Books

Zanuttini, R. Negation and Clausal Structure: A Comparative Study of Romance Languages.

Zanuttini, R. Negation and Clausal Structure: A Comparative Study of Romance Languages.

Cinque, G., J. Koster, J.-Y. Pollock, L. Rizzi and R. Zanuttini (eds.). (1994) Paths towards Universal Grammar. Studies in Honor of Richard S. Kayne.

Cinque, G., J. Koster, J.-Y. Pollock, L. Rizzi and R. Zanuttini (eds.). (1994) Paths towards Universal Grammar. Studies in Honor of Richard S. Kayne.

Kayne, R., T. Leu and R. Zanuttini (eds.) An Annotated Syntax Reader: Lasting Insights and Questions.

Kayne, R., T. Leu and R. Zanuttini (eds.) An Annotated Syntax Reader: Lasting Insights and Questions.

Bower, Horn and Zanuttini. On looking into Words (and beyond). Language Science Press.

Bower, Horn and Zanuttini. On looking into Words (and beyond). Language Science Press.

Zanuttini, R., H. Campos, E. Herburger and P. Portner (eds.) Crosslinguistic Research in Syntax and Semantics: Negation, Tense and Clausal Architecture.

Zanuttini, R., H. Campos, E. Herburger and P. Portner (eds.) Crosslinguistic Research in Syntax and Semantics: Negation, Tense and Clausal Architecture.

Zanuttini, R. Negation and Clausal Structure: A Comparative Study of Romance Languages.

Zanuttini, R. Negation and Clausal Structure: A Comparative Study of Romance Languages.


Selected Publications

On micro-syntactic variation:

Wood, J., R. Zanuttini, L. Horn and Jason Zentz (2020) Dative country: Markedness and Geographical Variation in Southern Dative Constructions. American Speech 95: 3—45. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-7587901.

Wood, J. and R. Zanuttini (2018) Datives, data and dialect syntax in American English. Glossa: A journal of general linguistics, 3(1), 87. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.527

Zanuttini, R., J. Wood, J. Zentz and L. Horn. (2018) "The Yale Grammatical Diversity Project: Morphosyntactic variation in North American English." Linguistics Vanguard, 4.1DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2016-0070

Wood, J., L. Horn, R. Zanuttini and L. Lindemann (2015) “The Southern Dative Presentative meets Mechanical Turk”, American Speech 90.3, pp. 291-320. 

Wood, J., E. F. Sigurðsson, R. Zanuttini (2015) “Partitive Doubling in Icelandic and Appalachian English”, in Bui, T. and D. Özyõldõz (eds.), Proceedings of NELS 45, GLSA, Univ. of Massachusetts. Vol. 3 , pp. 217-226.

Zanuttini, R. (2014) "North American English: Exploring the syntactic frontier." In Zanuttini, R. and L. Horn (eds.) Micro-syntactic variation in North American English, Oxford University Press, pp. 1-29.

Zanuttini, R. and J. B. Bernstein. (2014) “Transitive Expletives in Appalachian English.” In Zanuttini, R. and L. Horn (eds.) Micro-syntactic variation in North American English, Oxford University Press, pp. 143-177. 

Bernstein, J. B. and R. Zanuttini. (2012) “A diachronic shift in the expression of person.” In C. Galves, S. Cyrino, R. Lopes, F. Sandalo and J. Avelar (eds.) Parameter Theory and Linguistic Change, Oxford University Press, pp. 157-175. 

Zanuttini, R. and J. B. Bernstein. (2011) “Micro-comparative syntax in English verbal agreement.” In Lima, S., K. Mullin and B. Smith (eds.) Proceedings of NELS 39, GLSA, Univ. of Massachusetts. Vol. 2, pp. 839-854. 

Poletto, C. and R. Zanuttini. (2010) “Sentential Particles and Remnant Movement”. P. Benincà and N. Munaro (eds.) Mapping the Left Periphery, Oxford University Press, pp. 201-227. 

Poletto, C. and R. Zanuttini. (2003) “Making Imperatives: Evidence from Central Rhaetoromance”, in Tortora, C. (ed.) The Syntax of Italian Dialects, Oxford University Press, pp. 175-207.

On the syntactic encoding of speaker and addressee:

Portner, P., M. Pak and R. Zanuttini. (2019) “The speaker-addressee relation at the syntax-semantics interface.” Language 95.1, pp.1—36. Project MUSEdoi:10.1353/lan.2019.0008

Portner, P., M. Pak and R. Zanuttini. (2019) The Speaker-Addressee Relation in Imperatives. In Bondarenko, T., C. Davis, J. Colley, and D. Privoznov (eds.) Proceedings of the 14th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL14), MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 90, pp. 219-238.

Zanuttini, R. (2008) “Encoding the Addressee in the syntax: Evidence from English imperative subjects”, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 26.1, pp. 185-218. 

On clause types: Presentatives, Imperatives, Promissives and Exclamatives

Zanuttini, R. (2017) "Presentatives and the Left-Periphery." In Aboh, E., E.Haeberli, G. Puskàs and M. Schönenberger (eds.) Elements of comparative syntax: Theory and description. Boston/Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, pp. 221-256.

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, pp. 1231-1274. 

Pak, M., P. Portner and R. Zanuttini. (2008) “Agreement in Promissive, Imperative, and Exhortative Clauses.” Korean Linguistics, 14:157-175. 

Portner, P. and R. Zanuttini. (2005) “The semantics of nominal exclamatives”, in Elugardo, R. and R.J. Stainton (eds.) Ellipsis and Nonsentential Speech. Dodrecht:  Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 57-67.

Zanuttini, R. and P. Portner. (2000) “The characterization of exclamative clauses in Paduan”, Language  76:1, 123-132.

Portner, P.  and R. Zanuttini. (2000) “The Force of Negation in Wh Exclamatives and Interrogatives”, in Horn, L.. and Y. Karo (eds.) Negation and Polarity. Syntactic and Semantic Perspectives. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 193-231.

On sentential negation:

Poletto, C. and R. Zanuttini (2013) "Emphasis as reduplication: Evidence from si che/no che sentences", Lingua 128: 124-141.

Zanuttini, R. (2001) "Sentential Negation". In Mark Baltin and Chris Collins (eds.) The Handbook of Contemporary Syntactic Theory, Blackwell, pp. 511-535.

Zanuttini, R. (2010) "La negazione in italiano antico". In Salvi, G. and L. Renzi (eds.) Grammatica dell'Italiano Antico, Bologna, Il Mulino. Vol. 1. pp. 569-582.

Zanuttini, R. (1997) "Negation and Verb Movement''. The New Comparative Syntax, Liliane Haegeman (ed.). Longman. pp. 214-245.

Zanuttini, R. (1996) "On the Relevance of Tense for Sentential Negation''. In Parameters and Functional Heads. Essays in Comparative Syntax, Adriana Belletti and Luigi Rizzi (eds.). Oxford University Press. pp. 181-207.

Haegeman, L. and R. Zanuttini. (1996) "Negative Concord in West Flemish". In Parameters and Functional Heads. Essays in Comparative Syntax, Adriana Belletti and Luigi Rizzi (eds.). Oxford University Press. pp. 117-179.

Portner, P. and R. Zanuttini. (1996) "The Syntax and Semantics of Scalar Negation: Evidence from Paduan". In Kusumoto, K. (ed.) Proceedings of NELS XXVI, GLSA, Univ. of Massachusetts, pp. 257–271.

Zanuttini, R. (1994) "Re-examining Negative Clauses." In Cinque, G. et al. (eds.) Paths towards Universal Grammar, Studies in Honor of Richard S. Kayne. Georgetown University Press, pp. 427–451.

Haegeman, L. and R. Zanuttini. (1991) "Negative Heads and the Neg Criterion." The Linguistic Review, 8, pp. 233-251.