Prof. Adriana Belletti
Università di 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.
Adriana Belletti
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.
Projects
- Theory, Experimentation, Applications: Long distance dependencies in forms of linguistic diversity (2013 - 2015)
- Fundamental research on language in the service of the Italian language (2008 - 2011)
Seminars
- 23-11-2004 Answering with a Cleft: the role of the null subject parameter and VP periphery
- 21-11-2006 Lezione per il dottorato di Scienze Cognitive
- 20-11-2006 Lezione per il dottorato di Scienze Cognitive
Attached materials:
belletti-01-ling-intro-dottorato-06.pdf [956.38 KB]
- 4-12-2007 A proposito della periferia vP
- 24-2-2025 On the complexity of a short(er) structure: The case of Reduced Relative Clauses
