Denis Delfitto

Curriculum

•   CV in inglese   (pdf, en, 391 KB, 07/09/26)
•   CV in italiano   (pdf, it, 157 KB, 07/09/26)

My research interests lie at the intersection of linguistics, cognitive neuroscience, and the philosophy of mind.

They encompass the history of logic and the study of quantification systems in language, as well as the syntax and semantics of anaphoric dependencies, the syntax of reference, language change, and comparative Romance–Germanic syntax and semantics.

In my more recent work, I have investigated the relationship between atypical language development and bilingualism, along with various aspects of the interface between language and other cognitive systems, particularly perceptual systems. Another of my current research projects examines the relationship between linear order and hierarchical structure in the syntax of natural languages. This work includes experimental studies using artificial grammars, as well as research into the relationship between hierarchical structure in language and metrical structure in musical rhythm.

I have contributed to the organisation of international conferences and have been involved, in a variety of capacities and at different levels, in Master’s and doctoral programmes at several prestigious European universities. I have supervised doctoral research projects in comparative syntax and semantics, computational linguistics, and atypical language development. I have also served on a number of doctoral examination committees abroad. In this context, I have developed joint doctoral research projects with several universities outside Italy, most notably Utrecht University.

I have participated in funded research projects on the origins of language and the production of the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Syntactic Case Studies—with funding from the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study—as well as on the comparative syntax of nominal structures in Bantu, Chinese, and Romance languages; syntactic dependencies and linguistic diversity (PRIN); and bilingualism and atypical language development (the European Commission-funded Seventh Framework Programme project AThEME, and PRIN).

I have published extensively in leading international academic journals and peer-reviewed volumes. I serve on the editorial boards of several prestigious linguistics journals, including Linguistic Inquiry, and act as a reviewer for approximately twenty academic journals and leading scholarly publishers. I also review research proposals for major funding organisations, including the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), the French National Research Agency (ANR), and the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO).

I have been a member of the Academia Europaea since 2017.

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