Sandra Paoli

Dr. Sandra Paoli is an Associate Professor in Linguistics (Romance Languages) at the University of Oxford, affiliated with the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics and the Centre for Linguistics and Philology. Her research focuses on grammaticalization, historical pragmatics, and the interplay between syntax and pragmatics in Romance languages. She specializes in Italo-Romance and lesser-known Romance varieties, exploring micro-variation and dialectology as markers of language change.

Her work examines topics such as pronominal forms, the acquisition of functional categories, and the evolution of discourse particles. She is open to supervising graduate students in these areas. Affiliated research groups and facilities include the Phonetics Lab, Language & Brain Lab, and Romance Linguistics department at the University of Oxford.