Dr Raffaella Folli (Lecturer)
General
Raffaella Folli was born and raised in Milan, Italy where she studied philosophy as an undergraduate at the University of Milan. In 1996 she began her studies in linguistics at the University of Oxford, where she obtained an MPhil in General Linguistics in 1998 and then, in 2002, a DPhil in linguistics. Her thesis, entitled Constructing telicity in English and Italian, investigates the relation between lexical and syntactic knowledge by analysing the behaviour of English and Italian in the derivation of verb alternation. In 2002 she held a brief post-doctoral research position at the University of Arizona, (in the Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science), where she worked with Tom Bever’s team to develop studies in order to test the relevance of telicity in sentence comprehension. In the autumn of 2002 she returned to the UK to take up a British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Cambridge and a Junior Research Fellowship at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. Since the end of September 2005 she has been a lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Ulster, in the School of Communication.
Academic Background
2002 DPhil (Constructing Telicity in English and Italian), University of Oxford.
1998 MPhil in General Linguistics (Syntactic and Semantic Conditions on Derived Verbs: Evidence from Italian and English), University of Oxford.
1996 Laurea in Philosophy (The Notion of Parameter in Generative Grammar), University of Milan.
Professional Affiliations
Member of the Linguistic Association of Great Britain
Research
Research Areas
Syntax, Semantics, and Psycholinguistics.
Publications
Contributions in refereed books
Folli, R and H. Harely (forthcoming) Benefacitves aren’t Goals in Italian, in Romance Languages and Linguistic Theories, J. Doetjes and P. Gonzalez (eds.), pp. 121-142, Banjamins.
Folli, R. and H. Harley, (2005) Flavours of v: Consuming Results in Italian and English, in Aspectual Enquiries, P. Kempchinsky and R. Slabakova (eds.), pp. 95-120. Dordrecht:Springer.
Folli, R. and G. Ramchand, (2005) Prepositions and Results in Italian and English: an Analysis from Event Decomposition, in Perspectives on Aspect, H. Verkyul, H. van Hout and H. de Swartz (eds), pp. 81-105. Dordrecht: Springer.
Folli, R., (2002) Resultatives: Small Clauses or Complex VPs, in Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2000, C. Beyssade, et al (eds.), pp. 153-170. Amsterdam:Benjamins.
Folli, R., (2002) On the Relation of Priority between Causative and Inchoative Structures, in Romance Languages and Linguistics Theory, 1999, Y. D'Hulst, J. Rooryck and J. Schroten (eds.), pp. 143-166. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Journal publications
Working papers
Folli, R. and H. Harley, (2004) On Obligatory Obligation: the Composition of Italian Causatives, in Collected Papers on Romance Syntax, MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 47, A. Castro, V. Hacquard ,and A.P. Salanova (eds.), pp.87-113.
Folli, R., H. Harley and S. Karimi, (2004) Determinants of Event Types on Persian Complex Predicates, in CopIL 2004 Vol1, Cambridge Occasional Papers in Linguistics, L. Astruc and M. Richards (eds.), pp. 101-125.
Folli, R., (2001) Two Strategies to Construct Telicity: Evidence from English and Italian, in Oxford University Working Papers in Linguistics, Philology & Phonetics, Vol. 6, M. Liakata, B. Jensen and D. Maillat (eds.), pp.47-65.
Folli, R., (1999) Causative/Inchoative Alternation in Italian, in Oxford University Working Papers in Linguistics, Philology & Phonetics, Vol. 4, R. Folli and R. Middleton (eds.), pp.33-49.
Conference proceedings
Folli R. and E. Payne (2006) Investigating interfaces: an experimental approach to focus in Sicilian Italian, in Proceedings of ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics, 28-30 August 2006, Athens, Greece.
Folli, R. and H.Harley (2006) Event-Path Homomorphism and the Accompanied-Motion Reading in Motion Causatives, in WECOL XX Proceedings.
Folli, R. and H. Harley, (2005) On the argument structure of FI and FP causatives, in WCCFL 23 Proceedings, B. Schmeiser, V. Chand, A. Kelleher, and A. Rodriguez (eds.), pp. 101-114. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Biberauer, T. and R. Folli (2004) Goals of motion in Afrikaans, in Proceedings of JEL 2004 [DOMAINES] (Journes d’ Etudes Linguistiques 2004), O. Courzet, H. Damirdache, and S. Wauquier-Gravelines (eds.), Université de Nantes, pp 19-26.
Folli, R. and G. Ramchand, (2002) Event Structure Composition: the Case of Goal of Motion and Resultative Constructions in Italian and Scottish Gaelic, in Proceeding from Perspectives on Aspect Conference, Utrecht.
http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/conferences/Perspectives_on_Aspect/P_o_A_index.html.
Folli, R. and G. Ramchand, (2001) Getting Results: Motion Constructions in Italian and Scottish Gaelic, in WCCFL 20 Proceedings, K. Megerdoomian and L.A. Bar-el (eds.), pp. 101-114. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Edited Volumes
Folli, R and H. Harley (in preparation) Lingua Special Issue on Perfectivity and Telicity.
Folli, R. and R. Middleton (eds.), (1999) Oxford University Working Papers in Linguistics, Philology & Phonetics Vol.4.
Grants
2005, Co-investigator of British Academy Small Grant entitled Signaling Focus in Sicilian Italian (with Elinor Payne).
2003-2005, Principal Investigator of a British Academy Joint Activities Grant entitled Cross-Linguistic Structural
Correlates of Event Structure (with Heidi Harley).
2002-2005, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship.
Contact:
E-mail: r.folli@ulster.ac.uk
Tel: 0044 28 9036 6615
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