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Christina M. Tortora is a Professor of Linguistics at the City University of New York (CUNY), primarily affiliated with the College of Staten Island and the Graduate Center. She holds a BA from SUNY Stony Brook, and MA and PhD from the University of Delaware. Her research focuses on syntactic patterns in non-standard linguistic varieties, particularly vernacular speech. She is renowned for her fieldwork on the Borgomanerese dialect of Italy and her corpus-building projects on Appalachian English and New York City English. Her work emphasizes the importance of empirical data in syntactic theory and experimental methodology.
Her academic contributions include a monograph on Borgomanerese (2014) and the development of the AAPCAppE corpus (2017), part of the REEDS Project. She has collaborated with institutions like the University of Padua and researchers such as Paola Benincà and Anthony Kroch. Her research is supported by grants like NSF #BCS-9630139 and has been featured in local and international media. She actively engages in interdisciplinary projects to document linguistic diversity, blending fieldwork, corpus linguistics, and syntactic theory.
Advising and grants: She mentors graduate students at the Graduate Center and has secured NSF funding for dialect research. Her work intersects with sociolinguistic documentation and computational linguistics, contributing to both theoretical and applied linguistics. She is affiliated with the Linguistics Program at the Graduate Center and maintains an international scholarly network through collaborations and conference presentations.
