Roberta D’Alessandro

Institution

Utrecht University

Institute for Language Sciences

Trans 10, 3512JK Utrecht
The Netherlands

Research Interests

linguistics, heritage languages, syntax, language variation, Dialects, minority and minoritized languages, science policy

Biography

Roberta D’Alessandro is a linguist, working on theoretical models of language as well as language variation and minority languages. She is chair professor of Linguistics / Syntax and Language Variation at Utrecht University and Head of the Linguistics section, and former Chair professor of Italian language and culture at Leiden University.

Before moving to Leiden, she worked as a research associate at the Lab for Language asymmetries at the Université du Québec à Montréal, in Canada. Previously, she was a Marie Curie fellow at Cambridge University, UK, and before that a research assistant at Microsoft-Butler Hill in Seattle, USA.

She is editor-in-chief of Isogloss. Open Journal of Romance Linguistics, and president of Going Romance. She is the founder of Heritage Language Syntax, a platform hosting a series of workshops dedicated to syntactic theory informed by heritage language data, and of CIDSM. She is also series editor of the Language Science Press OA series Open Generative Syntax and editor-in-chief of the Brill Series Grammars and Sketches of the Romance Languages .

She is an Open Access activist.