Contact information
E-mail fdelgobb@uci.edu
Website http://www.socsci.uci.edu/~fdelgobb/home.html Work Address Department of Linguistics
University of California, Irvine
3151 Social Science Plaza Irvine CA 92697-5100
Citizenship Italian, permanent resident of the United States of America
Academic Positions
University of California, Irvine (2008-present)
Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Development Lab Lecturer and Researcher
University of California, Los Angeles (Spring 2010,
Department of Linguistics Fall 2006)
Lecturer, Adjunct Professor
California Institute of Technology (Spring 2009)
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences Lecturer
University of Southern California (2007)
Department of East Asian Languages Visiting Scholar
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy (2003-2007)
Department of Studies on East Asia Visiting Assistant Professor
Education
University of California, Irvine Ph.D. in Linguistics (Winter 2003)
Ph.D. Dissertation: “Appositives at the Interface”. Advisor: C.-T. James Huang
Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, Italy
B.A., M.A. in Eastern Languages and Literatures, graduated Summa cum Laude (1996). Masters’ thesis: “A Study of Nominal Phrases in Mandarin Chinese”.
Research interests
- Syntax, Semantics, Discourse and their interfaces - Language Acquisition
- Comparative Linguistics (Romance and Asian Languages)
- Relative clauses (restrictives vs. appositives), DP-structure, Sentence-final particles, Left Periphery (Topic and Focus), and Secondary Predication
Awards
University of California, Irvine
Professional Development Award, 2008
MIUR (Italian Department of University and Research), “Brain-Gain” program
Research Fellowship for the project entitled “Chinese relative clauses and their interpretation”, 09/03-12/07
Teaching Fellowship for courses on Chinese grammar and Chinese linguistics, 09/03-12/07 Harvard University
Visiting Fellowship, 09/01-06/02
University of California, Irvine, School of Social Sciences Dissertation Fellowship, 04/02-06/02
University of California, Irvine, School of Social Sciences Summer Fellowship 2002, 2001, 2000
University of California, Irvine, School of Social Sciences Teaching Assistantship, 04/98-06/01, 09/02-03/03 University of California, Irvine
Education Abroad Program Fellowship, 09/97-02/98 Beijing University of Languages and Culture
Scholarship from Italian Department of Foreign Affairs, 09/93-07/94
Publications (peer-reviewed)
(under revision for Journal of East Asian Linguistics) “On Chinese Appositive Relative Clauses”. Ms., UCI.
with L. Badan (to appear, 2010) “On the Syntax of Topic and Focus in Chinese”, in P. Benincà and N. Munaro (eds.) Mapping the Left Periphery, Oxford University Press.
(2007c) “On the Syntax and Semantics of Appositive Relative Clauses”, in N. Dehè and Y. Kavalova, (eds.) Parentheticals. Linguistik aktuell/Linguistics today series 106, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 173-201.
Conference Proceedings and Working Papers
with A. Boaretto (2007a) “La frase relativa in cinese moderno” (Relative clauses in Modern Chinese), in L. De Giorgi and G. Samarani, (eds.) Percorsi della civiltà cinese fra passato e presente. Atti del X Convegno dell’Associazione Italiana Studi Cinesi. Venezia: Cafoscarina, 37-63.
(2007b) “A Comparison between Japanese and Chinese Relative Clauses”, in University of Venice Working Papers in Linguistics 17, 177-197.
(2005a) “Chinese Relative Clauses: Restrictive, Descriptive or Appositive?”, in Laura Brugè, Giuliana Giusti, Nicola Munaro, Walter Schweikert and Giuseppina Turano (eds.)
Contributions tothe XXX Incontro di Grammatica Generativa. Venezia: Cafoscarina, 287-305.
(2005b) “Sintassi e semantica delle frasi relative in cinese” (Syntax and Semantics of Chinese Relative Clauses), in M. Scarpari and T. Lippiello (eds.) Cher Maître… Scritti in onore di Lionello Lanciotti per l’ottantesimo compleanno. Venezia: Cafoscarina, 473-490.
with L. Badan (2005c) “Forme grammaticali in alcune varietà cinesi urbane” (Grammatical Forms in some Urban Chinese Dialects), in Gianna Marcato (ed.) Dialetti in città, Circolo dei dialettologi di Sappada/Plodn, Padova: Unipress, 365-370.
(2004) “On Prenominal Relative Clauses and Appositive Adjectives”, in B. Schmeiser, V. Chand, A. Kelleher and A. Rodriguez (eds.) WCCFL 23 Proceedings. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press, 182-194.
(2003) “Appositives and Quantification,” in E. Kaiser and S. Arunachalam (eds.) Proceedings of the 26th Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium. Vol. 9.1. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, 73-88.
(2002a) “Appositives and Chinese Relative Clauses,” in M. Andronis, E. Debenport, A. Pycha and K. Yoshimura (eds.) CLS 38: The Main Session. Papers from the 38th Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. Vol. 1. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society, 175-190.
(2001a) “Appositives Schmappositives in Chinese”, in M. Irie and H. Ono (eds.) UCI Working Papers in Linguistics 7, 1-25.
(2001b) “An OT account of the distribution of articles in Italian”, in W. Cowles, L. Godson, a. Hickl, A. Munoz, P. Neddu, T. O’ Bryan and H. Tonomura (eds.) Proceedings of SWOT 5, University of California, San Diego, 1-18.
(1999a) “Chinese Nominal Phrases: Functional vs. Lexical [e]”, in B. He and W. Hu (eds.) Proceedings of the 11th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Cambridge, MA.
(1999b) “Nominal Phrases in Mandarin and Cantonese”, in F. Del Gobbo and H. Hoshi (eds.) UCI Working Papers in Linguistics 5, 11-32.
Books
(in preparation). Grammatica del Cinese Mandarino (A Grammar of Mandarin Chinese - tentative title). Milano: FrancoAngeli Edizioni.
Manuscripts
(in preparation). On a Typology of Appositive Relative Clauses. Ms., UCI.
with L. Badan (in preparation). On the lian-dou focus costruction in Mandarin Chinese and its implication for a cartographic approach to the Left Periphery – tentativetitle. Ms., UCI and Leiden University.
(2006). “On the Interpretation of Chinese Relative Clauses”, Ms., Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.
Published reviews
(2002) “XXVIII Incontro di Grammatica Generativa”, Glot International Conference Reports 6-07/2.
Invited Talks
(2009). On Indefiniteness and Secondary Predication. International Association of Chinese Linguistics-17th, Paris.
(2008). “On Chinese Appositive Relative Clauses”, National Taiwan Normal University and Fu Jen University, Taipei.
(2008). “Chinese and Italian Relative Clauses compared”, Fu Jen University, Taipei.
with C. Poletto (2008). “Sentential Particles: Italian Dialects and Mandarin Chinese compared”, Fu Jen University, Taipei.
(2007) “On Chinese Appositive Relative Clauses”, CUNY Syntax Supper Talks, Graduate Center, CUNY, New York.
(2007) “Bilingualism: Challenges and Rewards – A Case Study”, Guest Lecture, Terri Griffith’s The Acquisition of Language, UC Irvine.
(2006) “On Chinese Appositive Relative Clauses”, The Annual Conference of the English Department, University of Bucharest, Romania.
with A. Boaretto (2004) “Sul ruolo del contesto nella lingua cinese” (On the role of context in Chinese), Il linguaggio delle differenze e l'unità nel dialogo - Giornata di studio, Università di Macerata, Italy.
with B. Tranel (2001) “On the Allomorphic Distribution of Italian Definite Determiners: Theoretical implications”, USC Phon Lunch, USC.
Conference Presentations
(2010) “On Secondary Predication and Specificity in Mandarin Chinese”, Linguistic Society of America 84th Annual Meeting, Baltimore; International Association of Chinese Linguistics
and North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics, Harvard, Cambridge; 12th International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taipei. with C. Poletto (2010) “On sentential particles: A cross-linguistic study”, Linguistic Society
of America 84th Annual Meeting, Baltimore.
(2009-2008) “More appositives in Heaven and Earth than are dreamt of in your Linguistics”, WECOL, UC Davis and Linguistic Society of America 83rd Annual Meeting, San Francisco. with C. Poletto (2009-2008) “A Typology of Sentential Particles”, XIV Giornata di Dialettologia,
University of Padua, Italy and Incontro di Grammatica Generativa XXXV, University of Siena, Italy.
(2008-2007) “On Chinese Appositive Relative Clauses”, 11th International Symposium on
Chinese Languages and Linguistics, Jiao Tong University, Xinzhu, Taiwan; 15th
International Association of Chinese Linguistics/ 19th North American Conference on
Chinese Linguistics Joint Conference, Columbia University, New York.
with L. Badan (2007) “On the Left Periphery of Chinese”, 15th Internationa Association Chinese
Linguistics/ 19th North American Conference Chinese Linguistics Joint Conference, Columbia University, New York.
with L. Badan (2007) “On the Syntax of Topic and Focus in Chinese”, Linguistic Society of America81st Annual Meeting, Anaheim.
with L. Badan, L. (2006) “On the Syntax of Topic and Focus in Chinese”, 1st Workshop on
Chinese Linguistics, Chicago University; WECOL, CSU Fresno; Paris Meeting on East Asian Linguistics, Centre de Recherches Linguistiques sur l’Asie Orientale, Paris, France.
with L. Badan (2005) “Topic and Focus in Chinese: A Preliminary Study”, Journées d'Etudes: La Périphérie Gauche de la Phrase, Structure et Functions, Fédération Typologie et Universaux Linguistiques-CNRS, Paris, France.
with A. Boaretto, A. (2005) “La relativa in cinese moderno” (Relative clauses in Modern Chinese), X Convegno AISC ‘Percorsi della civiltá cinese fra passato e presente’, Ca' Foscari University, Venice, Italy.
with L. Badan (2004) “Forme grammaticali in alcune varietà cinesi urbane” (Grammatical Forms in some Urban Chinese Dialects), Convegno Internazionale di Studi ‘Dialetti in città’, Circolo dei dialettologi di Sappada, Sappada/Plodn (BL), Italy.
(2004) “On Chinese Relative Clauses and the Restrictive vs. Descriptive Distinction”, The 27th
Georgetown University, Washington DC.
(2004) “On Prenominal Relative Clauses and Appositive Adjectives (II)”, XXX Incontro di Grammatica Generativa, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, Italy.
(2003-2002) “On the Interpretation of Prenominal Relative Clauses”, The 3rd Conference of the
European Association of Chinese Linguistics, The University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium; Linguistic Society of America77th Annual Meeting, Atlanta; WECOL 2002, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada and The31st Annual Meeting of the Linguistic
Associationof the Southwest, California State University, Los Angeles.
(2002) “Appositives and Chinese Relative Clauses”, The 38th Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics
Society, University of Chicago.
(2002) “Appositives and Quantification”, XXVIIIIncontro di Grammatica Generativa, University of Lecce, Italy.
(2001) “Appositives Schmappositives in Mandarin Chinese”, XXVIIIncontro di Grammatica Generativa, University of Trieste, Italy.
with B. Tranel (2000) “An OT account of the allomorphic distribution of Italian articles”, Girona International Summer School in Linguistics 2000, Girona, Spain.
(1999) “On Chinese Nominal Phrases: Interpretation and Distribution”, 8th International
Association of Chinese Linguistics Annual Conference, University of Melbourne, Australia.
Professional experience
Research experienceUC Irvine, Department of Cognitive Sciences, Cognitive Development Lab. 2009-current Researcher, research project on the Development of Relative Clauses.
Currently developing protocols, running pilot experiments with adults and supervising three undergraduate research assistants.
Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, Italy, Department of East Asian Studies. 2003 – 2007. Visiting Assistant Professor, research project on Relative Clauses in Chinese and their Interpretation.
UC Irvine, Department of Linguistics. Summer 1999.
Research Assistant to Prof. C.-T. James Huang, research project on Long-Distance Anaphora. Teaching experience
University of California, Los Angeles
Lecturer, Syntactic Typology and Universals. Spring 2010. University of California, Irvine
Introduction to Linguistics. Summer Session I 2008.
Introduction to Phonology, Discovering Language. Spring 2008. Introduction to Linguistics, Semantics. Winter 2008.
California Institute of Technology
Lecturer, Introduction to Linguistics. Spring 2009. Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, Italy
Visiting Assistant Professor, Introduction to the Linguistics of East Asian Languages, F07 Introduction to Chinese Linguistics, Fall 2007
Chinese Grammar, Fall 2007. University of California, Irvine
Lecturer, Introduction to Syntax. Summer 2007. Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, Italy
Visiting Assistant Professor, Introduction to the Study of Language. Spring 2007. (Graduate course)
University of California, Los Angeles
Adjunct Professor, Introduction to the Study of Language. Fall 2006. Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, Italy
Visiting Assistant Professor, Chinese Grammar. Spring 2006.
Introduction to Chinese Linguistics. Spring 2006. Chinese Grammar. Spring 2005.
Chinese Grammar. Spring 2004.
Introduction to Chinese Linguistics. Spring 2004. (Graduate course)
PhD Thesis advisor, 2003-2007: Tommaso Pellin. MA Thesis advisor, Fall 2004: Irene D’Odorico.
MA Thesis advisor, Spring 2004: Marta Donazzan, Valeria Incoletti, Ileana Pieretti. University of California, Irvine
Lecturer, Introduction to Syntax. Summer 2003. Structure of Chinese. Spring 2003.
Teaching Associate, Introduction to Linguistics. Summer 2002.
Introduction to Syntax. Summer 2001 (with Naomi Harada). Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Phonology. Winter 2003, Fall 2002, Fall 1999.
Introduction to Linguistics. Spring 2001, Fall 2000, Spring 1999, Winter 1999, Fall 1998, Spring 1998.
Acquisition of Language. Spring 2000.
Introduction to Syntax. Winter 2001, Winter 2000.
Other activities
Reviewer for Language and Cognitive Processes, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Journal of East Asian Linguistics, Lingua, The Linguistic Review and Concentric: Studies in Linguistics.
Student Representative, Fall 2002.
Colloquia coordinator, Fall 1998-Spring 2000.
Editor for the UCI Working Papers in Linguistics volumes 5 and 6, Summer, Fall 1999, 2000. Webmaster, Fall 2000-Spring 2001.
