Publications

Italian Rhetorical Imperatives at the Syntax-Semantics Interface.

Authors: Sarah Rossi, Guido Formichi

Isogloss, Special Volume: Going Romance 2025 • Submitted

The syntax of Expletive Negation in English: the case of 'not-ACC-ing constructions'.

Authors: Sarah Rossi, Cristiano Chesi, Matteo Greco

English Language and Linguistics, Cambridge University Press, 1–23 • 2026

From Recursion to Incrementality: Return to Recurrent Neural Networks.

Authors: Cristiano Chesi, Veronica Bressan, Matilde Barbini, Achille Fusco, Maria Letizia Piccini Bianchessi, Sofia Neri, Sarah Rossi, Tommaso Sgrizzi

Linguistic Vanguard • 2026

Acquisition in Babies and Machines: Comparing the Learning Trajectories of LMs in Terms of Syntactic Structures (ATTracTSS Test Set).

Authors: Sarah Rossi, Guido Formichi, Sofia Neri, Tommaso Sgrizzi, Asya Zanollo, Veronica Bressan, Cristiano Chesi

Proceedings of the 11th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2025) • 2025

BLiMP-IT: Harnessing Automatic Minimal Pair Generation for Italian Language Model Evaluation.

Authors: Matilde Barbini, Maria Letizia Piccini Bianchessi, Veronica Bressan, Achille Fusco, Sarah Rossi, Sofia Neri, Tommaso Sgrizzi, Cristiano Chesi

Proceedings of the 11th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2025) • 2025

Current linguistic changes in contemporary Italian: the cases of 'non io che' and 'essere tipo'.

Authors: Sarah Rossi, Tommaso Sgrizzi

Proceedings of ConSOLE XXXIII, pp. 180–200 • 2025

From Recursion to Incrementality: Return to Recurrent Neural Networks.

Authors: Cristiano Chesi, Veronica Bressan, Matilde Barbini, Achille Fusco, Maria Letizia Piccini Bianchessi, Sofia Neri, Sarah Rossi, Tommaso Sgrizzi

In Linguistic Vanguard • Forthcoming

Language Models Assessment through Linguistically Motivated Contrasts: a benchmark for Italian (BLiMP-IT).

Authors: Veronica Bressan, Matilde Barbini, Achille Fusco, Sofia Neri, Maria Letizia Piccini Bianchessi, Sarah Rossi, Cristiano Chesi

Proceedings of GLOW 47 • Forthcoming

Not-ACC-ing and not-NOM-that constructions: A Comparative Study of English and Italian Expletive Negation.

Authors: Sarah Rossi, Cristiano Chesi, Matteo Greco

Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 1–37 • 2025

Different Ways to Forget: Linguistic Gates in Recurrent Neural Networks.

Authors: Cristiano Chesi, Veronica Bressan, Matilde Barbini, Achille Fusco, Maria Letizia Piccini Bianchessi, Sofia Neri, Sarah Rossi, Tommaso Sgrizzi

Proceedings of the 2nd BabyLM Challenge at CoNLL 2024, pp. 106–117 • 2024

Recurrent Networks are (Linguistically) Better? An Experiment on Small-LM Training on Child-Directed Speech in Italian.

Authors: Achille Fusco, Matilde Barbini, Maria Letizia Piccini Bianchessi, Veronica Bressan, Sofia Neri, Sarah Rossi, Tommaso Sgrizzi, Cristiano Chesi

Proceedings of CLiC-it 2024, pp. 382–389 • 2024

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Italian/Romance imperatives as radically reduced structures: a corpus CHILDES study.

Authors: Sarah Rossi

Rivista di Grammatica Generativa, 45(5), pp. 1–39 • 2023