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.
- Historical Linguistics
- Romance Languages
- Syntax
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