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Roberta D'Alessandro is professor of Linguistics / Syntax and Language Variation and Head of the Linguistics section at the Department of Languages, Literature and Communication. She is a member of the Institute for Language Sciences (ILS), where she coordinates the research group Language Structure: Variation and Change. 

She is editor-in-chief of the diamond Open Access journal and of the Brill series , and co-editor of the Language Science Press series . She's the president of 

Her research interests include syntactic variation, heritage language syntax, agreement, Italo-Romance dialectology, the syntax-phonology interface, syntactic change in contact, and language contact in migration contexts.

She is also involved in EU policy and science communication, as EU Commission Enlightenment 2.0. Meaningful and Ethical Communication. Scientific Advisor (2022 - ) and Knowledge for policy

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Recent works

• D'Alessandro, R., Putnam, M.T. & S. Terenghi. 2025. . In D'Alessandro, Putnam & Terenghi (eds), Heritage Languages and Syntactic Theory. OUP.
• D'Alessandro, R., Andriani, L., Frasson, A., Pinto, M., Sorgini, L. & S. Terenghi. 2025. . In D'Alessandro, Putnam & Terenghi (eds), Heritage Languages and Syntactic Theory. OUP.
• D'Alessandro, R. & S. Terenghi. 2024. . In: Polinsky & Putnam (eds), Formal approaches to complexity in heritage language grammars. Language Science Press.
• Chandra, P., D'Alessandro, R. & M. Putnam. 2024. . Linguistics.
• D'Alessandro, R. & A. Frasson. 2023. . Catalan Journal of Linguistics 22, 9-27.

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