Adam Ledgeway
British linguist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Adam Noel Ledgeway, FBA is an academic linguist, specialising in Italian and other Romance languages. Since 2015, he has been Chair of the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages at the University of Cambridge; he has also been Professor of Italian and Romance Linguistics at the University since 2013 and a Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge, since 1996 . After completing his undergraduate degree at the University of Salford, Ledgeway studied for his master's degree at the University of Manchester, which also awarded him his doctorate in 1996. He took up a temporary assistant lectureship at Cambridge in 1997, which was made permanent the following year, before being promoted to lecturer in 2001 and senior lecturer three years later.
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Published Works
- From Latin to Romance: Morphosyntactic Typology and Change (2012) (177)
- The Cambridge handbook of historical syntax (2017) (148)
- Grammatica diacronica del napoletano (2009) (119)
- Moving through the left periphery: the dual complementiser system in the dialects of Southern Italy (2005) (67)
- A Comparative Syntax of the Dialects of Southern Italy: A Minimalist Approach (1991) (67)
- Satisfying V2 in early Romance: Merge vs. Move1 (2008) (61)
- Verb Movement, Adverbs and Clitic Positions in Romance (2005) (53)
- The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages (2010) (51)
- Variation in the Romance infinitive: the case of the southern Calabrian inflected infinitive (1998) (41)
- Syntactic variation : the dialects of Italy (2010) (31)
- SYNTACTIC AND MORPHOSYNTACTIC TYPOLOGY AND CHANGE (2010) (31)
- Diachrony and Dialects: Grammatical Change in the Dialects of Italy (2014) (30)
- Greek disguised as Romance? The case of Southern Italy (2012) (29)
- Syllable, segment and prosody (2011) (29)
- Il sistema completivo dei dialetti meridionali : la doppia serie di complementatori (2003) (28)
- At the C-T boundary: Investigating Abruzzese complementation☆ (2010) (28)
- Head‐marking and dependent‐marking (2012) (24)
- Adverb Agreement and Split Intransitivity : Evidence from Southern Italy (2011) (21)
- Reconstructing complementizer‐drop in the dialects of the Salento: A syntactic or phonological phenomenon? (2015) (15)
- The dialects of southern Italy (2016) (15)
- CHANGE AND CONTINUITY IN FORM–FUNCTION RELATIONSHIPS (2010) (14)
- Differential Object Marking and the properties of D in the dialects of the extreme south of Italy (2019) (14)
- Lo sviluppo dei dimostrativi nei dialetti centromeridionali (2004) (13)
- Auxiliary selection and participial agreement (2016) (12)
- Printed in the United Kingdom (2008) (11)
- Late Latin Verb Second: The Sentential Word Order of the “Itinerarium Egeriae” (2017) (11)
- Grammaticalization from Latin to Romance (2011) (11)
- LATIN AND THE STRUCTURE OF WRITTEN ROMANCE (2010) (10)
- ROMANCE LINGUISTICS AND HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS: REFLECTIONS ON SYNCHRONY AND DIACHRONY (2010) (8)
- Italian, Tuscan, and Corsican (2016) (7)
- Parallels in Romance Nominal and Clausal Microvariation (2015) (7)
- The Cambridge history of the romance languages. Volume I, Structures (2011) (7)
- The Dual Complementizer System in Southern Italy: Spirito Greco, Materia Romanza? (2017) (7)
- L¿estensione dell¿ausiliare perfettivo avere nell¿antico napoletano: inransività scissa condizionata da fattori modali (2003) (7)
- The development of the southern subjunctive (2014) (7)
- Chapter 17. Parameters in the development of Romance perfective auxiliary selection (2019) (7)
- Marking presuppositional negation in the dialects of southern Italy (2016) (7)
- Subject Licensing in CP (2011) (7)
- The Negative Imperative in Southern Calabria. Spirito Greco, Materia Romanza Again? (2020) (6)
- The logic of Romance past participle agreement (2010) (6)
- The dialects of central Italy (2016) (6)
- Il contatto tra il greco e le varietà romanze nella calabria meridionale (2018) (6)
- Information and discourse structure (2016) (6)
- Perfective auxiliation in Italo-Romance: The complementarity of historical and modern cross-dialectal evidence (2014) (6)
- From Latin to Romance: Configurationality, Functional Categories and Head-Marking (2012) (5)
- Asyndetic complementation in Neapolitan dialect (1997) (5)
- Microvariation in dative-marking in the Romance and Greek varieties of southern Italy (2020) (5)
- Testing linguistic theory and variation to their limits: The case of Romance (2013) (5)
- Endogenous and Exogenous Theories of Syntactic Change (2017) (4)
- The causative construction in the dialects of southern Italy and the phonologysyntax interface (2019) (4)
- Gradience and Gradualness vs Abruptness (2017) (4)
- Principles and Parameters (2017) (4)
- Markedness, Naturalness and Complexity (2017) (3)
- Imperfect Transmission and Discontinuity (2017) (3)
- Dative constructions in Romance and beyond (2020) (3)
- On the decline of edge-fronting from Latin to Romance (2018) (3)
- Geography and distribution of the Romance languages in Europe (2013) (3)
- The expression of progressive aspect in Grico: mapping morphosyntactic isoglosses in an endangered Italo-Greek variety (2018) (2)
- ADJECTIVAL POSITIONS IN BARESE (2015) (2)
- Chapter 19. Phonological correlates of syntactic structure (2018) (2)
- Evidence and sources (2013) (2)
- The structure of the clause (2016) (2)
- Chapter 2. Parameters in Romance adverb agreement (2017) (2)
- Non-verbal predication and clitics in Aromanian* (2019) (2)
- 23. Syntheticity and Analyticity (2012) (2)
- 4.1 Varieties in Italy 1 (2015) (2)
- Philology and linguistics: when data meet theory. Two case studies II: the case of the Placiti cassinesi (2011) (2)
- Acquisition and Learnability (2017) (2)
- ON THE SYNTACTIC SPECIALIZATION OF ROMANIAN DEMONSTRATIVES AND THE GRAMMATICALIZATION OF THE (2015) (2)
- Sui dialetti italo-romanzi: Saggi in onore di Nigel B. Vincent (2007) (2)
- Configurationality and the rise of constituent structure (2012) (1)
- Lingua italiana in bocca calabra: Italian in Calabria (2010) (1)
- Chapter 17. Non-verbal predication and clitics in Aromanian (2019) (1)
- The sociology of the Romance languages (2013) (1)
- The dialects of Italy at the interfaces (2019) (1)
- Variation in the Gallo-Romance left periphery (2020) (1)
- Corpora and Quantitative Methods (2017) (1)
- Approcci diversi alla dialettologia italiana contemporanea (2014) (1)
- Rethinking microvariation in Romance demonstrative systems (2020) (1)
- The syntactic distribution of raddoppiamento fonosinttatico in Cosentino (2021) (1)
- Sulla storia dei verbi copulari dei dialetti dell'alto Meridione: il caso del napoletano (2008) (1)
- Changing alignments in the Greek of southern Italy (2020) (1)
- Non-syntactic Sources and Triggers of Syntactic Change (2017) (1)
- The Comparative Method and Comparative Reconstruction (2017) (1)
- Capitolo 12: Forme e uso del congiuntivo (2009) (0)
- Capitolo 3: Consonantismo (2009) (0)
- Capitolo 6: L’aggettivo (2009) (0)
- Passive Periphrases in the Romance Languages (2021) (0)
- Language, dialects and linguistic research (2001) (0)
- The rise and fall of alignments (2012) (0)
- Capitolo 21: Ordine delle parole (2009) (0)
- Costrutti causativi e con verbi di percezione nell'epica cavalleresca (2016) (0)
- Capitolo 24: Subordinazione (2009) (0)
- Capitolo 16: Costruzioni copulari (2009) (0)
- Capitolo 9: Generalità (2009) (0)
- Capitolo 5: Determinanti e quantificatori (2009) (0)
- V2 beyond borders (2021) (0)
- Capitolo 2: Vocalismo (2009) (0)
- Capitolo 4: Il nome (2009) (0)
- Il tempi sovraccomposti nel napoletano antico (1997) (0)
- Capitolo 15: Perifrasi verbali attive (2009) (0)
- Capitolo 14: Forme nominali (2009) (0)
- Syntactic variation and the dialects of Italy: an overview (2009) (0)
- Vocabolario-Atlante del Lessico Venatorio in Sicilia. Tre voci di saggio (2011) (0)
- Variazione nella codifica degli argomenti verbali nelle varietà romanze e greche della Calabria meridionale: "dativo greco" e marca differenziale dell'oggetto diretto (2019) (0)
- Analogy and Extension (2017) (0)
- Residues and Extensions of Perfective Auxiliary be: Modal Conditioning (2022) (0)
- Maiden, morphology, and more (2022) (0)
- Negation and Verb-Movement in Romance: New Perspectives on Jespersen’s Cycle (2023) (0)
- From Latin to Romance: a configurational approach (2012) (0)
- From Latin to Romance: introduction (2012) (0)
- ITALIAN STUDIES: LANGUAGE (1998) (0)
- Configurationality and the rise of functional structure (2012) (0)
- Romance outside the Romània (2013) (0)
- References and bibliographical abbreviations (2010) (0)
- Capitolo 13: Imperativo (2009) (0)
- Capitolo 20: Avverbi (2009) (0)
- La sintassi dei dialetti meridionali (2007) (0)
- Capitolo 7: Il possessivo (2009) (0)
- Capitolo 18: Negazione (2009) (0)
- Capitolo 17: Costrutti passivi e indefiniti (2009) (0)
- Capitolo 19: Preposizioni (2009) (0)
- List of contributors (2010) (0)
- Periphrasis and inflexion (2022) (0)
- Capitolo 11: Uso dei tempi indicativi (2009) (0)
- I Placiti cassinesi : punti di incontro tra teoria e dati (2012) (0)
- Lista delle tabelle (2020) (0)
- Residui del genere neutro come categoria morfosintatticamente funzionale nell’italo-romanzo meridionale (2016) (0)
- Introduction (2020) (0)
- Capitolo 23: Codifica argomentale (2009) (0)
- Capitolo 22: Le interrogative (2009) (0)
- Capitolo 1: Prosodia, struttura sillabica e rafforzamento consonantico (2009) (0)
- Differential object marking in the dialects of southern Italy: an overview (2023) (0)
- Capitolo 8: Pronomi personali (2009) (0)
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