publications 🗞️

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Dissertation



  1. Locality: a case study from Äiwoo
    Giovanni Roversi
    MIT, 2025

Journal articles



  1. Possession and Syntactic Categories: An Argument from Äiwoo
    Giovanni Roversi
    Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 43, 385-420, 2024
  2. An agent-first preference in a patient-first language during sentence comprehension
    Sebastian SauppeÅshild NæssGiovanni Roversi, and 3 more authors
    Cognitive Science 47, 1-36, 2023
  3. Jespersen in the Reef Islands: Single vs Bipartite Negation in Äiwoo
    Giovanni Roversi, and Åshild Næss
    Oceanic Linguistics 58, 324–352, 2019

Proceedings articles



  1. “Non-local A-movement” is predicted to exist, and it does
    Giovanni Roversi
    In Proceedings of WCCFL 43, , to appear
  2. Syntactic vs. Morphological Verbal Concord across Austronesian
    Yvette Yi-Chi WuTamisha L. Tan, and Giovanni Roversi
    In Proceedings of TripleAFLA 29, 104–118, 2023
  3. How to Satisfy Probes: Person/Number Hierarchy Effects in Äiwoo
    Giovanni Roversi
    In Proceedings of NELS 50, vol. 3, 99–112, 2020
  4. Dislocation types in Emilian
    Giovanni Roversi
    In Proceedings of ConSOLE 26, 172–187, 2018

Older stuff



  1. The Morphosyntactic Structure of the Äiwoo Verb
    Giovanni Roversi
    MA thesis; University of Oslo, 2019