I'm a MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow at Università Ca' Foscari, with the project ‘Syntactic functionality of motion verbs in Italo-Romance’.

I am a passionate theoretical linguist, mainly working on Romance languages. 

I am currently working as a MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01)  at Università Ca' Foscari, Venice. The title of my project is ‘Syntactic functionality of motion verbs in Italo-Romance’.

Previously, I was employed as a post-doctoral researcher in the ERC-funded project LeibnizDream at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. My contribution to LeibnizDream is in the fields of motion events, causation, and agency.

My main research interests are in syntactic theory and formal linguistics. My primary focus is on how to model cross-linguistic variation in morpho-syntax. I like to tackle well-known yet unsolved linguistic puzzles, providing innovative and detailed analyses that address potential technical obstacles and counterexamples.

Most of my work focuses on Italian and Italo-Romance. I have mainly worked on agreement, auxiliary selection, restructuring, clitics, and pronouns. My main expertise is in Minimalism, Optimality Theory (in its various versions), and Distributed Morphology. I have also engaged in side projects exploring diverse topics in non-Romance languages, such as allomorphy and suppletion in Korean, and verbal number in Mupun. 

I obtained my PhD in 2022 from Universität Leipzig in the graduate school IGRA (Interaktion grammatischer Bausteine – Interaction of grammatical building blocks). 

As an undergraduate, I was interested in computational linguistics and historical linguistics.