معرفی
Prof. Dr. Cecilia Poletto is a Professor of French and Italian Linguistics at the Institute for Romance Languages and Literatures, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. Her research focuses on historical syntax of Romance languages, particularly Old Italian V2 effects, information structure, and negative concord items (NCIs). She leads the Syntactic Atlas of Italy (ASIt) and is co-PI for the ANR-DFG-funded project MICLE (2021-2024), which analyzes micro-indicators of grammatical evolution in Old Italian and Old French. She also collaborates on the SNSF/DFG project DiFuPaRo (2020), exploring dialect syntax and microparametric variation.
- Key Research Areas: Historical Syntax, Verb Second (V2), Microparametric Variation, Dialectology, Negative Polarity, Romance Language Evolution
- Projects:
- ANR-DFG MICLE (2021-2024): Corpus-based syntactic analysis of Old Romance
- Syntactic Atlas of Italy (ASIt): Fieldwork and dialect mapping
- SNSF/DFG DiFuPaRo: Cross-linguistic microparametric studies
Publications span from 2013 to 2025, emphasizing diachronic syntax, negation patterns, and word order shifts in Romance languages. Her work bridges formal syntax, dialectological data, and computational models of language change.
