My name is Giada, and I’m currently a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Bologna.
I did my PhD at the Institute for Language Sciences of Utrecht University, under the supervision of Yoad Winter & Joost Zwarts.
My PhD research focused on reciprocal verbs, as part of the ERC project ‘Forests and Trees: the Formal Semantics of Collective Categorization’.
Before that, I got my MA in Linguistics from Utrecht University (2018) and my BA in Foreign Languages and Literature from the University of Bologna (2016).
My research interests lie in theoretical linguistics, particularly in cross-linguistic semantics. I'm interested in plurality-related phenomena, valency-changing operations and - more broadly - in argument structure, (lexical) semantic universals, and in the interaction between formal linguistics and typology (and how they can support one another).
My first name is pronounced ['dʒa:da], or ['ʒa:ða] in my native Central Italian variety. My pronouns are she/her.
My full CV is here; to get in touch, you can drop me an email here.
In June 2025, Maja Milicevic Petrovic and I will present a paper on annotating (beyond) errors in learner corpora @EuroSLA34, UiT.
Joint paper on lexical reciprocity in Romance accepted (pending minor revisions) @NLLT!
In December 2024, Konstantinos Kogkalidis and I will present a paper on the semantics of gender assignment in Swahili @CLIC-it.
My joint paper with Sofiya Ros on reciprocal verb markers in Wolof is out now !
From July 2024, I’ll join the University of Bologna as a research fellow.
On June 5 2024, I will defend my PhD thesis in Utrecht! If you happen to be interested in a physical copy of my dissertation, feel free to get in touch.
To jointly celebrate Imke Kruitwagen’s defence and my defence, on June 6 2024 we’ll have a workshop on reciprocals & related things - everyone’s welcome.
On January 27 2024, Aviv Schoenfeld will present a joint work on lexical countability @NELS54, MIT.
On May 5 2023, Aviv Schoenfeld and I will present a paper on uncountability in Maceratese @WCCFL41, UC Santa Cruz.
On October 20 2022, I will present a joint paper with Joost Zwarts on lexicalized reciprocals in Swahili @IATL, HUJI.
The poster that Sofiya Ros and I presented @SLE 2022, University of Bucharest, was awarded the 1st prize as Best Conference Poster!