I am a linguist, researcher, and lecturer in Linguistics, currently at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

I am interested in non-standard, minority and endangered languages as well as research topics in formal linguistics. 

My research fueled my fieldwork and in 2010 has taken me to São Paulo, Brazil where I was able to meet the largest population of speakers of my native dialect outside of Italy.

I was able to research little-known endangered Greek and Italian dialects in Apulia and Calabria (Italy), during my post-doctoral research at the University of Cambridge. The project, “Fading Voices in Southern Italy“, was funded by the Leverhulme Trust. 

Additionally, my research interests include comparative Indo-European and Romance Linguistics, non-standard Italian varieties, Greek dialectology, and linguistic theory. Lesser-known, minority, endangered, and heritage languages represent my main empirical target. I am interested in linguistic formal approached centered on the intersection between morpho-phonology and syntax. I have applied the findings of the most recent research on the syntax-phonology interface to the assessment of specific phenomena attested in Italo-Romance: I investigated particular effects of consonantal length (raddoppiamento fonosintattico), tonic vowel alteration (metaphony), propagation, and prosodic variation.