Madhusmitha Venkatesan. 2026. Unchanging Core Syntax: Gender in Heritage Tamil. Indian Institute of Technology Delhi.

Steven Zetao Xu. In progress. Dissertation project: A comparative investigation on the micro and macro-contact of Wu dialects in China and in Europe. The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Rima Ben Ayeche. In progress. Sluicing and Fragment Answers in Standard and Tunisian Arabic.  Utrecht University.

Luana Sorgini. 2026. Differential Object Marking in Heritage Italo-Romance: A Microcontact perspective. ERC project Microcontact.

Silvia Terenghi. 2023 Missing person. Structure and change in Romance demonstrative systems. PhD cum laude. Utrecht University. ERC project Microcontact.

Alberto Frasson  2022. The syntax of subject pronouns in heritage languages: innovation and complexification.  Utrecht University. ERC project Microcontact.

Nina Ouddeken. 2018. Voicing in transition: Laryngeal characteristics in West-Germanic and Italo-Romance dialects. PhD dissertation, CLS Nijmegen.

Laura Migliori. 2016. Argument structure, alignment and auxiliaries between Latin and Romance/. PhD dissertation, Leiden University, NWO Vidi project Splitting and clustering grammatical information.

Giuseppe Torcolacci. 2015. Marking the Default: Auxiliary selection in Southern Italian dialects. PhD dissertation, Leiden University, NWO Vidi project Splitting and clustering grammatical information.

Edoardo Cavirani. 2015. Modeling Phonologization: Vowel reduction and epenthesis in Lunigiana dialects, PhD dissertation, University of Leiden and University of Pisa.

Sara Lusini. 2013. Yes/no question-marking in Italian dialects: A typological, theoretical and experimental approach. PhD dissertation, Leiden University.