Francesco Romano
List of John Benjamins publications in which Francesco Romano is involved.
Articles
2025 The acquisition of object drop and island sensitivity in L2 Spanish by German speakers Journal of Second Language Studies 8:1, pp. 24–57 | Article
This paper investigates German speakers of L2 Spanish and assesses their knowledge of (un)interpretable features linked to object drop in Spanish. Object drop involves an interpretable feature (i.e. definiteness) and uninterpretable features abiding by syntactic constraints leading to subjacency… read more
2024 Number feature within generative grammar and its acquisition Epistemological issue: The importance of features and exponents: Dissolving Feature Reassembly, Flores, Cristina and Neal Snape (eds.), pp. 63–68 | Commentary
L1 proximity and syntactic complexity in L2 Italian acquisition: Evidence from Clitic Pronouns Journal of Second Language Studies: Online-First Articles | Article
Studies on second language acquisition suggest that clitic pronouns are challenging syntactic elements for L2ers to acquire. This study examines the acquisition of Italian accusative clitics by Spanish and Swedish L2ers. Extending Romano’s (2020) research on Swedish speakers, it employs an oral… read more