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4 new project members!

Four new project members have been selected to join our team between July and August.

Jan Casalicchio (post-doc), will be working on the diachrony of Italo-Romance varieties in contact with Italian. Jan is now post-doc at the University of Trento, and is an expert of both diachronic syntax and northern Italo-Romance languages.

Luana Sorgini, PhD candidate, from the University of Venice, will be working on auxiliary selection and Differential Object Marking in contact; her main fieldwork are will be Argentina.

Alberto Frasson, PhD candidate, also from the University of Venice, will work on subject clitics in contact; his main fieldwork area will be Brazil.

Silvia Terenghi, PhD candidate, from the University of Pisa and the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, will work on deixis in contact; her main fieldwork area will be Québec, Canada.

We look forward to welcoming the new team members in Utrecht very soon!