Caterina Donati

Donati, Caterina, Gemma Barberà, Chiara Branchini, Carlo Cecchetto, Carlo Geraci and Josep Quer 2017 Searching for imperatives in European sign languages Imperatives and Directive Strategies, Van Olmen, Daniël and Simone Heinold (eds.), pp. 111–156 | Chapter

This article presents the first results of a pilot project aiming at analyzing how European sign languages realize a syntactic domain that is very solid, likely to be grammaticalized in any language but very poorly described or not described at all for sign languages: the imperative. Our… read more

Branchini, Chiara and Caterina Donati 2016 The extent of language co-activation in bimodal bilinguals Epistemological issue with keynote article “The development of bimodal bilingualism: Implications for linguistic theory” by Diane Lillo-Martin, Ronice Müller de Quadros and Deborah Chen Pichler, pp. 763–767 | Commentary

Branchini, Chiara, Anna Cardinaletti, Carlo Cecchetto, Caterina Donati and Carlo Geraci 2015 WH-duplication in Italian Sign Language (LIS) Signs and Structures: Formal Approaches to Sign Language Syntax, Rutkowski, Paweł (ed.), pp. 39–70 | Article

This paper focuses on those WH-questions in Italian Sign Language (LIS) featuring two lexically identical WH-signs. We show that WH1 (the first WH in linear order) is shorter than WH2 (the second WH in liner order). However, there is evidence that this different duration is due to a phrase final… read more

Cecchetto, Carlo and Caterina Donati 2015 Subject intervention in free relatives Structures, Strategies and Beyond: Studies in honour of Adriana Belletti, Di Domenico, Elisa, Cornelia Hamann and Simona Matteini (eds.), pp. 369–392 | Article

Subject intervention in wh-questions has been reported for several Romance varieties. The case we focus on here is free relatives. In Italian/French an object free relative introduced by chi/qui is degraded if a preverbal subject intervenes, much like the corresponding wh-question. However,… read more

Branchini, Chiara, Anna Cardinaletti, Carlo Cecchetto, Caterina Donati and Carlo Geraci 2013 wh-duplication in Italian Sign Language (LIS) Sign Language Syntax from a Formal Perspective: Selected Papers from the 2012 Warsaw FEAST, Rutkowski, Paweł (ed.), pp. 157–188 | Article

This paper focuses on those wh-questions in Italian Sign Language (LIS) featuring two lexically identical wh-signs. We show that wh1 (the first wh in linear order) is shorter than wh2 (the second wh in liner order). However, there is evidence that this different duration is due to a phrase-final… read more

Branchini, Chiara and Caterina Donati 2009 Relatively different: Italian Sign Language relative clauses in a typological perspective Correlatives Cross-Linguistically, Lipták, Anikó (ed.), pp. 157–191 | Article

Donati, Caterina 2003 Merge copy The Interfaces: Deriving and interpreting omitted structures, Schwabe, Kerstin and Susanne Winkler (eds.), pp. 155–175 | Article

Donati, Caterina and Alessandra Tomaselli 1997 Language Types and Generative Grammar: a Review of Some Consequences of the Universal VO Hypothesis Rightward Movement, Beermann, Dorothee, David LeBlanc and Henk van Riemsdijk (eds.), pp. 331 ff. | Article

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