Presentations

Invited talks

Zorzi, G. (2023). Workshop at LinG Conversations. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Germany). 19-21 April, 2023.

Blunier, D. and Zorzi, G. (2020) ‘Ellipsis, indexicals and role shift in Catalan Sign Language: the role of QUD’. GLiF seminar, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. October 29, 2020.

Navarrete-González, A. and Zorzi, G. (2019) ‘The role of contrast in coordination and subordination in Catalan Sign Language’. University of the Basque Country / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea. Vitoria-Gasteiz (Spain). May 13, 2019.

Zorzi, G. (2019) ‘Gapping in Catalan Sign Language (LSC)’. CLT Seminar, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Barcelona (Spain). January 11, 2019.

Zorzi, G. (2018) ‘Coordination and Gapping in Catalan Sign Language’. CreteLing Summer School workshop “Sign language grammars through the formal and experimental glass”. University of Crete, Rethymnon. July 25, 2018.

Sánchez Amat, J. and Zorzi, G. (2017) ‘SIGN-HUB: Online Sign Language Assessment Tools’. Workshop on Assessing Sign Language in clinical and classroom environment: learning from experience exchange, Istituto Statale per Sordi di Roma, Rome (Italy). Novemeber 9-11, 2017.

Plenary talks

Navarrete-González, A. and Zorzi, G. (2024). ‘Marking sentence types in Catalan Sign Language: coordination and subordination’. Workshop on Clause-type marking in the visual modality at the 46th Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS). February 28 – March 01, 2024. Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. 

Zorzi, G., Saltnes Urdal, G. H., Raanes, E., Mesch, J. (2023). ‘Use of haptic communication by interpreters in tactile Norwegian Sign Language’. Hapticconf 2023: Conference on Social-Haptic Communication. September 4-5, 2023. Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy.

Quer, J. and Zorzi G. (2023). ‘Subject and object wh-questions with two animate arguments in Catalan Sign Language (LSC)’. Workshop on Interrogatives and Imperatives in the Visual Modality. University of Amsterdam. May 16-17, 2023

Zorzi, G., Saltnes Urdal, G. H., Raanes, E., Mesch, J. (2023). ‘The use of depiction when interpreting to tactile Norwegian Sign Language’. Norwegian research conference on signed languages and deaf communities. Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Trondheim, Norway. February 6-7, 2023.

Zorzi, G., Giustolisi, B., Aristodemo, V., Hauser, C., Donati, C. and Cecchetto, C. (2022). ‘Sign language assessment in deaf adults in clinical settings and the role of age of exposure’. 31st Colloquium on Generative Grammar – Workshop on Language acquisition in typical and atypical populations, Palma de Mallorca. June 1-3, 2022. Abstract

Blunier, D. and Zorzi, G. (2021) ‘Catalan Sign Language ellipsis, role shift, and the QUD’. FEAST 2021HK. June 1-4, 2021. Presentation

Blunier, D. & Zorzi, G. (2020) ‘The role of QUD in ellipsis and role shift in Catalan Sign Language’. Graz QUD workshop – QUDs and exhaustivity: experiments, computation, and theory. September 25-26, 2020.

Giustolisi, B., Aristodemo, V., Donati, C., Zorzi, G., Sánchez Amat, J., Gras, D., Hauser, C., Sala, R., Cecchetto, C. (2020). ‘Age of acquisition matters. Effects of age of first sign language exposure in role-shift processing in three different sign languages (LIS, LSC and LSF)’. FEAST 2020. June 23-25, 2020. Presentation.

Hauser, C., Zorzi, G., Aristodemo, V., Giustolisi, B., Gras, D., Sala, R., Sánchez Amat, J., Cecchetto, C., Donati, C. (2020). ‘The effect of age of acquisition in relative clauses across sign languages’. FEAST 2020. June 23-25, 2020. Presentation.

Zorzi, G. (2019) ‘Strict reading in stripping under Role-Shift in Catalan Sign Language’. ReSSP. Olot (Spain). October 10-13, 2019.

Zorzi, G., and Sánchez Amat, J. (2019) ‘La comprensione delle domande wh “chi” e “quale” nella Lingua dei Segni Catalana’. Workshop VaLiVoLiS. Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Venice (Italy). October 10-11.

Sánchez Amat, J., and Zorzi, G. (2019) ‘Validazione degli stimoli nelle prove lessicali di valutazione del progetto SIGN-HUB per la Lingua dei Segni Catalana e per la Lingua dei Segni Spagnola’. Workshop VaLiVoLiS. Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Venice (Italy). October 10-11.

Navarrete-González, A. and Zorzi, G. (2018) ‘Coordination vs subordination: Marking contrast in Catalan Sign Language’. RALFe 2018 – Rencontres d’Automne de Linguistique Formelle. CNRS – UPS Pouchet, Paris (France). December 6-7, 2018.

Giustolisi B., Checchetto, A., Zorzi, G., Cecchetto, C. (2018) ‘La batteria Sign-Hub per la valutazione della Lingua dei Segni Italiana’. IV Convegno Nazionale LIS. ENS, Rome (Italy). November 9-11, 2018.

Zorzi, G., Sánchez Amat, J., Giustolisi, B. (2018) ‘Minimal pairs as phonological distractors in a comprehension task in sign languages’. Linguistics Beyond and Within 2018 (LingBaw). John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin. October 18–19, 2018.

Zorzi, G. (2018) ‘φ-features mismatch in gapping in Catalan Sign Language’. Workshop on form-meaning-mismatches in natural language (FMM2018). University of Göttingen. August 3-4, 2018.

Zorzi, G. (2018) ‘Coordination in Catalan Sign Language: CoP’. GLiF seminar. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. June 21, 2018.

Zorzi, G. (2017) ‘Head-final languages gapping forward: right- branching coordination across modalities’. Colloque de Syntaxe et sémantique à Paris (CSSP). École Normale Supérieure, Paris (France). November 23-25, 2017. 

Zorzi, G. (2017) ‘φ-features mismatch in gapping in Catalan Sign Language (LSC)’. SIGGRAM workshop. Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea. Vitoria-Gasteiz (Spain). October 5-6, 2017.

Zorzi, G. (2017) ‘Gapping vs VP-ellipsis in Catalan Sign Language (LSC)’. Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign Language Theory (FEAST). University of Island, Reykjavik. June 21-22, 2017.

Zorzi, G. (2017) ‘Gapping and VP-ellipsis in Catalan Sign Language (LSC)’. UR-Ling workshop. Universitat Pompeu Fabra. June 15, 2017.

Zorzi, G. (2017) ‘Gapping in Catalan Sign Language (LSC): like VP-ellipsis?’. Incontro di Grammatica Generativa (IGG43), Pavia (Italy). February 16-17, 2017.

Zorzi, G. (2016) ‘Prosody of gapping in LSC’. SIGGRAM workshop. Universidad de Alcalá (Spain). April 7-8, 2016.

Zorzi, G. (2015) ‘Asyndetic coordination in LSC: conjunction and disjunction’. UR-Ling workshop. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Spain). June 15, 2015.

Zorzi, G. & Geraci, C. (2013) ‘MovImperatives and imperatives in LSF’. COST Workshop on imperatives in SL. Istanbul, Turkey.

Poster presentations

Navarrete-González, A. and Zorzi, G. (2022) ‘Contrastive coordination and subordination in Catalan Sign Language’. 31st Colloquium on Generative Grammar, Palma de Mallorca. June 1-3, 2022. AbstractPoster

Zorzi, G. & Blunier, D. (2020) ‘Indexicals under ellipsis and role-shift in Catalan Sign Language’. 46th Incontro di Grammatica Generativa (IGG46), Siena (Italy). February 25-27, 2021.

Annucci, C., Hauser, C., Sánchez Amat, J., Aristodemo, V., Zorzi, G., Giustolisi, B., Gras, D., Cecchetto, C., Donati, C. (2020) Assessing lexical competences in  European sign languages. FEAST 2020. June 23-25, 2020.

Zorzi, G. (2019) ‘The use of  TOO in gapping in Catalan Sign Language’. TISLR, Hamburg (Germany). September 26-28, 2019.

Zorzi, G., Sánchez Amat, J., Giustolisi, B. (2019) ‘Testing similarity to confirm the use of minimal pairs and phonologically related signs as phonological distractors in a comprehension task’. TISLR, Hamburg (Germany). September 26-28, 2019.

Zorzi, G. (2019) ‘ALSO vs TOO in gapping in Catalan Sign Language’. Incontro di Grammatica Generativa (IGG45), Padova (Italy). February 21-23, 2019.

Zorzi, G., Sánchez Amat, J., Giustolisi, B. (2018) ‘Minimal pairs and phonologically related signs as phonological distractors in a comprehension task’. Sign Language Acquisition and Assessment (SLAAC). Haifa, Israel. November 19-21, 2018.

Zorzi, G. (2018) ‘Coordination in Catalan Sign Language: CoP’. FEAST 2018. Venice (Italy). June 18-20, 2018.

Zorzi, G. (2018) ‘Identity in meaning in gapping: mismatch in manner adverb incorporation’. CGG28. Tarragona (Spain). May 31-June 1, 2018.

Zorzi, G. (2018) ‘Mismatch in gapping: φ-features in Catalan Sign Language’. Glow 41 Sign Language Workshop. Budapest, Hungary. April 14, 2018.

Zorzi, G. (2018) ‘Mind the gap: gapping vs VP-ellipsis in Catalan Sign Language (LSC)’. LOT Summer School poster session. Leiden (The Netherlands). June 26, 2017.