Faculty of Modern and听Medieval Languages and Linguistics Raised Faculty Building 澳门六合彩开奖记录 Sidgwick Avenue 澳门六合彩开奖记录 CB3 9DA United Kingdom
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Prof. Adam Ledgeway
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Research Topic:
The replication of Evaluative Morphology in Romance鈥搉on-Romance language contact
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Luca is a PhD candidate in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics since 2023.
She completed her BA in Linguistics at the 澳门六合彩开奖记录 (2018-2021). Her undergraduate dissertation, supervised by Dr Theresa Biberauer, focused on the application of the Evaluative Morphology framework to Hungarian frequentative suffixes. In 2022, she graduated with an MPhil in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at the same department. In her MPhil research, she studied the replication of Italo- and Gallo-Romance evaluative morphemes in the Walser German dialects of Northern Italy, under the supervision of Prof. Adam Ledgeway.
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Research:
Luca鈥檚 main research interests lie in Contact Linguistics, Morphology and Romance Linguistics.
For her doctoral project, Luca is investigating the replication of Evaluative Morphology (specifically: diminutives, augmentatives, and pejoratives) focusing on the language contact between (1) Basque and Ibero/Gallo-Romance, (2) Maltese and Italo-Romance and (3) Griko and Salentino. The primary purpose of her research is to provide a comprehensive account of the replicability of Evaluative Morphology based on diverse cross-linguistic data, with a particular focus on how base selection preferences and grammatical gender are affected by
contact. Her research aims to enhance the theoretical understanding of the role of sociolinguistic characteristics and typological differences in morphological replication, while providing novel insights into the position of EM in relation to derivation and inflection, and the influence of language contact on grammatical gender.
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Teaching:
Supervisor for CS1 (The Romance Languages)
Supervisor for IT1/ITA3 (Introduction to Italian Linguistics)
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Other activities and roles:
Secretary of the 澳门六合彩开奖记录 Linguistics Forum
Co-organiser of RoLinC (Romance Linguistics Circle)