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D'Alessandro, R., Putnam, M.T. & S. Terenghi (eds). 2025. Heritage Languages and Syntactic Theory. OUP.
D'Alessandro, R. 2024. Un atlante interattivo per le lingue degli emigrati. In Bernardi, V & C. Di Felice (eds), You will shine. Studi in onore di Chiara Magni. Firenze: Società Editrice Fiorentina
D'Alessandro, R., Andriani, L., Frasson, A., Pinto, M., Sorgini, L. & S. Terenghi. 2025. Microcontact and syntactic theory. In D'Alessandro, Putnam & Terenghi (eds), Heritage Languages and Syntactic Theory. OUP.
D'Alessandro, R. & S. Terenghi. 2024. Non-monotonic functional sequences: A new metric for complexity in heritage languages. In: Polinsky & Putnam (eds), Formal approaches to complexity in heritage language grammars. Language Science Press.
Chandra, P., D'Alessandro, R. & M. Putnam. 2024. Ethical concerns for theoretical research in linguistics: Issues and best practices. Linguistics.
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D'Alessandro, R, Putnam, M. & S. Terenghi (eds). Heritage Languages and Syntactic Theory. OUP.
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D'Alessandro, R., Putnam, M.T. & S. Terenghi. Heritage Languages and Syntactic Theory. An Introduction. In D'Alessandro, Putnam & Terenghi (eds), Heritage Languages and Syntactic Theory. OUP.
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D'Alessandro, R., Andriani, L., Frasson, A., Pinto, M., Sorgini, L. & S. Terenghi. Microcontact and syntactic theory. In D'Alessandro, Putnam & Terenghi (eds), Heritage Languages and Syntactic Theory. OUP.
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D'Alessandro, R. A short history of Agree. In Grohman & Leivada (eds), Cambridge Handbook of Minimalism.
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Chandra, P., D'Alessandro, R. & M. Putnam. Ethical concerns for theoretical research in linguistics:Issues and best practices. In press. In Terkourafi, M. (ed.), Ethics in Linguistics. Special issue for Linguistics.
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D'Alessandro, R. 2024. Un atlante interattivo per le lingue degli emigrati. In Bernardi, V & C. Di Felice (eds), You will shine. Studi in onore di Chiara Magni. Firenze: Società Editrice Fiorentina.
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D'Alessandro, R., & Terenghi, S. (2024). Non-monotonic functional sequences: A new metric for complexity in heritage languages. In M. Polinsky, & M. T. Putnam (Eds.), Formal approaches to complexity in heritage language grammars Language Science Press.
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​Armstrong, G., D'Alessandro, R., & Parafita Couto, M. D. C. (Eds.) (2024). Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 21: Selected papers from LSRL 52, University of Wisconsin-Madison. (2 ed.) (Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory; Vol. 10, No. 2). UAB.
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D'Alessandro, R. Raccogliere dati di varietà romanze in via di estinzione: il caso delle lingue ereditarie in America. In Castro & Tomasin (eds), Dialettologia ed etimologia. Studi, metodi e cantieri (pp. 83-105). ETS.
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D'Alessandro, R. & A. Frasson. 2023. Simplification or complexification: auxiliary selection and anti-agreement effect in Brazilian Venetan. Catalan Journal of Linguistics 22, 9-27.
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D'Alessandro, R. A complex solution to an unsolvable problem? Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism.
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D'Alessandro, R. Doing Romance Linguistics in the 2020s. Featured article, in Corr, A. et al., Romance Grammars: context and contact.
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Andriani, L. & R. D'Alessandro, D, T, C drop in heritage Italo-Romance in NYC. A LIFE IN LINGUISTICS.A Festschrift for Alexandra Cornilescu on her 75th birthday, Bucharest University Press.
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Andriani, L., D'Alessandro, R., Frasson, A., Van Osch, B., Sorgini, L. & S. Terenghi. Adding the microdimension to the study of language change in contact. Three case studies. Glossa, 7(1).
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D'Alessandro, R. Agreement. In A. Ledgeway & M. Maiden (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Romance Linguistics (Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics, pp. 519-543). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108580410.021
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Andriani, L., Casalicchio, J., Ciconte, F.M., D'Alessandro, R., Frasson, A., Van Osch, B., Sorgini, L. & S. Terenghi. Documenting Italo-Romance minority languages in the Americas. Problems and tentative solutions. In: Nevins, A. & M. Cole (eds), Contemporary research in minority and diaspora languages of Europe, Language Science Press.
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D'Alessandro, R. 2022. Crossing domains: topic marking and doubling in Romance. In Boneh, Harbour, Matushansky & Roy (eds), Building on Babel's Rubble. PUV.
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D'Alessandro, R. Not everything is a theory. Theoretical Linguistics 47 (1-2), 53-60.
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D'Alessandro, R. Syntactic change in contact: Romance. Annual Review of Linguistics, 2021(7), 309-328.
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D'Alessandro, R., Natvig, D. & M. Putnam. Addressing challenges in formal research on moribund heritage languages: A path forward. Front. Psychol. 12, 700126.
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Frasson, A., D'Alessandro, R & B. van Osch. Subject clitics in microcontact. A case study from heritage Friulian in Argentina and Brazil. Heritage Language Journal 18(1): 1-36.
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D'Alessandro, R. Sintassi semplice. Come leggere (e disegnare) i diagrammi ad albero. Utrecht University.
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D'Alessandro, R. & Marc van Oostendorp. Language Variation and Functional Heads. Magnetic Grammar. Linguistic Analysis 42, 3-4, 405-439.
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D'Alessandro, R. Agreement across the board: Topic agreement in Ripano. In Katharina Hartmann, Johannes Mursell and Peter W. Smith (eds), Agree to Agree: Agreement in the Minimalist Programme. Open Generative Syntax 4. Language Science Press.
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D'Alessandro, R. Syntax made easy. How to read (and draw) syntactic trees. Utrecht University.
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D'Alessandro, R. The achievements of Generative Grammar: a time chart and some reflections. Catalan Journal of Linguistics.
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Leivada, E., R. D'Alessandro & K. K. Grohmann. Eliciting Big Data From Small, Young, or Non-standard Languages: 10 Experimental Challenges. Front. Psychol. 10:313.
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D'Alessandro, R. & Luana Sorgini. MÉ™ tε magnatÉ™. Perifrasi modali in abruzzese orientale. Bollettino del Centro di studi filologici e linguistici siciliani.
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D'Alessandro, R. & D. Pescarini (eds). Advances in Italian dialectology: Sketches of Italo-Romance grammars. Leiden: Brill.
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Van Oostendorp, M. & R. D'Alessandro. Metaphony as Magnetism. In Mirko Grimaldi, Rosangela Lai, Ludovico Franco, Benedetta Baldi (eds), Structuring Variation in Romance Linguistics and Beyond. John Benjamins.
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D'Alessandro, R. & M. van Oostendorp. On the diversity of linguistic data and the integration of the language sciences. Frontiers in Psychology 8:2002.
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D'Alessandro, R. When you have too many features: auxiliaries, agreement and clitics in Italian varieties. Glossa 2(1), 50.
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D'Alessandro, R., I. Franco & A. Gallego (eds).The Verbal Domain. Oxford University Press.
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D'Alessandro, R. Come si mescolano le lingue? Lingue in contatto, prestiti, e lingua franca. In Masini, F. & N. Grandi (eds), Tutto ciò che hai sempre voluto sapere sul linguaggio e sulle lingue. Caissa Italia Editore. [1st draft]
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D'Alessandro, R. & L. Migliori. Sui possessivi (enclitici) nelle varietà italo-romanze meridionali non estreme. In D'Alessandro, Iannàccaro, Passino & Thornton (eds), Di tutti i colori. Studi linguistici per Maria Grossmann.
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D'Alessandro, R., G. Iannàccaro, D. Passino & A. M. Thornton (eds) . Di tutti i colori. Studi linguistici per Maria Grossmann. Utrecht University.
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D'Alessandro, R. & M. van Oostendorp. Abruzzese metaphony and the |A| eater. In: Francesc Torres-Tamarit, Kathrin Linke, and Marc van Oostendorp (eds), Approaches to metaphony in the languages of Italy. Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter. 2016.
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D'Alessandro, R. & D. Pescarini. Agreement restrictions and agreement oddities in Romance . In: Susann Fischer and Christoph Gabriel (eds), Manual of Grammatical interfaces in Romance. Berlin: De Gruyter.
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D'Alessandro, R. & M. van Oostendorp. When imperfections are perfect. Prosody, phi-features and deixis in Central and Southern Italian vocatives. Romance languages and Linguistic Theory 10.
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D'Alessandro, R. & C. Di Felice. The diachrony of Abruzzese complementation. Revue roumaine de Linguistique, 129-145.
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D'Alessandro, R. Null Subject. In: Antonio Fábregas, Jaume Mateu and Michael Putnam (eds), Contemporary Linguistic Parameters. London: Bloomsbury Press.
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D'Alessandro, R. & T. Scheer. Modular PIC. Linguistic Inquiry 46:4, 593-624.
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D'Alessandro, R. Death and contact-induced rebirth of impersonal pronouns. A case study. In: Diego Pescarini and Andrea Calabrese (eds), Special Issue on The Diachrony of pronominal systems. Probus 26.2., 249-274.
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D'Alessandro, R. & M. van Oostendorp. La metafonia ariellese tra fonologia e lessico. In: Diego Pescarini and Diana Passino (eds), Quaderni Linguistici dell’ASIT. Studi sui dialetti dell’Abruzzo 17, 2014. 1-18.
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D'Alessandro, R., C. Di Felice, I. Franco & A. Ledgeway. Approcci diversi alla dialettologia italiana contemporanea. Special Issue of L’Italia Dialettale ID LXXV.
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D'Alessandro, R., C. Di Felice, I. Franco & A. Ledgeway. Introduzione ad Approcci diversi alla dialettologia italiana contemporanea. Special Issue of L’Italia Dialettale ID LXXV.
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S. Lusini, D'Alessandro, R. & J. Rooryck. Phonetic aspects of polar questions in Sienese: an experimental approach. In: Johanneke Caspers, Yiya Chen, Willemijn Heeren, Jos Pacilly, Niels Schiller, and Ellen van Zanten (eds), Above and beyond the segments. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
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D'Alessandro, R. & T. Scheer. Phase-head marking. In: Hisao Tokizaki and Yoshi Dobashi (eds). Universal Syntax and Parametric Phonology. Linguistic Analysis 38:4, 305-330.
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D'Alessandro, R., A. Ledgeway & I. Roberts (eds). 2010. Syntactic variation. The dialects of Italy. Cambridge University Press.
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D’Alessandro, R. & I. Roberts. 2010. Past participle agreement in Abruzzese: Split auxiliary selection and the null-subject parameter. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 28: 41-72.
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D’Alessandro, R. & A.Ledgeway. 2010. At the C-T boundary: Investigating Abruzzese complementation. Lingua 120/8: 2040-2060.
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D’Alessandro, R. & I. Roberts. 2008. Movement and agreement in Italian past participles and defective phases. Linguistic Inquiry 39/3: 477-491.
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D’Alessandro, Roberta. 2004. Syntactic and pragmatic features: a case study. Leitura. Estudos em Syntaxe Comparativa 33: 185-202.
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