[1] Zanuttini completed her Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania in 1991[2] under Anthony Kroch and Richard S. Kayne, with a dissertation entitled Syntactic Properties of Sentential Negation.
[4] She is the author and coauthor of six books and has published numerous articles on micro-syntactic variation, clause types, and sentential negation.
[5] The majority of Zanuttini's research falls into three categories: micro-syntactic variation, clause types, and sentential negation.
[9] Members of the project, housed at Yale University, conduct research on minority varieties of English spoken in North America and micro-syntactic differences between them.
[11] She has received three major grants from the National Science Foundation (2003–2005, 2006–2008, and 2014–2017) to conduct collaborative research on minority varieties of English.