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Citations
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World Ranking
1944
National Ranking
17

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2007 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Luigi Rizzi is affiliated with the University of Siena in Italy and contributes to research in both Medicine and Arts and Humanities. Their work spans several subfields including Language and Linguistics, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Physiology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, and Philosophy.

Their primary research interests encompass topics such as Syntax, Semantics, and Linguistic Variation; Sarcoidosis and Beryllium Toxicity Research; Linguistics and Discourse Analysis; Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis; Language Development and Disorders; Historical Linguistics and Language Studies; and Reading and Literacy Development.

Recent publications by Luigi Rizzi include:

  • "Sarcoidosis and autoimmunity: In the depth of a complex relationship", 2022, Frontiers in Medicine
  • "Chitotriosidase: a biomarker of activity and severity in patients with sarcoidosis", 2020, Respiratory Research
  • "Growing trees: The acquisition of the left periphery", 2021, Glossa a journal of general linguistics
  • "Morphosyntactic weaknesses in Developmental Language Disorder: the role of structure and agreement configurations", 2020, Journal of Child Language
  • "Contemporary lipid-lowering management and risk of cardiovascular events in homozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia: insights from the Italian LIPIGEN Registry", 2024, European Journal of Preventive Cardiology

Luigi Rizzi has also published books through Collège de France eBooks, including "Complexité des structures linguistiques, simplicité des mécanismes du langage" (2021) and "Complexity of Linguistic Structures, Simplicity of Language Mechanisms" (2024).

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Patrizia Suppressa
  • Paolo Cameli
  • Laura Bergantini
  • Miriana d'Alessandro
  • Piersante Sestini

Common publication venues for Luigi Rizzi's research are:

  • Respiratory Research
  • Glossa a journal of general linguistics
  • PubMed
  • Internal and Emergency Medicine
  • Frontiers in Medicine

Luigi Rizzi has been recognized with several distinctions, including being named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017 and membership in the Academia Europaea since 2007.

Best Publications

  • The Fine Structure of the Left Periphery

    Luigi Rizzi

  • Issues in Italian syntax

    Luigi Rizzi

  • Psych-verbs and Th-theory

    Adriana Belletti;Luigi Rizzi

  • Null objects in Italian and the theory of 'pro'

    Luigi Rizzi

  • Locality and Left Periphery

    Luigi Rizzi

  • The Cartography of Syntactic Structures

    Guglielmo Cinque;Luigi Rizzi

  • Some Notes on Linguistic Theory and Language Development: The Case of Root Infinitives

    Luigi Rizzi

  • On the Form of Chains: Criterial Positions and ECP Effects.

    Luigi Rizzi

  • Relativized relatives: Types of intervention in the acquisition of A-bar dependencies

    Naama Friedmann;Adriana Belletti;Luigi Rizzi

  • On the Status of Subject Clitics in Romance

    Luigi Rizzi

  • Early Null Subjects and Root Null Subjects

    Luigi Rizzi

  • Strategies of Subject Extraction

    Luigi Rizzi;Ur Shlonsky

  • The Syntax of ne: Some Theoretical Implications

    Adriana Belletti;Luigi Rizzi

  • Complex Inversion in French

    Luigi Rizzi;Ian Roberts

  • Agreement and movement: a syntactic analysis of attraction.

    Julie Franck;Glenda Lassi;Ulrich Hans frauenfelder;Luigi Rizzi;Luigi Rizzi

  • Relativized Minimality Effects

    Luigi Rizzi

  • A minimalist theory of A-movement and control

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  • Does gender make a difference? Comparing the effect of gender on children's comprehension of relative clauses in Hebrew and Italian

    Adriana Belletti;N. Friedmann;Dominique Pierina Brunato;Luigi Rizzi

  • Functional Categories and Syntactic Theory

    Luigi Rizzi;Guglielmo Cinque

  • The structure of CP and IP

    Luigi Rizzi

  • Left Periphery of the Clause: Primarily Illustrated for Italian

    Luigi Rizzi;Giuliano Bocci

  • On the Acquisition of Subject and Object Clitics in French

    Cornelia Hamann;Luigi Rizzi;Ulrich Frauenfelder

Frequent Co-Authors

Naama Friedmann
Naama Friedmann Tel Aviv University
Manuel Carreiras
Manuel Carreiras Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language
Nicola Molinaro
Nicola Molinaro Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language
Ian Roberts
Ian Roberts University of Cambridge
Christophe Pallier
Christophe Pallier Grenoble Alpes University
Stanislas Dehaene
Stanislas Dehaene Collège de France
Jean-Marie Annoni
Jean-Marie Annoni University of Fribourg
Liliane Haegeman
Liliane Haegeman Ghent University
Christoph M. Michel
Christoph M. Michel University of Geneva

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