Dr Sandra Paoli
Position: University Lecturer in Linguistics (Romance Languages)
Address: Centre for Linguistics and Philology, Walton Street, Oxford OX1 2HG
Email: firstname.lastname@ling-phil.ox.ac.uk
Research profile:
My main research interests lie in the following areas:
• Comparative synchronic syntactic structure of closely related languages and their
• Comparative diachronic development with respect to language generalizations and language universals;
• Information structure at the syntactic and pragmatic levels;
• Aspects of the development and syntactic status of pronominal forms, especially object clitics;
• The mechanism of syntactic agreement.
Recent research projects include investigations of Contrastive and Information Focus which has led to the identification of Implicit Contrast and a ‘hybrid’ contrastive-information type, of incomplete sets of object clitics in Italo-Romance and Rhaeto-Romance with a reconstruction of a possible path followed in the processes of development and loss, and of clitic interpolation in Italo-Romance.
I also have an interest in first language acquisition, especially in the acquisition of functional categories.
I have worked within the Cartographic approach and have recently developed an interest in the concept of features used in Nanosyntax; I am also expanding into Typology.
