Dr. Raffaella Zanuttini

Biography

Raffaella Zanuttini received her PhD in Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1991. Her research primarily focuses on comparative syntax, examining a variety of languages, including English, Italian, and Korean. She has worked extensively on understanding the limits of grammatical variation, particularly in syntactic expression of negation. Her investigations delve into the notion of clause types at the syntax/semantics interface, with a particular focus on exclamatives and imperative clauses. Zanuttini is also interested in the relation between the speaker and addressee as encoded in syntax. Her work comparing minimal language varieties led her to co-found the Yale Grammatical Diversity Project with Larry Horn, a research group aimed at documenting and analyzing syntactic variation in North American English.

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