Cecilia Poletto - Biography#

Cecilia Poletto (born in Venice; 1962) is full Professor of Italian and French linguistics at the institute for Romance Studies at the University of Frankfurt am Main, and holds a part time position at the Department of Linguistic and Literary Studies at the University of Padua. She is also an associate member at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC) in Padua.

Her research interests include the formal morphosyntax of Romance varieties, in particular Italian and French varieties including non-standardized ones. She was a founding member of the ASIT project (Atlante Sintattico d’Italia, Syntactic Atlas of Italy); she directed the research line on dialect variation at the ISTC of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) for six years.

She has so far directed 6 research projects funded by the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, German Research Foundation), and one European research project Marie Curie. For six years she directed (an exchange project CNR/CNRS with the unit 7013 of the French CNRS of Paris VII. She has also been a board member of various European projects such as Scandiasyn (syntax of Scandinavian dialects) and Eurosyn (European dialect syntax).

She is on the editorial committee of the following journals: JIL (Journal of Italian Linguistics), LIV (Linguistic Variation), Quaderni di Lavoro dell’Atlante Sintattico d´Italia (ASIt working papers), Historical Syntax. She is currently a member of the steering committee for the Graduate School in Linguistic, Phonological and Literary Studies of the University of Padua, and a member of the DFG PhD school on Nominal modification” of the Goethe University Frankfurt.

She has also served in various administrative functions: as head of the Institute of Romance Languages and Literatures, Vice-Dean and later Dean of the Faculty of Modern Philologies and as a member of the Senat of the Goethe University.

She was director of the Master in Linguistics at the University of Padua and is presently directing the bi-national Master in Italian Studies between Goethe University Frankfurt and Ca' Foscari University Venice.

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