Anna Maria Di Sciullo

List of John Benjamins publications for which Anna Maria Di Sciullo plays a role.

Biolinguistic Investigations on the Language Faculty

Edited by Anna Maria Di Sciullo

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 235] 2016. xvii, 238 pp.
Subjects Generative linguistics | Psycholinguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Subjects Generative linguistics | Psycholinguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

Edges, Heads, and Projections: Interface properties

Edited by Anna Maria Di Sciullo and Virginia Hill

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 156] 2010. vii, 265 pp.
Subjects Generative linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

UG and External Systems: Language, brain and computation

Edited by Anna Maria Di Sciullo

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 75] 2005. xviii, 398 pp.
Subjects Cognition and language | Generative linguistics | Language acquisition | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Subjects Generative linguistics | Language acquisition | Morphology | Phonology

Asymmetry in Grammar: Volume 1: Syntax and semantics

Edited by Anna Maria Di Sciullo

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 57] 2003. vi, 405 pp.
Subjects Generative linguistics | Semantics | Syntax

Asymmetry in Grammar: 2 Volumes (set)

Edited by Anna Maria Di Sciullo

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 57-58] 2003. vi, 405 pp. & vi, 309 pp.
Subjects Generative linguistics | Language acquisition | Morphology | Phonology | Semantics | Syntax
Di Sciullo, Anna Maria 2016 Biolinguistic investigations on the Language Faculty: IntroductionBiolinguistic Investigations on the Language Faculty, Di Sciullo, Anna Maria (ed.), pp. vii–xviii | Article
The papers assembled in this volume aim to contribute to our understanding of the human capacity for language, understood as a generative procedure that relates sounds and meanings via syntax. While theoretical hypotheses about this relation are part of the generative enterprise since its… read more
Di Sciullo, Anna Maria and Calixto Aguero-Bautista 2016 The biolinguistics program: Questions and hypothesesBiolinguistic Investigations on the Language Faculty, Di Sciullo, Anna Maria (ed.), pp. 3–40 | Article
The Biolinguistics Program is an emergent interdisciplinary field encompassing natural sciences, neurosciences and the humanities. Its core object of inquiry is human language. The overarching questions it raises are the following: what is language and what is the relation between language and… read more
Di Sciullo, Anna Maria and Stanca Somesfalean 2016 Object pronouns in the evolution of Romanian: A biolinguistic perspectiveBiolinguistic Investigations on the Language Faculty, Di Sciullo, Anna Maria (ed.), pp. 125–144 | Article
We examine pronominal objects in Old Romanian and show that the fluctuation in their position (pre-/post-verbal) and in their form (clitic/strong pronoun) is the result of the Directional Asymmetry Principle (DAP), a complexity-reducing principle proposed in Di Sciullo (2011), according to which… read more
Di Sciullo, Anna Maria 2014 Minimalism and I-MorphologyMinimalism and Beyond: Radicalizing the interfaces, Kosta, Peter, Steven L. Franks, Teodora Radeva-Bork and Lilia Schürcks (eds.), pp. 267–286 | Article
I address the question of how morphology can be approached within the Minimalist program, focusing on the notion of asymmetry which has been shown to contribute to the understanding of language and other complex systems. I distinguish the Internalist from the Externalist approach to morphology. I… read more
Di Sciullo, Anna Maria 2012 Interfaces in a biolinguistic perspectiveTowards a Biolinguistic Understanding of Grammar: Essays on interfaces, Di Sciullo, Anna Maria (ed.), pp. 1–10 | Article
Di Sciullo, Anna Maria 2012 Perspectives on morphological complexityCurrent Issues in Morphological Theory: (Ir)regularity, analogy and frequency, Kiefer, Ferenc †, Mária Ladányi and Péter Siptár (eds.), pp. 105–134 | Article
This paper discusses the notion of morphological complexity and differentiates language external complexity (E-complexity) from language internal complexity (I-complexity). While E-complexity is measurable on the basis of the statistical occurrences of affixes and their combinations with roots,… read more
Di Sciullo, Anna Maria and Virginia Hill 2010 IntroductionEdges, Heads, and Projections: Interface properties, Di Sciullo, Anna Maria and Virginia Hill (eds.), pp. 1–8 | Article
Di Sciullo, Anna Maria 2007 On affixal scope and affix-root ordering in ItalianRomance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2005: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’, Utrecht, 8–10 December 2005, Baauw, Sergio, Frank Drijkoningen and Manuela Pinto (eds.), pp. 99–114 | Article
I raise the question why different sorts of affixes occupy different canonical positions in morphological expressions, and focus on Italian. I show that the semantic scope between affixes and the precedence relations between affixes and roots follow from Asymmetry Theory (Di Sciullo 2005). First, I… read more
Di Sciullo, Anna Maria 2005 Introduction: UG and External SystemsUG and External Systems: Language, brain and computation, Di Sciullo, Anna Maria (ed.), pp. vii–xviii | Miscellaneous
Di Sciullo, Anna Maria and Sandiway Fong 2005 Morpho-syntax parsingUG and External Systems: Language, brain and computation, Di Sciullo, Anna Maria (ed.), pp. 247–268 | Article
Di Sciullo, Anna Maria 2003 Asymmetry in grammar: Syntax and semanticsAsymmetry in Grammar: Volume 1: Syntax and semantics, Di Sciullo, Anna Maria (ed.), pp. 1–10 | Article
Di Sciullo, Anna Maria 2003 Morphological relations in asymmetry theoryAsymmetry in Grammar: Volume 2: Morphology, phonology, acquisition, Di Sciullo, Anna Maria (ed.), pp. 9–36 | Article
Di Sciullo, Anna Maria 2003 Asymmetry in grammar: Morphology, phonology, acquisitionAsymmetry in Grammar: Volume 2: Morphology, phonology, acquisition, Di Sciullo, Anna Maria (ed.), pp. 1–8 | Article
Di Sciullo, Anna Maria, Ileana Paul and Stanca Somesfalean 2003 The clause structure of extraction asymmetriesAsymmetry in Grammar: Volume 1: Syntax and semantics, Di Sciullo, Anna Maria (ed.), pp. 279–299 | Article
Di Sciullo, Anna Maria 1999 Verbal structures and variationSemantic Issues in Romance Syntax, Treviño, Esthela and José Lema (eds.), pp. 39–56 | Article
Di Sciullo, Anna Maria 1996 Word-Internal Pronouns and ReflexivesCoherence and Anaphora, De Mulder, Walter and Liliane Tasmowski (eds.), pp. 103–121 | Article
Abstract. Complex reflexives such as himself and the like are D compounds, contrary to self-N compounds which are N compounds. The difference between pronouns and reflexives with respect to their distribution in compounds is expressed configurationally in terms of the difference between heads and… read more
Améringen, Arie Van, Henrietta J. Cedergren, Anna Maria Di Sciullo et Paul Pupier 1978 Sélection et alternances des langues chez les montréalais d’origine italienneXIV Congresso Internationale di Linguistica e Filologia Romanza: Napoli, 15–20 Aprile 1974. ATTI, Varvaro, Alberto (ed.), pp. II-577–II-592 | Article