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Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics

 

Marco Fioratti

Marco Fioratti

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

 

About Me

I received my B.A. in Language, Civilisations and the Science of Language from the Ca’ 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 León, 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-Cambridge AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership together with the Cambridge Trust.

 

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 “interrogative” 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 – not limited to the interrogative one – 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.

 

Scholarships/Prizes Open-Oxford-Cambridge AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership

 

Other activities and roles
Co-organiser of the RoLinC (Romance Linguistics Circle) seminars, organised by the Universities of Cambridge and Newcastle.
Co-chair of the Cambridge Linguistics Society