Cecilia Poletto (born 17 August 1962 in Venice)[1][2] is an Italian linguist who works in the framework of generative grammar.
In 1993, she received her doctorate from the University of Padua for a thesis titled The syntax of the subject in Northern Italian dialects.
[1] Poletto's research has focused primarily on the Romance languages, and particularly Italo-Romance and varieties of French, in both synchronic and diachronic perspective, using the methods of formal syntax, dialectology and historical linguistics.
[1][4] She was one of the founding members of the Syntactic Atlas of Italy (ASIT) project.
[4] Linguistic topics she has worked on include verb-second, negation, indefinites, relative clauses, articles, and quantification.