Curriculum Vitae, October 23, 2015

MARIO SALTARELLI, Ph. D. Professor Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Department of Spanish and Portuguese 156R Taper Hall of Humanities University of Southern California Los Angeles, California 90089-0358 [email protected] Tel. 213 7401261 Fax 213 7409463 Home Address: 969 Hilgard Avenue #907 Los Angeles, CA 90024

Nel 1966 compie i requisiti per il titolo accademico di Ph.D. in Linguistica Generale presso la Graduate School della University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois (vedi 1). Inizia l’iter universitario con l’incarico accademico di Professore Assistente di linguistica generale presso la Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. Per conto di Cornell e sotto l’egida della Fondazione Ford dirige il Programma di Linguistica presso l’Università degli Studi (Magistero) di Roma nel biennio 1966-1968. Nel 1967 è promotore-fondatore (con Tullio De Mauro) e primo segretario della Società di Linguistica Italiana (v. 2.2). (Alla presidenza della SLI seguono Luigi Heilmann (Bologna), Gianfranco Folena (Padova), e Paolo Ramat (Pavia)). Nel 1970 accetta la cattedra presso la University of Illinois (v. 2). Sarà invitato alla docenza presso la University of Colorado, Boulder (1980) e nel 1984 accetterà la cattedra alla University of Southern California di Los Ángeles, dove conduce tuttora l’attività accademica e professionale con il titolo e rango accademico di (Full) Professor, nella ricerca e docenza di linguistica romanza e basca, spagnolo, italiano e suoi dialetti con concentrazione sullo sviluppo della teoria delle interfacce. Di attuale attenzione è la sintassi nel contesto (imperativi 2014) e la deissi (2011, 2013, 2014). Alla USC coprirà la carica amministrativa di Direttore (Chair) del Dipartimento di Spagnolo e Portoguese (1986-1992) e, più tardi, del Dipartimento di francese ed Italiano (2005-2006) (v. 2.2). L’attività di ricerca e docenza si svolge su un’ampia dimensione teorica ed empirica (v. 3, 5.1): dai temi di linguistica generale (La Grammatica Generativa Trasformazionale (1970). Firenze: Sansoni) e la fonologia dell’italiano (A Phonology of Italian (1970). The Hague: Mouton) alla lingua basca (Basque (19880 Kent: Croom Helm). La ricerca in corso segue due direttive. Una riguarda l’interpretazione generica delle espressioni di massa o materia nelle lingue del mondo (2008-2010a,b). L’altra è uno studio a piu ampio respiro sull’interfaccia (contesto(sintassi)) dell’atto linguistico imperativo (2014, v. 5.1.2) e della deissi (2011, 2013, 2014) in corso) Fra gli articoli di ricerca teorica e applicata (v. 5.2) va notato un’insieme su temi delle lingue a contatto e del prestito linguistico (v. 1977, 1979, 1980, 1983ab, 1986ab, 1995, 1998ab, 1999, 2000ab, 2005). La recente perizia linguistica (v. 6) sul senso generico della voce ‘oscar’ in italiano si avvale di studi recenti sulla categoria lessico-grammaticale della genericità come concetto della facoltà del linguaggio (v. 2008, “A uniform hypothesis of count/mass nouns”) a seguito degli studi empirici precedenti sulle lingue a contatto ed il prestito linguistico (v. 1998 a.b). Di recente interesse per una teoria minimalista nel contesto dell’atto linguistico è il volume (con A. Alcázar),"The Syntax of Imperatives " Cambridge U. P.ress, Studies in Linguistics vol. 140. Febbraio 2014) .L'ipotesi dell'imperativo come atto deittico, fondata sull'irriflessività della relazione [Attore>Interlocutore] (p.106), favorisce una rigida tesi minimalista sul linguaggio umano e la sua grammatica. Il volume "The Syntax of Deixis" (in prep.), esplorerá l'ipotesi e i sui riflessi descrittivi e teorici sull'interfaccia contesto-sintassi, con attenzione alla deissi di Pescasseroli (La Marsica) (2015) e l’ipotesi di studio sulla isometría del linguaggio (2016) e sue conseguenze per la metodología biolinguistica di questa facoltà cognitiva.

1. ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS 1966: Ph.D. in General Linguistics, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 1962: M.A. in General Linguistics, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois. 1961: B.A. in the Teaching of Spanish, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois

2. ACADEMIC, ADMINISTRATIVE AND SERVICE POSITIONS 2.1 ACADEMIC AND ADMINISTRATIVE 2007: Co-Director, International Summer Studies in Madrid, Spain, at the Center for International Studies. 2006: Director (founder), USC International Summer Studies in Buenos Aires, Argentina at the U. of Belgrano. 2005-2006: Chair (ad interim), Department of French and Italian, USC 2004: Director, International Summer Studies in Madrid, Spain, at the Center for International Studies. 1986-1992: Chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Southern California. 1992: (Spring) Visiting Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California, Los Angeles. 1989: Director (founder), International Summer Studies in Spain, at the U. of Cantabria in Santander. 1985: Professor of Spanish (court. app. Italian, and Linguistics) University of Southern California. 1982 1983: Director, University of California and University of Illinois Year Abroad Program at the U. of Barcelona, Spain. 1980: Visiting Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Colorado, Boulder. 1976: Professor of Spanish, Italian, and Linguistics, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois. 1970: Associate Professor of Spanish, Italian and Linguistics, University of Illinois, Urbana. 1967: Director, Cornell-Ford Foundation Linguistics Program, University of Rome (Magistero), Italy. 1966: Assistant Director, Cornell-Ford Linguistics Program, University of Rome (Magistero), Italy. 1964: Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

2.2 ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE 2015-2016. USC Department of Spanish and Portuguese NTT Faculty Promotion Committee (Chair) Linguistics/Advanced Language Committee (Chair) NTT Merit Evaluation Committee (Co-Chair) Spanish Language Program Committee 2014: USC Fulbright Academic and International Fellowship Panel, USC 2014-2015: -NTT Merit Evaluation Committee (Co-Chair), Spanish and Portuguese, USC. -NTT Faculty Promotion Committee (Chair) -Linguistics/Advanced Language Committee (Chair) -Spanish Language Program Committee 2013-2014: Undergraduate Studies Committee, Spanish and Portuguese 2012: NTT Evaluation Committee, Spanish and Portuguese 2012-13: NTT Faculty Promotion Committee, Chair, Spanish and Portuguese 2010-2014: University Diversity Course Requirement Committee (by Provost Invitation)

2012-2013: Basic Language Committee, Spanish and Portuguese 2010: Bylaws Committee, Spanish and Portuguese (Chair) 2009: Tenure and Promotion Review: U. of Texas, Austin, Dept. of French and Ital. (Cinzia Russi) 2009: Tenure and Promotion Review: U. of Arizona, Tucson, Dept. of Sp. and Port. (Sonia Colina) 2009: Bylaws Committee, Department of Spanish and Portuguese (Chair) 2009: Chair, NTT Faculty Evaluation Committee 2009: Basic Language Committee, Department of Spanish and Portuguese 2008: NTT Faculty Evaluation Committee, Department of Spanish and Portuguese (Chair) 2008: Chair, Basic Language Committee, Department of Spanish and Portuguese 2007: Co-Director, International Summer Program in Madrid 2006: Director, (founder) International Summer Program at U. of Belgrano, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2005: Chair (ad interim), Department of French and Italian, USC 2004: Co-director, International Summer Program in Madrid 2001: Committee on Educational Programs, USC 2000: Grade Appeals Panel (Chair), USC 1999-2000: Senate Committee on Policy and Procedures, APTUSC 1999-2000: University Committee on Promotion and Tenure UCAPT (Chair), USC 1998-(current): University Diversity Course Committee (by invitation by the President) 1999: University Committee on Promotion and Tenure UCAPT, USC 1998: University Committee on Promotion and Tenure UCAPT, USC 1997: Grade Appeals Panel, LAS 1977: Committee on Computer Technology, LAS 1997: Language Center Committee, LAS 1995: Language Center Director Search Committee, LAS 1993: Committee on Languages and Linguistics, Humanities 1991: Graduate School Appeals Committee 1987: LAS Foreign Language Requirement Review Committee. 1987: LAS Admission Review Committee. 1987: Humanities Merit Appeals Committee. 1987: ALI Review Ad Hoc Committee. USC. 1986: ITA Policy Group. USC 1985: LAS Dean Search Committee, USC. 1985-: Romance Linguistics Specialization Committee, USC. 1985-1993: American Language Institute Advisory Committee, USC. 1985: Overseas Studies Committee, USC. 1985-1993: Del Amo Fund Committee (Chair, 1985), USC. 1984: Committee on Bilingual-Bicultural Programs, College of Education, U. of Illinois 1984: Faculty Appeals Committee (elected), LAS, U. of Illinois. 1982: Committee on Italian in the US, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Rome, Italy 1982: Director of U. of Illinois & U. of California Year Abroad in Barcelona, Spain 1981: Executive Committee (elected), Span., It., and Port., U. Illinois 1979: Executive Committee (elected), College of L.A.S., U. of Illinois. 1976: Executive Committee (elected), School of Humanities, U. of Illinois 1976: Chair, Language Theory Division, MLA. 1975: Executive Committee (elected), Language Theory Division, MLA.

1970: Director of Spanish language, Dep. of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, U. of Illinois, Urbana 1968: Chair/Organizer, First Annual International Meeting of the Società di Linguistica Italiana at Palazzo Antici-Mattei, Rome, Italy 1967: founder (with Tullio De Mauro) and first Secretary, Società di Linguistica Italiana (Palazzo Antici-Mattei) Rome, Italy. 1964: Director of Spanish language, Division of Modern Languages, Cornell University

3. AREAS OF REASEARCH, TEACHING AND ADVISING 3.1 BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS General linguistics (1970: Sansoni) Italian generative phonology (1970: Mouton), Latin and Romance comparative and diachronic linguistics (1975: Mouton) , applied Spanish grammar (1975: Stipes) , foreign language teaching (1983: FL Laboratory), Basque descriptive grammar (1988: Croom-Helm), Theoretical Romance Linguistics (1996: Georgetown UP). Italian linguistics (Cambridge U. P., delayed), The context (indexical) Syntax of Imperative (2014 Cambridge UP), The Syntax of Deixis and the Isometry of Language (in prep). The Isometry of Language (in progress).

3.2 ARTICLES AND NOTES General and Romance linguistics (Italian, Italian Dialects-Marsi(c)an, Spanish, Catalan, Romanian, Classical and Vulgar Latin, Basque). Diachronic and synchronic studies in phonology, morphology and syntax in context. Linguistic contact and change in emigrant languages (Spanish and Italian in the USA and in the EEC). Stress, syllable structure, rhythm, meter, durational asymmetries, orthogonal constraint on durational asymmetries, raddoppiamento, number, word order, grammatical relations, object-nominatives, psychological verbs, clitics, inflection, voice and passives, ergativity, unaccusativity, count/mass nouns, genitive phrases, absolute participial constructions, imperatives and prohibitions, adjective phrases, time and tense, acquisition of English loan-words in Italian and Spanish, Mars(i)can dialects, Romance prosody and metrics, paradigm theory of morpho-phonology, Romance metaphony, imperative syntax, countability, spatial demonstratives, the indexical nature of deixis. tne context-sensitivity enclitic possessives. Present ongoing program of descriptive and theoretical research: The (Indexical) Syntax of Deixis (2015) and The Isometry of Syntax: Polysemy and Linear Order (Spring 2016, Provost Capstone Research Grant.

3.3 COURSES AND LECTURES

Spanish Syntax, Spanish Phonetics and Phonology, Structure of Spanish, History of the Spanish Language, History of the Italian Language. Seminars in Diachronic/Synchronic Spanish Linguistics (Causatives, Impersonals, Clitic Pronouns, Inflection, Mood, Time and Tense, Noun Phrase, Learnability, Second language acquisition, Syntactic Evolution); Linguistic aspects of bilingualism, Spanish in the USA, Geographical and Social variations in Spanish (languages in contact and Conflict), recent issues in Spanish syntax (TG, RG, GB, Minimalism, SMT, Phase Theory), Syllable based Spanish phonology. Introduction to Linguistics, Romance Linguistics, Seminar in Romance Linguistics: transformational and relational issues in Romance syntax, the analyses of

Romance causative constructions. Italian Syntax, Italian Phonetics and Phonology, Italian Morphology, Italian (Marsican) Dialects, History of the Italian Language. Invited and refereed papers presented at national and international meetings. Seminar in Hispanic Linguistics: Tense and aspect, the realization of time, the realization of aspect, countability, spatial deixis, possessives. The syntax of deixis (current).

3.4 INVITED, KEYNOTE, DISTINGUISHED LECTURES: Harvard U. (1990), Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSR I, XXIII), University of Florida, U. of Northern Illinois, (1971, 1993). Universities of Louvain, Gent, Amsterdam, Utrecht, Leiden, Konstanz, Neuchâtel, Bern, Bochum, Pavia, Bologna, Lisbon, Barcelona, Laredo (Cantabria), UCLA, Harvard U., La Plata (Argentina), Waseda U. (Tokyo, Japan), Roma3 (Italy,), Cornell U., U. of Wisconsin at Madison, New York. Istituto Italiano di Cultura, New York (2011, 2012). Università di Roma (Roma Tre) (1997). Tavola Rotonda/Evoluzione delle Lingue Romanze, Palermo (1995).Italian in the US, Georgetown U. (1995). International Linguistic Association of New York (1994). Spanish Phonology, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, UCLA (Spring Quarter, 1990). Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina (2006), Italian Abroad, Rome, Italy (Ministero degli Affari Esteri.) (1983) Italian in the USA, New York, N.Y. (1984) (Ministero degli Affari Esteri) Linguistic Institute of the Linguistic Society of America (1978), Distinguished Professor Lecture, University of Wisconsin, Madison (April 1998), Italian Cultural Institute (New York, Fall 2011, Winter 2012)) Italian Cultural Institute (New York, Winter 2012).

3.5 FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS 2016: Provost Capstone Research Grant on ‘the Isometry of Language’. 1995-2015: Faculty Development and Research Grants, USC (yearly) 1994: Grant from the School of Humanities, for LSRL XXIV 1990: Del Amo, Summer 1990. 1988: Joint Committee for the Cooperation between US and Spain. 1984: Basque Government Research Grant, Euskadi. 1980: American Council of Learned Societies. 1978-1983 Assistantship grants for research on Basque 1975: Center for International Comparative Studies, EEC. U. Illinois 1974: Faculty Instructional Award, U. of Illinois. 1970-1984; Humanities Research Grants, U. of Illinois 1969: Research Grant for field work on Agau languages of northern Ethiopia (K'emant), Cornell U. 1961-1964 N.D.E.A. Fellowship in Linguistics Title IV for graduate study (MA, PhD) in the newly formed Linguistics Dep. at the U of Illinois, Urbana

4. DOCTORAL MENTORSHIP (45 Ph.D. committees, 16 director as of 10.2015) 4.1 PH.D. DISSERTATIONS DIRECTED (present academic positions in the US and abroad)

-Calvano, William. Ph.D., Linguistics (Spanish Phonology), Cornell U., 1968. Professor and Chair, Spanish and Portuguese, Temple U. (Emeritus)

-Manikham, Michael. Ph.D.,Linguistics (Aspects of Hindu and Spanish Syntax), Cornell U., 1973.

-Freyre, Maria Luisa. Ph.D.in Spanish Linguistics (Spanish Personal Pronouns), U. of Illinois, 1974. Professor and Dean, U. of La Plata, Argentina. (Emerita)

-Nuessel, Frank. Ph.D.in Spanish Linguistics (Spanish Verb Complementation), U. of Illinois, 1974. Professor, Spanish and Modern languages, U. of Louisville.

-Anderson, Alice Long. Ph.D. in Spanish Linguistics (Spanish Unstressed Pronouns), U. of Illinois, 1979.

-Parr, Patricia. Ph.D. (Co-director) (Spanish Second Language Acquisition: The Immersion Experience), USC, 1988 Professor, Supervisor of Teacher Education, Graduate School of Education, University of California, Riverside

-Bonet-Farran, Neus. Ph.D., Linguistics (Complex Predicates: Spanish and Catalan Syntax), U. of Illinois, 1989. Teacher (emerita) in Catalonia.

-Dumitrescu, Domnita. Ph.D. in Spanish Linguistics (Echo Questions: Spanish and Romanian Syntax and Pragmatics), USC, 1990. Professor (Emerita), California State U., Los Angeles

-Martinez-Gil, Fernando. Ph.D., Spanish Linguistics on-linear Spanish Historical Phonology), USC, 1990. Associate Professor, Ohio State University.

-Franco, Jon. Ph.D. in Spanish Linguistics (On Object Agreement in Spanish), USC, 1993. Associate Professor, University of Deusto, Spain

-Martin, Juan. Ph.D. in Spanish Linguistics (On Spanish Nominal Structures), USC, 1994. Associate Professor, University of Toledo, Ohio.

-Candia, Luis. Ph.D. in Spanish Linguistics (On Educational Aspects of Spanish and Basque in Bilingual Programs in Euskadi), USC 1995.Assistant Professor, Kansas state University, Associate Director, USC Madrid Program.

-Antrim, Nancy. Ph.D. in General Linguistics (Co-director). (Possessives in Romance) USC, 1996. Associate Professor, Sal Ross State University. Texas.

-Galvan, Javier. Ph.D., (Null Subjects in Spanish Second Lanage Acquisition,) USC 1999 Associate Professor, Santa Ana College

- Gill, Deborah. Ph.D. (Anaphoric Approach to Spanish Clitic Word Order), USC 2000 Associate Professor, Pennsylvania State University

-Alcázar, Asier. Ph.D. in General Linguistic and Hispanic Linguistics (Absolute Participial Clauses in Spanish, Old Italian and Basque), USC 2007 Associate Professor, University of Missouri, Columbia 4.2 RECENT AND CURRENT PH. D. COMMITTEES: -Iscrulescu, Cristian, Linguistics (2006) U. of Oregon -Bin Yin, linguistics (Quals, Diss. defended 2013) -Velasquez, Hector (linguistics, Diss. defended. 2014. Teaches in Lima, Peru)) -Robles Puente, Sergio (linguistics, defended 2014.) Assist. Prof. Florida State -Tejada, Laura, Linguistics (dissertation defended.) -Varis, Erika, Linguistics and Hispanic linguistics (Screen, Quals, Diss. defended) -Parrell, Ben, Linguistics and Hispanic Linguistics (Screen, Quals, Diss. defended) Assist. Prof. U. of Maryland -Hua Lin. Linguistics defended 2010 -Nava, Emily. Linguistics and Hispanic Linguistics, defended 2009 -Cerrón Palomino, Álvaro. Linguistics and Hispanic Linguistics. defended, 2009 Assist. Prof. Arizona State -Temkin Martínez, Michal. Linguistics, defended October 16, 2009 Assist. Professor -Beas, Omar. Linguistics, defended 2007. -Campos-Astoriska, Rebeka. Linguistics and Hispanic Linguistics, defended 2007 Associate Professor, Ohio State University -Candice Chi Hang Cheung (Linguistics, 2008) -Chen, Lindsey (Linguistics, defended 2008) Assistant Professor, National University, Taipei -Fobert, Vincent. German, defended 2008 -Monica Cabrera Associate Professor, Loyola-Marymont, Los Angeles -Mayoral-Hernández. Linguistics and Hispanic Linguistics, Defended 2008 Associate Professor, University of Alabama -Ana Sánchez-Muñoz, Cal. State, Northridge Associate Professor -Rushfordt. Michael, Linguistics and Hispanic Linguistics (Screen, Quals, Diss def. 2012.) U. of Texas, San Antonio Yukiko Tsuboi, Linguistcs, (defended 2015) -Chi Huang Cheung, Candice Linguistics, defended -Yasuhiko Thiura. Linguistics (Diss. 2011) -Arunima Choundhuri, Linguistics (Quals, Diss. Spring 2015) teaches at UCI -Peter Guekguezian (april 2015)

-Syed Saurov, Linguistics (quals 2015) -Kaitlin Smith, Linguistics (Diss. 20015) -Alfredo García-Preto, Linguistics- (Quals Fall 2015) -…

5. BOOKS, ARTCLES, NOTES

5.1 THE FESTSCHRIFT VOLUME edited by his students

1999. Grammatical Analyses in Basque and Romance Linguistics PAPERS IN HONOR OF MARIO SALTARELLI Edited by Alazne Landa, Jon Franco, and Juan Martín Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 187 John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam/Philadelphia

Contributions to the volume by his colleagues: Luigi Burzio (Johns Hopkins U.), Hector Campos, Georgetown U.), Heles Contreras (U. of Washington), Violeta Demonte (U. Autónoma de Madrid), José Ignacio Hualde (U. of Illinois, C-U) , Marta Luján (U. of Texas, Austin), Juan Martín (U. of Toledo, Ohio), Michael Mazzola (N Illinois U.), Errapel Mejías Bikandi (U. of Nebraska), Jon Ortiz de Urbina (Deusto U., Bilbao, Spain), Claudia Parodi & Carlos Quicoli (UCLA), Eduardo Raposo (UCSB), Margarita Suñer (Cornell U.), Dieter Wanner (Ohio State U.), Karen Zagona (U. of Washington).

5.2 BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS 5.2.1 1970. (Author) La Grammatica Generativa Trasformazionale. Con introduzione alla fonologia, sintassi e dialettologia italiana. Firenze: Sansoni. (First approach to early generative grammar and dialectologyin Italian)

1970. (Author) A Phonology of Italian in a Generative Grammar. The Hague: Mouton. (First generative phonology of Italian formalized on the orthogonality of V:C/VC: durational constraint )

1974. (Author with C. Balkema) Essentials of Spanish Grammar.

Champaign: Stipes

1975. (Editor with D. Wanner) Diachronic Studies in Romance Linguistics. The Hague: Mouton.

1983. (Editor) The Foreign Language Syllabus: Grammar, Notions and Functions Special Issue of Studies in Language Learning, Volume 4, Number 1. Publication of the Language Learning Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-

1988. (Author) Basque. A volume in the Croom Helm Descriptive Grammars Series edited by B. Comrie and N. Smith Croom Helm Publishers. Beckenham, Kent Commented [S1]: (Basque is the first comprehensive description of this ergative language in English with a formal account of its phonological system)

1996. (Editor with C. Quicoli, C. Parodi, M.L. Zubizarreta Aspects of Romance Linguistics (Selected Papers from the XXIV Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages held at USC/UCLA Georgetown University Press

2014 (Author, with A. Alcázar) The Syntax of Imperatives. Cambridge Studies in Linguistics, Cambridge University Press. Advance praise by Alessandra Giorgi, Professor of Linguistics, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy. (cf. 5.1.2 Description)

(Abstract) The Syntax of Imperatives. (A “Light” Performative Hypothesis) of the pragmatics-syntax interface in the general theory of grammar conceived on minimalist and necessary context assumptions about the faculty of human language and its overt syntax. The volume is the direct conceptual consequence of empirical and theoretical research on speech acts and small-sized clauses.) The authors have tested and presented aspects of this ‘light’ performative hypothesis to specialistic conferences in the previous five years. (cf. section 5.3 of this CV). Published Feb. 2014 from Cambridge U. Press. Endorsement/Advance Praise: "This book opens a so far unexplored space: the context-sensitivity of narrow syntax. It successfully shows that the syntactic formalization of notions such as Speaker and Addressee are necessary to provide a deeper understanding of the nature of grammar. The authors draw a fascinating picture of how a syntactic theory can incorporate and represent indexicality." Alessandra Giorgi, Professor of Linguistics, Ca' Foscari University, Venice, Italy

5.2.2 MONOGRAPHS in preparation

-(Author) “The Syntax of Deixis “ (in prep. cf. “Marsican deixis Dec. 201). A context-sensitive formalization as an operator-variable theory of syntax in a biolinguistic conception of grammar and language based on the [Speaker>Addressee] relation of logical irreflexivity (cf. also Ch. 4 of The Syntax of Imperatives, 2014), cross-linguistically observed in the ontological deictic organization of syntax across languages: Determiners, Pronouns, Demonstratives, Possessives, Adverbs, etc., cf. Saltarelli Dec.2015, 2014, 2013, 2011). It will be developed in thea more comprehensive volume on language in context, a preliminary draft will be proposed as ‘the isometry of language’ in connection with the Provost Capstone Grant, provided for Spring 2016.

5.2.3 Beyond theoretical linguistics: On “identity in diversity” 1. “One God, One King, One Language”. A historicist perspective on language and cultural contacts in the meta-linguistic world of Spanish speaking peoples (Research in progress is being conducted in connection with the extended syllabus of the diversity course Span 413m, which I have been teaching for the last 20 years at USC).

2.- (with Dr.ssa A.T. Neri and Prof. L. Di Mario, emeritus, La Sapienza, U. of Rome)) “Il Pensiero e le Parole”: Grammatichetta e Lessico Culturale della Lingua di Pescasseroli (L’Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy.. (A first grammar and a lexicon of nearly 4000 entries of this endangered linguistic system is in advanced stage, to be completed in summer 2016)

3-(with Prof. T. Cravens, U. of Wisconsin) “Italian: a linguistic introduction”. Contracted with Cambridge University Press. Completion will be delayed.

5.3 ARTICLES, NOTES AND PRESENTATIONS 5.3.1 ARTICLES AND NOTES

1966 . Romance dialectology and generative grammar. Orbis 15:51- 59.

1967. (with Prof. Marshall Durbin) Patterns in kinship. Anthropological Linguistics 9.3:6-14

1967. (with Marshall Durbin) A semantic interpretation of kinship systems. Linguistics 33:87-94.

1968. Marsian vocalism: intelligibility and rules of grammar. Orbis 17:88-96.

1970. Spanish plural formation: apocope or epenthesis? Lenguage 46.1:89-96.

1970. Fonologia e morfologia algherese. Archivio Glottologico Italiano. 55.1-2: 233-256.

1970. Fonologia e morfologia dell'algherese. Actele celui de-al XII-lea Congres International de Linguistica si Filologie Romanica. 311-314.

Bucarest.

1970. The structure of the lexicon: on the nature of lexical readings. Actes du Xe Congrès International des Linguistes. 699-702. Bucarest.

1970. Focus on focus: propositional generative grammar. In A. Vanek and J. Sadock (editors) Studies Presented to Robert B. Lees by his Students. 239-254. Edmonton, Canada: Linguistics Research, Inc.

1971. Per una semantica generativa delle coordinate. In Mario Medici and Raffaele Simone (editors) Grammatica Trasformazionale Italiana. Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi della Società di Linguistica Italiana. 203-207. Roma: Bulzoni. 1971. Congruity and the comparative. In D. Hays and D. Lance (editors) From Soundstream to Discourse. Papers from the 1971 Mid-America Linguistics Conference. Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri.

1972. Epenthesis. velar softening and stress in Spanish: a reply to J. W. Haris and W. Meyerthaler. Linguistische Berichte 19:47-52.

1973. Orthogonality, naturalness, and the binary feature framework. In B. Kachru, R. B. Lees, Y. Malkiel, A. Pietrangeli, and S. Saporta (editors) Issues in Linguistics. Papers in Honor of Henry and Renée Kahane. 798-807. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.

1973. Italian qua Neo-Latin. Invited Keynote Speaker at LSRL 1 (first of the yearly LSRL, this year will be the 45th) In J. Casagrande and B. Saciuk (editors) Generative Studies in Romance Languages. Papers from the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages I. 319-339. Rowley, Mass.: Newbury House.

1973. Language and imagination. 1-14. Urbana, IL. Unpublished ms..

1974. Le regole fonologiche nella classificazione delle lingue neolatine. In Proceedings of the XIII International Congress of Romance Linguistics and Philology. 1165-1173. Quebec, Canada: Université Laval.

1974. Postulati per una teoria semantica delle proposizioni comparative. In Mario Medici and Antonella Sangregorio (editors) Fenomeni Morfologici e Sintattici nell'Italiano Contemporaneo. Volume I, Tomo 2o, 283-299. Atti del Sesto Congresso Internazionale di Studi della Societá di Linguistica Italiana.

Roma: Bulzoni.

1974. Leftbound clitics in Spanish. 1-21. New York, Linguistic Society of America. Unpublished ms.

1974. A propositional theory of grammar. In Luigi Heilmann (editor) Proceedings of the Eleventh International Congress of Linguists. Volume I, 469-474. Bologna: Il Mulino.

1974. Reference and mood in Italian In J. Campbell, M. Goldin, and M. Wang (editors) Linguistic Studies in Romance Languages. 203-218. Georgetown University Press.

1975. Leveling of paradigms in Chicano Spanish. In W. Milan, J. Staczek, and J. Zamora (editors) Proceedings of the 1974 Colloquium on Spanish and Portuguese Linguistics. 123-131. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press.

1976. Theoretical implications in the development of accusativus-cum-infinitivo constructions. In M. Luján and F. Hensey (editors) Current Studies in Romance Linguistics. 88-99. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press.

1976. Remarks on the acquisition, development, and death of emigrant languages in the U.S.A. Studies in Language Learning 1.1:186-188.

1976. Three generations of Olivo Atilano. In B. Kachru (editor) Dimensions of Bilingualism: theory and case studies. Special issue of Studies in Language Learning 1.2:359-371.

1977. A Latin conspiracy. In M. Jazayery, E. Polomé, and W. Winter (editors) Linguistic and Literary Studies in Honor of Archibald A. Hill. 193-197. Lise, The Netherlands: Peter de Ridder Press.

1977. Paradigmatic evolution of diphthongs: Marsian Italian and Chicano Spanish. In M. P. Hagiwara (editor) Studies in Romance Linguistics. 37-44. Rowley, Mass.: Newbury House.

1977. Italian 'fare' and universal causatives. 1-17. Urbana, IL. Unpublished ms.

1977. (with Susan Gonzo) Migrant languages: linguistic change in progress. In Rosseel and De Grève Problèmes Linguistique des Enfants de Travailleurs Migrants. 164-186. Paris: Didier.

1978. The Marsian verb paradigm. In E. Pulgram, R. Di Pietro, S. Cartledge, and D. Feldman (editors) Studia Gratulatoria Dedicados a Robert A. Hall, jr. 245-253. Madrid: Playor.

1978. Sentential clitics and clause reduction in Italian. In M. Suñer (editor) Contemporary Studies in Romance Linguistics. 279-302. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press.

1978. A clause-based theory of grammatical relations. In W. Dressler and W. Meid (editors) Proceedings of the Twelfth International Congress of Linguists. 407-411. Innsbruck: University of Innsbruck.

1978. Where do agent phrases come from? On the syntax of Romance agentive causatives.1-12. Linguistic Society of America, Chicago, IL. Unpublished ms.

1979. (with W. Calvano) The morphological measure of phonological rules. Lingua 48:1-14.

1979. Il ruolo delle relazioni grammaticali in sintassi. In F. Albano Leoni and M. R. Pigliasco (editors) La Grammatica: Aspetti Teorici e Didattici. Volume II, 499-516. Atti del IX Congresso Internazionale di Studi della Società di Linguistica Italiana. Roma: Bulzoni.

1979. The relational grammar of reduced complements in Italian. In Y. Morin and A. Querido (editors) Etudes Linguistiques sur les Languages Romanes. 243-262. Montreal: Association Linguistique de Montreal.

1979. Catalan causatives. In A. Porqueras-Mayo, et. al. (editors) Estudis de Llengua, Literatura i Cultura Catalanes. 139-148. Actes del Primer Col.loqui d'Estudis Catalans a Nord-America. Abadia de Montserrat Publications.

1979. (with Susan Gonzo) Monitoring, pidginization and emigrant languages.

In Roger Andersen (editor) The Acquisition of Spanish and English as First and Second Languages. 153-163. Selected Papers from the 12th Annual Convention of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages. Washington, D.C.: TESOL.

1980. (with Susan Gonzo) Lingua, dialetto ed istruzione bilingue a Chicago. In F. Albano Leoni (editor) I Dialetti e le Lingue delle Minoranze di Fronte all'Italiano. 635-646. Atti dell'XI Congresso Internazionale di Studi della Società di Linguistica Italiana. Roma: Bulzoni.

1980. Complement subject deletion and infinitive formation in Italian. In F. Nuessel (editor) Contemporary Studies in Romance Languages. 267-279. Bloomington, Indiana: IULC. 1980. Syntactic diffusion. In E. Closs Traugott, R. LaBrum and S. Sheperd (editors) Papers from the Fourth International Congress on Historical Linguistics. 183-192. Amsterdam: Benjamins B.V.

1980. Fare e lasciare: sanzioni prammatiche sull'atto linguistico. 1-11. American Association of University Professors of Italian. Urbana, IL. Unpublished manuscript. (Extended version to appear in Rivista di Studi Italiani).

1981. Missing reflexives in Italian. In D. J. Napoli and W. Cressey (editors) Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages IX. 349-361 Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press. s1981. (with J. Chamberlain) Latin origins of Romance causative constructions. In H. Contreras and J. Klausenburger (editors) Proceedings of the Tenth Anniversary Symposium on Romance Linguistics (LSRL X). Papers in Romance, Supplement II, Volume 3, 63-73. Seattle, Washington: University of Washington.

1981. Post-verbal subjects in Italian. In R. Hendrick, C. Masek, and M. F. Miller (editors) Papers from the Seventeenth Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. 361-368. Chicago, IL: Chicago Linguistic Society.

1982. (with M. Azkarate, D. Farwell, and J. Ortiz de Urbina) Word order and wh-movement in Basque In V. Burke and J. Pustejovsky (editors) Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the North Eastern Linguistic Sciety. 36-48. Amherst, Mass.: University of Massachusetts.

1982. (with M. Azkarate, D. Farwell, and J. Ortiz de Urbina) Governed anaphors in Basque. In Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. 261-270. Berkeley, California: Berkeley Linguistics Society.

1983. (with M. Azkarate, D. Farwell, and J. Ortiz de Urbina) On the syntax of free word order languages: evidence from Basque. In Shirô Hattori and Kazuko Inoue (editors) Proceedings of the XIIIth International Congress of Linguists. 484-488. Tokyo: ICPL.

1983. (with M. Balan-Onciu) Romanian causatives and the loss of the infinitive in the Balkan languages. Unpublished manuscript.

1983. The mora unit in Italian phonology. In H. Basbøll (editor) Prosody. Special issue of Folia Linguistica, Tomus XVII/1-2, 7-24.

1983. (with Susan Gonzo) Pidginization and linguistic change in emigrant languages. In Roger Andersen (editor). Pidginization and Creolization as Language Acquisition. 281- 197. Rowley, Mass.: Newbury House.

1983. L'italiano d'emigrazione: descrizione, acquisizione ed evoluzione. In L'italiano come lingua seconda in Italia e all'estero. 401-410. Roma: Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri.

1984. Italian syllable structure. In J. Mascaró and E. Rigau (editors) Estudis Gramaticals. 279-294. Bellaterra (Barcelona): Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

1985. Ristrutturazione nell'evoluzione sillabica delle lingue neolatine: l'italiano. Linguistique Comparée et Tipologie des Langues Romanes, Volume 2, 304-309. Actes du XVIIème Congrès International de Linguistique et Philologie Romanes. Marseille: Université de Provence.

1985. Agreement and the impersonal se constructions in Spanish and Italian. 1-25. Invited paper read at the UCLA Linguistic Colloquium, Nov. 22, 1985. Unpublished manuscript.

1986. Sincretismo funcional, evolución, y la norma castellana. Actas del II Congreso Internacional sobre el Español de América. Ciudad de México, 27-31 de enero de 1986. 473-477. México, D. F.: Facultad de Filosofía y Letras.

1986. Italian in the USA: stratification and cohesion.

In C. Bettoni (editor) Altro Polo: Italian Abroad. 105-112. Studies on Language in Contact in English-speaking Countries. Sydney, Australia: Frederick May Foundation for Italian Studies, University of Sydney.

1986. Aspetti descrittivi dell'italiano negli Stati Uniti. In Il Veltro: Rivista di Civiltà Italiana. Volume 1-2, 111-119. Atti del Convegno sulla Lingua Italiana negli Stati Uniti, Ministero della Pubblica Istruzione e Ministero degli Affari Esteri, New York 1984. Roma: Il Veltro Editrice.

1987. (with Neus Farran-Bonet) Catalan nasal assimilation. In Carol Neidle and Rafael A. Núñez Cedeño (editors) Studies in Romance Languages. 27-39. Dordrecht, Holland: Foris Publications.

1987. How syntax becomes morphology: Inflectional properties of Romance clitics. Paper read at the Third International Morphology Meeting. University of Vienna. July 1-7. Unpublished manuscript.

1989. Syntactic shift and the creation of clitics in Romance. Studies in Romance Linguistics. J. De Cesaris and C. Kirschner (eds.). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, Inc. 347-364.

1990. The creation of Romance clitics. Invited lecture at Harvard University. Unpublished ms.

1990 The Acquisition of Agreement. Proceedings of the XIV International Congress of Linguists, East Berlin. August 10-15, 1987. Werner Bahner et al (eds.). Berlin: Academie-Verlag. 810-815.

1991. VP-nominative constructions in Italian. In Dieter Wanner and Douglas A. Kibbee (eds.) New Analyses of the Romance Languages. Selected Papers from the XVIII Linguistics Symposium on Romance Languages, Urbana-Champaign, April 7-9, 1988. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, Inc. 313-334.

1991. Romance clitics and the null subject parameter. Presented at the Workshop on Null Subjects. X International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Amsterdam. Unpublished ms.

1992. Inflectional passive and the voice parameter. Proceedings of the XV International Congress of Linguists, Laval University, Quebec, Canada.

1992. The Subject of psych verbs and case theory.

Romance Languages and Modern Linguistic Theory. Papers form the 20th Symposium on Romance Languages. Ottawa, 10-14 April 1990 P. Hirshbuler and K. Koerner (eds.) John Benjamins, Amsterdam. 251-268

1994. Voice in Latin and Romance: On the representation of subjects. Invited Keynote Speaker. LSRL XXIII Theory and Issues in Romance Linguistics. Edited by M. Mazzola. Georgetown U. Press. 445-478

1994. La Gramática de los clíticos y sus parámetros: Concordancia y Cadenas Funcionales. Linguistica 4.

1995. The rhythm of the hendecasyllable in Dante's Commedia: iambic or trochaic? Presented at the American Association of Italian Studies, Tempe, Az. April 22. Unpublished ms. 1-15.

1995. The permeability of the Italian language: New Loanwords in Italian and English. Proceedings of the Conference on Italian Language and Culture in the United States. Italian Cultural Institute, Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Georgetown University. Washington, D.C. unpublished

1996. (with D. Dumitrescu) El adjectivo en el sintagma nominal: posición y predicación. Signo y Seña 5, p. 23-63. Special issue on linguistic theory edited by Nora Múgica. Buenos Aires: Instituto de Lingüística, Facultad de Filología y Letras, University of Buenos Aires.

1997. Stress in Latin and Spanish: Where morphology meets prosody. In Fernando Martinez-Gil and Alfonso Morales-Front (eds.). Issues in the Phonology and Morphology of the Major Iberian Languages. Washington, D. C.: Georgetown U. Press. Ch. 20, p. 665-694.

1998. Sulla cardinalità del parametro metrico nell'evoluzione prosodica delle lingue neolatine. Atti del XXI Congresso internazionale di Linguistica e Filologia Romanza, Volume I: Grammatica Storica delle Lingue Romanze, a cura di Giovanni Ruffino. Tubingen: Niemeyer. 139-148 (U. of Palermo, September 18-24, 1995 Palermo, Italy)

1998. (with D. Dumitrescu) Two types of predicate modification: evidence from the articulated adjectives of Romanian. In J. Lema and E. Treviño (eds.) Theoretical Research on Romance Languages. Proceedings of the XXVI Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, Mexico City, March 27-29, 1996. Amsterdam: John Benjamin, Co. 175-192

1998. Genitives in Marsian and Romanian.

International Congress on Romance Linguistics and Lesser-Used Romance Languages, Waseda U., Tokyo, April 17-19, 1997. p. 1-14 In T. De Mauro and S. Sugeta (eds.) Roma: Bulzoni

1998. Loan-words and universal grammar. In L. Díaz and Carmen Pérez (eds.) Views on the Acquisition and Use of a Second Language. Proceedings of the 7th European Second Language Acquisition (EUROSLA7), Barcelona, Spain, May 22-24. p. 533-538.

1998. (with D. Dumitrescu) Attributive adjectives: toward a unified theory of modification. Proceedings of the XVIth International Congress of Linguists, Paris, July 20-25. Editor: Bernard Caron. Oxford: Pergamon. Elsevier Science Ltd. ICHL 16, paper No. 0245.

1998. (with D. Dumitrescu) Sobre el tipo adjetival el pobre hombre/ el hombre pobre. AATSP, Madrid. Unpublished manuscript.

1998. (with J. Schwarten and G. Smith) Identity and convergence in the Marsican dialects: The definite article. Convergence and Divergence of Dialects in a Changing Europe. University of Reading, 17-19 September, 1998. Unpublished manuscript.

1999. Sull’identità linguistica dei Marsi: l’articolo determinativo. Argomenti, 19. 36-46.

1999. The alternating adjectives of Romance: Toward an integrated theory of adjectives. In Description des Adjectifs pour les Traitements Informatiques. Organized by P. Bouillon and E. Viegas. Proceedings of Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles, Cargèse, Corsica. July 12-17. 46-56

1999. On the rhythm of Dante’s Commedia. Paper read at the conference on Formal Approaches to Poetry, Recent Developments in Generative Metrics, U. of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, October 8-10, 1999. Unpublished manuscript .p.1-22

2000. From Latin metre to Romance rhythm. Historical Linguistics 1995. Selected Papers from the Twelfth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, U. of Manchester, Manchester, England Ed. by John Charles Smith and Delia Bently. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 161. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 345-360

2000. Lenguas románicas y gramática universal: nuevos préstamos en español e italiano. Actes du XXIIe Congrès Internationale de Linguistique et Philologie Romanes. Bruxelles, 23- 29 Juillet, 1998. ms. 1-11. Publiés par Annick Englebert, Michel Pierrard, Laurence Rosier, et Dan van Raemdonck. Max Niemeyers Verlag: Tübingen.

2000. Gender identity and linguistic constraints : The selection of the determiner. American Association of Italian Studies, New York City, New York, April 13-16. Unpublished ms.

2003. Prosodie del ritmo dantesco: Parametri e vincoli. Paper read at the Società Internazionale di Linguistica e Filologia Italiana (SILFI). June 27-July 2, Duisburg, Germany.(appeared in the proceedings, ed. By E. Burr.)

2000. Plural exponents in Spanish and Italian plurals. Presented at LASSO on October 13, 2000, in Puebla, México. Unpublished ms.

2001. The Realization of Number in Spanish. Features and Parameters: Papers in Honor of Heles Contreras. Ed. By J.Herschenson, E. Mallén and K. Zagona. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamin 239-354

2003. A constraint interaction theory of Italian raddoppiamento. Selected paper from the XXXI Symposium on Romance Languages. April 19-22, 2001. The U. of Illinois, Chicago. Language Knowledge and Use. Ed. by R. Nuñez-Cedeño, López & Cameron. John Benjamin. 59-79

2004. Quantity Constraints and Enhancement. Presented at the plenary session of the XVII International Congress of Linguists, Prague, Czech Republic. July 24-29, 2003. Proceedings of the Congress. 34p.

2005. Durational Asymmetries and the Theory of Quantity. Paper presented at Going Romance 17, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 11/ 21, 2003. In Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2003: Selected papers from Going Romance 2003. Ed. by Geerts, T., I. van Ginneken and H. Jacobs. Amsterdam: Joan Benjamin. p. 219-234

2005. The Acquisition of Gender Identity. Istituto Comprensivo Scuola Materna Elementare-Media “Benedetto Croce”, Pescasseroli (L’Aquila). (Questionnaire and preliminary statistical analysis on kindergarten, elementary and middle school children is completed. Extended questionnaire to be administered to the entire community is still in progress.)

2007. A paradigm account of Spanish number In. F. Martinez-Gil and S. Colina Optimality-Theretical Studies in Spanish Phonology. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 339-357

2007. (with Asier Alcazar). The Case of Participial Clauses and the Universality of Unaccusatives. In Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2005. Selected Papers from ‘Going Romance’ 2005. Ed. by Sergio Baauw, Frank Drijkonigen, and Haike Jabobs. Amsterdam: John Bejamins. p. ?

2008a. (with A. Alcazar) Argument Structure of Participial Clause s: The Unaccusative Phase. Selected Papers from the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium 2006, University of Western Ontario, October 2006. Ed. by Bruhn de Garavito. Cascadilla Press.

2008b. A Uniform Hypothesis of Count/Mass Expressions: New Syntactic Evidence. Proceedings of the18th International Congress of Linguists. The Linguistic Society of Korea. (CDROM, December 2008, the University of Korea)

2008. (with A. Alcazar) “Why imperative sentences cannot be embedded.” Chronos 8, Selected Papers. (accepted in selected papers, now published)

2008. (with A. Alcazar) “A ‘lighter’ Performative Analysis of Imperative Sentences” Going Romance 2008, University of Groningen, December 11-12 (accepted in selected papers) .Final texts published as: Alcazar, Asier and Mario Saltarelli. “In support of a syntactic analysis of double agreement phenomena in Spanish.” In Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory. Selected Papers from ‘Going Romance’ Groningen 2008. Ed. By R. Bok-Bennema, B. Kampers-Manhe, B. Hollenbrandse. John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, 2010: 1-16.

2008. “The Generic Meaning of the Word Oscar in Italian.” The International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law. (cf. 6) (unpublished)

2007. (with A. Alcazar).”Zanuttini’s hypothesis: Participial Constructions Revisited.” Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Anaheim, CA. Jan. 6, 2007.

2007. Mass Nouns and the Structure of the Nominal Phrase: Evidence from the Marsican Dialects.” Conference on the Syntax of Italian Dialects at Cambridge University (CIDSM2). Jan. 27, 2007 (ms)

2008. (with A. Alcazar)) “Sentential Force Checking in Romance: Towards a Syntax-Based Theory of Speech-Acts.” Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages 38. April 2008, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. (ms)

2008. “Metaphony and the Realization of Count/Mass in Romance.” Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages 38. April 2008, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. (ms)

2008. “Marsican Genitives.” The 3nd Conference on the Syntax of Italian Dialects (CIDSM3).

University of Pescara. July 4-6. (ms)

2008. “A Uniform Hypothesis of Count/Mass Expressions: New Syntactic Evidence. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Linguists: Section 7, Lexical Semantics. July 21-26, 2008, Seoul, Korea. Linguistic Society of Korea: CD-ROM. 2008. (with A. Alcazar) “Untangling the Imperative Puzzle” Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society: Main Session. (May 5). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

2008. (with A. Alcazar) “A Minimalist Return to the Abstract Performative Hypothesis”. Paper presented at the International Conference on Propositions: Ontology, Semantics, Pragmatics. University of Venice, Ca’ Foscari, November 17-19.

2010 (with A. Alcazar) “The sentential Force of Light Verbs In Southern Italian Dialects”. Cambridge Italian Dialects Syntax Meeting 5. Freie Universität Berlin. Berlin, May 2-3 July, 2010. (Paper)

2010 “The Grammaticalization of Countability: The Marsican Definite Article” COUNTABILITY 2010: Empirical, Theoretical, and Computational Approaches to Countability in Natural Languages. Ruhr Universität Bochum, Bochum. Sept. 22-24, 2010. (ms)

2011. Invited Lecture at the Italian Cultural Institute of New York (October 20) on the occasion of the 150 Anniversary of the Unification of Italy. “On language unity and disunity”

2011. “Marsican Spatial Demonstratives” Cambridge Italian Dialects Syntax Morphology 6 (CIDSM6), June. Cambridge U. (unpublished ms).

2012. Invited Lecture at the Italian Cultural Institute of New York (February 11): On the future of the humanities: "Why so many languages and dialects: new reflection on identity".

*2012. (with A. Alcazar) ) “Why Imperative Sentences Cannot Be Embedded” Selected Papers from Chronos 8: International Conference on Tense, Aspect. Mood and Modality, October 2-5 2008. The University of Texas, Austin. Ch. Nishida and C. Russ (eds). New York: Rodopi. pp.1-23.

2013. “Marsican deixis and the nature of indexical syntax.” 43rd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL43), April 17-19 . CUNY New York. (Accepted for publication in selected papers from LSRL 43, John Benjamin)

*2014 (Feb. 14) (author with A. Alcazar) The Syntax of Imperatives. Cambridge U. Press, Studies in Linguistics.

*2013. “The indexical syntax of demonstratives.” 19th International Congress of Linguists. Geneva, CH. July 21-27(Proceedings: The Language –Cognition Interface. Edited by Stephen R. Anderson, Jacques Moeschler and Fabienne Reboul). Librerie Droz, Genève-Paris.

2014. The context-sensitivity of enclitic possessives: Evidence from Abruzzese, Salentino, Grico, and beyond. (8th Cambridge Italian Dialect Syntax-Morphology Meeting.( CIDSM 8). 20-22 June 2014 Palazzo Maroni, Padova and Ca' Foscari, Venezia. ms

*2014. (author) “On language unity and disunity” Linguistic Identities of Italian in Italy and North America Edited by Herman Haller (CUNY) and Lori Repetti (Stonybrook) Special Issue of Forum Italicun (August, 2014:188-202)

*2015 (author) Marsican Deixis and the Nature of Indexical Syntax Romance Linguistics (Dec. 2015:398-411). Selected Papers from the 43rd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages Ed. by Ch. Tortora, M. den Dikken, I. Montoya, T. O’Neill John Benjamins Publishing Co., Amsterdam

2016 The Isometry of Syntax: Polysemy and Linear Order (Capstone Project)

6. FORENSIC LINGUISTICS: 6.1 CONSULTANT AND EXPERT WITNESS 6.1a 2007-2009 US District Court, Central District of California: Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts and Sciences v. Echostar Satellite LLC and Reach Media, Inc Linguistic Consultant with an Expert Report on “The Generic Meaning of the Word Oscar in Italian (ms).” Deposition, May 2008 -The case was settled in June 2008.

2008. US District Court, Central District of California: Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts and Sciences v. RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana Spa’s and NewCo RAI International Spa’s -Linguistic Consultant and Expert Witness with a Report on the word 'Oscar'

6.1b 2009. Tribunale di Roma Sezione Specializzata per la Proprietà industriale Sezione IX – Giudice Dott.ssa Ludovica Dotti – R.G. 6257/2008 Oggetto: Publi Show s.a.s. di Daniele Piombi & C. (attrice) c. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (convenuta) RAI – Radiotelevisione italiana Spa (intervenuta) Relazione peritale a favore dell’intervenuta RAI – Radiotelevisione italiana Spa ed in merito al quesito: “se la parola ‘Oscar’ sia diventata un termine generico, sinonimo di ‘premio,’ nella lingua italiana”.

Recent development: “L’Oscar del Vino 2013” fully regained the title of the event winning a long legal battle with the Academy of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, which according to the decision of the judges of the Court of Appeal of Rome cannot prohibit the Italian Association of Sommelliers of Rome and Bibenda to use the brand ‘Oscar del Vino’.” www.winesandwine.com

6.2 On the generic nature of borrowed words and the Interpretation of the criteria of protection under trademark laws. ms.

62a "A Note on the Meaning of 'Oscar' in Italian.(cf. 6.1a)" (An academic assessment of the role of linguistic analysis in the global battle in the use of words under trademark laws. ( To be submitted to The International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law)

62b Quesito: "se la parola 'Oscar' sia diventata un termine generico, sinonimo di 'premio,' nella lingua italiana.”(cf. 61b ms.) 1. Sull'uso generico delle parole 2. Sulla genericita' della parola 'oscar' nell'italiano corrente 3. Dal senso generico al senso non-generico e viceversa 4. Lngue e culture a contatto: la genericita' dei prestiti linguistici

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(Abstract) The Syntax of Imperatives. A “Light” Performative Hypothesis of the pragmatics-syntax interface in the general theory of grammar conceived on minimalist and necessary context assumptions about the faculty of human language and its overt syntax. The volume is the direct conceptual consequence of empirical and theoretical research on speech acts and small-sized clauses. The authors have tested and presented aspects of this ‘light’ performative hypothesis to specialistic conferences in the previous five years. (cf. section 5.3 of this CV). Published Feb. 2014 from Cambridge U. Press.

Endorsement/Advance Praise: "This book opens a so far unexplored space: the context-sensitivity of narrow syntax. It successfully shows that the syntactic formalization of notions such as Speaker and Addressee are necessary to provide a deeper understanding of the nature of grammar. The authors draw a fascinating picture of how a syntactic theory can incorporate and represent indexicality." Alessandra Giorgi, Professor of Linguistics, Ca' Foscari University, Venice, Italy

2014. (author) “On language unity and disunity” Linguistic Identities of Italian in Italy and North America Edited by Herman Haller (CUNY) and Lori Repetti (Stonybrook) Special Issue of Forum Italicum (August, 2014:188-202)