Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages Raised Faculty Building University of Cambridge Sidgwick Avenue Cambridge CB3 9DA United Kingdom
As part of the ERC ‘Rethinking Comparative Syntax Project’, Sam Wolfe is researching the comparative and historical syntax of the Romance and Germanic languages, with a particular focus on the Verb Second property.
Comparative Romance Linguistics, Italian Dialectology, Gallo-Romance Dialectology, Historical Linguistics, Formal Syntax
2015. “Verb Initial Orders in Medieval Romance. A Comparative Perspective”. Revue roumaine de linguistique LX (2-3 Special Issue on Syntactic Variation), 147-172.
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 (3), 3-36.
2015. “The Old Sardinian Condaghes: A Syntactic Study.” Transactions of the Philological Society 113 (2), 137-205
2015. “Microparametric Variation in Old Italo-Romance Syntax? The View from Old Sicilian and Old Sardinian”. In E. O. Aboh, J. C. Schaeffer and P. Sleeman (eds.) Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2013: Selected Papers from Going Romance Amsterdam 2013. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 51-66.
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, Oslo. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 303-324.
