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Department of Italian, Faculty of Modern and Medieval LanguagesResearch Interests in Italy
Adam Ledgeway's research interests include Italian dialectology, the comparative history and morphosyntax of the Romance languages (including both standard languages such as Catalan, French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, and lesser known varieties and dialects such as Dalmatian, Galician, Neapolitan, Occitan, Raeto-Romance, Sardinian), Latin, syntactic theory and linguistic change. His research is channelled towards bringing together traditional Romance philological scholarship with the insights of recent generative syntactic theory, and he has worked and published extensively on such topics as alignments, complementation, configurationality, auxiliary selection and split intransitivity, grammaticalization, word order, cliticization, clause structure, verb movement, finiteness, and the development of demonstrative systems.
