Dr Vieri Samek-Lodovici

Reader in Theoretical Linguistics

Department of Italian / Centre for Human Communication
University College London
Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT

Email:ucljvsl@ucl.ac.uk
+44 (0)20 7679 2574 (office)
+44 (0)20 8451 9210 (home)

Office: room 345, Foster Court (third floor)


Research Interests

- Syntax

- Prosody-syntax interface

- Optimality theory

- Argument structure

UCL Courses

1106 - Intr. to Ling. and Synt. Theory

2109 - Issues in Italian Syntax

 

Useful Links

London Linguistic Circle

 

 

Selected Publications

Vieri Samek-Lodovici. 2007. Final and Non-final Focus in Italian DPs. Ms. UCL. (To appear a special issue of Lingua on DP-level information structure edited by Enoch Aboh)

Nicole Dehé and Vieri Samek-Lodovici. 2007. On the Prosody and Syntax of DPs. Ms. Freie Universität Berlin, University College London.

Samek-Lodovici, Vieri. 2007. An Invitation to OT Syntax and Semantics. In V. Samek-Lodovici (ed.), Recent Developments in OT Syntax and Semantics. Lingua 117, 1513-1521.

Samek-Lodovici, Vieri. 2006. Optimality Theory and the Minimalist Program. In R. Vogel, and H. Broekhuis (eds.), Optimality Theory and Minimalism: A Possible Convergence? Linguistics in Potsdam 25, 77-97.

Samek-Lodovici, Vieri. 2006. Absence of Stress Culmination and Prosodic Phrasing. In J. Ito, E. Bakovic, and J. McCarthy (eds) Wondering at the Natural Fecundity of Things: Essays in Honor of Alan Prince. Linguistics Research Center, University of California, Santa Cruz.

Samek-Lodovici, Vieri. 2006. When Right Dislocation Meets the Left-Periphery. Lingua 116, 836-873.

Féry, Caroline and Vieri Samek-Lodovici. 2006. Focus Projection and Prosodic Prominence in Nested Foci. Language, Vol. 82, N. 1.

Samek-Lodovici, Vieri. 2005. Prosody Syntax Interaction in the Expression of Focus. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 23, 687-755.

Samek-Lodovici, Vieri. 2003. The Internal Structure of Arguments. Evidence from Complex Predicate Formation in Italian. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 21, 835-881.

Samek-Lodovici, Vieri and Alan Prince. 2002. Fundamental Properties of Harmonic Bounding. Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science, RuCCS-TR-71. 34pp.

Samek-Lodovici, Vieri. 2002. Agreement Impoverishment under Subject Inversion - A Crosslinguistic Analysis. In Gisbert Fanselow, Caroline Féry (eds.). Resolving Conflicts in Grammar. Linguistiche Berichte Sonderheft 11:49-82.

Samek-Lodovici, Vieri. 2001. Crosslinguistic Typologies in OT. In Géraldine Legendre, Jane Grimshaw and Sten Vikner (eds.), Optimality Theoretic Syntax. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. 315-354.

Samek-Lodovici, Vieri and Alan Prince. 1999. Optima. Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science, RuCCS-TR-57. 58pp.

Grimshaw, Jane and Vieri Samek-Lodovici. 1998. Optimal subjects and Subject Universals. In Pilar Barbosa et al. (eds.), Is the Best Good Enough? MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. 193-219.

Samek-Lodovici, Vieri. 1998. OT-interactions between Focus and Canonical Word Order: Deriving the Crosslinguistic Typology of Structural Contrastive Focus. Ms. University College London. 31pp.

Samek-Lodovici, Vieri. 1996. Constraints on Subjects: An Optimality Theoretic Analysis. Ph.D. Dissertation. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. 237pp.

Grimshaw, Jane, and Vieri Samek-Lodovici. 1995. Optimal Subjects. In Jill Beckman, Laura Walsh-Dickey, Suzanne Urbanczyj (eds.), University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers 18, 589-606.

Samek-Lodovici, Vieri. 1992. A Unified Analysis of Crosslinguistic Morphological Gemination. Proceedings of CONSOLE 1. Utrecht, 265-283.

 

 

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Last revised 20 August 2007