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Matteo Fiorini is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Central Arkansas (UCA), affiliated with the School of Language and Literature. He joined UCA in Fall 2024. His primary research focuses on syntactic properties of peripheral, endangered, and minority Romance languages, exploring their intersections with prosody, semantics, and pragmatics. He has conducted fieldwork on Camuno, a severely endangered Gallo-Romance language in northern Italy, analyzing focus structures in his doctoral dissertation. Secondary expertise includes historical linguistics, computational linguistics, semantics, and phonology.
Education:
- Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Utah
Research Interests: Fiorini adopts a stochastic (probabilistic) approach to study wh-phrase distribution, focalization, and agreement patterns. His work bridges formal syntax with computational methods, particularly addressing under-documented languages. Current projects emphasize endangered language documentation and theoretical syntax.
Awards: No specific awards mentioned in the provided text.
Advising & Grants: No student advisement or grant information provided. His current role focuses on research and teaching in UCA's Linguistics program.
Labs/Teams: Affiliation with UCA's School of Language and Literature research initiatives, though specific lab affiliations are not detailed.
