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Adriana Belletti is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Siena.
- She has been a student and then a researcher at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, a visiting scholar and research affiliate at the Department of Linguistics of MIT.
- She has taught at the University of Geneva, in various international summer institutes, e.g. LSA/New York, Glow-Girona, ALI-Brisbane-Australia, Glow-Barcelona; in various linguistics departments and research institutes, e.g. UCLA-USA, UFSC-Florianopolis-Brazil, University of Paris-7, DEC-Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris.
- She is a member of the editorial board of Linguistic Inquiry, MIT Press; she has been in the scientific committee of various international conferences and workshops - recently, GALA2005-University of Siena; Latsis Colloquium 2006-University of Geneve, 35th IGG 2009-University of Siena.
- She has been a member of the European COST A33 Crosslinguistically robust stages of children’s linguistic performance.
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- She is the national coordinator of the project founded by the Italian Ministry of Research/FIRB (Fondo Italiano per la Ricerca di Base) on Fundamental research and the Italian language: Documentation, monolingual, bilingual and L2 acquisition, conception of multimedia products.
- She is a MC member of the of the European COST Action IS 0804, Language Impairment in a Multilingual Society: Linguistic Patterns and the Road to Assessment (2009-2013) www.bi-sli.org
- She is the coordinator of various a Socrates-Erasmus programs between the University of Siena and the: Université de Genève; Autonoma University of Barcelona; University of Stüttgart; University of Edinburgh; University of Oldenburg; Université de Tours.
- She is the promoter of a bilateral agreement between the Faculty of Letters of the University of Siena and the Department of Linguistics at UCLA-USA
- Her research focuses on theoretical comparative syntax, comparative studies in language acquisition and pathology.
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Main selected publications |
Books
- Generalized Verb Movement. Aspects of Verb Syntax, Rosenberg & Sellier, 1990, Torino, pp.151
- Structures and Strategies, Routlegde, 2009, New York, pp.370
- Syntactic Theory and the Dialects of Italy, (ed.) Rosenberg & Sellier, 1993, Torino, pp.353
- Parameters and Functional Heads. Essays in Comparative Syntax (editor with L.Rizzi), 1996, Oxford University Press, New York
- On Nature and Language, by N.Chomsky, editor and introduction with L.Rizzi, 2002 Cambridge University Press
- Structures and Beyond. The Cartography of Syntactic Structures, vol.3. (editor and introduction), 2004, Oxford University Press
- Language Acquisition and Development, Proceedings of GALA2005 (editor with E.Bennati, C.Chesi, E.Di Domenico, I.Ferrari), CSP, Cambridge UK, 2006, 597
Articles
- “The Case of Unaccusatives”, Linguistic Inquiry, 19, 1, 1988, pp.1-34;
- “Psych-Verbs and Th-Theory” (con L.Rizzi), Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 6, 3, 1988, pp.291-352;
- “La frase comparativa”, in Grande Grammatica Italiana di Consultazione, vol. II, a cura di Lorenzo Renzi e Gian Paolo Salvi, Il Mulino, 1991, pp.832-853;
- “The Order of Verbal Complements: A Comparative Study” (with Ur Shlonsky), Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 13, 3, 1995, pp.489-526;
- “Italian/Romance Clitics: Structure and Derivation”, in Clitics in the Languages of Europe, H. van Riemsdijk ed., 1999, pp. 543-579, Mouton De Gruyter, Berlin ;
- “Agreement Projections”, in A Handbook of Syntactic Theory, M.Baltin & C.Collins eds., pp. 483-510, 2000, Blackwell, Oxford ;
- “On the L2/bilingual acquisition of French by two young children with different source languages”, (withC.Hamann) in The acquisition of French in different contexts: Focus on functional categories, P.Prévost & J. Paradis eds., J.Benjamins, Amsterdam, 2004 pp. 147-174
- “Aspects of the low IP area”, in The Structure of CP and IP, L.Rizzi ed., 16-51, 2004, Oxford University Press.
- “Extended doubling and the VP periphery”, in Probus, 2005, 17, 1: 1-35
- “(Past) Participle Agreement”, in The Blackwell Companion to Syntax (M..Everaert & H. van Riemsdijk eds.), 2006,Vol. 3, 493-521
- "Answering strategies. A view from acquisition", in Romance languages and linguistic theory 2005 (S. Baauw, F. Drijkoningen and M. Pinto eds.), Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins Publications, 2007, 19-38.
- “Theoretical and developmental issues in the syntax of subjects: evidence from near native Italian” (with E.Bennati and A.Sorace), Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 2007, 25:4, 657-689
- “Acquisition meets comparison. Some notes”, Proceedings of Gala2007, CSP, Cambridge, UK, 2008, 70-80
- “Relativized Relatives: Types of intervention in the acquisition of A’-dependencies”, (with Naama Friedmann and Luigi Rizzi), Lingua, 2009, 119, 67-88
- “The CP of Clefts”, Rivista di Grammatica Generativa,2008, 33, 191-204
- “Notes o Passive Object Relatives”, in press in P. Svenonius ed. Functional Structure from Top to Toe, OUP
- “Moving Verbal Chunks” (with Luigi Rizzi), to appear in L.Brugé, A.Cardinaletti, G.Giusti, N.Munaro eds. Functional Heads, OUP
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On-line papers |
- Bianchi Valentina, Belletti Adriana (2016) Definiteness Effect and Unaccusative Subjects: An Overview and some New Thoughts. In: Definiteness effects: Bilingual, typological and diachronic variation, Susann Fischer, Tanja Kupisch, Esther Rinke, 14–65. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
- Belletti Adriana (2014) The focus map of clefts: Extraposition and Predication. Beyond Functional Sequence (The Cartography of Syntactic Structures series), U.Shlonky ed., Oxford University Press [345.99 Kb ]
- Belletti Adriana (2013) On Fin: Italian che, Japanese no, and the selective properties of the copula in clefts. Yoichi Miyamoto, Daiko Takahashi, Hideki Maki, Masao Ochi, Koji Sugisaki & Asako Uchibori (eds.), Deep Insights, Broad Perspectives. Essays in Honor of Mamoru Saito, 41-55. 2013. Tokyo: Kaitakusha Co., Ltd. [181.35 Kb ]
- Belletti Adriana, Chesi Cristiano (2011) Relative Clauses from the input: syntactic considerations on a corpus-based analysis of italian. Studies in Linguistics (CISCL Working Papers) Vol.4 [292.28 Kb ]
- Belletti Adriana, Contemori Carla (2010) Intervention and Attraction. On the Production of Subject and Object Relatives by Italian (young) Children and Adults. forthcoming in the Proceedings of Gala 2009 [91.78 Kb ]
- Belletti Adriana, Rizzi Luigi (2010) Ways of avoiding intervention: Object relatives, Passive and Control. to appear in R.Berwick & M.Piattelli Palmarini eds. Rich grammars from a poor input¸ OUP [88.56 Kb ]
- Belletti Adriana, Rizzi Luigi (2009) Moving Verbal chuncks. to appear in L..Brugé, A.Cardinaletti, G.Giusti, N.Munaro, C.Poletto eds. Functional Heads, OUP [62.23 Kb ]
- Belletti Adriana (2008) Acquisition meets comparison: some notes. Gala 2007 Proceedings [67.68 Kb ]
- Friedmann Naama, Belletti Adriana, Rizzi Luigi (2008) Relativized relatives: Types of intervention in the acquisition of A-bar dependencies. Lingua [441.39 Kb ]
- Belletti Adriana (2008) Notes on Passive Object Relatives. P. Svenonius ed. Functional Structure form Top to Toe, OUP [92.96 Kb [100.27 Kb ]
- Belletti Adriana (2008) Structures and Strategies. Routledge, NY [110.53 Kb ]
- Belletti Adriana (2008) The CP of Clefts. StIL Vol.2 [55.62 Kb ]
- Belletti Adriana (2008) Answering strategies: New information subjects and the nature of clefts.. To appear as Chapter 10 of Structures and Strategies - Routledge [158.94 Kb ]
- Belletti Adriana (2008) Pronouns and the edge of the clause.. To appear as Chapter 11 of Structures and Strategies - Routledge [128.3 Kb ]
- Belletti Adriana (2006) Answering strategies. A view from acquisition. Proceedings of Going Romance 2005 [221.69 Kb ]
- Belletti Adriana (2006) Extending doubling to non local domains: complete vs partial copying + deletion and related reconstruction issues.. [67.12 Kb ]
- Belletti Adriana (2005) Kinds of evidence for linguistic theory. To appear in the 17th Symposium on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Aristotle University,Thessaloniki, April 2005 [84 Kb ]
- Belletti Adriana (2005) Answering with a cleft: the role of the null subject parameter and the vp periphery. Proceedings of the Thirtieth Incontro di Grammatica Generativa , L.Brugè, G.Giusti, N.Munaro, W.Schweikert, G.Turano eds., 63-82, Cafoscarina, Venezia [82.48 Kb ]
- Belletti Adriana (2005) Extended doubling and the VP periphery. Probus 17:1 [198.23 Kb ]
- Belletti Adriana (2004) Aspects of the low IP area. draft, published in ’The Structure of IP and CP. The Cartography of Syntactic Structures’ vol.2. L. Rizzi ed. OUP. [290.5 Kb ]
- Belletti Adriana, Leonini Chiara (2004) Subject inversion in L2 Italian. John Benjamins [732.62 Kb ]
- Leonini Chiara, Belletti Adriana (2004) Adult L2 acquisition of Italian clitic pronouns and "Subject inversion/VS" Structures. LOT [167.51 Kb ]
- Belletti Adriana (2001) La frase comparativa in italiano antico. Università di Siena [64.5 Kb ]
- Belletti Adriana (2001) (Past) Participle agreement. Progetto SynCom (ottobre) [198.5 Kb ]
- Belletti Adriana (2001) ’Inversion’ as focalization. in A.Hulk and J.Y.Pollock eds., Inversion in Romance and the theory of Universal Grammar, Oxford University Press (OUP) [180 ]
- Belletti Adriana (2000) Agreement Projections. in M.Baltin & C.Collins eds. The Handbook of Contemporary Syntactic Theory, Blackwell [277.5 Kb ]
- Chomsky Noam, Belletti Adriana, Rizzi Luigi (2000) Intervista sul Minimalismo. Università di Siena [160.32 Kb ]
- Belletti Adriana (1999) ’Inversion’ as focalization and related questions. (versione lunga) Catalan Working papers in Linguistics, 7 [260.5 Kb ]
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