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. (forthcoming), Complex PPs in Italian, in Syntax and Semantics of Spatial P, Asbury, Anna, Jakub Dotlacil, Berit Gehrke and Rick Nouwen (eds.), Amsterdam, Benjamins.

Folli, R and H. Harely (2006) Benefacitves aren’t Goals in Italian, in Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2004, J. Doetjes and P. Gonzalez (eds.), pp. 121-142. Amsterdam, Benjamins.

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., (2001) 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.

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Journal publications

Folli, R. and H. Harley, (forthcoming) The In(ter)dependence of event structure, aspect and tense Lingua.

Folli, R. and H. Harley, (2008), Teleology and animacy in external arguments, Lingua 118.2,190–202.

Heidi Harley, Raffaella Folli and Britta Jensen (2007) Introduction: perfectivity, telicity and the Nordic language, Nordic Journal of Linguistics 30. 2, 149-155.

Folli, R. and H. Harley (2007), Causation, obligation and argument structure: on the nature of little v, Linguistic Inquiry 38.2: 97-238.

Folli, R. and H. Harley, (2006) Syntactic and Semantic Conditions on the Licensing of Directed Motion Resultatives, Studia Linguistica 60(2), 121-155.

Folli, R. and H.Harley, (2006) What language says about the psychology of events, Trends in Cognitive Science, Vol 10.3.

Folli, R., H. Harley and S. Karimi, (2004) Determinants of Event Types on Persian Complex Predicates, Lingua 115: 1365–1401.

O’Bryan, E., R. Folli, H. Harley and T. Bever, Event Structure is Accessed immediately during Comprehension (under revision for Cognition).

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 H.Harley (2006) Event-Path Homomorphism and the Accompanied-Motion Reading in Motion Causatives, in WECOL Proceedings 2004. Somerville, MA, Cascadilla Press.

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.), pp 19-26. Université de Nantes.

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 (eds.), (forthcoming), Special issue on Perfectivity and telicity, Lingua.

R. Folli, B. Jensen and H. Harley (eds.), (2007), Special issue on Aspect and Aktionsart, Nordic Journal of Linguistics 30. 2, 12/07.

Folli, R. and R. Middleton (eds.), (1999) Oxford University Working Papers in Linguistics, Philology & Phonetics Vol.4.

Reviewing

Member of the editorial board of Syntax.
Reviewer for several journals (Lingua, Slavic Journal of Linguistics, Syntax)

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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