Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Department of Spanish and Portuguese

   

Ioanna Sitaridou specialises in the comparative and historical syntax of Romance languages within the generative framework. In different articles she has dealt with non-finite complementation in Romance, the emergence of personal infinitives in the history of Spanish, the licensing of null subjects in Old French, the loss of null subjects in the history of French, Verb Second phenomena in Old Romance, typology of null-subject languages, hyperbaton and language contact-induced change.