Talks & Posters
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Talks
Directive Force meets Genericity: A Cartographic Approach to Two Types of Italian Negative Imperatives with Infinitival Morphology
6th International Workshop on Syntactic Cartography, Hong Kong • October 2025
The Acquisition of Infinitival Imperatives: A Corpus Study on Early Italian
22nd STaPs, Budapest/Innsbruck/Tübingen • April 2025
The Syntax of Expletive Negation in (Social-Media) English: the Case of ‘Not-Me Sentences’
Workshop on Functional Categories, Dimensions of Meaning, and Expletiveness, Barcelona, Spain • June 2024
with Cristiano Chesi and Matteo Greco
The Syntax of Expletive Negation in (Social-Media) English: the Case of ‘Not-Me Sentences’
33rd Colloquium on Generative Grammar (CGG33), Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain • May 2024
with Cristiano Chesi and Matteo Greco
The Acquisition of Italian Imperatives: A Corpus Study on CHILDES and Notes on the Location of the Jussive Head
16th Brussels Conference on Generative Linguistics, Brussels, Belgium • October 2023
The Acquisition of Imperatives: A Corpus Study on Italian
The Romance Turn, Madrid, Spain • September 2023
Italian/Romance Imperatives as Computationally-Light, Reduced Structures: A Corpus Study on CHILDES
ColDoc SFL 2023, Paris, France • July 2023
Italian/Romance Imperatives as Radically Reduced Structures: A Corpus Study on CHILDES
53rd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 53), Paris, France • July 2023
Italian/Romance Imperatives as Radically Reduced Structures: A Corpus Study on CHILDES
Rencontres Autour de la Linguistique Formelle (RALFE 2023), Nice, France • June 2023
Posters
Imperativi Non-Canonici: il caso degli "Imperativi Difficili"
XLIX Convegno Annuale SIG (Società Italiana di Glottologia), Milan, Italy • October 2025
with Guido Formichi
Acquisition in Babies and Machines: Comparing the Learning Trajectories of LMs in Terms of Syntactic Structures (ATTracTSS Test Set)
11th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2025), Cagliari, Italy • September 2025
with Guido Formichi, Sofia Neri, Tommaso Sgrizzi, Asya Zanollo, Veronica Bressan, Cristiano Chesi
BLiMP-IT: Harnessing Automatic Minimal Pair Generation for Italian Language Model Evaluation
11th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2025), Cagliari, Italy • September 2025
with Matilde Barbini, Maria Letizia Piccini Bianchessi, Veronica Bressan, Achille Fusco, Sofia Neri, Tommaso Sgrizzi and Cristiano Chesi
Negative and Infinitival Imperatives in Italian: A Rare Phenomenon in Early Child Speech
Child Language Symposium 2025, Reading, UK • September 2025
Large Language Models Assessment through Linguistically Motivated Contrasts: A Benchmark for Italian (BLiMP-IT)
GLOW 47, • March 2025
with Veronica Bressan, Matilde Barbini, Achille Fusco, Sofia Neri, Maria Letizia Piccini Bianchessi, Cristiano Chesi
BLiMP-IT: An Italian Linguistic Benchmark for Large Language Models
50th Incontro di Grammatica Generativa (IGG50), Padova, Italy • February 2025
with Veronica Bressan, Matilde Barbini, Achille Fusco, Sofia Neri, Maria Letizia Piccini Bianchessi, Cristiano Chesi
Workshops
The Morphosyntax of Imperative Clauses and their Acquisition: A View from Romance and Beyond
21st STaPs, Augsburg/Budapest/Vienna, online • February 2024
Invited Talks
Italian/Romance imperatives as radically reduced structures
CISCL Seminar, University of Siena, Siena, Italy • February 2024