analysis. Journal of the Brazilian Association of Linguistics
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D'Alessandro, R. & Alexiadou, A. (2002)
Inclusive and exclusive impersonal pronouns: a feature-geometrical analysis. Rivista di grammatica generativa Vol. 33Padua: Unipress.
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D'Alessandro, R. (2002)
On impersonal si constructions in Italian. In van Koppen, & de Vos, (Eds.) Proceedings of Console X
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D'Alessandro, R. (2002)
Syntactic Doubling and the Encoding of Voice in Eastern Abruzzese. In Baumer, , Montero, , Scanlon, (Eds.) Proceedings of the 25th West Coast Conference on Formal LinguisticsSomerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
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