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.

• 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.

1. Generalized Verb Movement. Aspects of Verb Syntax, Rosenberg & Sellier, 1990, Torino, pp.151
2. Structures and Strategies, Routlegde, 2009, New York, pp.370
3. Syntactic Theory and the Dialects of Italy, (ed.) Rosenberg & Sellier, 1993, Torino, pp.353
4. Parameters and Functional Heads. Essays in Comparative Syntax (editor with L.Rizzi), 1996, Oxford University Press, New York
5. On Nature and Language, by N.Chomsky, editor and introduction with L.Rizzi, 2002 Cambridge University Press
6. Structures and Beyond. The Cartography of Syntactic Structures, vol.3. (editor and introduction), 2004, Oxford University Press
7. Language Acquisition and Development, Proceedings of GALA2005 (editor with E.Bennati, C.Chesi, E.Di Domenico, I.Ferrari), CSP, Cambridge UK, 2006, 597

8. “The Case of Unaccusatives”, Linguistic Inquiry, 19, 1, 1988, pp.1-34;
9. “Psych-Verbs and Th-Theory” (con L.Rizzi), Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 6, 3, 1988, pp.291-352;
10. “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;
11. “The Order of Verbal Complements: A Comparative Study” (with Ur Shlonsky), Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 13, 3, 1995, pp.489-526;
12. “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 ;
13. “Agreement Projections”, in A Handbook of Syntactic Theory, M.Baltin & C.Collins eds., pp. 483-510, 2000, Blackwell, Oxford ;
14. “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
15. “Aspects of the low IP area”,  in The Structure of CP and IP, L.Rizzi ed., 16-51, 2004, Oxford University Press.
16. “Extended doubling and the VP periphery”, in Probus,  2005, 17, 1:  1-35
17. “(Past) Participle Agreement”, in The Blackwell Companion to Syntax (M..Everaert & H. van Riemsdijk eds.), 2006,Vol. 3, 493-521
18. "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.
19. “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
20. “Acquisition meets comparison. Some notes”, Proceedings of Gala2007, CSP, Cambridge, UK, 2008, 70-80
21. “Relativized Relatives: Types of intervention in the acquisition of A’-dependencies”, (with Naama Friedmann and Luigi Rizzi), Lingua, 2009, 119, 67-88
22. “The CP of Clefts”, Rivista di Grammatica Generativa,2008, 33, 191-204
23. “Notes o Passive Object Relatives”, in press in P. Svenonius ed. Functional Structure from Top to Toe, OUP
24. “Moving Verbal Chunks” (with Luigi Rizzi), to appear in L.Brugé, A.Cardinaletti, G.Giusti, N.Munaro eds. Functional Heads, OUP
     

- 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.

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