Raffaella Zanuttini

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Raffaella Zanuttini
Born (1960-10-31) October 31, 1960 (age 62)
Academic background
Alma mater University of Pennsylvania
Thesis Syntactic properties of sentential negation. A comparative study of Romance languages (1991)
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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]

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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

Selected articles

Related Research Articles

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References

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  2. ↑ "Doctoral Alumni | Department of Linguistics". www.ling.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2022-03-12.
  3. 1 2 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. 1 2 "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.
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