Giuseppe Longobardi
List of John Benjamins publications for which Giuseppe Longobardi plays a role.
2015 Toward a syntactic phylogeny of modern Indo-European languages Proto-Indo-European Syntax and its Development, Kulikov, Leonid and Nikolaos Lavidas (eds.), pp. 125–156 | Article
The Parametric Comparison Method (PCM, Guardiano & Longobardi 2005, Longobardi & Guardiano 2009) is grounded on the assumption that syntactic parameters are more appropriate than other traits for use as comparanda for historical reconstruction, because they are able to provide unambiguous… read more
2014 Theory and experiment in parametric minimalism: The case of Romance negation Language Description Informed by Theory, Pensalfini, Rob, Myfany Turpin and Diana Guillemin (eds.), pp. 217–262 | Article
This chapter examines the syntax and semantics of negative elements across Romance languages and proposes that there are three basic parameters that are encoded in the morphemes used to express sentential negation and negative determiners. These parameters define whether simple negation occurs pre-… read more
2013 Toward a syntactic phylogeny of modern Indo-European languages Proto-Indo-European Syntax and its Development, Kulikov, Leonid and Nikolaos Lavidas (eds.), pp. 122–152 | Article
The Parametric Comparison Method (PCM, Guardiano & Longobardi 2005, Longobardi & Guardiano 2009) is grounded on the assumption that syntactic parameters are more appropriate than other traits for use as comparanda for historical reconstruction, because they are able to provide unambiguous… read more
2008 Three fundamental issues in parametric linguistics The Limits of Syntactic Variation, Biberauer, Theresa (ed.), pp. 109–142 | Article
In this paper we discuss three compelling questions, which impinge on parameter theory: (a) What are the actual parameters of UG? (b) What is the form of a possible parameter? (c) How are parameter values distributed in space and time? With respect to the first question, we present the guidelines… read more
2008 Foreword Principles of Syntactic Reconstruction, Ferraresi, Gisella and Maria Goldbach (eds.), pp. ix–xvii | Foreword
2008 Reference to individuals, person, and the variety of mapping parameters Essays on Nominal Determination: From morphology to discourse management, Høeg Müller, Henrik and Alex Klinge (eds.), pp. 189–211 | Article
The paper addresses two related questions: whether the principle that nominal arguments must be projections of D, apparently holding in many Romance languages, holds in English and in other languages as well; and why such a principle should exist at all. The answer empirically suggested to the… read more
2003 9. Determinerless nouns: A parametric mapping theory From NP to DP: Volume 1: The syntax and semantics of noun phrases, Coene, Martine and Yves D’hulst (eds.), pp. 239–254 | Chapter
2003 Methods in parametric linguistics and cognitive history Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2003, Pica, Pierre (ed.), pp. 101–138 | Article
The present paper addresses some foundational issues on the status of parametric linguistics, understood as a partially independent new branch of formal grammar and of the cognitive sciences more generally. Chomsky’s (1964) original three levels of adequacy are extended to five and it is then… read more
