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Principal Investigator

Professor Adam Ledgeway

Following completion of his PhD (on Romance complementation) at the University of Manchester in 1996 and a Research Fellowship at Downing College (1996-97), Adam Ledgeway became Assistant Lecturer, Lecturer and then Senior Lecturer in Romance Philology at the University of Cambridge. Since 2013, he has been Professor of Italian and Romance Linguistics and, since 2015, the Chair of the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages. His research interests include the comparative history and morphosyntax of the Romance languages, Italian dialectology, Latin, Italo-Greek, syntactic theory, and linguistic change. His research is channelled towards bringing together traditional Romance philological scholarship with the insights of recent generative syntactic theory, and he has worked and published extensively on such topics as complementation, complementizer systems, auxiliary selection and split intransitivity, word order, configurationality, alignments, cliticization, clause structure, functional categories, verb movement, adjectival positions, agreement, negation, subjects, causatives, voice distinctions, finiteness, imperatives, the development of demonstrative and deictic systems, grammaticalisation, parameters, and language contact.

 

Researcher

Dr Marios Mavrogiorgos

Dr Marios Mavrogiorgos has an MPhil and a Ph.D. in Theoretical Linguistics from the University of Cambridge (Fitzwilliam College). He is a specialist in clitics and related morpho-syntactic phenomena in Greek and Romance languages. His main research interests include the morpho-syntax of clitics and clitic dependencies, pronouns and determiners, clitic positioning, oblique case and oblique arguments, resumption and clitic doubling, case in Greek Down Syndrome, lexical semantics and argument structure, reflexives, Greek, Romance languages, non-standard varieties and heritage varieties, language contact. He has published his work in peer reviewed journals, edited volumes, and a John Benjamins monograph, using the Minimalist Syntax framework. Marios has taught linguistics (including subjects such as linguistic theory, syntax, morphology, semantics, pragmatics, language acquisition and language change, linguistics for clinicians) at the University of Ulster and the University of Cyprus.

 

 

Latest News

Two from MMLL Italian win MHRA research fellowships

1 May 2023

We are happy to share the news that Dr Elena Sottilotta and Dr Michele Maiolani have won research scholarships with the Modern Humanities Research Association. Elena is currently an AHRC Postdoctoral Fellow . Her project is Women Writing Folklore: Politics of Folk and Fairy-tale Collections from Italian and Irish Islands (...

Presentation of Helena Sanson’s new book: Annibale Guasco, Ragionamento a Donna Lavinia sua figliuola della maniera del governarsi ella in corte (1586). Con una scelta di lettere (Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso, 2022, 288 pp.).

18 April 2023

Brian Richardson presents Helena Sanson’s new book: Annibale Guasco, Ragionamento a Donna Lavinia sua figliuola della maniera del governarsi ella in corte (1586) . Con una scelta di lettere (Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso, 2022, 288 pp.), ed. by Helena Sanson.

'Narratives of the Nineteenth Century: New Directions', a cross-faculty book launch & research workshop

24 March 2023

We are happy to share the upcoming research workshop event featuring Prof Helena Sanson on Thursday 27 April, 12:45-4 pm, at Gonville & Caius College, Senior Parlour.

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