Adriana Belletti

Biography

Adriana Belletti is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Siena since January 2000. She was a student, perfectionist and finally a researcher at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa (1973-1981). She has been a visiting scholar and has collaborated in research at the Department of Linguistics at MIT. He has taught Romance Linguistics at the University of Geneva, in various international summer schools (such as LSA / New York, Glow / Girona, ALI-Brisbane, Australia,, Abralin XI INSTITUTE FROM ABRALIN Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte) in various departments and research centers (including UCLA-USA, UFSC-Florianopolis-Brazil, University of Paris-7, DEC-Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris). He is a member of the editorial board of Linguistic Inquiry, MIT Press. She has been a member of the scientific committee of various international conferences - most recently GALA 2005, 35-IGG 2009, University of Siena; is organizer with C. Hamann of a workshop on Linguistic Theory and its applications at the International Congress of Linguists, Geneva 2013. She has been a member of the European COST Action A33 Crosslinguistically robust stages of children's linguistic performance, and is now a member of the European COST Action IS 0804, Language Impairment in a Multilingual Society: Linguistic Patterns and the Road to Assessment (2009-2013). He is the national coordinator of a FIRB-2007 project on fundamental research and the Italian language. It is co-applicant (with L.Girolametto) of the project Second language learning in Chinese-speaking children learning English or Italian, funded by the Canadian SSHRC. He is coordinator of various Erasmus programs between the University of Siena and: Université de Genève; Autonomous University of Barcelona; University of Stüttgart; University of Edinburgh; University of Oldenburg; Université de Tours. She was the winner of the Prix Latsis of the University of Geneva, 1987, for the work "The Case of Unaccusatives," (Linguistic Inquiry, 19, 1, 1988). Her research focuses on theoretical comparative syntax and comparative studies of language acquisition and pathology.

Research Interest

His research focuses on theoretical comparative syntax and comparative studies of language acquisition and pathology.