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]
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]
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]
Cinque, G, J. Koster, J-Y Pollock, L. Rizzi and R. Zanuttini, editors. (1994) Paths towards Universal Grammar. Studies in Honor of Richard S. Kayne (ed). Georgetown University Press. (With [17][18]
Poletto, C. and R. Zanuttini (2013) "Emphasis as reduplication: Evidence from si che/no che sentences", Lingua 128: 124–141.
Zanuttini, R, M. Pak and P. Portner (2012) “A Syntactic Analysis of Interpretive Restrictions on Imperative, Promissive, and Exhortative Subjects.” Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 30(4):1231–1274.
Zanuttini, R. (2008) “Encoding the Addressee in the syntax: Evidence from English imperative subjects.” Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 26(1):185–218.
Pak, M., P. Portner and R. Zanuttini (2008) “Agreement in Promissive, Imperative, and Exhortative Clauses.” Korean Linguistics, 14:157–175.
Zanuttini, R. and P. Portner (2000) “The characterization of exclamative clauses in Paduan.” Language 76(1):123–132.
^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. JSTOR44742210.
^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. ISSN1535-0665. S2CID143395416.
^"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. ISSN0015-8518.