Lorenzo Toniolo
Biography
Lorenzo Toniolo is a PhD candidate in Language Acquisition at the Department of Romanistik (Goethe University Frankfurt). His research focuses on the acquisition of negation in L2 and on the cross-linguistic comparison of negative concord and negative polarity items.
He completed his Master in Linguistics (University of Padova), with a thesis entitled “The position of the particles in verb plus particle structures: a study on Cimbrian peculiarities”. In this work he proposes a syntactic analysis of the new data collected in Luserna (TN) in cooperation with the Kulturinstitut Lusérn.
He is interested in the theoretical and applied aspects of multilingualism, minority languages, and migration.
Research Interests: Applied Linguistics, Bilingualism and Multilingualism, Contact Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics and Digital Humanities, Dialectology and Linguistic Variation, Language Acquisition and Cognitive Linguistics, Minority and Heritage Languages, Sociolinguistics, Syntax
