About me

I'm currently an Assistant professor (senior) in Linguistics at the Department of Humanities of the University of Pavia (Italy) with an expertise in Linguistic typology.

I was born in Milan (Italy) in 1989. For my BA, I studied Intercultural communication at the University of Milano-Bicocca with a thesis on the process of language planning of the Ladin language (lld). I then moved to the University of Turin where I attended the MA course in Linguistics and discussed a thesis in African linguistics (under the supervision of Mauro Tosco) on the typology of interplay between gender and number categories in Cushitic languages (Afro-Asiatic).

I hold a PhD in Linguistics from the Universities of Bergamo and Pavia (Advisor: Sonia Cristofaro). My doctoral thesis was the first large-scale cross-linguistic description of pluractional markers in the world's languages.

I was awarded a three-year post-doctoral fellowship at the LILEC department of the Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna in the project UniveraLIST- List constructions in typological and cognitive perspective project (PI: Francesca Masini) to study the cross-linguistic diversity of list constructions. I then spent a year as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Insubria working on the project Towards a typology of verbalizers (PI: Andrea Sansò).

Before joining the University of Pavia, I was an Assistant professor (junior) at the FICLIT department of Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna.

I'm the founder and a member of the (new) Transalpine Typology Meeting series, a network of typologists located around the Alps interested in comparative linguistics and linguistic diversity.

My research mainly focuses on large-scale cross-linguistic investigations of morphosyntactic phenomena. My work has focused on a wide range of linguistic phenomena such as pluractional markers and reduplicative patterns, but also including category-changing strategies (e.g., verbalizers) and discourse phenomena (general extenders and listing patterns). In my research, I adopt a converging evidence method that tries to catch any kind of information from all the possible sources and data available, and this results in a multidisciplinary approach comprising typological, diachronic, corpus-based, and cognitive perspectives. Recently, my interests have also expanded to Indigenous languages of North and South America.