Valentina Brunetto
List of John Benjamins publications in which Valentina Brunetto is involved.
Articles
2021 Chapter 1. Processing clitic pronouns outside coargumenthood Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2018: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' 32, Utrecht, Drijkoningen, Frank, Sergio Baauw and Luisa Meroni (eds.), pp. 11–24 | Chapter
Online adult processing of English pronouns is subject to early structural constraints. However, if a sentence fails to provide a licit antecedent for a pronoun, ungrammatical antecedents may be fleetingly considered, causing processing disruption. This paper investigates whether illicit… read more
2018 Chapter 15. The acquisition path of near-reflexivity Semantics in Language Acquisition, Syrett, Kristen and Sudha Arunachalam (eds.), pp. 351–377 | Chapter
Classical statue sentences (‘Ringo hit himself’ meaning ‘Ringo hit his statue’) are a long-standing puzzle for binding theories. We enrich the Partition theory (Schwarzschild, 1996) to allow semantic partitions (based on contextual contrasts) to explain acquisition experiments. The semantic… read more

