Alice SUOZZI

After graduating cum laude in Italianistics, European Literary Cultures and Linguistic Sciences (LM-14 - MODERN PHILOLOGY) at the University of Bologna in 2019, I obtained, in 2024, my PhD degree in Modern Languages, Cultures and Societies and Language Sciences (Curriculum: Language Sciences) from the Department of Comparative Linguistic and Cultural Studies at Ca' Foscari University Venice, and, since 2024, I have been a research fellow at the same department. During the last year of my PhD I spent a nine-month period at the Université de Genève, where I obtained the Certificat de Spécialisation en Linguistique, with a mémoire on language acquisition.

My doctoral project focused on the Instrument thematic role in Italian and its acquisition by typically developing Italian-speaking children, while the project I am currently working on (i.e., PRIN project Computational and Linguistic bEnchmarks for the study of VErb argument structuRe (CLEVER)), regards the semantic-syntax interface and, in particular, argument structures of verbs.

Between 2020 and 2024, I worked as a teaching assistant for various courses: General Linguistics 1 (a.y. 2022/2023), and 2 (a.y. 2020/2021 and 2023/2024), and Linguistics for Deafness and Language Impairments (a.y. 2021/2022).

Conferences and seminars (organization): 

2020–Present: Series of dissemination seminars (six editions): Inclubembo, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

Nov. 2024: Conference: La retorica oggi: comunicazione, formazione, società, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

Oct. 2024: Conference: Gender-inclusive language in a Multilingual Europe: between institutional policies, their applications and AI-related developments, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. 

Sept. 2022: Doctoral Conference (sixth edition): Lingue: mura o ponti? Il conflitto linguistico tra identità, comunità e potere, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

July 2022: Conference: SyntOp 2022 - Syntactic Optionality in Italian, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
 

Conferences:

Dec. 2023: NOCroDeP 2023 - Null Objects from a Crosslinguistic and Developmental Perspective (Frankfurt). Suozzi, A. and Cardinaletti, A., Syntactic Optionality of Instruments in Italian: an instance of argument omission.

Nov. 2023: GoingRomance 2023 (Njimegen). Suozzi, A., Cardinaletti, A. and Durrleman, S., The Acquisition of Instruments in Italian and the Syntactic Bootstrapping Hypothesis.

Sept. 2023: LVI Congresso internazionale della Società di Linguistica Italiana (Turin). Suozzi, A., Dall’Igna, F. and Lebani, G. E., Modelli linguistici pre-addestrati nell’interfaccia sintassi-semantica: il caso dello Strumento in italiano.

June 2023: 53rd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL-53) (Paris). Suozzi, A. and Cardinaletti, A., Word- or root-derived? A semantic test for instrument denominal verbs in Italian.

May 2023: Giornate CLASTA (Communication and Language Acquisition Studies in Typical and Atypical Populations) - XIII Edizione (Pescara). Suozzi, A. and Cardinaletti, A., L’acquisizione tardiva dello Strumento in italiano.

Oct. 2022: XLVI Convegno della Società Italiana di Glottologia (Cagliari). Suozzi, A., Cardinaletti, A. and Lebani, G. E., Lo STRUMENTO: tre tipi per un’unica categoria. Studio di semantica lessicale sull’italiano.

Sept. 2022: 16th Cambridge Italian Dialect Syntax-Morphology Meeting (CIDSM-16) (Naples). Suozzi, A. and Cardinaletti, A., The Instrument-Subject alternation in the dialect of Reggio Emilia.

July 2022: Syntactic Optionality in ltalian - SyntOp 2022 (Venice). Suozzi, A. and Mantovan, L., A comparative analysis of instruments in spoken and sign languages: challenges for interpretation between optionality and obligatoriness. 

July 2022: Syntactic Optionality in ltalian - SyntOp 2022 (Venice). Suozzi, A., Instruments in Italian: accounting for their syntactic optionality.

April 2022: Zadar Linguistic Forum 2022 (Zadar). Suozzi, A., Cardinaletti, A. and Lebani, G. E., On the argument status of Instruments in Italian: an experimental study and a corpus analysis.

Sept. 2021: LIV Congresso internazionale SLI "Corpora e studi linguistici" - workshop "Le patologie del linguaggio: studi e risorse tra crossdisciplinarità e interdisciplinarità". (Online). Suozzi, A., Gagliardi, G., I pronomi clitici e la diagnosi del Disturbo del Linguaggio in età evolutiva: sull’utilizzo del clitico ci.

May 2021: Giornate CLASTA (Communication and Language Acquisition Studies in Typical and Atypical Populations) - XI Edizione (Online). Suozzi, A., Gagliardi, G., L’acquisizione del clitico ’ci’ nei bambini a sviluppo tipico in età prescolare: dati preliminari.

Sept. 2020: Conference on Computational Linguistics - CLiC-it 2020 (Online). Gagliardi, G., Gregori, L., Suozzi, A., L’impatto emotivo della comunicazione istituzionale durante la pandemia di COVID-19: uno studio di Twitter Sentiment Analysis.

Invited Talks

May 2023: Title of the talk: Sull’opzionalità sintattica dello Strumento in italiano. Studio sperimentale e analisi di corpora, Suozzi, A. Inviting Institution: University of Zürich. Series of lectures: Prospettive di ricerca in linguistica (storica) italiana.

Febr. 2023: Title of the talk: First part: Acquisizione tipica e atipica della morfosintassi in italiano (e come studiarla); Second part: Acquisizione tipica dello Strumento in italiano (e come studiarla), Suozzi, A. Inviting Institution: University of Bologna, First Level Master in Clinical Linguistics.

July 2022: Title of the talk: The expression of instrument in Italian and in LIS: a comparative analysis between different languages and modalities, Mantovan, L., Suozzi, A. Inviting Institution: University of Milano-Bicocca. Series of lectures: Bicocca Language Seminars