Membres

Línies d’investigació / Research interests

Syntax-semantics interface; Functional categories; Definiteness; Romance Languages.

Publicacions recents / Recent publications

2026
Moskvina, Natalia, Raquel Montero, Masaya Yoshida, Ferdy Hubers, Paolo Morosi, Walid Irhaymi, Jin Yan, Tamara Serrano, Elena Pagliarini, Fritz Günther & Evelina Leivada. (2026) Multilingual large language models do not comprehend all natural languages to equal degrees. Sci Rep (2026).

Elliot Murphy, Paolo Morosi, Evelina Leivada & Andrew Nevins. 2026. Machine yearning: LLMs do not capture formal linguistic structure and obscure neuroscientific inquiry. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 49: e217.

Pantelidou, Nikoleta, Evelina Leivada, Raquel Montero, Paolo Morosi. 2026. Community size rather than grammatical complexity better predicts Large Language Model accuracy in a novel Wug Test. PLoS One 21(3): e0343164. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0343164.

2025
Morosi, Paolo. 2025.Numberless indefinite definites in Italian: Structure and meaning. RLLT 26, eds. Pilar Barbosa, Cristina Flores, Esther Rinke, Eva-Maria Roessler. Special Issue of Isogloss. Open Journal of Romance Linguistics11(7)/10, 1–35. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/isogloss.566

Comunicacions / Presentations

2026
Paolo Morosi. Assessing the pragmatic knowledge of Large Language Models under the light of the Decontextualization Bias. Invited talk at the Dimension of Bias in Language Models: Linguistic, Cognitive and Social Symposium at the 2026 APS Annual Convention, Barcelona, Spain, 28-30 May.

Paolo Morosi, Nikoleta Pantelidou, Elena Pagliarini & Evelina Leivada. Large Language Models are not pragmatic agents: Evidence from conditionals.51st Incontro di Grammatica Generativa (IGG51), University of Udine, Udine, Italy, 12-14 February. [poster]

Paolo Morosi. Form–meaning mismatches in the expression of (in)definiteness in Italian. Early career invited talk at the Symposium on Empirical Approaches to Meaning and Structure (SEAMS), University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus, 21-23 November.

2025

The syntax and semantics of Italian numberless indefinite definites. (Amb M.Teresa Espinal). 50th Incontro di Grammatica Generativa (IGG50). 19 de febrer 2025 – 21 de febrer 2025. Pàdua: Università degli studi di Padova. Pòster.

2024

On Italian non-definite definites: an indefinite account. (Amb M.Teresa Espinal). 49th Incontro di Grammatica Generativa (IGG49). 21 de febrer 2024 – 23 de febrer 2024. Pavia: University School for Advanced Studies IUSS. Presentació oral.

On the non-expletiveness of the Italian indefinite definite article. Workshop: Functional Categories, Dimensions of Meaning, and Expletiveness. 12 de juny 2024 – 14 de juny 2024. Barcelona: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Presentació oral.

Numberless indefinite definites in Italian: Structure and meaning. Going Romance 2024 (GoRo2024). 4 de desembre 2024 – 6 de desembre 2024. Braga: Universidade do Minho. Presentació oral.

2023

Representativity: Plural definite DPs as singular group-denoting expressions. 48th Incontro di Grammatica Generativa (IGG48). 16 de febrer 2023 – 18 de febrer 2023. Firenze: Università degli studi di Firenze. Pòster.

Di+art nominals in light of choice functions. (Amb M.Teresa Espinal). 32nd Colloquium on Generative Grammar (CGG32). 24 d’abril 2023 – 26 d’abril 2023. Vitoria-Gesteiz: Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU). Presentació oral.

On Italian di+art nominals. Cross-linguistic and cross-categorial explorations. (Amb M.Teresa Espinal). 53rd Linguistic symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL53). 26 de juny 2023 – 30 de juny 2023. París: Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientals (INALCO). Presentació oral.

On the non-definite interpretations of Italian definites. Workshop: The Interpretation of Functional Categories II (INTERCATII). 21 de setembre 2023 – 22 de setembre 2023. Barcelona: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Presentació oral.

On Italian indefinite definites. Workshop: Issues in the Syntax and Semantics of Definiteness. 8 de desembre 2023 – 9 de desembre 2023. Bucharest: University of Bucharest. Presentació oral.

2022
Di+art, Specificity and Islandhood. IGG47 – 47o Incontro di Grammatica Generativa. 24 de febrer 2022 – 26 de febrer 2022. Università degli studi di Catania. Pòster.

Italian di+art Nominals, Specificity and Telicity. 31st Colloquium on Generative Grammar. 1 de juny 2022 – 3 de juny 2022. Universitat de les Illes Balears. Pòster.

Representative interpretations of plural definite DPs. 18th Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Phonology (WoSSP). 20 d’octubre 2022 – 21 d’octubre 2022. Barcelona: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Presentació oral.

Treball final de màster / Master’s Thesis

On Chomskian Biolinguistics: Recurrent Dichotomies and a New Hybridized Conception of Language.