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