Cecilia Poletto

Cecilia Poletto (born 17 August 1962 in Venice) is an Italian linguist who works in the framework of generative grammar. She is professor at the Goethe University Frankfurt as well as part-time professor at the University of Padua.

In 2023, she was elected Member of the Academia Europaea. She was one of the founding members of the Syntactic Atlas of Italy (ASIT) project. Linguistic topics she has worked on include verb-second, negation, indefinites, relative clauses, articles, and quantification.

Selected publications Poletto, Cecilia. 1993. La sintassi del soggetto nei dialetti italiani settentrionali (The syntax of the subject in Northern Italian dialects). Padua: Unipress. Poletto, Cecilia. 2000. The higher functional field: evidence from Northern Italian dialects. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Benincà, Paola, and Cecilia Poletto. 2004. Topic, focus and V2. In Luigi Rizzi (ed.), The cartography of syntactic structures, vol. 2 The structure of CP and IP, 52–75. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Cornips, Leonie, and Cecilia Poletto. 2005. On standardising syntactic elicitation techniques (part 1). Lingua 115 (7), 939–957. Poletto, Cecilia. 2014. Word order in Old Italian. Oxford: Oxford University Press.