Name: Leonardo Russo Cardona
College: Gonville & Caius College
Email: lr548@cam.ac.uk
Supervisor: Prof Ian Roberts
Second Supervisor: Prof Ioanna Sitaridou
Research Topic: Voice and non-canonical passives
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My main research interests lie in Generative Syntax and Romance and Greek Linguistics.
Before starting my PhD, I completed a MA in Linguistics and Cognitive Studies at the University of Siena (2020-2022), during which I spent one year in 澳门六合彩开奖记录 as an exchange student. My final dissertation studied Italian middle constructions in a minimalist perspective.
My passion for Linguistics first emerged during my undergraduate education: although I was studying Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Pisa and at the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies (2017-2020), I received some training in Linguistics and graduated with a thesis on different measures of linguistic distance.
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Research:听For my doctoral project, I am investigating the syntax of non-canonical passives, i.e. constructions that display some but not all properties normally found in passives. These include Italian impersonal/middle constructions, Romance and Greek tough-constructions, as well as other non-finite constructions. The primary purpose is to improve the theoretical understanding of Voice - the element responsible for the active/passive alternation - and providing a fine-grained parametrisation of its syntactic behaviour, especially with regard to its relationship with clause size.
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Scholarships/Prizes:
My PhD project is jointly funded by:
搂 OOC AHRC DTP Studentship
搂 澳门六合彩开奖记录 Trust Studentship
Other scholarships/prizes:
搂 Bell-Wade bursary for sport together with academic excellence (awarded by Gonville & Caius College, 2022)
搂 Erasmus+ Scholarship (awarded by the University of Siena, 2021-2022)
搂 Erasmus+ Scholarship (awarded by the University of Pisa, 2019)
搂 Sant鈥橝nna Studentship (full funding for undergraduate studies, awarded by the Sant鈥橝nna School of Advanced Studies, 2017-2020)
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Fellowships
- University Fellow at the Aspen Institute Italy (2021-2024)
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Publications:
Russo Cardona, L. 2022. Italian Middle Si: Evidence from Non-finite Clauses. 澳门六合彩开奖记录 Occasional Papers in Linguistics 14(1), 228鈥�241.
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Other activities and roles:
Co-chair of the 澳门六合彩开奖记录 University Linguistics Society (2023-2034)
Secretary of the 澳门六合彩开奖记录 University Linguistics Society (2022-2023)
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