Daniela Baldassarre

Daniela Baldassarre holds a Bachelor’s degree in Humanities (L-10, 2018) and a Master’s degree in Philology and Modern Literatures (LM-14, 2020) from “Guglielmo Marconi” University. Her Master’s thesis, titled The Palatalization of the Voiceless Alveolar Fricative in Neapolitan Dialect: A Sociophonetic Study, explored sociophonetic variation in Romance varieties. She completed her Ph.D. in Humanities (37th cycle, 2024) at “Guglielmo Marconi” University with a dissertation entitled The Encoding of Unaccusativity in the Diachrony of the Langue d’oïl: The Case of Champenois. Currently, she is adjunct lecturer in Romance Philology and Linguistics at “Guglielmo Marconi” University and external collaborator on the PRIN project The lexicalization of the adjective class in Indo-European and Semitic, where she focuses on the lexicalization of adjectives from a typological perspective. Her research interests primarily concern unaccusativity in Romance languages. More broadly, she is interested in Romance linguistics, historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, and linguistic typology.