Matteo Fiorini

Matteo Fiorini (Ph.D., University of Utah) joined the faculty at UCA in the fall of 2024 as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Linguistics.

His research mainly focuses on the syntactic properties of peripheral, endangered, and minority Romance languages, and their interaction with prosody, semantics, and pragmatics. He has also worked on Basque, French, German, and English.
In his dissertation, he documented and analyzed focus structures in Camuno, a severely endangered Gallo-Romance language spoken in northern Italy.
Secondary areas of expertise include historical linguistics, computational linguistics, semantics, and phonology.

His current research adopts a stochastic (i.e., probabilistic) approach to the study of the distribution of wh-phrases, focalization, and agreement patterns.