Raffaella Zanuttini

• Syntax
• Linguistic variation

Raffaella Zanuttini
Born	(1960-10-31) October 31, 1960 (age 65)
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Pennsylvania
Thesis	Syntactic properties of sentential negation. A comparative study of Romance languages (1991)
Institutions	Yale University Georgetown University

Raffaella Zanuttini is an Italian linguist whose research focuses primarily on syntax and linguistic variation. She is a Professor of Linguistics at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. ^[1]

Education and career

Zanuttini completed her Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania in 1991 ^[2] under Anthony Kroch and Richard S. Kayne, with a dissertation entitled Syntactic Properties of Sentential Negation. A Comparative Study of Romance Languages. ^[3] Zanuttini was first an Assistant Professor (1992–1997) and then an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Georgetown University Prior to beginning her tenure at Yale in 2008. ^[3] Zanuttini is a Professor of Linguistics and Chair of the Department of Linguistics at Yale University. ^[4]

Research

She is the author and coauthor of six books and has published numerous articles on micro-syntactic variation, clause types, and sentential negation. ^[5]

The majority of Zanuttini's research falls into three categories: micro-syntactic variation, clause types, and sentential negation. ^[6] Micro-syntactic variation refers to minute differences between different varieties of a language spoken in a given geographic region. ^[7] Zanuttini's studies within this area focus on Romance languages and minority varieties of English in North America, like Appalachian English. ^[8] Her work with clause types involves giving more precise definition to, and differentiation between different types of clausal constructions such as declarative, exclamative, and imperative clauses. ^[8]

Zanuttini founded the Yale Grammatical Diversity Project in 2011. ^[9] Members of the project, housed at Yale University, conduct research on minority varieties of English spoken in North America and micro-syntactic differences between them. ^[10] Presently, Zanuttini remains a leader of the project, alongside Laurence Horn and Jim Wood. ^[11]

She has received three major grants from the National Science Foundation (2003–2005, 2006–2008, and 2014–2017) to conduct collaborative research on minority varieties of English. ^[12]

Selected publications

Books

• Zanuttini, R. (1997) Negation and Clausal Structure: A Comparative Study of Romance Languages. Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax. ^{[13] [14]}

• Kayne, R., T. Leu and R. Zanuttini (2013) An Annotated Syntax Reader: Lasting Insights and Questions Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. ^[15]

• Zanuttini, R. and L. Horn (2014) Micro-Syntactic Variation in North American English. Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax.

• Bowern, C., L. Horn and R. Zanuttini, editors (2017) On looking into words (and beyond): Structures, Relations, Analyses. Language Science Press.

• Zanuttini, R., H. Campos, E. Herburger and P. Portner, editors (2006) Crosslinguistic Research in Syntax and Semantics Negation, Tense, and Clausal Architecture. Georgetown University Press. ^[16]

• Cinque, G, J. Koster, J-Y Pollock, L. Rizzi and R. Zanuttini, editors. (1994) Paths towards Universal Grammar. Studies in Honor of Richard S. Kayne (ed). Georgetown University Press. (With ^{[17] [18]}

Selected articles

• Wood, J., R. Zanuttini, L. Horn and Jason Zentz (2020) "Dative country: Markedness and Geographical Variation in Southern Dative Constructions". American Speech 95: 3-45. Awarded the "Roger Shuy Best Paper in American Speech Award for 2020" by the American Dialect Society.
• Portner, P, M. Pak and R. Zanuttini (2019) The speaker-addressee relation at the syntax-semantics interface. Language 95.1: 1–36.
• Wood, J. and R. Zanuttini (2018) "Datives, data and dialect syntax in American English". Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 3(1):87.
• Zanuttini, R., J. Wood, J. Zentz and L. Horn (2018) "The Yale Grammatical Diversity Project: Morphosyntactic variation in North American English." Linguistics Vanguard, 4(1).
• Wood, J., L. Horn, R. Zanuttini and L. Lindemann (2015) “The Southern Dative Presentative meets Mechanical Turk”, American Speech 90(3):291–320.
• Poletto, C. and R. Zanuttini (2013) "Emphasis as reduplication: Evidence from si che/no che sentences", Lingua 128: 124–141.
• Zanuttini, R, M. Pak and P. Portner (2012) “A Syntactic Analysis of Interpretive Restrictions on Imperative, Promissive, and Exhortative Subjects.” Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 30(4):1231–1274.
• Zanuttini, R. (2008) “Encoding the Addressee in the syntax: Evidence from English imperative subjects.” Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 26(1):185–218.
• Pak, M., P. Portner and R. Zanuttini (2008) “Agreement in Promissive, Imperative, and Exhortative Clauses.” Korean Linguistics, 14:157–175.
• Zanuttini, R. and P. Portner (2000) “The characterization of exclamative clauses in Paduan.” Language 76(1):123–132.

References

1. "Raffaella Zanuttini". Yale. Retrieved 27 November 2018.
2. "Doctoral Alumni | Department of Linguistics". www.ling.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2022-03-12.
3. Zanuttini, Raffaella. "CV" (PDF).
4. "Faculty | Linguistics". ling.yale.edu. Retrieved 2018-12-16.
5. "Raffaella Zanuttini". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2022-03-15.
6. Zanuttini, Raffaella. "Publications". Raffaella Zanuttini. Retrieved 27 November 2018.
7. Zanuttini, Raffaella; Horn, Laurence, eds. (2014-07-20). Micro-Syntactic Variation in North American English. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199367221.001.0001. ISBN   978-0-19-936724-5.
8. "Research Interests". Raffaella Zanuttini. Retrieved 2018-12-16.
9. "Research Team | Yale Grammatical Diversity Project: English in North America". ygdp.yale.edu. Retrieved 2018-12-16.
10. "Project Description". ygdp.yale.edu. Retrieved 2018-12-16.
11. "Team Leaders | Yale Grammatical Diversity Project: English in North America". ygdp.yale.edu. Retrieved 2018-12-16.
12. "Projects & Grants". Raffaella Zanuttini. Retrieved 2018-12-16.
13. Acquaviva, Paolo (2002). "Reviewed Work: Negation and Clausal Structure: A Comparative Study of Romance Languages by RAFFAELLA ZANUTTINI, Raffaela Zanuttini". Romance Philology. 55 (2): 285–290. doi:10.1484/J.RPH.2.304479. JSTOR   44742210.
14. Lancioni, Giuliano (1999). "Review of: Negation and clausal structure: a comparative study of Romance languages, by Raffaella Zanuttini". SIL International. Retrieved 2018-12-18.
15. Lohndal, Terje (2014-08-10). "An annotated syntax reader: Lasting insights and questions ed. by Richard S. Kayne, Thomas Leu, and Raffaella Zanuttini (review)". Language. 90 (3): 771–773. doi:10.1353/lan.2014.0053. ISSN   1535-0665. S2CID   143395416.
16. "Crosslinguistic Research in Syntax and Semantics: Negation, Tense, and Clausal Architecture. Ed. Raffaella Zanuttini, Héctor Campos, Elena Herburger & Paul H. Portner. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2006. 247 pp. $49.95. ISBN 978-1-58901-080-2 (review)". Forum for Modern Language Studies. 43 (1): 97–98. 2007-01-01. doi:10.1093/fmls/cql134. ISSN   0015-8518.
17. Nylander, Dudley K. (2001). "Paths Towards Universal Grammar: Studies in Honor of Richard S. Kayne (review)" . Linguistic Society of America. 77 (2): 394–395. doi:10.1353/lan.2001.0097. S2CID   143705966.
18. Rouveret, Alain (1997). "Review: Multiple Paths towards Universal Grammar". Journal of Linguistics. 33 (2): 539–562. doi:10.1017/S0022226797006555. JSTOR   4176426. S2CID   197616468.