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Foundational initiatives & Research platforms

Research Platforms & Networks

  • Heritage Language Syntax (HLS)

    • *Founder* (2020–present) Platform and international workshop series connecting syntactic theory with heritage and minority language data.

  • StreamGram 

    • *Co-Founder * Open initiative dedicated to accessible grammar documentation and research dissemination.

  • FARM​ (Formal Approaches to Romance Microvariation)

    • Founder * Platform for the study of Romance dialectology (with the innovative Challenges​

Conference series & academic meetings

  • CIDSM (Comparative Italian Dialect Syntax-Morphology Meeting, former Cambridge Italian Dialect Syntax Meeting)

    • *Founder & Organizer* (2006–present) Annual international conference series established in Cambridge in 2006, uniting researchers on non-standard Italian varieties.

  • Going Romance

    • President / Steering Committee

    • The primary European conference series on Romance linguistics and syntactic theory.

  • oGLOW board (2008-2016?)

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