This book offers an integrated description of all aspects of word order in Old Italian, looking at the left periphery not only of the sentence, but also of the verbal phrase and determiner phrase. It makes important contributions to the study of medieval Italian, Romance historical linguistics, and diachronic syntactic change more generally.

• 1: The Old Italian left periphery


• 2: Scrambling in vP


• 3: Scrambling in the DP phase


• 4: The vP left periphery in different sentence types


• 5: Quantifier movement


• 6: Negative words


• 7: The grammar of OI in a broader perspective

Cecilia Poletto is Full Professor of Romance Linguistics at the University of Frankfurt am Main. Her research topics include diachronic and synchronic micro-variation in Romance dialects, and she is part of the research group which set up the online syntactic atlas of the dialects of Italy (ASit). Her publications include The Higher Functional Field: Evidence from the North Italian Dialects (OUP 2000) and La sintassi del soggetto nei dialetti italiani settentrionali (Unipress 1993)