Christina Tortora -
downloadable articles
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some of my articles:
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Tortora,
C., in preparation, “Can we find clusters amidst the variability? The case of
Appalachian” [to be submitted to Belfast Working Papers in Linguistics]
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Tortora,
C., in preparation, “The teaching of Standard Italian and the question of
Italian linguistic diversity,” [to be submitted to the Italian-American
Review]
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Tortora, C., under review, “On
the relation between functional architecture and patterns of change in Romance
clitic syntax,” [submitted to E. Mathieu et al. (eds.)].
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Tortora, C., under review,
“Addressing the problem of intra-speaker variation for parametric theory,”
[submitted to R. Zanuttini (ed.) Micro-syntactic variation in North-American
English.]
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Benincà,
P. & C. Tortora, 2011, “Grammatica generativa e variazione,” Studi
italiani di linguistica teorica ed applicata [special issue, G. Berruto (ed.)]
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Benincà, P. & C. Tortora, 2010,
“On Clausal Architecture: Evidence from Complement Clitic Placement in
Romance,” in V. Torrens, L. Escobar, A. Gavarró and J. Gutiérrez (eds.) Movement
and Clitics: Adult and Child Grammar, pp. 219-237. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
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Tortora, C. & M. den Dikken, 2010,
“Subject Agreement Variation: Support for the Configurational Approach,” Lingua 120:1089-1108.
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Tortora, C., 2010, “Domains of clitic placement in
finite and non-finite clauses: Evidence from a Piedmontese dialect,” in Roberta
D’Alessandro, A. Ledgeway, &
I. Roberts (eds.) Syntactic
Variation. The Dialects of
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Benincà,
P. & C. Tortora, 2009, “Towards a finer-grained theory of Italian
participial clausal architecture,” in
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Tortora,
C., 2008, “Aspect inside PLACE PPs,” in A. Asbury, J. Dotlačil, B. Gehrke, & R. Nouwen
(eds.) Syntax and Semantics of Spatial P, pp.273-301.
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den
Dikken, M., J. Bernstein, C. Tortora, & R. Zanuttini, 2007, “Data and
Grammar: Means and Individuals,” Theoretical
Linguistics 33.3:
335-352.
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Tortora, C.,
2006a, “The Case of Appalachian Expletive they,” American Speech 81.3:266-296.
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Tortora,
C., 2006b, “On the aspect of space: The case of place in Italian and Spanish,” in N. Penello & D.
Pescarini (eds.) Atti dell’undicesima
giornata di dialettologia (Quaderni di lavoro ASIS, v. 5). pp. 50-69. CNR: Padova. (ISSN#
1826-8242) AT: http://asis-cnr.unipd.it/ql-5.it.html.
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Tortora,
C., 2005, “The Preposition’s Preposition in Italian: Evidence for
Boundedness of Space,” in R. Gess & E. Rubin (eds.), Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Romance Linguistics, pp. 307-327.
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Bernstein,
J.B. & C. Tortora, 2005, “Two types of possessive forms in English,” Lingua 115.9:1221-1242.
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Tortora, C.,
2004, “La variazione sintattica e i dialetti appalachiani,” in G. Marcato
(ed). I dialetti e la montagna. Padova: Unipress. pp 337-350.
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Tortora, C.,
2002 “Romance Enclisis, Prepositions, and Aspect,” Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 20.4: 725-757.
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Tortora, C.,
2001, “Evidence for a Null Locative in Italian,” in G. Cinque & G.
Salvi (eds.) Current Studies in Italian
Syntax: Studies Offered to Lorenzo
Renzi. Elsevier,
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D. Cresti
& C. Tortora, 2000, “Aspects of Locative Doubling and Resultative
Predication,” in S. Chang, L. Liaw, & J. Ruppenhofer (eds.), Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of
the Berkeley Linguistics Society, pp. 62‑73.
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Tortora, C.,
2000, “Functional Heads and Object Clitics,” in M. Hirotani, A. Coetzee, N.
Hall, and J.-Y. Kim (eds.), Proceedings
of the 30th Meeting of the Northeast Linguistics Society (NELS30), V. 2, pp. 639-653.
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Tortora, C.,
1999, “Agreement, Case, and i‑subjects,” in P. Tamanji, M. Hirotani,
& N. Hall (eds.), Proceedings of the
29th Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS29), V. 1, pp. 397-408.
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Tortora, C.,
1998a, “Verbs of Inherently Directed Motion Are Compatible with Resultative
Phrases,” Linguistic Inquiry 29.2: 338-345.
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Tortora,
C., 1998b, “The Post-Verbal Subject Position of Italian Unaccusative Verbs of
Inherently Directed Motion,” in
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Tortora,
C., 1997a, “I Pronomi Interrogativi in Borgomanerese,” in P. Benincà &
C. Poletto (eds.) Quaderni di Lavoro
dell’ASIS (Atlante Sintattico Italia Settentrionale): Strutture Interrogative
dell’Italia Settentrionale, Padova: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, pp. 83-88.
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Tortora, C. 1997b, The syntax and semantics
of the weak locative. PhD dissertation,
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Tortora,
C., 1996, “Two Types of Unaccusatives: Evidence from a Northern Italian
Dialect,” in Karen Zagona (ed.) Current
Issues in Linguistic Theory: Grammatical Theory and Romance Languages (Proceedings of the 25th Linguistic
Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL25)).
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Tortora, C.,
1994, “Beyond the Perfect Construction: Auxiliary Selection in English,” in
G. Borgato (ed.) Teoria del Linguaggio e
Analisi Linguistica
(Proceedings of the 20th Incontro di Grammatica Generativa). Padova: Unipress,
pp. 371-385.
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Tortora, C.,
1993, “The Phonological Word in Dakota,” in M. Bernstein (ed.), Proceedings of the Ninth Eastern States
Conference on Linguistics (ESCOL9).