Luogo e data di nascita

• Piacenza, 17-07-1954

Studi

• Ph.D. in Linguistica, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1989
  • Dissertazione: The Language of Propositions and Events
  • Committee: Barbara Hall Partee (chair), Angelika Kratzer, Emmon Bach, David Pesetsky and Edmund Gettier III.
• M.A. in Filosofia, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1985
• Laurea in Filosofia, 110 e lode, Università degli Studi di Milano, 1979

Esperienza di insegnamento e ricerca

• Professore ordinario, Università degli Studi di Milano, 2011-oggi
• Professore straordinario, Università degli Studi di Milano, 2008-11
• Professore associato, Università degli Studi di Milano, 2002-08
• Professore associato, Università degli Studi di Salerno, 1998-02
• Assistant Professor, Cornell University, 1997-98
• Visiting Assistant Professor, Cornell University, 1994-95
• Assistant Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (joint appointment al Dipartimento di Linguistica e al Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology), 1992-94
• Acting Assistant Professor, Stanford University, 1991-92
• Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Rochester, 1990-91
• Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Rochester, 1989-90
• Scientific Researcher, Universität Stuttgart, Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung, 1988-89

Corsi a contratto e scuole estive

• "Context Shift in Sign Language", ESSLLI, the 17th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information at Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh, Scotland, 2005
• "Lingua dei Segni e Teoria Linguistica", Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 2005
• "Lingua dei Segni e Teoria Linguistica", Università degli Studi di Venezia (Ca' Foscari), 2002-05
• "The Theories of Presupposition", Summer Institute of the Linguistic Society of America, 1997

Area di ricerca

Pubblicazioni

Libri

• Bonomi, A. and Zucchi, A. (2001). Tempo e linguaggio. Bruno Mondadori Editore, Milano
• Zucchi, A. (1993). The language of propositions and events. Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy. Kluwer, Dordrecht

Articoli in riviste

• Cecchetto, C., Geraci, C., and Zucchi, A. (2009). "Another way to mark syntactic dependencies: The case for right-peripheral specifiers in sign languages". Language, 85(2):278-320.
• Zucchi, A. (2009). "Along the time line: Tense and time adverbs in Italian Sign Language". Natural Language Semantics, 17(2):99-139.
• Cecchetto, C., Geraci, C., and Zucchi, A. (2006). "Strategies of relativization in Italian Sign Language". Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 24(4):945-975.
• Zucchi, A. and White, M. (2001). "Twigs, sequences and the temporal constitution of predicates". Linguistics and Philosophy, 24(2):223-270.
• Zucchi, A. (1999). "Incomplete events, intensionality and imperfective aspect". Natural Language Semantics, 7:179-215.
• Zucchi, A. (1995). "The ingredients of definiteness and the definiteness effect". Natural Language Semantics, 3:33-78.

Articoli in volumi

• Zucchi, A., Neidle, C., Geraci, C., Duffy, Q., and Cecchetto, C. (2010). "Functional markers in sign languages: the case of FATTO and FINISH". In Brentari, D., editor, Sign Languages: A Cambridge Language Survey, pages 197-224. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
• Zucchi, A. (2005). "The present mode". In Carlson, G. N. and Pelletier, F. J., editors, Reference and quantification: the Partee effect, pages 1-28. CSLI Publications, Stanford.
• Zucchi, S. (2001). "Tense in fiction". In Cecchetto, C., Chierchia, G., and Guasti, M. T., editors, Semantic interfaces: Reference, anaphora and aspect, pages 320-356. CSLI Publications, Stanford.
• Zucchi, A. (1998). "Aspect shift". In Rothstein, S., editor, Events and grammar, Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, pages 349-370. Kluwer, Dordrecht.

Articoli in atti di convegni

• Geraci, C., Cecchetto, C., and Zucchi, A. (2008). "Sentential complementation in Italian Sign Language". In Grosvald, M. and Soares, D., editors, Proceedings of the thirty-eighth Western Conference On Linguistics (WECOL), volume 19, pages 46-58. Department of Linguistics, California State University, Fresno.
• Zucchi, A. and White, M. (1996). "Twigs, sequences and the temporal constitution of predicates". In Galloway, T. and Spence, J., editors, Proceedings from Semantics and Linguistic Theory VI.
• Zucchi, A. (1995). "Aspect shift, quantity implicatures and extra-linguistic context". In Proceedings of the conference `Langues et grammaire', Université Paris 8.
• Poesio, M. and Zucchi, A. (1992). "On telescoping". In Barker, C. and Dowty, D., editors, Proceedings from Semantics and Linguistic Theory II.
• Zucchi, A. (1992). "Existential sentences and predication". In Dekker, P. and Stokhof, M., editors, Proceedings of the Eighth Amsterdam Colloquium.
• Zucchi, A. (1991). "Negation and aspect". In Proceedings of the Seventh Eastern States Conference on Linguistics (ESCOL).
• Zucchi, A. (1990). "The propositional interpretation of Noun Phrases". In Stokhof, M. and Torenvliet, L., editors, Proceedings of the Seventh Amsterdam Colloquium.
• Zucchi, A. (1989). "On the syntactic and semantic status of the by-phrase and the of-phrase". In Carter, J. and Dechaine, R.-M., editors, Proceedings of the North Eastern Linguistic Society (NELS), 19.

Interventi a convegni (invited speaker)

• 10th Sinn und Bedeutung Conference, Humboldt University, Berlino. Titolo dell'intervento: "Monsters in the visual mode", 2005
• Fourteenth Amsterdam Colloquium, Università di Amsterdam. Titolo dell'intervento: "The semantics of FATTO: a case of grammaticalization", 2003
• Going Romance, Università di Groningen. Titolo dell'intervento: "Tense, time, and adverbs in Italian and LIS", 2002
• Tavola rotonda internazionale The Syntax of Tense and Aspect, Université Paris VII. Titolo dell'intervento: "The present mode", 2000

Altre attività accademiche

      Referee per le riviste Natural Language Semantics, Linguistics and Philosophy, e Language
      Membro dell'Editorial Board della Rivista di Linguistica dal 1999 al 2004