Publications
2024
Scholarly publications
Armstrong, G., D'Alessandro, R., & Parafita Couto, M. D. C. (Eds.) (2024). Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 21: Selected papers from LSRL 52, University of Wisconsin-Madison. (2 ed.) (Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory; Vol. 10, No. 2). UAB. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/isogloss.2024102
D'Alessandro, R. (Accepted/In press). Microcontatto. In Dizionario dell'italiano L2 (Dizionario dell'italiano L2). Pacini Editore.
Chandra, P., D'Alessandro, R., & Putnam, M. (Accepted/In press). Ethical concerns for theoretical research in linguistics: Issues and best practices. Linguistics. https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/007360
Andriani, L., & D'Alessandro, R. (Accepted/In press). Perfective Auxiliary Selection in heritage Italo-Romance. Romanica Cracoviensia.
D'Alessandro, R., Putnam, M., & Terenghi, S. (Accepted/In press). Heritage languages and syntactic theory. An introduction. In R. D'Alessandro, M. T. Putnam, & S. Terenghi (Eds.), Heritage languages and syntactic theory Oxford University Press.
D'Alessandro, R., Andriani, L., Frasson, A., Pinto, M., Sorgini, L., & Terenghi, S. (Accepted/In press). Microcontact and Syntactic Theory. In R. D'Alessandro, S. Terenghi, & M. T. Putnam (Eds.), Heritage Languages and Syntactic Theory Oxford University Press.
D'Alessandro, R., Terenghi, S., & Putnam, M. T. (Eds.) (Accepted/In press). Heritage Languages and Syntactic Theory. Oxford University Press.
D'Alessandro, R., & Terenghi, S. (Accepted/In press). Non-monotonic functional sequences: A new metric for complexity in heritage languages. In M. Polinsky, & M. T. Putnam (Eds.), Formal approaches to complexity in heritage language grammars Language Science Press.
2023
Scholarly publications
D'Alessandro, R. (2023). Raccogliere dati di varietà romanze in via di estinzione: il caso delle lingue ereditarie in America. In E. Castro, & L. Tomasin (Eds.), Dialettologia ed etimologia: Studi, metodi e cantieri (pp. 83-105). (Quaderni della Sezione di Italiano dell'Università di Losanna). Edizioni ETS.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/436412/eredit_-.pdf?sequence=1
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/436412/eredit_-.pdf?sequence=1
D'Alessandro, R. (2023). Doing Romance Linguistics in the 2020s. Isogloss, 9(2), 1-12. Article 8. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/isogloss.303
D'Alessandro, R. (2023). A complex solution to an unsolvable problem? Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 13(1), 40-44. https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.22084.dal
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/434011/lab.22084.dal.pdf?sequence=1
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/434011/lab.22084.dal.pdf?sequence=1
D'Alessandro, R., & Frasson, A. (2023). Simplification or complexification: auxiliary selection and anti-agreement effect in Brazilian Venetan. Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 22, 9-27. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/catjl.381
2022
Scholarly publications
D'Alessandro, R. (2022). Crossing domains: topic marking and doubling in Romance. In N. Boneh, D. Harbour, O. Matushansky, & I. Roy (Eds.), Building on Babel's Rubble Presses Universitaires de Vincennes. https://doi.org/10.3917/puv.boneh.2022.01.0395
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/426226/18.pdf?sequence=1
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/426226/18.pdf?sequence=1
Andriani, L., D'Alessandro, R., Frasson, A., van Osch, B., Sorgini, L., & Terenghi, S. (2022). Adding the microdimension to the study of language change in contact. Three case studies. Glossa, 7(1), 1-36. https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.5748
Andriani, L., Casalicchio, J., Ciconte, F. M., D'Alessandro, R. A. G., Frasson, A., van Osch, B. A., Sorgini, L., & Terenghi, S. (2022). Documenting Italo-Romance heritage languages in the Americas. In M. Coler, & A. Nevins (Eds.), Contemporary research in minority and disapora languages of Europe (pp. 9-56). (Contact and Multilingualism; Vol. 6). Language Science Press. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo. 4902965
D'Alessandro, R. A. G. (Accepted/In press). Agree. In The Cambridge Handbook of Minimalism Cambridge University Press.
D'Alessandro, R. A. G. (2022). Agreement. In A. Ledgeway, & M. Maiden (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Romance Linguistics (pp. 519-543). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108580410.021
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/426224/Ch.17_D_Alessandro_Agreement.pdf?sequence=1
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/426224/Ch.17_D_Alessandro_Agreement.pdf?sequence=1
2021
Scholarly publications
D'Alessandro, R., Gallego, Á., Nicolae, A., Couto, M. C. P., Pescarini, D., Pineda, A., & Sheehan, M. (2021). A debate on a Universal Morphology. Isogloss, 7, 1-1. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/isogloss.193
D'Alessandro, R., Natvig, D., & Putnam, M. (2021). Addressing challenges in formal research on moribund heritage languages: A path forward. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, Article 700126. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.700126
van der Heijden, P., D'Alessandro, R., Bredenoord, A. L., Gerards, J., van Hees, M., & Verbeek, P.-P. (2021). Academische vrijheid in Nederland: Een begripsanalyse en richtsnoer. Digital or Visual Products, KNAW. https://www.knaw.nl/nl/actueel/agenda/academische-vrijheid-in-nederland
Frasson, A., D'Alessandro, R. A. G., & van Osch, B. A. (2021). Subject clitics in microcontact. A case study from heritage Friulian in Argentina and Brazil. Heritage Language Journal, 18( 1), 1–36. https://doi.org/10.1163/15507076-12340001
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/410910/_15507076_Heritage_Language_Journal_Subject_Clitics_in_Microcontact_A_Case_Study_from_Heritage_Friulian_in_Argentina_and_Brazil.pdf?sequence=1
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/410910/_15507076_Heritage_Language_Journal_Subject_Clitics_in_Microcontact_A_Case_Study_from_Heritage_Friulian_in_Argentina_and_Brazil.pdf?sequence=1
D'Alessandro, R. A. G. (2021). Not everything is a theory. Theoretical Linguistics, 47(1-2), 53-60. https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2021-2005
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/410875/10.1515_tl_2021_2005.pdf?sequence=1
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/410875/10.1515_tl_2021_2005.pdf?sequence=1
D'Alessandro, R. A. G. (2021). Syntactic change in contact: Romance. Annual Review of Linguistics, 7, 309-328. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-011619-030311
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/409575/LI07CH23_DAlessandro_001_020_.pdf?sequence=1
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/409575/LI07CH23_DAlessandro_001_020_.pdf?sequence=1
2020
Scholarly publications
D'Alessandro, R. A. G., Andriani, L., Frasson, A., van Osch, B. A., Sorgini, L., & Terenghi, S. (2020). The ranking of internal and external factors in heritage language syntactic change. Paper presented at GLOW 43 HU Berlin, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
D'Alessandro, R. A. G., & van Oostendorp, M. (2020). Language Variation and Functional Heads: Magnetic Grammar. Linguistic Analysis, 42(3-4), 405 – 440. https://www.linguisticanalysis.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/4-Language-Variation-and-Functional-Heads-Magnetic-Grammar-DAlessandro-van-Oostendorp-pp-405-439.pdf
D'Alessandro, R. A. G. (2020). Agreement across the board: Topic agreement in Ripano. In K. Hartmann, J. Mursell, & P. Smith (Eds.), Agree to Agree: Agreement in the Minimalist Programme Language Science Press. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3541757
Popularising publications
D'Alessandro, R. A. G. (Ed.) (2020). I racconti di Miglianico. Edizioni Mondo Nuovo. https://98fd025e-d7fb-4797-9c01-fe84ab89c5f8.filesusr.com/ugd/eb804f_1c3080e3104446118cbbd0a0e264998d.pdf
2019
Scholarly publications
D'Alessandro, R. A. G. (2019). Syntax made easy: how to read (and draw) syntactic trees.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/397206/Syntax_made_easy_proofed_ackn.pdf?sequence=1
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/397206/Syntax_made_easy_proofed_ackn.pdf?sequence=1
D'Alessandro, R. A. G. (2019). The achievements of Generative Grammar: a time chart and some reflections. Catalan Journal of Linguistics, (Special Issue), 7-26. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/catjl.232
Leivada, E., D'Alessandro, R. A. G., & Grohmann, K. (2019). Eliciting big data from small, young, or non-standard languages: 10 experimental challenges. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, Article 313. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00313
D'Alessandro, R. A. G., & Sorgini, L. (2019). Mə tε magnatə. Perifrasi modali in abruzzese orientale. Bollettino del Centro di studi filologici e linguistici siciliani, 1-12. https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/eb804f_1ff1d7031656440f8d834992ad824c39.pdf
2018
Scholarly publications
Muysken, P., D'Alessandro, R. A. G., Buyse, A. C., Zurcher, E.-J., Jensma, G., Maassen van den Brink, H., Leerssen, J., & de Swart, H. E. (2018). Talen voor Nederland. KNAW. https://www.knaw.nl/nl/actueel/publicaties/talen-voor-nederland
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/374100/20180205_verkenning_talen_voor_nederland.pdf?sequence=1
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/374100/20180205_verkenning_talen_voor_nederland.pdf?sequence=1
van Oostendorp, M., & D'Alessandro, R. A. G. (2018). Metaphony as Magnetism. In M. Grimaldi, R. Lai, L. Franco, & B. Baldi (Eds.), Structuring Variation in Romance Linguistics and Beyond: In honour of Leonardo M. Savoia (pp. 297–306). (Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today; Vol. 152). John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/la.252.20oos
D'Alessandro, R., & Pescarini, D. (Eds.) (2018). Advances in Italo-Romance dialectology: Sketches of Italo-Romance Grammars. (Grammars and Sketches of the World's languages/Romance Languages; Vol. 5). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004354395
2017
Scholarly publications
D'Alessandro, R. A. G., & van Oostendorp, M. (2017). On the Diversity of Linguistic Data and the Integration of the Language Sciences. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, Article 2002. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02002
D'Alessandro, R., & Migliori, L. (2017). Sui possessivi (enclitici) nelle varietà italo-romanze meridionali non estreme. In R. D’Alessandro, G. Iannàccaro, D. Passino, & A. M. Thornton (Eds.), Di tutti i colori: Studi linguistici per Maria Grossmann (pp. 55-71). Utrecht University.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/358060/sui.pdf?sequence=1
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/358060/sui.pdf?sequence=1
D'Alessandro, R., Iannàccaro, G., Passino, D., & Thornton, A. M. (Eds.) (2017). Di tutti i colori: Studi linguistici per Maria Grossmann. Utrecht University.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/396314/Di_tutti_i_colori.pdf?sequence=1
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/396314/Di_tutti_i_colori.pdf?sequence=1
D'Alessandro, R. (2017). When you have too many features: auxiliaries, agreement, and clitics in Italian varieties. Glossa, 2(1), Article 50. https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.102
D'Alessandro, R., Franco, I., & Gallego, Á. (Eds.) (2017). The verbal domain. (Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics). Oxford University Press.
Professional publications
D'Alessandro, R. A. G. (2017). Academic freedom: challenges, threats, emerging issues. In Akademie im Dialog: The freedom of scientific research in the face of political and societal demands (pp. 71-76). (Akademie im Dialog; Vol. 9). Verlag der Oesterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/421145/Freedom.pdf?sequence=2
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/421145/Freedom.pdf?sequence=2
D'Alessandro, R. A. G. (2017). Microcontact. Horizon 2020 projects. Portal, (13). http://www.horizon2020publications.com/H13/
Popularising publications
D'Alessandro, R. A. G. (2017). Come si mescolano le lingue? Gli effetti del contatto linguistico. In F. Masini, & N. Grandi (Eds.), Tutto ciò che hai sempre voluto sapere sul linguaggio e sulle lingue (pp. 85-89). Caissa Italia Editore.
2016
Scholarly publications
D'Alessandro, R., & Pescarini, D. (2016). Agreement restrictions and agreement oddities in Romance. In S. Fischer, & C. Gabriel (Eds.), Manual of Grammatical interfaces in Romance (pp. 267-294). (Manuals of Romance Linguistics; Vol. 10). Mouton de Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110311860-012
D'Alessandro, R., & van Oostendorp, M. (2016). Abruzzese metaphony and the |A| eater. In F. Torres-Tamarit, K. Linke, & M. van Oostendorp (Eds.), Approaches to metaphony in the languages of Italy (pp. 349-368). (Phonology and Phonetics; Vol. 20). Mouton de Gruyter.
D'Alessandro, R., & van Oostendorp, M. (2016). When imperfections are perfect: Prosody, phi-features and deixis in central and southern Italian vocatives. In Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' 28, Lisbon (Vol. 10, pp. 61-82). (Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory). Johns Benjamins Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1075/rllt.10.04dal
2015
Scholarly publications
D'Alessandro, R. A. G. (2015). Merging Probes. A typology of person splits and person-driven differential object marking.
D'Alessandro, R. (2015). The diachrony of Abruzzese complementation. Revue Roumaine de Linguistique, 60(2-3), 129-145. https://www.lingv.ro/images/RRL%202-3%202015%20art02%20Di%20Felice.pdf
D'Alessandro, R. (2015). Null subject. In Contemporary Linguistic Parameters Bloomsbury Academics.
D'Alessandro, R., & Scheer, T. (2015). Modular PIC. Linguistic Inquiry, 46(4), 593-624. https://doi.org/10.1162/ling_a_00195
2014
Scholarly publications
Lusini, S., D'Alessandro, R., & Rooryck, J. (2014). Phonetic aspects of polar questions in Sienese: an experimental approach. In Above and beyond the segments (pp. 174-188). John Benjamins.
D'Alessandro, R., & van Oostendorp, M. (2014). La metafonia ariellese tra fonologia e lessico. Quaderni di lavoro ASIt, 17, 1-18. http://asit.maldura.unipd.it/papers.html#17
D'Alessandro, R. (2014). Death and contact-induced rebirth of impersonal pronouns. A case study. Probus, 26(2), 249-274. https://doi.org/10.1515/probus-2014-0009
D'Alessandro, R., Di Felice, C., Franco, I., & Ledgeway, A. (Eds.) (2014). Approcci diversi alla dialettologia italiana contemporanea. Special Issue of L’Italia Dialettale.
2013
Scholarly publications
D'Alessandro, R. (2013). Phase-head marking. Linguistic Analysis, 38(4), 305-330.
2011
Scholarly publications
D'Alessandro, R. (2011). Soggetti non canonici in abruzzese: i pronomi impersonali nome ed anne. Archivio Glottologico Italiano, 2, 227-262.
2010
Scholarly publications
D'Alessandro, R., Ledgeway, A., & Roberts, I. G. (2010). The Abruzzese T-v system: feature spreading and the double auxiliary construction. In Syntactic Variation. The dialects of Italy (pp. 201-210)
D'Alessandro, R. (2010). The verbal domain: TP-VP structure and auxiliaries. In Syntactic Variation. The dialects of Italy. Cambridge University Press.
D'Alessandro, R. (2010). On the role of gemination in passives: the case of Abruzzese. Snippets, 28. https://www.ledonline.it/snippets/allegati/snippets21001.pdf
D'Alessandro, R., & Ledgeway, A. (2010). At the C-T boundary: Investigating Abruzzese complementation. Lingua, 120(8), 2040-2060. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2010.02.003
D'Alessandro, R., & Roberts, I. G. (2010). Past participle agreement in Abruzzese: Split auxiliary selection and the null-subject parameter. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 28, 41-72.
D'Alessandro, R., Ledgeway, A., & Roberts, I. G. (2010). Syntactic variation: the dialects of Italy. Cambridge University Press. http://assets.cambridge.org/97805215/17362/cover/9780521517362.jpg
2009
Scholarly publications
D'Alessandro, R., & Di Sciullo, A. M. (2009). Proper Subset Relation and Concord: agreement in Abruzzese Possessive Copular Constructions. In Proceedings of NELS 38
2008
Scholarly publications
D'Alessandro, R. A. G. (2008). Manuale di fonetica. Fonetica naturale: Articolatoria, uditiva e funzionale (review). Language. https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.2008.0044
D'Alessandro, R., Fischer, S., & Hrafnbjargarson, G. H. (2008). On Agreement restrictions. In Agreement Restrictions
D'Alessandro, R. (2008). Syntaktische und pragmatische Merkmale: Eine Fallstudie. In G. Mensching, & E. M. Remberger (Eds.), Romanistische Syntax – minimalistisch. Narr Verlag.
D'Alessandro, R. (2008). Movement and agreement in Italian past participles and defective phases. Linguistic Inquiry, 39(3), 477-491.
D'Alessandro, R. (2008). Impersonal "si" Constructions: Agreement and Interpretation. (Studies in Generative Grammar, v. 90). Walter de Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110207514
D'Alessandro, R., Fischer, S., & Hrafnbjargarson, G. H. (2008). Agreement restrictions. (Interface explorations; Vol. 15). Mouton de Gruyter. http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/warw/detail.action?docID=364656
2006
Scholarly publications
D'Alessandro, R. A. G. (2006). Time, Tense, and Reference (review). Language. https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.2006.0126
D'Alessandro, R. (2006). Handbook of Pragmatics: 2002 Installment (review). Language. https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.2006.0127
D'Alessandro, R. A. G. (2006). Fare: Elementi di Sintassi (review). Language. https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.2006.0010
Biberauer, T., & D'Alessandro, R. (2006). Syntactic doubling and the encoding of Voice in Eastern Abruzzese. In Proceedings of the 25th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 25)
D'Alessandro, R. (2006). Is impersonal si in Italian definite or indefinite? In Proceedings of the thirty-third Western Conference On Linguistics (WECOL 2004)
D'Alessandro, R. (2006). The syntax of the indefinite pronoun nome. Probus, 8(2), 189-218.
2005
Scholarly publications
D'Alessandro, R. (2005). Pronouns and Word Order in Old English, with Particular Reference to the Indefinite Pronoun man (review). Language. https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.2005.0168
D'Alessandro, R. (2005). Varietà dialettali della costa occidentale dell’Adriatico. Aspetti sintattici. Adriatico/Jadran, 1. https://www.fondazionernestogiammarco.it/istituto-per-gli-studi-adriatici/i-nuovi-indici/
2004
Scholarly publications
D'Alessandro, R. A. G. (2004). The Etruscan Language: An Introduction. Language. https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.2004.0174
D'Alessandro, R. (2004). Current Studies in Italian Syntax: Essays Offered to Lorenzo Renzi (review). Language. https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.2004.0175
D'Alessandro, R. (2004). Impersonal si constructions. How semantics determines agreement. In Proceeding of NELS 34
D'Alessandro, R. (2004). Syntactic and pragmatic features: a case study. Leitura, 33, 185-202. https://www.seer.ufal.br/index.php/revistaleitura/article/view/7424
2003
Scholarly publications
D'Alessandro, R., & Alexiadou, A. (2003). Nome: a subject clitic in a southern Italian dialect. In Current Studies in Comparative Romance Linguistics
D'Alessandro, R. (2003). On quirky subjects and the person restriction in Icelandic and Italian. In Proceedings of Console XI
2002
Scholarly publications
D'Alessandro, R. (2002). On impersonal si constructions in Italian. In Proceedings of Console X
D'Alessandro, R. (2002). Agreement in Italian impersonal si constructions. A phase-based analysis. Revista da Abralin, 1(1), 35-72.
D'Alessandro, R., & Alexiadou, A. (2002). Inclusive and exclusive impersonal pronouns: a feature-geometrical analysis. Rivista di grammatica generativa, 27, 31-44. http://lear.unive.it/jspui/handle/11707/382