Publications
On this page you'll find a list of my key presentations, books, book chapters, journal articles and manuscripts.
Books
- 2021. Syntactic Change in French. Oxford: Oxford University Press
- 2021. Continuity and Variation in Germanic and Romance. S. Wolfe and C. Meklenborg (eds). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- 2020. Variation and Change in Gallo-Romance Grammar. S. Wolfe and M. Maiden (eds). Oxford: OUP.
- 2020. Rethinking Verb Second. R. Woods and S. Wolfe (eds). Rethinking Comparative Syntax. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- 2018. Verb Second in Medieval Romance. Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Journal Articles
- 2022. "Microvariation and Change in the Romance Left Periphery". Probus, Special Issue 'Cartography of the Romance Languages'.
- 2021."Word Order Change and Parametric Stability in Middle French". Journal of Historical Syntax 5 (31), Special Issue 'Secrets of Success', 1-44.
- 2021."Microvariation in the Old Italo-Romance Left Periphery: the case of SI". Revue roumaine de linguistique 66 (2).
- 2020. "Reconsidering Variation and Change in the Medieval French Subject System". Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics 5 (1): 1-29
- 2019. "Redefining the Typology of V2 Languages: The view from Medieval Romance and beyond". Invited submission to Linguistic Variation: Special Issue 'A Micro-Perspective on V2 in Romance and Germanic', 16-46.
- 2018. Probing the Syntax of a Problematic Particle: Old French SI Reconsidered". Transactions of the Philological Society 116 (3), 332-362.
- 2016."A Comparative Perspective on the Evolution of Romance Clausal Structure". Diachronica 33 (4), 461-502. View Draft
- 2016."On the Left Periphery of V2 Languages". Rivista di Grammatica Generativa 38: Selected Papers from the 41st Incontro di Grammatica Generativa, 287-310.
- 2015. “Verb-Initial Orders in Medieval Romance: A Comparative Account.” Revue Romaine de Linguistique. Special Issue on Syntactic Variation.
- 2015. "The nature of Old Spanish verb second reconsidered." Lingua 164, 132-155.
- 2015. “Microvariation in Old Italo-Romance Syntax: Evidence from Old Sardinian and Old Sicilian.” Archivio Glottologico Italiano 100 (1), 3-36.
- 2015.“The Old Sardinian Condaghes: A Syntactic Study.” Transactions of the Philological Society 113 (2), 177-205.
Book Chapters
- In Prep. "Sentential Word Order" in J. Garzonio (ed.) A Grammar of Old Venetian. With Cecilia Poletto.
- Forthcoming. “Resumption in Medieval Romance: Reconsidering SI”. In L. Haegeman, T. Lohndal and C. Meklenborg (eds.) Adverbial Resumption in V2 Languages. Oxfod Studies in Comparative Syntax. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- 2021. "Evaluating the Contact Hypothesis for Old French Word Order". In S. Wolfe and C. Meklenborg (eds). Continuity and Variation in Germanic and Romance. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 275-297.
- 2021. "Locative Prepositions in the House". In S. Wolfe and C. Meklenborg (eds). Continuity and Variation in Germanic and Romance. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 472-495. With Kersti Börjars and Nigel Vincent.
- 2021. "Germanic and Romance – Data, method, and theory". In S. Wolfe and C. Meklenborg (eds), Continuity and Variation in Germanic and Romance. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1-15. With Christine Meklenborg.
- 2020. "Old French SI, Grammaticalisation and the Interconnectedness of Change". In B. Drinka (ed.) Historical Linguistics 2017: Selected papers from the 23rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, San Antonio, 31st July-4th August 2017. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
- 2020. "Introduction". In S. Wolfe and M. Maiden (eds). Variation and Change in Gallo-Romance Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1-9. With Martin Maiden.
- 2020. "Old Gallo-Romance, Periodization, and the Left Periphery". In S. Wolfe and M. Maiden (eds). Variation and Change in Gallo-Romance Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 9-40.
- 2020. "Introduction." in R. Woods and S. Wolfe (eds) Rethinking Verb Second. Oxford: OUP, 1-15.
- 2020. "Rethinking Medieval Romance Verb Second." In R. Woods and S. Wolfe (eds) Rethinking Verb Second. Oxford: OUP, 348-368.
- 2018. Occitan, Verb Second and the Medieval Romance Word Order Debate. In J. Berns, H. Jacobs and D. Nouveau (eds.) Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2015: Selected Papers from Going Romance Nijmegen 2015. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 315-336.
- 2018. "Syntactic Variation in Two Sister Languages: A Study of Word Order in Old French and Old Occitan". In G. Panā Dindelegan, A. Dragomirescu, I. Nicula and A. Nicolae (eds.) Romance Syntax. Comparative and diachronic perspectives. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 53-84.
- 2015. “Medieval Sardinian: New Evidence for Syntactic Change from Latin to Romance. In D. T. T. Haug (ed.) Historical Linguistics 2013: Selected papers from the 21st International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Oslo, 5-9 August 2013. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
- 2015. “Evidence for Microparametric Variation in Medieval Romance Syntax? The View from Old Sicilian and Old Sardinian”. Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Theses and Dissertations
- 2015. 'Microvariation in Medieval Romance Syntax: A Comparative Study'. Doctoral Thesis. University of Cambridge. Awarded 2nd February 2016.
- 2012. 'Word Order Variation in Medieval Sardinian: A Romance Anomaly?'. MPhil Thesis. University of Cambridge
Invited Talks and Presentations
- 2021. The Romance North/South Divide in Synchrony and Diachrony. Invited talk at ReVerSe1 workshop, Oslo, 10th-11th June 2021.
- 2020. A Fresh Look at Old Italo-Romance SI'. Anglia Ruskin-Cambridge Romance Linguistics Seminars. 19th November 2020.
- 2020. Word Order 'Violations' and the Fine Structure of the Left Periphery. Invited talk at workshop 'Complex Prefields in V2 Languages', University of Wuppertal, 25th-26th June 2020.
- 2020. Germanic in Disguise - Evaluating the Contact Hypothesis. Romance Linguistics Online (ROLO). 15th May 2020.
- 2020. Germanic in Disguise - Evaluating the Contact Hypothesis. University of Padua Linguistics Seminar Series. 7th May 2020.
- 2020. Theory and Data in Historical Romance Syntax. Invited lecture series at Università Federico Secondo, Naples, 22nd-24th May 2019.
- 2019. Using Texts in Linguistics. Invited talk at the Università di Padova doctoral conference on textual methodology, 23rd May 2019.
- 2019. Syntax and Information Structure in Italo- and Gallo-Romance. Invited seminar series at the Università Federico II, Naples, 22nd and 24th May 2019.
- 2019. V2 in Romance - Where are we and where are we headed?. Invited talk to the Traces of History Project Meeting on Verb Second, University of Oslo, 10th January 2019.
- 2018. The Loss of Left Peripheral Focus in Gallo-Romance as a Catastrophic Change. Invited talk to the Workshop on Information Structure and Language Change, Université de Caen Normandie, 3rd-5th April 2018.
- 2018. Bridging Philology and Formal Diachronic Linguistics. Case Studies from Romance. Invited talk to the Philological Society, London, 12th January 2018.
- 2017. Microvariation in Text Languages – Two Romance Case Studies. University of Padua Linguistics Seminar Series. 1st June 2017.
- 2017. Old Gallo-Romance Word Order: The State of the Art. University of Newcastle Invited Speaker Series. 5th October 2016.
- 2016. On the (Non)-Existence of Embedded V2 in Romance. Invited talk to Traces of History Project Workshop on Matrix/Embedded Asymmetries, University of Oslo, 23rd-25th June 2016
- 2016. Towards a New Typology of Verb Second Languages. Invited talk given at Rethinking Verb Second, St John's College, Cambridge, 22nd-24th March 2016.
Peer-Reviewed Conference Presentations
- 2020. Variation and Change in the Medieval French Subject System. 48th Romance Linguistics Seminar, Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge, 3-4th January 2020.
- 2019. Variation and Change in the Medieval French Subject System. 19th International Conference of the Department of Linguistics, University of Bucharest, 22nd-23rd November 2019.
- 2018. Rethinking Romance Microvariation through SI. Syntactic Variation in Romance Workshop at the 18th International Conference of the Department of Linguistics, University of Bucharest, 23-24th November 2018. View Slides
- 2018. Variation and Change in Old French Word Order: The Case of SI. LAGB Annual Meeting 2018, Sheffield, 11th-14th September 2018.
- 2017. Old French and its Place in the V2 Typology. 23rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, San Antonio, Texas, 31st July-4th August 2017.
- 2017. Microvariation and Diachronic Stability in Text Languages: Cases Studies from Romance. Theoretical and Empirical Approaches to Microvariation, Padua. 22nd-24th June 2017
- 2017. Medieval Romance and its Place in the V2 Typology. 43rd Incontro di Grammatica Generativa, Pavia, Italy, 16th-17th February 2017. View Slides
- 2017. Towards a New Account of Old Gallo-Romance Word Order. 45th Romance Linguistics Seminar. Cambridge, 4th-5th January 2017
- 2016. Deriving Modern Romance Isoglosses from Historical Data. 49th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. 31 August – 3 September 2016. University of Naples Federico II, Naples.
- 2016. On the Limits of Variation in V2 Systems. 5th Cambridge Comparative Syntax Conference, Cambridge. 5th-7th May 2016.
- 2016. Modern Germanic and Old Romance: Keys to a New Understanding of Embedded Verb Second. Forum of Germanic Studies 2016: Workshop on Embedded V2, University of Bristol. January 2016. With Theresa Biberauer.
- 2015. The Importance of the Fin/Force Distinction for a Theory of (Medieval Romance) V2. Going Romance, Nijmegen, 10th-12th December 2015.
- 2015. Verb-Movement, EPP-effects and Phase-Edge Properties from Latin to Romance. 15th International Conference of the Department of Linguistics, University of Bucharest: Workshop on Romance Syntax in Synchrony and Diachrony, 27th-28th November 2015.
- 2015. On the History of V-to-C Movement in Romance. Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, University College London. 15th-18th September 2015.
- 2015. Towards a New Account of the Evolution of Romance Clausal Structure. 22nd International Conference on Historical Linguistics: Workshop on Diachronic Syntax and Parametric Theory. University of Naples Federico II. July 2015
- 2015. The Medieval Romance Languages and V2: A New Perspective for Parameter Theory. Traces of History Project: Workshop on Verb-Second. University of Oslo. March 2015
- 2015. The Medieval Romance Languages and V2: A New Perspective on the Evolution of Romance Clausal Structure. 41st Incontro di Grammatica Generativa. Università per Stranieri di Perugia. March 2015
- 2015. Revisiting an Old Problem: The Nature of Spanish Verb-Second Reconsidered. 43rd Romance Linguistics Seminar. Cambridge, January 2015.
- 2014. Syntactic Variation in the Medieval Romance Languages: A New Perspective on Verb-Initial Orders. 14th International Conference of the Department of Linguistics, University of Bucharest. Workshop on Syntactic Variation. November 2014.
- 2013. Syntactic Microvariation in Old Italo Romance: The View from Old Sicilian and Old Sardinian. Going Romance, Amsterdam, November 2013.
- 2013. Towards a Syntactic Typology of Old Italo-Romance. Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, London, August 2013.
- 2013. Medieval Sardinian: New Evidence for Syntactic Change from Latin to Romance. International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Oslo, August 2013.
- 2013. Microvariation in Old Italo-Romance: Data from Old Sicilian and Old Sardinian. 7th Cambridge Italian Dialect Syntax-Morphology Meeting, Cambridge, June 2013.
- 2013. The Interaction of Word Order and Information Structure in Old Sardinian. 8th Newcastle Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics, Newcastle, April 2013.
- 2013. Word Order and Information Structure in Old Sardinian. Incontro di Grammatica Generativa, Modena, February 2013.
- 2013. A Study of Word Order in the Old Sardinian Condaghes. Romance Linguistics Seminar XLI, Cambridge, 3rd January 2013.
Selected Other Talks
- 2020. Syntactic Change in French. General Linguistics Seminar, University of Oxford, 3rd February 2020.
- 2019. Resumption in Venetan, Sicilian and French. The Languages of the Veneto in a Comparative Perspective Workshop, St Catherine's College, Oxford, 4th-5th April 2019.
- 2017. Workshop Introduction: Germanic and Romance, Probing the Similarities and Differences. 23rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, San Antonio, Texas, 31st July-4th August 2017. With Christine Salvesen.
- 2016. Towards a New Account of Old Gallo-Romance Syntax. Romance Linguistics Seminar, University of Oxford, 1st December 2016.
- 2016. Some Problems in Historical Romance Syntax (and Some Germanic Parallels). SyntaxLab, University of Cambridge, 9th March 2016
- 2015. Does Geography Map onto Morphosyntactic Variation in the Medieval Romance Languages? Some Initial Observations. University of Cambridge Historical Linguistics Research Cluster Event, 21st September 2015.
- 2015. Syntactic microvariation in the Medieval Romance languages and the nature of V2 reconsidered. SyntaxLab, University of Cambridge. June 2015.
- 2014. New Perspectives on Old Problems: Towards a Syntactic 'Atlas' of Medieval Romance. University of Cambridge Romance Syntax Seminar. 18th November 2014.
- 2014. Historical Linguistics and Time Travel. St John's College, Cambridge, Access Summer School. 9th September 2014.
- 2014. 5 Language Myths. St John's College, Cambridge, Access Event. 2nd July 2014.
- 2013. Microparametric Variation in Old Romance Syntax. New Data from Southern Italo-Romance. University of Cambridge Syntax Research Cluster Event. 25th September 2013.