Education

I am currently undertaking my doctoral research project at the University of Cambridge under the supervision of Adam Ledgeway. Before starting my doctorate, I completed an MPhil in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at the University of Cambridge under the supervision of Professor Adam Ledgeway, specialising in Romance and Italo-Romance syntax, with a thesis looking at the emergence of Differential Object Marking in spoken northern Italian. This project allowed me to find novel data and trends in the development of this phenomenon in what is an understudied contact variety between standard Italian and the northern Italo-Romance varieties. You can download a copy of my MPhil thesis here.

I received my B.A. at the University of Cambridge in Modern and Medieval Languages (Spanish and Italian) in 2018, graduating with a first class with distinction and a special mark of distinction in Italian. During my undergraduate studies, I spent a year studying under the Erasmus+ program at the University of Padua, specialising in Romance syntax and Romanian language.

Languages

I am a native speaker of English and a heritage speaker of Punjabi. I also speak Spanish, Italian, French, Romanian, and Portuguese fluently. I have a working knowledge of Hindustani (Hindi/Urdu) and Ladino/Judeo-Spanish.