Isabel Oltra-Massuet
Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Departament d'Estudis Anglesos i Alemanys
I am an Associate Professor - Serra Húnter Fellow (Professora Agregada Serra Húnter) in English language and linguistics in the Department of English and German Studies at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili. I am the Principal Investigator of the ROLLING group. I am an external collaborator at the Neuroscience of Language Lab - New York University Abu Dhabi.
I am mainly interested in morphology and its interface with syntax, semantics, and phonology, as well as in argument structure and the syntax-lexicon interface. I have also worked on the modality of capacity/ability/capability with Elena Castroviejo (Ikerbasque, UPV-EHU), and on theme vowels. Since my research stay at the NeLLab - NYU Abu Dhabi in 2015, I am also interested in priming in comprehension and neurolinguistic processing.
I would be happy to (co-)supervise postgraduate research in the above-stated areas. I am especially interested in argument structure, unergativity, light verb constructions, derivational morphology, deverbal adjectives, and Distributed Morphology.
I received a Llicenciatura in Anglogerman Philology from the Universitat de Barcelona. I hold a Master of Science in Linguistics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D (European Mention) in Linguistics from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
Between 2012 and 2016 I worked as an Assistant Professor (Professora Lectora) in English language and linguistics in the Department of English and German Studies at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili.
In 2010 I joined the Linguistics and Cognitive Science Group (LyCC), led by Violeta Demonte, as a JAE Doc postdoctoral researcher at the Spanish National Research Council (CCHS-CSIC) in Madrid.
Previously, I had worked as a Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin for Catalan Studies (Lectora de català) at the Universität Köln and at the Universität Bonn, as a part-time teacher (Professora associada) in the Department of English and German Studies at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, and as a part-time university college full professor (Professora Titular d'Escola Universitària amb venia docendi) in English and German languages at the University College for Tourism Studies Bettatur (URV Attached Center).
Cambrils - Costa Daurada
