Publications

Papers

Zorzi, G., Raanes, E., Urdal, G.H.S., Mesch, J. (2026). Depiction beyond hand touch in an interpreter-mediated setting using Tactile Norwegian Sign Language. Lingue dei segni e sordità, 10: 119-134. Edizioni Ca’ Foscari. http://doi.org/10.30687/979-12-5742-007-9/008

Quer, Josep & Giorgia Zorzi. (2025). Content questions in context: wh-syntax and pragmatics in Catalan Sign Language. RGG, 47(09), 1–15. Lingbuzz Press. https://lingbuzz.com/j/rgg/2025/2025.09

Zorzi, G., Busto, R., Barberà, G., Navarrete-González, A. & Quer, J. (2025). Choice of classifier
handshape in Catalan Sign Language: A corpus study. Open Linguistics, 11(1), 20250051.
https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2025-0051

Quer, J., and Zorzi, G. (2025). Cleft wh-questions as a type of non-canonical questions in Catalan Sign Language (LSC). In Gonçalves Morgado, C. M., Brito, A. M. B. de ., Mineiro, A., Costa, J. A., Moita, M., & Gomes Teixeira Anachoreta, V. (2025). Portuguese Sign Language and other sign languages: Studies on morphosyntax, semantics and lexicon. https://doi.org/10.21747/978-989-%209193-50-5/pora2

Zorzi, G., Urdal, G.H.S., Raanes, E. (2025). New insights on depiction in Tactile Norwegian
Sign Language interpreting. Lingua 316:103887. 10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103887

Zorzi, G., Aristodemo, V., Giustolisi, B., Hauser, C., Donati, C., and Cecchetto, C. (2023). Assessing Lexical and Syntactic Comprehension in Deaf Signing Adults. The Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 28(4), 373–386. https://doi.org/10.1093/deafed/enad022

Zorzi, G., Giustolisi, B., Aristodemo, V., Cecchetto, C., Hauser, C., Quer, J., Sánchez Amat, J., and
Donati, C. (2022). On the reliability of the notion of native signer and its risks. Frontiers in
Psychology
, 13:716554. https://doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.716554

Aristodemo, V., Giustolisi, B., Zorzi, G., Gras, D., Hauser, C., Sala, R., Sánchez Amat, J., Donati,
C., and Cecchetto, C. (2022). On the nature of role shift: insights from a comprehension study in different populations of LIS, LSC and LSF signers. Natural Language & Linguistic
Theory
, 41, 459–500. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11049-022-09539-0

Blunier, D., and Zorzi, G. (2021). Catalan Sign Language ellipsis, role shift, and the QUD. FEAST – Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign language Theory 4, 25-37. https://doi.org/10.31009/FEAST.i4.03

Hauser, C., Zorzi, G., Aristodemo, V., Giustolisi, B., Gras, D., Sala, R., Sánchez Amat, J., Cecchetto, C., and Donati, C. (2021). Asymmetries in relative clause comprehension in three European sign languages. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 6(1), 72. 1–36. https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.1454

Zorzi, G. (2020). Coordinació conjuntiva, disjuntiva i adversativa en llengua de signes catalana
(LSC). Dossier: “Darrers avenços en la recerca sobre la llengua de signes catalana (LSC) / Recent advances in research on Catalan Sign Language (LSC)”. Revista d’Estudis Catalans / Zeitschrift für Katalanistik, 34, 79-109. https://doi.org/10.46586/ZfK.2021.79-109

Zorzi, G. (2019). Coordination and gapping in Catalan Sign Language. Sign Language & Linguistics, 22(1), 140-149. https://doi.org/10.1075/sll.00031.zor

Zorzi, G. (2018). Coordination in Catalan Sign Language: a syntactic account for conjunction.
FEAST 2, 132-142. https://doi.org/10.31009/FEAST.i2.11

Zorzi, G. (2018). Gapping vs VP-ellipsis in Catalan Sign Language. FEAST 1, 70-81. https://doi.org/10.2436/20.8050.03.7

Book chapters

Zorzi, G. (2020). Lexicon: 3.9. Conjunctions. In Quer, Josep and Gemma Barberà (eds.), A
Grammar of Catalan Sign Language (LSC)
. 1st ed. (SIGN-HUB Sign Language Grammar Series).
(https://thesignhub.eu/)

Zorzi, G. (2020). Syntax: 2.5. Clausal ellipsis. In Quer, Josep and Gemma Barberà (eds.), A
Grammar of Catalan Sign Language (LSC)
. 1st ed. (SIGN-HUB Sign Language Grammar Series).
(https://thesignhub.eu/)

Zorzi, G. (2020). Syntax: 3.1. Coordination of clauses. In Quer, Josep and Gemma Barberà (eds.), A
Grammar of Catalan Sign Language (LSC)
. 1st ed. (SIGN-HUB Sign Language Grammar Series).
(https://thesignhub.eu/)

Veiga Busto, R. and Zorzi, G. (2020.) Syntax: 4.4. Quantifiers. In Quer, Josep and Gemma Barberà
(eds.), A
Grammar of Catalan Sign Language (LSC)
. 1st ed. (SIGN-HUB Sign Language Grammar
Series). (https://thesignhub.eu/)

Zorzi, G. (2020). Syntax: 4.5. Adjectives. In Quer, Josep and Gemma Barberà (eds.), A
Grammar of Catalan Sign Language (LSC)
. 1st ed. (SIGN-HUB Sign Language Grammar Series).
(https://thesignhub.eu/)

Manuscripts

Zorzi, G. (2018). Coordination and gapping in Catalan Sign Language (LSC). Dissertation. Universitat
Pompeu Fabra (UPF). http://hdl.handle.net/10803/665045