In compliance with LA City orders to slow the spread of COVID-19, our faculty and staff are working remotely until further notice. Our staff can be reached via email during our normal office hours, M-F 8am-5pm. For general inquiries, please e-mail linguist@humnet.ucla.edu. UCLA will be closed on March 21-25 for Spring Break.
Research
Giuseppina Silvestri’s research interests include comparative and historical Indo-European and Romance linguistics, and especially (morpho-)syntactic variation in Italo-Romance and Greek varieties, as well as topics in theoretical syntax (through the parametric approach) and glotto-genetics, and issues ascribable to the phonology-syntax interface (RF, propagation, metaphony) and the syntax-semantics interface (syntactic reduplication and free relatives).