Albert Wall

Albert Wall is an Associate Professor of Romance Linguistics at the University of Vienna. His academic career spans institutions including the University of Tübingen, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Fluminense Federal University (UFF), and University of Zurich, where he worked on multiple Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) projects.

• Current role: Associate Professor at University of Vienna
• Prior roles: Assistant for Portuguese/Spanish Linguistics at Zurich University
• Education: Studies in Romance and Slavic Philology (Tübingen, Rio de Janeiro, Niterói)
• PhD: Completed in 2015 at Zurich

Research Focus:

• Syntax and semantics of nominal phrases
• Bare nominals in Brazilian Portuguese
• Differential Object Marking (DOM) in Spanish and Portuguese
• Syntax-Phonology interface
• Experimental linguistics methodologies

Publications include monographs and edited volumes on Brazilian Portuguese linguistics, DOM in Romance languages, and methodological approaches to micro-variation studies. His recent work analyzes DOM across Spanish varieties, semantic scales in Ibero-Romance, and language contact phenomena at the Uruguay-Brazil border.

Academic Affiliations:

• Member of Societas Linguistica Europaea
• Collaborator with Johannes Kabatek and Philipp Obrist
• Contributor to conference proceedings and journals like Journal of Portuguese Linguistics