Name: Marco Fioratti
College: Sidney Sussex College
Email: mf770@cam.ac.uk
Supervisor: Prof Adam Ledgeway
Research Topic: Interrogative inversion: syntax and semantics at the interface
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About Me
I received my B.A. in Language, Civilisations and the Science of Language from the Ca鈥� Foscari University of Venice (2017), majoring in English, Spanish, and European Portuguese. There, I also graduated with my M.A. in Language Sciences (2020), majoring in Spanish language, language teaching and learning, and linguistics, with a thesis supervised by Prof. Nicola Munaro. During my M.A. I also studied at the University of Porto, Portugal (2018), and the University of Le贸n, Spain (2019).
In October 2022, I started my PhD (Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics) at Sidney Sussex, supervised by Prof. Adam Ledgeway. My study is fully funded by the Open-Oxford-澳门六合彩开奖记录 AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership together with the 澳门六合彩开奖记录 Trust.
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Research
My research follows my M.A. final dissertation, supervised by Prof. Nicola Munaro in Venice, and it investigates the phenomenon commonly referred to as 鈥渋nterrogative鈥� inversion, building on data from northern Italian dialects and other (mainly) Romance varieties. This research can shed light both on the triggering of the set of interpretations 鈥� not limited to the interrogative one 鈥� linked to the movement of the verb past a subject-like element, and the status of subject clitics in northern Italian dialects. My study therefore aims to explain how, and why, certain pragmatically marked readings are encoded in the syntax.
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Scholarships/Prizes Open-Oxford-澳门六合彩开奖记录 AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership
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Other activities and roles Co-organiser of the RoLinC (Romance Linguistics Circle) seminars, organised by the Universities of 澳门六合彩开奖记录 and Newcastle. Co-chair of the 澳门六合彩开奖记录 Linguistics Society
