Microcontact

Research team

 

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Roberta D'Alessandro
Principal Investigator
Roberta D'Alessandro is professor of Syntax and Language Variation at Utrecht University. She is the PI of Microcontact.
Her interests include syntactic microvariation, agreement, contact, auxiliary selection, and the syntax-PF interface.
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Luigi Andriani
Post-doctoral researcher
Luigi Andriani received his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2017. His expertise includes Romance linguistics; Italian linguistics and dialectology; synchronic and diachronic morpho-syntactic micro-variation.
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Brechje van Osch
Research associate, UU
Brechje studied Spanish and General linguistics at the University of Amsterdam. She worked as a PhD researcher at the same university on a project about heritage speakers of Spanish in the Netherlands. Her research foci are bilingualism, heritage language acquisition and the interfaces between syntax and other domains.
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Alberto Frasson
PhD candidate
Alberto graduated in Foreign Languages and Literatures from the University of Venice Ca' Foscari in 2016, with a thesis entitled "The Evolution of Russian and Slovene Compound Tenses in a Historical and Comparative Perspective".

His ERC subproject is Subject Clitics in Contact.
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Luana Sorgini
PhD Candidate
Luana graduated in Foreign Languages and Literatures from the University of Venice Ca' Foscari in 2017, with a thesis entitled "Təné periphrases in Eastern Abruzzese: syntax and interpretation".

Her ERC subproject is Person-driven auxiliaries and Differential Object Marking in contact and in diachrony.
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Silvia Terenghi
PhD Candidate
Silvia graduated in Linguistics and Translation from the University of Pisa in 2017, with a thesis entitled "Seco 'with him, with her, with them': sé as long distance reflexive in Italo-Romance".

Her ERC subproject is The encoding of deixis in pronouns, determiners, adjectives, and adverbs.
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Irene Fernández Serrano
Visiting PhD student, Fall 2019
CLT Centre de Lingüística Teòrica
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
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Jan Casalicchio
Post-doctoral researcher, 2017-2019
Jan Casalicchio received his PhD in General linguistics from the university of Padua (2013). He was a Microcontact post-doctoral researcher until July 2019.
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Francesco Maria Ciconte
Research Associate, 2017-2019
Francesco Maria Ciconte holds a PhD in Italian Linguistics from the University of Manchester, UK. He now works at the University of Puerto Rico.
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Maria Pilar Colomina Samitier
visiting PhD student, Fall 2018
CLT Centre de Lingüística Teòrica
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
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Marta Khouja
visiting PhD student, Fall 2018
CLT Centre de Lingüística Teòrica
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
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Sara Cardullo
Visiting student, Spring 2019
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Walther Glödstaf
Research Master Intern
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Julian Gonggrijp
Scientific Programmer
Julian Gonggrijp works as a scientific programmer for the Digital Humanities Lab. He graduated in Cognitive Artificial Intelligence. His interests include Linguistics and Computer Science, among many other things. Julian was in charge of developing the main web application as well as auxiliary data collection tools for Microcontact.