University of Milano-Bicocca

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with University of Milano-Bicocca*

Titles

Minorities in Italy in a changing legal landscape: Special issue of Language Problems and Language Planning 44:3 (2020)

Edited by Gabriele Iannàccaro & Vittorio Dell’Aquila

Subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Applied linguistics | Cognition and language | Language policy | Language teaching | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Translation Studies

[Language Problems and Language Planning, 44:3] 2021. | special issue

The Acquisition of Italian: Morphosyntax and its interfaces in different modes of acquisition

Adriana Belletti & Maria Teresa Guasti

Subjects Language acquisition | Morphology | Romance linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 57] 2015. xiv, 326 pp. | course book

Discourse and politics of migration in Italy: The production and reproduction of ethnic dominance and exclusion. Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics

Edited by Monica Colombo

Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics

[Journal of Language and Politics, 12:2] 2012. | special issue

Colombo, Monica 2026 ‘A resilient Europe’?: The representation of European society in the national recovery and resilience plans

Keywords: resilience | European Union | policy discourse | critical discourse analysis | race | whiteness | National Recovery and Resilience Plans

Journal of Language and Politics 25:2 pp. 194–214 | article

Tuller, Laurie, Silvia Silleresi & Philippe Prévost 2025 Autism and language modularity

In: Footprints of Phrase Structure: Studies in syntax in honour of Tim Stowell, Arche, María J., Jan-Wouter Zwart, Hamida Demirdache & Hagit Borer (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 288] pp. 36–54

Da Milano, Federica 2025 Deixis and self-reference: A comparison between Indo-European and East Asian languages, in EP’s framework

Keywords: subjectivity | pronouns | deixis | person | emancipatory pragmatics | ba | consciousness | linguistic categories | Indo-European languages | Japanese

In: Emancipatory Pragmatics: Innovative approaches to pragmatics incorporating the concept of “ba”, Fujii, Yoko, William F. Hanks, Sachiko Ide, Scott Saft & Kishiko Ueno (eds.) [Culture and Language Use: Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, 24] pp. 249–274 | open access

Cominetti, Federica & Francesca Belotti 2025 Giulia Cecchettin’s feminicide in the Italian online press: How headlines changed the narrative, if they did at all

Keywords: feminicide | violence against women | news framing | Giulia Cecchettin | media spectacle | news reporting | linguistic implicit strategies | communicative functions | clickbait | implicatures

Journal of Language and Politics | Online First Publication, 25 pp. | article

Micheli, M. Silvia 2023 Linee di tendenza aggiornate della formazione di parola dell’italiano contemporaneo

Keywords: word-formation | Italian language | hybridism | neologism

Revue Romane 59:1 pp. 113–142 | article

Bosch, Jasmijn E. & Francesca Foppolo 2023 Prediction during spoken language processing in monolingual and multilingual children: Investigating the role of literacy

Keywords: prediction | language processing | literacy | multilingual children | morphosyntactic cues

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 14:4 pp. 512–543 | article | open access

Silleresi, Silvia 2023 Developmental profiles in Autism Spectrum Disorder: Theoretical and methodological implications

In: Developmental Profiles in Autism Spectrum Disorder: Theoretical and methodological implications, Silleresi, Silvia[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 68] p.  ff.

Bosch, Jasmijn E., Mathilde Chailleux, Jia’en Yee, Maria Teresa Guasti & Fabrizio Arosio 2022 Prediction on the basis of gender and number in Mandarin-Italian bilingual children

Keywords: visual world paradigm | gender | number | child bilingualism | predictive processing

In: The Acquisition of Gender: Crosslinguistic perspectives, Ayoun, Dalila (ed.) [Studies in Bilingualism, 63] pp. 243–272

Bosch, Jasmijn E., Ianthi M. Tsimpli & Maria Teresa Guasti 2022 How English-Medium Instruction affects language and learning outcomes of children in the Maldives

Keywords: medium of instruction | learning outcomes | literacy | submersion | educational language policy

Journal of English-Medium Instruction 2:1 pp. 1–26 | article

Iannàccaro, Gabriele, Vittorio Dell’Aquila & Ida Stria 2022 Metalinguistic awareness in education as a tool for enhancing social inclusion

In: Advances in Interdisciplinary Language Policy, Grin, François, László Marácz & Nike K. Pokorn (eds.) [Studies in World Language Problems, 9] pp. 173–194

Micheli, M. Silvia 2021 Compounding in Old Italian: A constructionist analysis

Keywords: compounding | Construction Morphology | Old Italian | Latin | word formation

Lingvisticæ Investigationes 44:1 p. 66 | article

Cecchetto, Carlo, Alessandra Checchetto, Beatrice Giustolisi & Mirko Santoro 2021 Age of exposure and subject/object asymmetries when wh-movement goes rightward: The case of LIS interrogatives

Keywords: LIS | interrogatives | age of exposure effects | wh-dependency

Sign Language & Linguistics 25:1 pp. 1–29 | article

Guasti, Maria Teresa, Elena Pagliarini & Stephanie Durrleman 2021 The acquisition of disjunction under negation and recursive ni in French

Keywords: disjunction | negation | scope | negative concord | child French

In: L1 Acquisition and L2 Learning: The view from Romance, Avram, Larisa, Anca Sevcenco & Veronica Tomescu (eds.) [Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 65] pp. 315–330

Guasti, Maria Teresa 2021 The “what” and “how” of measuring

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 12:1 pp. 54–58 | article commentary

Iannàccaro, Gabriele & Vittorio Dell’Aquila 2021 Fifty ways to legitimate your language

Language Problems and Language Planning 44:3 pp. 255–272 | introduction

Amenta, Simona, Fritz Günther & Marco Marelli 2020 A (distributional) semantic perspective on the processing of morphologically complex words

Keywords: derivation | compounding | morphological processing | semantic transparency | distributional semantic models | form-meaning mapping

The Mental Lexicon 15:1 pp. 62–78 | article

Bosch, Jasmijn E. & Sharon Unsworth 2020 Cross-linguistic influence in word order: Effects of age, dominance and surface overlap

Keywords: cross-linguistic influence | bilingual children | effects of language dominance and age | surface overlap | V2 word order

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 11:6 pp. 783–816 | article

Milano, Federica Da & Pierluigi Cuzzolin 2020 AcI: Inheritance and influence on some languages of Western Europe

Keywords: Accusativus cum Infinitivo | Latinism | Romance languages | Germanic languages | complement clause | perception verbs | verbs of saying and thinking

Belgian Journal of Linguistics 33:1 pp. 108–124 | article

Pianzola, Federico, Katalin Bálint & Jessica Weller 2020 Virtual reality as a tool for promoting reading via enhanced narrative absorption and empathy

Keywords: reading | virtual reality | narrative absorption | empathy | transportation | fiction

Scientific Study of Literature 9:2 pp. 163–194 | article

Mantovan, Lara & Carlo Geraci 2019 R-impersonal interpretation in Italian Sign Language (LIS)

Keywords: Italian Sign Language | agent backgrounding | referentiality | impersonals | indefinite pronouns

Sign Language & Linguistics 21:2 pp. 232–256 | article

Arcodia, Giorgio Francesco 2018 On Sinitic influence on Macanese: Focus on indirect causation

Keywords: multi-verb constructions | Macanese | indirect causation | feature pool | typological matrix | contact-induced grammaticalisation | Asian Portuguese creoles

Language Ecology 1:2 pp. 158–184 | article

Donati, Caterina, Gemma Barberà, Chiara Branchini, Carlo Cecchetto, Carlo Geraci & Josep Quer 2017 Searching for imperatives in European sign languages

In: Imperatives and Directive Strategies, Van Olmen, Daniël & Simone Heinold (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 184] pp. 111–156

Zampini, Laura, Paola Zanchi, Chiara Suttora, Maria Spinelli, Mirco Fasolo & Nicoletta Salerni 2016 Gesture production in the narratives of preschool children

Keywords: syntactic complexity | gestures | narrative competence | preschool age

Gesture 15:3 pp. 306–320 | article

Guasti, Maria Teresa, Chiara Branchini, Mirta Vernice, Lina Barbieri & Fabrizio Arosio 2015 Language disorders in children with Developmental Dyslexia

In: Specific Language Impairment: Current trends in research, Stavrakaki, Stavroula (ed.) [Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 58] pp. 35–56

Branchini, Chiara, Anna Cardinaletti, Carlo Cecchetto, Caterina Donati & Carlo Geraci 2015 WH-duplication in Italian Sign Language (LIS)

In: Signs and Structures: Formal Approaches to Sign Language Syntax, Rutkowski, Paweł (ed.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 71] pp. 39–70

Arcodia, Giorgio F., Bianca Basciano & Chiara Melloni 2016 Areal perspectives on total reduplication of verbs in Sinitic

Keywords: Reduplication | Sinitic | total reduplication | East- and Southeast Asian languages | iconicity

Studies in Language 39:4 pp. 836–872 | article

Miola, Emanuele 2015 La tirannia della tastiera: Il caso dell’ortografia piemontese

Keywords: Piemontese | orthography design and revision | CMC | polynomy

Language Problems and Language Planning 39:2 pp. 136–153 | article

Strik Lievers, Francesca 2015 Synaesthesia: A corpus-based study of cross-modal directionality

Functions of Language 22:1 pp. 69–95 | article

Brugnatelli, Vermondo 2014 Berber negation in diachrony

In: The Diachrony of Negation, Mosegaard Hansen, Maj-Britt & Jacqueline Visconti (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 160] pp. 167–184

Arcodia, Giorgio Francesco 2014 Diachrony and the polysemy of derivational affixes

In: Morphology and Meaning: Selected papers from the 15th International Morphology Meeting, Vienna, February 2012, Rainer, Franz, Francesco Gardani, Hans Christian Luschützky & Wolfgang U. Dressler (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 327] pp. 127–140

Arcodia, Giorgio Francesco 2014 The Chinese adjective as a word class

In: Word Classes: Nature, typology and representations, Simone, Raffaele & Francesca Masini (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 332] p. 95

Geraci, Carlo & Carlo Cecchetto 2013 Neglected cases of rightward movement: When wh-phrases and negative quantifiers go to the right

In: Rightward Movement in a Comparative Perspective, Webelhuth, Gert, Manfred Sailer & Heike Walker (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 200] pp. 211–242

Branchini, Chiara, Anna Cardinaletti, Carlo Cecchetto, Caterina Donati & Carlo Geraci 2013 wh-duplication in Italian Sign Language (LIS)

Keywords: sign language | Italian Sign Language (LIS) | doubling | cleft questions | wh-questions | copy theory of traces

Sign Language & Linguistics 16:2 pp. 157–188 | article

Banfi, Emanuele 2011 Review of Fenomeni di intensità nell’italiano parlato by B. Gili Fivela & C. Bazzanella (2009)

Revue Romane 46:1 pp. 167–171 | book review

Zampini, Laura & Laura D'Odorico 2012 Gesture production and language development: A longitudinal study of children with Down syndrome

Keywords: Down syndrome | developmental trends | communicative gestures | predictive index | transitional forms

Gesture 11:2 pp. 174–193 | article

Arcodia, Giorgio Francesco, Nicola Grandi & Bernhard Wälchli 2010 Coordination in compounding

In: Cross-Disciplinary Issues in Compounding, Scalise, Sergio & Irene Vogel (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 311] pp. 177–198

Geraci, Carlo 2011 Tracing direction to contact: Commentary on Wilbur (1985)

Sign Language & Linguistics 13:2 pp. 222–227 | article

Geraci, Carlo 2009 Epenthesis in Italian Sign Language

Keywords: LIS | Italian Sign Language | sign language phonology | Prosodic Model | movement epenthesis

Sign Language & Linguistics 12:1 pp. 3–51 | article

Branchini, Chiara 2008 On relativization and clefting in Italian Sign Language

Sign Language & Linguistics 10:2 pp. 201–212 | book review

Cecchetto, Carlo 2006 Reconstruction in relative clauses and the copy theory of traces*

Keywords: reconstruction | copy theory of traces | relative clauses | unaccusative nouns | indirect binding

Linguistic Variation Yearbook 5:1 p. 5 | article

*Please note that this list may be inaccurate for older publications.