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Andrea Calabrese (1992), Some Remarks on Focus and Logical Structure in Italian, in S. Kuno & H. Thráinsson, (eds.), Harvard Working Papers in Linguistics , 1, pp. 91-127 (pdf)
Andrea Calabrese (1993), Sentential Complementation in a Language without Infinitival Clauses: The Case of Salentino, in A. Belletti, (ed.), Syntactic Theory and the Dialects of Italy , Torino: Rosenberg & Selliers, pp. 28-98. (pdf)
Andrea Calabrese (1994), “Sievers’ Law in Gothic: a Synchronic Analysis and Some Speculations on its Historical Development”, in The Linguistic Review , 11, pp. 149-194. (pdf)
Cristina Romani & Andrea Calabrese (1998), Syllabic Constraints in the Phonological Errors of an Aphasic Patient, in Brain and language, 64, pp.83-121. (pdf)
Andrea Calabrese (1998), Some remarks on the Latin case system and its development in Romance, in J. Lema & E. Trevino, (eds.), Theoretical Advances on Romance Languages, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 71-126.(pdf)
Andrea Calabrese & Morris Halle (1998), Grimm’s and Verner’s Law: A new perspective, in C. Melchert, J. Jasanof and L. Oliver (eds.), Mir Curad. A Festschrift in honor of Calvert Watkins , pp. 47-62. (pdf)
Andrea Calabrese (1999), Metaphony Revisited, in Rivista di Linguistica , 11, pp. 7-69 (pdf)
Andrea Calabrese (1999), Sievers’ Law in Vedic, in H. van der Hulst and N. A. Ritter, (eds.), The Syllable: View and Facts , Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 673-751. (pdf)
Andrea Calabrese (2002), On Impoverishment and Fission in the verbal morphology of the dialect of Livinallongo, in Christina Tortora (ed.) Studies on Italian Dialects, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.3-33.(pdf)
Andrea Calabrese (2005), On the Feature [ATR] and the Evolution of the Short High Vowels of Latin into Romance, in A View from Arjona. University of Connecticut Working Papers in Linguistics , Vol. 13, pp. 33-78. (pdf)
Andrea Calabrese (2005), Markedness and Economy in a Derivational Model of Phonology, De Gruyter-Mouton. (prepubblication draft)
Andrea Calabrese & Samuel Jay Keyser (2005), On the peripatetic behavior of aspiration in Sanskrit roots, in Eric Bakovic, Junko Ito, John McCarthy, (eds.), Wondering at the natural Fecundity of Things: Essays in Honoro of Alan Prince , BookSurge, 71-94. (pdf)
Andrea Calabrese (2008), On Absolute and Contextual Syncretism. Remarks on the Structure of Paradigms and on how to derive it, in Andrew Nevins & Asef Bachrach (eds.), The bases of Inflectional Identity , Oxford University Press, 156-205. (pdf)
Andrea Calabrese (2009), Cluster syllabification, Gemination and Syllabic Repairs in Sanskrit, in Rajat Mohanty and Mythili Menon (eds.) Universals and Variation, Hyderabad, 2009. (pdf)
Andrea Calabrese & Maling (2009), Ne-cliticization and auziliary selection: agentivity effects in Italian, ms., University of Connecticut. (pdf)
Andrea, Calabrese (2009), Perception, Production and Acoustic Inputs in Loanword Phonology, in Andrea Calabrese & Leo Wetzels (eds.), Studies in Loan Phonology , Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 59-115(pdf)
Andrea Calabrese (2011), Investigations on Markedeness, Syncretism and Zero Exponence in Morphology, in Morphology 21.2, 283-325. (pdf)
Andrea Calabrese (2011), Metaphony in Romance, in C. Ewen, M. & Oostendorp, B. Hume, (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to Phonology , Wiley-Blackwell. (pdf)
Andrea Calabrese (2012), Auditory representations and phonological illusions: A linguist’s perspective on the neuropsychological bases of speech perception, in Journal of Neurolinguistics, 25, pp. 355-381. (pdf)
Andrea Calabrese (2013), Allomorphy in the Italian Passato Remoto: A Distributed Morphology Analysis, in Language and Information Society , Language and Information Institute, Sogang University, Korea, pp.1-75. (pdf)
Sandra Miglietta, Mirko Grimaldi & Andrea Calabrese (2013), Conditioned allophony in speech perception: An ERP study, in Brain & Language , 126, 285-290. (pdf)
Zhanna Guslan & Andrea Calabrese (forthcoming), Context Sensitive Unaccusativity in Russian and Italian, in Proceedings of West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 31 (WCCFL 31) , Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. (pdf)
Andrea Calabrese & Diego Pescarini (to appear), Clitic metathesis in the Friulian dialect of Forni, in Probus, 27. (pdf)
Andrea Calabrese (2015) Irregular Morphology and Athematic Verbs in Italo-Romance. Isogloss. A Journal on Variation of Romance and Iberian languages.(pdf)
Andrea Calabrese (2016) “On the morphophonology of Metaphonic Alternations in Altamurano. Francesc Torres-Tamarit, Kathrin Linke and Marc van Oostendorp (eds.) Approaches to Metaphony in the Languages of Italy. De Gruyter Mouton (pdf)
Mirko Grimaldi, Sandra Miglietta and Andrea Calabrese (2016) “On integrating different methodologies in phonological research: acoustic, articolatory, behavioral and neurophysiological evidence in the study of a metaphony system” Francesc Torres- Tamarit, Kathrin Linke and Marc van Oostendorp (eds.) Approaches to Metaphony in the Languages of Italy (pdf)
Andrea Calabrese.(2019) Morpho-Phonological Investigations:A Theory of PF. From Syntax to Phonology in Sanskrit and Italian Verbal Systems. Working Materials for a Future Book (if it will ever be completed). Offered here as they were written in draft form, with typos, mistakes, warts and other imperfections, as food for thoughts. (pdf)
Andrea Calabrese (2020). Remarks on the role of the perfect participle in Italian morphology and on its history. In Ian Roberts and Adam Ledgeway (eds.) Probus, Special issue on Romance Historical Linguistics. (pdf)
Roberto Petrosino and Andrea Calabrese, Palatalization in Romance. (pdf)
Andrea Calabrese. (2021) Latin verbal morphology and the diachronic development of its thematic and athematic constructions. (pdf)
Andrea Calabrese.(2021) The morphosyntax of progressive and andative forms in the Campiota vernacular: the synthetic behavior of restructuring roots. (pdf)
Andrea Calabrese (2021) Sic itur ad astra/Cosi’si ascende alle stelle: On the Latin passive morpheme /-r/ and its morphosyntactic similarity with Romance SI. (pdf)
Andrea Calabrese. (Forthcoming) Historical notes on the rise of constraint-and-repair approaches. In Elan Dresher and Harry van der Hulst (Eds.), Oxford History of Phonology.(pdf)