Alessandra GIORGI

Alessandra Giorgi is a Full Professor at the Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies at Ca' Foscari University of Venice. She specializes in theoretical linguistics with a focus on syntax, pragmatics, and cross-linguistic comparison. Her research integrates formal syntactic theory with empirical studies on languages such as Italian, Armenian, and Romance varieties.

• Research Interests: Syntax-Pragmatics Interface, Tense and Aspect, Discourse Structure, and Language Typology.
• Expertise: Comparative linguistics, morphosyntactic analysis, and syntactic theory within the Minimalist Program.

Her work bridges syntactic formalism with discourse-functional perspectives, particularly in analyzing expressions of surprise, question types, and evaluative morphology. She has conducted extensive studies on Eastern Armenian syntax and Romance languages, contributing to the understanding of V2/V3 phenomena and information structure.

Giorgi serves on editorial boards for journals like Italian Journal of Linguistics and Rivista di Grammatica Generativa. She collaborates in international projects such as the Rethinking, Understanding Modal Particles (RUM) initiative funded by PRIN 2022. Her research also involves interdisciplinary approaches to digital cultural heritage through the Research Institute for Digital and Cultural Heritage at Ca' Foscari.