Francesco Pinzin

Francesco Pinzin is a researcher in Romance Linguistics at the Department of Romance languages and literatures (Goethe University Frankfurt) and in Linguistics at the Department of Linguistic and Literary Studies (University of Padova). Hiswork focuses on theoretical and experimental approaches to language variation, both on the historical and the synchronic level. He explored the microvariation of the morphosyntactic encoding of indefiniteness in Romance (in cooperation with the DiFuPaRo project), and word order variations in Medieval Italo and Gallo-Romance (in cooperation with the MICLEproject). In both projects, he helped creating an open access corpus (the DiFuPaRo Corpus and the MICLE corpus). In collaboration with Cecilia Poletto, he is currently analysingthe variable morphosyntactic encoding of sentential negationin Italo-Romance, exploring its areal variability and the extent at which such variability is shaped by contact.