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About me

I am a linguist.

I work at the Utrecht Institute of Linguistics as professor of Linguistics / Syntax and Language Variation and Chair of Linguistics, as well as head of the Linguistics section. Until June 2022, I was PI of the ERC CoG project Microcontact.

My main interests are syntactic variation, language change in contact, heritage language syntax, (Italo-)Romance microvariation, impersonal pronouns, and the syntax-phonology interface. 

I am editor-in-chief of the new Isogloss. Open Journal of Romance Linguistics and president of Going Romance.

I am also series editor of the Language Science Press OA series Open Generative Syntax  and editor-in-chief of the Brill Series Grammars and Sketches of the Romance Languages 

Short CV

Current

Utrecht University

2017- 2021

Utrecht University

2007-2016

Leiden University

2005-2007

University of Cambridge

2000-2004

University of Stuttgart

Chair Professor of Linguistics / Syntax and Language Variation

Head of the Linguistics section

Editor-in-chief of Isogloss. Open Journal of Romance Linguistics

Editor of Open Generative Syntax, Language Science Press

Editor of Grammars and Sketches of the World's Languages - Romance

President of Going Romance

Professor of Syntax and Language Variation

PI of ERC project Microcontact

Chair professor of Italian Language and Culture

Chair of LUCL advisory council

Marie Curie IEF Postdoctoral research Fellow

PhD in Linguistics summa cum laude

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