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Raffaella Zanuttini is a Professor and Chair of Linguistics at Yale University. She holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania (1991). Her research focuses on comparative syntax, examining syntactic variation across languages and dialects, particularly in Romance languages and North American English. She co-founded the Yale Grammatical Diversity Project to document syntactic variation in North American English. Her work explores topics such as negation, clause typing (imperatives/promissives), and the syntactic encoding of speaker-addressee relations. Key contributions include studies on dative constructions, exclamatives, and the structural properties of imperative clauses.
She has received the Roger Shuy Best Paper Award (2020) for her work on Southern Dative Constructions. Her publications span syntactic theory, dialectology, and cross-linguistic comparisons. Ongoing projects include investigations into micro-syntactic variation and the syntax-semantics interface in Italian and Korean. She collaborates widely, with co-authors like Jim Wood, Larry Horn, and Miok Pak.
Her academic career includes roles as a faculty member, editor (e.g., Micro-Syntactic Variation in North American English), and contributor to linguistic theory. Her research integrates empirical fieldwork with theoretical syntax, emphasizing generative grammar frameworks.
