CURRICULUM VITAE - DELIA BENTLEY PERSONAL RECORD Full name Delia Bentley. Education Oct. 1993-June 1997 PhD in Linguistics . Department of Linguistics, The University of Manchester. Oct 1991-Sept 1993 MA in Linguistics. Department of Linguistics, The University of Manchester. 1985-86 to 1989-90 Degree in Modern Languages and Literatures. Università degli Studi di Palermo, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia. Academic qualifications December 1997 PhD in Linguistics. December 1993 MA in Linguistics. July 1990 Degree in Modern Languages and Literatures (110-110 e la lode). Previous employment and appointments held April 2012-August 2014 Head of the Division of Linguistics and English Language, School of Arts, Languages and Cultures, The University of Manchester. Sept. 2011-August 2012 Head of Russian and East European Studies, School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures, The University of Manchester. Sept. 2010-August 2012 Head of Italian Studies, School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures, The University of Manchester. Oct. 2007 to July 2015 Senior Lecturer, The University of Manchester. Feb. 2004- Sept. 2007 Lecturer, Italian Studies, School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures, The University of Manchester. Sept. 2002-Jan. 2004 Lecturer in Italian (grade B). School of Languages, Salford University. Sept. 1997-Aug. 2002 Research Associate on the partly AHRC-funded project Archaism and Innovation in the Linguistic History of Europe , Department of Linguistics, The University of Manchester (Principal Investigators: Nigel B. Vincent and Richard Hogg). Oct. 1991-June 1995 Language assistant. Department of Italian Studies, The University of Manchester. Sept. 1990-May 1991 Italian language assistant. St. Ninian's High School, Rouken Glen Road, Giffnock, Glasgow. Present appointment August 2015 to present Professor of Romance Linguistics, Division of Linguistics and English language, School of Arts, Languages, and Cultures, The University of Manchester. 1 of 19 Visiting appointments/secondments Michaelmas term 2000-01 Lecturer in Romance and Italian Linguistics. Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge. Membership of bodies Member of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain. Member of the Linguistic Society of America. Member of the Philological Society (honorary member of Council between 2006 and 2012). Member of the Centro di Studi Filologici e Linguistici Siciliani. Career Breaks On maternity leave from 4 April to 20 September 2004 and from 3 November 2007 to 1 August 2008. A. RESEARCH AND ACADEMIC/PROFESSIONAL STANDING A.1. Publications Authored books 1. Bentley, D., Ciconte, F. M., and Cruschina, S. (2015). Existentials and locatives in Romance dialects of Italy . Oxford: Oxford University Press, xxiv + 306pp, ISBN: 9780198745266. 2. Bentley, D. (2006) Split intransitivity in Italian . Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, EALT 30, xiv + 452pp., ISBN: 3-11-017997-0. Edited Books and Thematic Issues of Journals 1. Bentley, D., Ciconte, F. M., Cruschina, S. (eds) (2013) Existential Constructions in Cross-Linguistic Perspective . Thematic Issue of Italian Journal of Linguistics (including an authored Introduction, pp. 1- 13, and an authored article, see item 3 under Refereed Academic Journal Articles), 173 pp., ISSN 1120- 2726. 2. Bentley, D. and Ledgeway, A. (eds) (2007) Sui dialetti italo-romanzi. Saggi in onore di Nigel B. Vincent (Special supplement number 1 to The Italianist 27). King’s Lynn, Norfolk: Biddles Ltd, 316 pp., ISSN 0261-4340. 3. Smith, J. C. and D. Bentley (eds) (2000) Historical Linguistics 1995. Volume I: General issues and non-Germanic Languages. Selected papers from the 12th International Conference on Historical Linguistics , Manchester, August 1995. Amsterdam: Benjamins, xi + 438 pp., ISBN 90-272-3666-6. Refereed Academic Journal Articles 1. Bentley, D. and Ledgeway, A. (2014) Manciati siti? Les constructions moyennes avec les participes résultatifs statifs dans l’italien et les variétés italo-romanes méridionales. Langages 194: 63-80. 2. Bentley, D. (2013) Subject canonicality and definiteness effects in Romance there sentences. Language 89 (4): 675-712. (SCImago Journal Rank indicator : 1,575). 3. Bentley, D., Ciconte, F. M., Cruschina, S. (2013) Micro-variation in subject agreement: The case of existential pivots with split focus in Italo-Romance. Italian Journal of Linguistics 25 (1): 15-43. 4. Bentley, D. (2011) Sui costrutti esistenziali sardi. Effetti di definitezza, deissi, evidenzialità. Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie 127 (1): 111-140. 5. Bentley, D. (2010) Principles of subject markedness in Romance. Archivio Glottologico Italiano XCV (II): 152-189. 6. Bentley, D. (2004) Ne -cliticisation and split intransitivity. Journal of Linguistics 40: 219-262. 7. Bentley, D. (2004) Definiteness effects: evidence from Sardinian. Transactions of the Philological Society 102 (1): 57-101. 2 of 15 8. Bentley, D. and Þ. Eyþórsson (2003) Auxiliary selection and the semantics of unaccusativity. Lingua 114: 447-471. 9. Bentley, D. (2001) Proprietà sintattiche dell’oggetto diretto in siciliano antico: la distribuzione della particella partitiva (in)di . Bollettino del Centro di Studi Filologici e Linguistici Siciliani 19: 101-119. 10. Bentley, D. (2000a) Metonymy and metaphor in the evolution of modal verbs: evidence from Italo- Romance. Belgian Journal of Linguistics 14: 1-22. 11. Bentley, D. (2000b) I costrutti condizionali in siciliano: un’analisi diacronica. Revue Romane 35 (1): 3- 20. 12. Bentley, D. (2000c) Semantica e sintassi nello sviluppo dei costrutti condizionali: il caso del siciliano. Revue Romane 35 (2): 163-176. 13. Bentley, D. (1999) On the origin of Sardinian àere a plus infinitive. Medioevo Romanzo XXIII (III): 321-358. 14. Bentley, D. (1998) Modalità e tempo in siciliano: un'analisi diacronica dell’espressione del futuro. Vox Romanica 57: 117-137. 15. Bentley, D. (1997) Language and dialect in Modern Sicily. The Italianist 17: 204-230. Journal articles in preparation 1. Agreement impoverishment and the logical structure of VS constructions. 2. Italo-Romance result-state participles and the Monotonicity Hypothesis.. Book chapters 1. Bentley, D., Ciconte, F. M., Cruschina, S., Ramsammy, M. (2016) Micro-variation in information structure: Existential constructions in Italo-Romance. In M. M. Jocelyne Fernandez-Vest and Robert Van Valin Jr (eds), Information Structure and Spoken Language in a Cross-linguistic Perspective . Amsterdam / Philadelphia: Benjamins, pp. 95-120. 2. Bentley, Delia and Ledgeway, Adam (2015) Autour de la question des participes résultatifs statifs dans les variétés romanes. In I. Mirto (ed.) Le relazioni irresistibili. Pisa: Edizioni ETS, pp. 61-91. 2. Bentley, D. (2014) On the personal infinitive in Sicilian. In P. Benincà, A. Ledgeway and N. Vincent (eds), Dialects and Diachrony . Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 96-115. 3. Bentley, D. (2012) Una explicación unificada de las construcciones con si en italiano. In R. Mairal, L. Guerrero and C. González (eds), El funcionalismo en la teoría lingüística. La Gramática del Papel y la Referencia. Avances y aplicaciones . Madrid: Ediciones Akal, pp. 152-170. 4. Bentley, D. (2008) The interplay of focus structure and syntax: evidence from two sister languages. In R. Van Valin Jr. (ed.), Investigations of the Syntax-Semantics-Pragmatics Interface . Amsterdam: Philadelphia: Benjamins, pp. 263-284. 5. Bentley, D. (2007) Relazioni grammaticali e ruoli pragmatici: siciliano e italiano a confronto. In Bentley, D. and A. Ledgeway (eds), Sui dialetti italo-romanzi. Saggi in onore di Nigel B. Vincent (Special supplement number 1 to The Italianist 27). King’s Lynn, Norfolk: Biddles Ltd, pp. 48-62. 6. Bentley, D. (2002) New Linguistic Research into Italo-Romance Dialects. In A. L. Lepschy and A. Tosi (eds), Multilingualism in Italy: Past and Present . European Humanities Research Centre, Oxford: LEGENDA, pp. 82-107. 7. Bentley, D. (1997) Modalità e futuro nel siciliano antico e moderno. In M. D'Agostino (ed.), Aspetti della variabilità. Ricerche linguistiche siciliane . Palermo: Centro di Studi Filologici e Linguistici Siciliani, pp. 49-66. 8. Bentley, D. (1996) Alcune osservazioni sui costrutti condizionali nell'area di Palermo. In R. Hastings (ed.) Quaderni di ricerca . Centro di Dialettologia e Linguistica Italiana di Manchester, pp. 1-20. Book chapters to appear 1. Bentley, D. (in press, 2016) Split Intransitivity. In A. Ledgeway and M. Maiden (eds). Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages . Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2. Bentley, D. and Ciconte, F. M. (in press, 2016) Copular and Existential Constructions. In A. Ledgeway and M. Maiden (eds), Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages . Oxford: Oxford University Press. 3 of 15 3. Bentley, D. and Cruschina, S. (forthcoming 2017) Existential Constructions. In S. Fischer and C. Gabriel (eds), Manuals of Romance Linguistics (MRL): Grammatical Interfaces . Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 4. Bentley, D. (forthcoming 2017) Information structure. In R. Van Valin Jr. (ed.) Handbook of Role and Reference Grammar . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 5. Bentley, D. (forthcoming 2017) Copular and existential constructions. In E. Stark and A. Dufter (eds) Manuals of Romance Linguistics (MRL): Morphosyntax and Syntax . Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Invited foreword in research monograph 1 Bentley, D. (2009) Prefazione. In E. Mocciaro. Sull’espressione non prototipica dell’agentività nei testi siciliani del XIV secolo (Quaderni di Artesia, Archivio Testuale del Siciliano Antico,