Project Team

Project Team

The team includes senior and junior academics from six Una Europa universities: University of Helsinki (project coordinator), University of Bologna, University of Edinburgh, The Jagiellonian University of Cracow, KU Leuven and The Complutense University of Madrid.

Project leader

  • ŸSilvio Cruschina, Helsingin Yliopisto – syntax, dialectology and language variation, information structure, syntax-pragmatics interface

Project co-leader

  • Chiara Gianollo, Università di Bologna – semantics, historical linguistics, language and migration, multilingualism in education systems

Senior project members

  • Margarita Borreguero Zuloaga, Universidad Complutense de Madrid – pragmatics, information structure, discourse analysis, discourse markers, text typology and semiotics, contrastive linguistics
  • Stefania Marzo , KU Leuven – quantitative methods in corpus linguistics, variationist sociolinguistics, contact linguistics, language standardization
  • Alicja Paleta, Uniwersytet Jagielloński w Krakowie – language teaching and education, translation theory, sociolinguistics
  • Antonella Sorace, University of Edinburgh – bilingualism over the lifespan, language and cognition, experimental linguistics, public engagement of science, the lexicon- syntax interface

Junior project members

  • Maria Garraffa, Bilingualism Matters at the University of Edinburgh – language diversity, minority languages, language impairments, language acquisition, sentence processing
  • Edoardo Cavirani , KU Leuven – phonology, phonetics, syntax, computational linguistics
  • Stefano De Pascale, KU Leuven – computational linguistics, quantitative methods, distributional analyses

Additional members

  • Anna Dyda, Uniwersytet Jagielloński w Krakowie (University Assistant)
  • Claudia Iemmolo, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (MA student)
  • Mattia Retta,  Helsingin Yliopisto (PhD student)
  • Elena Sofia Safina, Università di Bologna (MA student)
  • Mattia Zingaretti, University of Edinburgh (PhD student)