Sílvia Perpiñán is a Professor of Language Acquisition and Bilingualism at the Department of Translation and Language Sciences, Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), where she teaches courses on Linguistics, Research Methods, and Language Acquisition. Previously, she served as an Associate Professor at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. She holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Romance Linguistics and SLA from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on bilingualism and second language acquisition from a formal linguistics perspective, with emphasis on syntactic structures, crosslinguistic influence, and language contact phenomena. Key areas include copular clauses, filler-gap dependencies, and the acquisition of Spanish by non-native speakers. Her work often explores sociolinguistic dimensions like regional variety effects and minority language bilingualism. Perpiñán's publications analyze structural patterns in multilingual grammars, such as relative clauses, existential constructions, and aspectual systems, with a focus on Catalan-Spanish and Italian-Spanish bilingualism. Methodologically, her studies address variability in L2 data and task effects in grammatical knowledge assessment. She is part of the ALLENCAM Research Group and maintains a Google Scholar profile with extensive writings on linguistic typology, syntax-semantics interfaces, and interlanguage phenomena. Her research consistently challenges assumptions about 'idealized' bilingual speakers and emphasizes nuanced analysis of natural language variation.
