Roberta D'Alessandro is professor of Linguistics / Syntax and Language Variation and Head of the Linguistics section at the Department of Languages, Literature and Communication. She is a member of the Institute for Language Sciences (ILS) and of the Descartes Centre for the History of the Sciences and Humanities.

She is editor-in-chief of the diamond Open Access journal Isogloss. Open Journal of Romance Linguistics and of the Brill series Grammars and Sketches of the World's languages/Romance, and co-editor of the Language Science Press series Open Generative Syntax. She's the president of Going Romance.

Her research interests include syntactic variation, heritage language syntax, agreement, Italo-Romance dialectology, the syntax-phonology interface, syntactic change in contact, and language contact in migration contexts.

She is an Open Access advocate, and she serves in the Committee for Freedom and Responsibility in Science of the International Science Council.

She is also involved in EU policy and science communication, as EU Commission Enlightenment 2.0. Meaningful and Ethical Communication. Scientific Advisor (2022 - ) and Knowledge for policy.

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Recent works

• D'Alessandro, R., Putnam, M.T. & S. Terenghi. 2025. Heritage Languages and Syntactic Theory. An Introduction. In D'Alessandro, Putnam & Terenghi (eds), Heritage Languages and Syntactic Theory. OUP.
• D'Alessandro, R., Andriani, L., Frasson, A., Pinto, M., Sorgini, L. & S. Terenghi. 2025. Microcontact and syntactic theory. In D'Alessandro, Putnam & Terenghi (eds), Heritage Languages and Syntactic Theory. OUP.
• D'Alessandro, R. & S. Terenghi. 2024. Non-monotonic functional sequences: A new metric for complexity in heritage languages. In: Polinsky & Putnam (eds), Formal approaches to complexity in heritage language grammars. Language Science Press.
• Chandra, P., D'Alessandro, R. & M. Putnam. 2024. Ethical concerns for theoretical research in linguistics: Issues and best practices. Linguistics.
• D'Alessandro, R. & A. Frasson. 2023. Simplification or complexification: auxiliary selection and anti-agreement effect in Brazilian Venetan. Catalan Journal of Linguistics 22, 9-27.

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