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1 Contact information Website Work Address Citizenship Department of Linguistics 3151 Social Science Plaza Irvine CA Italian, permanent resident of the United States of America Academic Positions Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Development Lab Lecturer and Researcher (2008-present) University of California, Los Angeles (Spring 2010, Department of Linguistics Fall 2006) Lecturer, Adjunct Professor California Institute of Technology (Spring 2009) Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences Lecturer University of Southern California (2007) Department of East Asian Languages Visiting Scholar Ca Foscari University of Venice, Italy ( ) Department of Studies on East Asia Visiting Assistant Professor Education Ph.D. in Linguistics (Winter 2003) Ph.D. Dissertation: Appositives at the Interface. Advisor: C.-T. James Huang Ca Foscari University, Venice, Italy B.A., M.A. in Eastern Languages and Literatures, graduated Summa cum Laude (1996). Masters thesis: A Study of Nominal Phrases in Mandarin Chinese. Advisors: Magda Abbiati and Giuseppe Longobardi. 1

2 Research interests - Syntax, Semantics, Discourse and their interfaces - Language Acquisition - Comparative Linguistics (Romance and Asian Languages) - Relative clauses (restrictives vs. appositives), DP-structure, Sentence-final particles, Left Periphery (Topic and Focus), and Secondary Predication Awards Professional Development Award, 2008 MIUR (Italian Department of University and Research), Brain-Gain program Research Fellowship for the project entitled Chinese relative clauses and their interpretation, 09/03-12/07 Teaching Fellowship for courses on Chinese grammar and Chinese linguistics, 09/03-12/07 Harvard University Visiting Fellowship, 09/01-06/02, School of Social Sciences Dissertation Fellowship, 04/02-06/02, School of Social Sciences Summer Fellowship 2002, 2001, 2000, School of Social Sciences Teaching Assistantship, 04/98-06/01, 09/02-03/03 Education Abroad Program Fellowship, 09/97-02/98 Beijing University of Languages and Culture Scholarship from Italian Department of Foreign Affairs, 09/93-07/94 Publications (peer-reviewed) (under revision for Journal of East Asian Linguistics) On Chinese Appositive Relative Clauses. Ms., UCI. with L. Badan (to appear, 2010) On the Syntax of Topic and Focus in Chinese, in P. Benincà and N. Munaro (eds.) Mapping the Left Periphery, Oxford University Press. (2007c) On the Syntax and Semantics of Appositive Relative Clauses, in N. Dehè and Y. Kavalova, (eds.) Parentheticals. Linguistik aktuell/linguistics today series 106, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, with B. Tranel (2002b) Local Conjunction in Italian and French Phonology, in C. Wiltshire and J. Camps (eds.) Romance Phonology and Variation, John Benjamins,

3 Conference Proceedings and Working Papers with A. Boaretto (2007a) La frase relativa in cinese moderno (Relative clauses in Modern Chinese), in L. De Giorgi and G. Samarani, (eds.) Percorsi della civiltà cinese fra passato e presente. Atti del X Convegno dell Associazione Italiana Studi Cinesi. Venezia: Cafoscarina, (2007b) A Comparison between Japanese and Chinese Relative Clauses, in University of Venice Working Papers in Linguistics 17, (2005a) Chinese Relative Clauses: Restrictive, Descriptive or Appositive?, in Laura Brugè, Giuliana Giusti, Nicola Munaro, Walter Schweikert and Giuseppina Turano (eds.) Contributions to the XXX Incontro di Grammatica Generativa. Venezia: Cafoscarina, (2005b) Sintassi e semantica delle frasi relative in cinese (Syntax and Semantics of Chinese Relative Clauses), in M. Scarpari and T. Lippiello (eds.) Cher Maître Scritti in onore di Lionello Lanciotti per l ottantesimo compleanno. Venezia: Cafoscarina, with L. Badan (2005c) Forme grammaticali in alcune varietà cinesi urbane (Grammatical Forms in some Urban Chinese Dialects), in Gianna Marcato (ed.) Dialetti in città, Circolo dei dialettologi di Sappada/Plodn, Padova: Unipress, (2004) On Prenominal Relative Clauses and Appositive Adjectives, in B. Schmeiser, V. Chand, A. Kelleher and A. Rodriguez (eds.) WCCFL 23 Proceedings. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press, (2003) Appositives and Quantification, in E. Kaiser and S. Arunachalam (eds.) Proceedings of the 26 th Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium. Vol University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, (2002a) Appositives and Chinese Relative Clauses, in M. Andronis, E. Debenport, A. Pycha and K. Yoshimura (eds.) CLS 38: The Main Session. Papers from the 38th Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. Vol. 1. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society, (2001a) Appositives Schmappositives in Chinese, in M. Irie and H. Ono (eds.) UCI Working Papers in Linguistics 7, (2001b) An OT account of the distribution of articles in Italian, in W. Cowles, L. Godson, a. Hickl, A. Munoz, P. Neddu, T. O Bryan and H. Tonomura (eds.) Proceedings of SWOT 5, University of California, San Diego, (1999a) Chinese Nominal Phrases: Functional vs. Lexical [e], in B. He and W. Hu (eds.) Proceedings of the 11 th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Cambridge, MA. (1999b) Nominal Phrases in Mandarin and Cantonese, in F. Del Gobbo and H. Hoshi (eds.) UCI Working Papers in Linguistics 5,

4 Books (in preparation). Grammatica del Cinese Mandarino (A Grammar of Mandarin Chinese - tentative title). Milano: FrancoAngeli Edizioni. Manuscripts (in preparation). On a Typology of Appositive Relative Clauses. Ms., UCI. with L. Badan (in preparation). On the lian-dou focus costruction in Mandarin Chinese and its implication for a cartographic approach to the Left Periphery tentative title. Ms., UCI and Leiden University. (2006). On the Interpretation of Chinese Relative Clauses, Ms., Ca Foscari University of Venice. Published reviews (2002) XXVIII Incontro di Grammatica Generativa, Glot International Conference Reports 6-07/2. Invited Talks (2009). On Indefiniteness and Secondary Predication. International Association of Chinese Linguistics-17 th, Paris. (2008). On Chinese Appositive Relative Clauses, National Taiwan Normal University and Fu Jen University, Taipei. (2008). Chinese and Italian Relative Clauses compared, Fu Jen University, Taipei. with C. Poletto (2008). Sentential Particles: Italian Dialects and Mandarin Chinese compared, Fu Jen University, Taipei. (2007) On Chinese Appositive Relative Clauses, CUNY Syntax Supper Talks, Graduate Center, CUNY, New York. (2007) Bilingualism: Challenges and Rewards A Case Study, Guest Lecture, Terri Griffith s The Acquisition of Language, UC Irvine. (2006) On Chinese Appositive Relative Clauses, The Annual Conference of the English Department, University of Bucharest, Romania. with A. Boaretto (2004) Sul ruolo del contesto nella lingua cinese (On the role of context in Chinese), Il linguaggio delle differenze e l'unità nel dialogo - Giornata di studio, Università di Macerata, Italy. (2002) What Appositives really are, MIT Ling-Lunch, MIT. (2001) Appositives, GSAS Workshop Series on Comparative Syntax and Linguistic Theory, Harvard University. 4

5 with B. Tranel (2001) On the Allomorphic Distribution of Italian Definite Determiners: Theoretical implications, USC Phon Lunch, USC. Conference Presentations (2010) On Secondary Predication and Specificity in Mandarin Chinese, Linguistic Society of America 84 th Annual Meeting, Baltimore; International Association of Chinese Linguistics and North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics, Harvard, Cambridge; 12th International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taipei. with C. Poletto (2010) On sentential particles: A cross-linguistic study, Linguistic Society of America 84 th Annual Meeting, Baltimore. ( ) More appositives in Heaven and Earth than are dreamt of in your Linguistics, WECOL, UC Davis and Linguistic Society of America 83 rd Annual Meeting, San Francisco. with C. Poletto ( ) A Typology of Sentential Particles, XIV Giornata di Dialettologia, University of Padua, Italy and Incontro di Grammatica Generativa XXXV, University of Siena, Italy. ( ) On Chinese Appositive Relative Clauses, 11 th International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics, Jiao Tong University, Xinzhu, Taiwan; 15 th International Association of Chinese Linguistics/ 19 th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics Joint Conference, Columbia University, New York. with L. Badan (2007) On the Left Periphery of Chinese, 15 th Internationa Association Chinese Linguistics/ 19 th North American Conference Chinese Linguistics Joint Conference, Columbia University, New York. with L. Badan (2007) On the Syntax of Topic and Focus in Chinese, Linguistic Society of America 81 st Annual Meeting, Anaheim. with L. Badan, L. (2006) On the Syntax of Topic and Focus in Chinese, 1 st Workshop on Chinese Linguistics, Chicago University; WECOL, CSU Fresno; Paris Meeting on East Asian Linguistics, Centre de Recherches Linguistiques sur l Asie Orientale, Paris, France. with L. Badan (2005) Topic and Focus in Chinese: A Preliminary Study, Journées d'etudes: La Périphérie Gauche de la Phrase, Structure et Functions, Fédération Typologie et Universaux Linguistiques-CNRS, Paris, France. with A. Boaretto, A. (2005) La relativa in cinese moderno (Relative clauses in Modern Chinese), X Convegno AISC Percorsi della civiltá cinese fra passato e presente, Ca' Foscari University, Venice, Italy. with L. Badan (2004) Forme grammaticali in alcune varietà cinesi urbane (Grammatical Forms in some Urban Chinese Dialects), Convegno Internazionale di Studi Dialetti in città, Circolo dei dialettologi di Sappada, Sappada/Plodn (BL), Italy. (2004) On Chinese Relative Clauses and the Restrictive vs. Descriptive Distinction, The 27 th GLOW Colloquium, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. (2004) On Prenominal Relative Clauses and Appositive Adjectives (I), GURT 2004, 5

6 Georgetown University, Washington DC. (2004) On Prenominal Relative Clauses and Appositive Adjectives (II), XXX Incontro di Grammatica Generativa, Ca Foscari University, Venice, Italy. ( ) On the Interpretation of Prenominal Relative Clauses, The 3 rd Conference of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics, The University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium; Linguistic Society of America 77 th Annual Meeting, Atlanta; WECOL 2002, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada and The 31 st Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest, California State University, Los Angeles. (2002) Appositives and Chinese Relative Clauses, The 38 th Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society, University of Chicago. (2002) Appositives and Quantification, XXVIII Incontro di Grammatica Generativa, University of Lecce, Italy. (2001) Appositives Schmappositives in Mandarin Chinese, XXVII Incontro di Grammatica Generativa, University of Trieste, Italy. with B. Tranel (2000) An OT account of the allomorphic distribution of Italian articles, Girona International Summer School in Linguistics 2000, Girona, Spain. (1999) On Chinese Nominal Phrases: Interpretation and Distribution, 8 th International Association of Chinese Linguistics Annual Conference, University of Melbourne, Australia. Professional experience Research experience UC Irvine, Department of Cognitive Sciences, Cognitive Development Lab current Researcher, research project on the Development of Relative Clauses. Currently developing protocols, running pilot experiments with adults and supervising three undergraduate research assistants. Ca Foscari University, Venice, Italy, Department of East Asian Studies Visiting Assistant Professor, research project on Relative Clauses in Chinese and their Interpretation. UC Irvine, Department of Linguistics. Summer Research Assistant to Prof. C.-T. James Huang, research project on Long-Distance Anaphora. Teaching experience University of California, Los Angeles Lecturer, Syntactic Typology and Universals. Spring Lecturer, Introduction to Phonology. Fall Introduction to Syntax. Summer Discovering Language. Spring Introduction to Phonology. Winter 2009, Fall

7 Introduction to Linguistics. Summer Session I Introduction to Phonology, Discovering Language. Spring Introduction to Linguistics, Semantics. Winter California Institute of Technology Lecturer, Introduction to Linguistics. Spring Ca Foscari University, Venice, Italy Visiting Assistant Professor, Introduction to the Linguistics of East Asian Languages, F07 Introduction to Chinese Linguistics, Fall 2007 Chinese Grammar, Fall Lecturer, Introduction to Syntax. Summer Ca Foscari University, Venice, Italy Visiting Assistant Professor, Introduction to the Study of Language. Spring (Graduate course) University of California, Los Angeles Adjunct Professor, Introduction to the Study of Language. Fall Ca Foscari University, Venice, Italy Visiting Assistant Professor, Chinese Grammar. Spring Introduction to Chinese Linguistics. Spring Chinese Grammar. Spring Chinese Grammar. Spring Introduction to Chinese Linguistics. Spring (Graduate course) PhD Thesis advisor, : Tommaso Pellin. MA Thesis advisor, Fall 2004: Irene D Odorico. MA Thesis advisor, Spring 2004: Marta Donazzan, Valeria Incoletti, Ileana Pieretti. Lecturer, Introduction to Syntax. Summer Structure of Chinese. Spring Teaching Associate, Introduction to Linguistics. Summer Introduction to Syntax. Summer 2001 (with Naomi Harada). Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Phonology. Winter 2003, Fall 2002, Fall Introduction to Linguistics. Spring 2001, Fall 2000, Spring 1999, Winter 1999, Fall 1998, Spring Acquisition of Language. Spring Introduction to Syntax. Winter 2001, Winter Other activities Reviewer for Language and Cognitive Processes, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Journal of East Asian Linguistics, Lingua, The Linguistic Review and Concentric: Studies in Linguistics. UC Irvine, Department of Linguistics: 7

8 Student Representative, Fall Colloquia coordinator, Fall 1998-Spring Editor for the UCI Working Papers in Linguistics volumes 5 and 6, Summer, Fall 1999, Webmaster, Fall 2000-Spring Languages Italian: native; English: superior; Mandarin Chinese: advanced/superior; French: advanced. 8