Valentina Bianchi
Biographic Data
| ID | 239538 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Valentina Bianchi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Valentina |
| FAMILY NAME | Bianchi |
| SIGNATURE | BIANCHI V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Siena |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4441-063X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 83 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Secrecy in Everyday Life
Secrecy is common, yet we know little about how it plays out in daily life. Most existing research on secrecy is based on methods involving retrospection over long periods of time, failing to capture secrecy “in the wild.” Filling this gap, we conducted two studies using intensive longitudinal designs to present the first picture of secrecy in everyday life. We investigated momentary contextual factors and individual differences as predictors of …
Why do feelings persist over time in daily life? Investigating the role of emotion-regulation strategies in the process underlying emotional inertia
Emotions do not simply turn on and off again in an instant; rather, emotions rise and fall gradually, often persisting for a considerable period. Although it is normative for emotions to show a degree of momentum-a phenomenon known as emotional inertia -the tendency for emotions to be overly persistent has been associated with psychological maladjustment. However, the mechanisms underlying emotional inertia remain unclear. We aimed to fill this g…
Dynamics of Social Experiences in the Context of Extended Lockdown
Social interaction and loneliness have received much research interest. However, the direction of their relationship is unclear—does social interaction shape loneliness, or does loneliness shape willingness to interact? We explored dynamics of these social experiences under exceptional circumstances: COVID-19 lockdowns, which were necessary for public health but impacted people’s social lives. We investigated the relationship between social inter…
Uncertainty moderates the emotional consequences of reappraisal, social sharing, and rumination in daily life
People must often wait for important but uncertain outcomes, like medical results or job offers. During such uncertain waiting periods , there is uncertainty around an outcome that people have minimal control over. Uncertainty makes these periods emotionally challenging, raising the possibility that emotion regulation strategies may have different effects while people wait for an uncertain outcome versus after they learn that outcome. To test thi…
Regulating emotions about secrets
Secrecy is common and psychologically costly. Research shows that secrets have high emotional stakes, but no research has directly tested how people regulate their emotions about secrets. To fill this gap, we conducted an experimental study (Study 1), then moved to studying secrecy "in the wild" to capture regulatory processes as they unfold in everyday life (Studies 2 and 3). In Study 1 ( N = 498), people reported using different strategies to r…
Cooperativity Markers in the Left Periphery. Evidence from Sicilian and from Lombard Italian
This paper investigates two Italo-Romance discourse particles, which we analyze as ‘cooperativity markers’, conveying the conventional implicature that a future action to be accomplished by the speaker fulfills a set of maximal preferences that they share with the addressee; by means of this implicature, the speaker conveys that they intend their action to be cooperative. We show that clauses introduced by these particles share core syntactic and…
Building trees, building bridges
Article Building trees, building bridges: compositionality in inquisitive semantics and syntactic cartography was published on June 1, 2023 in the journal Theoretical Linguistics (volume 49, issue 1-2)
The Syntactic Encoding of Conventional Implicatures in Sicilian Polar Questions
This paper describes and analyses two discourse particles that are found in polar questions and in some declarative structures in central Sicilian. The analysis adopts an interface approach, relying on the cartographic framework. It is proposed that each particle conveys in all its uses one and the same conventional implicature, relating to the epistemic state of one of the discourse participants. The interaction of the two particles with left-pe…
Variation at the Syntax–Pragmatics Interface
This paper focuses on the microvariation concerning the distribution and functions of certain interrogative discourse particles found in several central and southern Italian dialects. These particles show many similarities in terms of both their morphological shapes (being homophonous to the wh-phrase corresponding to English ‘what’) and their syntactic distribution within the sentence, in that they all occur at the beginning of polar questions. …
Focus in wh-questions
This paper addresses two long-standing issues concerning focus: first, the question of whether the focal interpretation is directly read off the prosodic structure of a sentence, or it is rather mediated by a [focus] feature encoded in the syntactic representation; second, whether interrogative wh -phrases are inherently endowed with a [focus] feature. We provide evidence from two prosodic experiments on direct wh -questions in Italian, showing t…
Paul Nougé
Écrivain singulier, Paul Nougé compose une oeuvre s'étendant sur deux paliers : d'une part, sa création poétique, de l'autre, une importante oeuvre théorique. Il s'y ingénie, par un subtil travail de déconstruction et de décalage, à exprimer les différences qui le séparent de ses confrères surréalistes français, à réaliser des « objets bouleversants », à « défendre » les images d'un grand ami (René Magritte), à réfléchir sur la création poétique …
Spelling Out Focus-Fronting Chains andWh-Chains
This article tackles the optionality of focus fronting in Italian in terms of alternative spellout of the highest or lowest link of a movement chain. The two options are equally optimal in that the highest link satisfies Scope Transparency while the lowest link, bearing [focus] and attracting the nuclear pitch accent, satisfies Rightmostness; on the other hand, spellout of intermediate chain links satisfies neither principle, and it is therefore …
Complementizer Deletion
This chapter reviews the phenomenology of complementizer‐deletion and the approaches that have emerged in successive phases of the generative framework, focusing mainly on English, and distinguishing two subtypes: (i) optional C‐deletion in embedded declarative clauses, and (ii) “Doubly Filled Comp” (DFC) effects in clauses hosting a wh ‐phrase in CP, where the appearance or omission of the local complementizer is subject to diachronic and cross‐…
Focus fronting, unexpectedness, and evaluative implicatures
This paper discusses the fronting of a focal constituent to a clause-initial position which, in various languages, is associated with an import of unexpectedness. We provide prosodic and syntactic evidence from Italian showing that this phenomenon has distinctive grammatical properties with respect to other instances of "focus fronting". We argue that the fronted constituent bears narrow focus, and that the unexpectedness import conveys that the …
The derivation and interpretation of polar questions with a fronted focus
Subject Islands, Reconstruction, and the Flow of the Computation
Recent research has highlighted a remarkable variability in subject island effects. Focusing on intransitive verbs and adjectives, we argue that islandhood is determined at the syntax-semantics interface: subjects qualify as islands when they are interpreted outside the predicative nucleus of the clause, in a categorical LF structure ( Ladusaw 1994 ); they are transparent for extraction when they undergo total reconstruction into the predicative …
On the syntax of personal arguments
Tense, aspect and syntax
This review is devoted to the bulk of Giorgi and Pianesi's (1997) proposal for the (morpho-) syntax and semantics of tense and aspect, presented in chapters 1-4 of their book. The authors investigate the cross-linguistic variation in the semantics of various tense forms (Present, Imperfect, Present Perfect) and claim that it can be directly linked to their morphosyntactic properties, expressed in terms of an explicit theory of functional features…
The Raising Analysis of Relative Clauses
Borsley (1997) criticizes the raising analysis of relative clauses revived by Kayne (1994) in the framework of antisymmetry theory. Most of his remarks concern the analysis of English headed relative clauses. This article presents a revised version of Kayne's proposal that provides an answer to these criticisms. It is argued that the raising approach is indeed tenable and that the analysis of this empirical domain is fully consistent with the res…
Consequences of Antisymmetry
Questo volume presenta un'analisi delle frasi relative restrittive e appositive in italiano e in inglese, con riferimento al latino, all'italiano antico e all'inglese medio. L'analisi è sviluppata nel quadro della sintassi generativa.
On the syntax of personal arguments
The Raising Analysis of Relative Clauses
Borsley (1997) criticizes the raising analysis of relative clauses revived by Kayne (1994) in the framework of antisymmetry theory. Most of his remarks concern the analysis of English headed relative clauses. This article presents a revised version of Kayne's proposal that provides an answer to these criticisms. It is argued that the raising approach is indeed tenable and that the analysis of this empirical domain is fully consistent with the res…
Focus fronting, unexpectedness, and evaluative implicatures
This paper discusses the fronting of a focal constituent to a clause-initial position which, in various languages, is associated with an import of unexpectedness. We provide prosodic and syntactic evidence from Italian showing that this phenomenon has distinctive grammatical properties with respect to other instances of "focus fronting". We argue that the fronted constituent bears narrow focus, and that the unexpectedness import conveys that the …
Subject Islands, Reconstruction, and the Flow of the Computation
Recent research has highlighted a remarkable variability in subject island effects. Focusing on intransitive verbs and adjectives, we argue that islandhood is determined at the syntax-semantics interface: subjects qualify as islands when they are interpreted outside the predicative nucleus of the clause, in a categorical LF structure ( Ladusaw 1994 ); they are transparent for extraction when they undergo total reconstruction into the predicative …
The derivation and interpretation of polar questions with a fronted focus
Focus in wh-questions
This paper addresses two long-standing issues concerning focus: first, the question of whether the focal interpretation is directly read off the prosodic structure of a sentence, or it is rather mediated by a [focus] feature encoded in the syntactic representation; second, whether interrogative wh -phrases are inherently endowed with a [focus] feature. We provide evidence from two prosodic experiments on direct wh -questions in Italian, showing t…
Spelling Out Focus-Fronting Chains andWh-Chains
This article tackles the optionality of focus fronting in Italian in terms of alternative spellout of the highest or lowest link of a movement chain. The two options are equally optimal in that the highest link satisfies Scope Transparency while the lowest link, bearing [focus] and attracting the nuclear pitch accent, satisfies Rightmostness; on the other hand, spellout of intermediate chain links satisfies neither principle, and it is therefore …
Variation at the Syntax–Pragmatics Interface
This paper focuses on the microvariation concerning the distribution and functions of certain interrogative discourse particles found in several central and southern Italian dialects. These particles show many similarities in terms of both their morphological shapes (being homophonous to the wh-phrase corresponding to English ‘what’) and their syntactic distribution within the sentence, in that they all occur at the beginning of polar questions. …
Consequences of Antisymmetry
Questo volume presenta un'analisi delle frasi relative restrittive e appositive in italiano e in inglese, con riferimento al latino, all'italiano antico e all'inglese medio. L'analisi è sviluppata nel quadro della sintassi generativa.
The Raising Analysis of Relative Clauses
Borsley (1997) criticizes the raising analysis of relative clauses revived by Kayne (1994) in the framework of antisymmetry theory. Most of his remarks concern the analysis of English headed relative clauses. This article presents a revised version of Kayne's proposal that provides an answer to these criticisms. It is argued that the raising approach is indeed tenable and that the analysis of this empirical domain is fully consistent with the res…
Tense, aspect and syntax
This review is devoted to the bulk of Giorgi and Pianesi's (1997) proposal for the (morpho-) syntax and semantics of tense and aspect, presented in chapters 1-4 of their book. The authors investigate the cross-linguistic variation in the semantics of various tense forms (Present, Imperfect, Present Perfect) and claim that it can be directly linked to their morphosyntactic properties, expressed in terms of an explicit theory of functional features…
On the syntax of personal arguments
Subject Islands, Reconstruction, and the Flow of the Computation
Recent research has highlighted a remarkable variability in subject island effects. Focusing on intransitive verbs and adjectives, we argue that islandhood is determined at the syntax-semantics interface: subjects qualify as islands when they are interpreted outside the predicative nucleus of the clause, in a categorical LF structure ( Ladusaw 1994 ); they are transparent for extraction when they undergo total reconstruction into the predicative …
Focus fronting, unexpectedness, and evaluative implicatures
This paper discusses the fronting of a focal constituent to a clause-initial position which, in various languages, is associated with an import of unexpectedness. We provide prosodic and syntactic evidence from Italian showing that this phenomenon has distinctive grammatical properties with respect to other instances of "focus fronting". We argue that the fronted constituent bears narrow focus, and that the unexpectedness import conveys that the …
The derivation and interpretation of polar questions with a fronted focus
Complementizer Deletion
This chapter reviews the phenomenology of complementizer‐deletion and the approaches that have emerged in successive phases of the generative framework, focusing mainly on English, and distinguishing two subtypes: (i) optional C‐deletion in embedded declarative clauses, and (ii) “Doubly Filled Comp” (DFC) effects in clauses hosting a wh ‐phrase in CP, where the appearance or omission of the local complementizer is subject to diachronic and cross‐…
Spelling Out Focus-Fronting Chains andWh-Chains
This article tackles the optionality of focus fronting in Italian in terms of alternative spellout of the highest or lowest link of a movement chain. The two options are equally optimal in that the highest link satisfies Scope Transparency while the lowest link, bearing [focus] and attracting the nuclear pitch accent, satisfies Rightmostness; on the other hand, spellout of intermediate chain links satisfies neither principle, and it is therefore …
Paul Nougé
Écrivain singulier, Paul Nougé compose une oeuvre s'étendant sur deux paliers : d'une part, sa création poétique, de l'autre, une importante oeuvre théorique. Il s'y ingénie, par un subtil travail de déconstruction et de décalage, à exprimer les différences qui le séparent de ses confrères surréalistes français, à réaliser des « objets bouleversants », à « défendre » les images d'un grand ami (René Magritte), à réfléchir sur la création poétique …
Focus in wh-questions
This paper addresses two long-standing issues concerning focus: first, the question of whether the focal interpretation is directly read off the prosodic structure of a sentence, or it is rather mediated by a [focus] feature encoded in the syntactic representation; second, whether interrogative wh -phrases are inherently endowed with a [focus] feature. We provide evidence from two prosodic experiments on direct wh -questions in Italian, showing t…
The Syntactic Encoding of Conventional Implicatures in Sicilian Polar Questions
This paper describes and analyses two discourse particles that are found in polar questions and in some declarative structures in central Sicilian. The analysis adopts an interface approach, relying on the cartographic framework. It is proposed that each particle conveys in all its uses one and the same conventional implicature, relating to the epistemic state of one of the discourse participants. The interaction of the two particles with left-pe…
Variation at the Syntax–Pragmatics Interface
This paper focuses on the microvariation concerning the distribution and functions of certain interrogative discourse particles found in several central and southern Italian dialects. These particles show many similarities in terms of both their morphological shapes (being homophonous to the wh-phrase corresponding to English ‘what’) and their syntactic distribution within the sentence, in that they all occur at the beginning of polar questions. …
Cooperativity Markers in the Left Periphery. Evidence from Sicilian and from Lombard Italian
This paper investigates two Italo-Romance discourse particles, which we analyze as ‘cooperativity markers’, conveying the conventional implicature that a future action to be accomplished by the speaker fulfills a set of maximal preferences that they share with the addressee; by means of this implicature, the speaker conveys that they intend their action to be cooperative. We show that clauses introduced by these particles share core syntactic and…
Building trees, building bridges
Article Building trees, building bridges: compositionality in inquisitive semantics and syntactic cartography was published on June 1, 2023 in the journal Theoretical Linguistics (volume 49, issue 1-2)
Dynamics of Social Experiences in the Context of Extended Lockdown
Social interaction and loneliness have received much research interest. However, the direction of their relationship is unclear—does social interaction shape loneliness, or does loneliness shape willingness to interact? We explored dynamics of these social experiences under exceptional circumstances: COVID-19 lockdowns, which were necessary for public health but impacted people’s social lives. We investigated the relationship between social inter…
Uncertainty moderates the emotional consequences of reappraisal, social sharing, and rumination in daily life
People must often wait for important but uncertain outcomes, like medical results or job offers. During such uncertain waiting periods , there is uncertainty around an outcome that people have minimal control over. Uncertainty makes these periods emotionally challenging, raising the possibility that emotion regulation strategies may have different effects while people wait for an uncertain outcome versus after they learn that outcome. To test thi…
Regulating emotions about secrets
Secrecy is common and psychologically costly. Research shows that secrets have high emotional stakes, but no research has directly tested how people regulate their emotions about secrets. To fill this gap, we conducted an experimental study (Study 1), then moved to studying secrecy "in the wild" to capture regulatory processes as they unfold in everyday life (Studies 2 and 3). In Study 1 ( N = 498), people reported using different strategies to r…
Secrecy in Everyday Life
Secrecy is common, yet we know little about how it plays out in daily life. Most existing research on secrecy is based on methods involving retrospection over long periods of time, failing to capture secrecy “in the wild.” Filling this gap, we conducted two studies using intensive longitudinal designs to present the first picture of secrecy in everyday life. We investigated momentary contextual factors and individual differences as predictors of …
Why do feelings persist over time in daily life? Investigating the role of emotion-regulation strategies in the process underlying emotional inertia
Emotions do not simply turn on and off again in an instant; rather, emotions rise and fall gradually, often persisting for a considerable period. Although it is normative for emotions to show a degree of momentum-a phenomenon known as emotional inertia -the tendency for emotions to be overly persistent has been associated with psychological maladjustment. However, the mechanisms underlying emotional inertia remain unclear. We aimed to fill this g…
Computer Science (14 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (14 works) · Linguistics (12 works) · Philosophy (12 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Natural language processing (6 works) · Syntax (6 works) · Implicature (5 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (5 works) · Physics (5 works)