Papers

2023. Colasanti, Valentina. Gestural focus marking in Italo-Romance, Isogloss. Open Journal of Romance Linguistics, 9/(4)/5, 1-39. doi: https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/isogloss.296.

2023. Colasanti, Valentina.  Functional gestures as morphemes: Some evidence from the languages of Southern Italy, Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 8(1), 1–45. doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.9743.

2023. Colasanti, Valentina. Auxiliary selection in Southern Lazio. Some implications for Romance microvariation and its limits, L’Italia dialettale, LXXXIV, 97–150.

2022. Colasanti, Valentina. Micro-contact in Southern Italy: language change in Southern Lazio under pressure from Italian, Languages 2022, 7, 286. doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/languages7040286.

2021. Colasanti, Valentina. Criterial positions as diagnostics in Italo-Romance: some highs and lows. Revue roumaine de linguistique, LXVI, 2-3, 265–282. 

2019. Colasanti, Valentina and Giuseppina Silvestri. Matrix complementizers in Italo-Romance, in S. Cruschina, A. Ledgeway and E. Remberger (eds.), Italian Dialectology at the Interface. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. doi: https://doi.org/10.1075/la.251.08col.

2019. Colasanti, Valentina and Martina Wiltschko. Spatial and discourse deixis and the speech act structure of nominals, Proceedings of the Canadian Linguistic Association Annual Meeting (CLA), 1-3 June 2019, Vancouver BC. 

2018. Colasanti, Valentina. On Factivity: speculations on the split-CP in Upper-Southern Italian Dialects, Generative Grammar @ Geneva, 11:70–86.

2018. Colasanti, Valentina. La doppia serie di complementatori nei dialetti del Lazio meridionale: un approccio microparametrico. Revue de Linguistique Romane, 82: 65–91.

2017. Colasanti, Valentina. Towards a microparameter C-hierarchy in Italo-Romance, in G. Pană Dindelegan, R. Zafiu, A. Dragomirescu, A. Nicolae, I. Nicula Paraschiv (eds.), Romance Syntax. Comparative and diachronic perspectives. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

2017. Colasanti, Valentina. On Triple Complementation in Southern Lazio dialects, in Proceedings of Structure, Use and Meaning, University of Brasov, 21-24 September 2016, 71–81.

 

Dissertations

2019. Colasanti, Valentina. Romance morphosyntactic microvariation in complementizer and auxiliary systems. PhD dissertation, University of Cambridge. doi: https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.35542

2015. Colasanti, Valentina. The Complementiser System of Cepranese. MPhil dissertation, University of Cambridge.

2010. Colasanti, Valentina. Condizioni sociolinguistiche del mutamento fonologico. MA dissertation, ‘Sapienza’ University of Rome.