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Profile of Monica Menegon

Monica Menegon

Biography

Monica Menegon is a PhD candidate in Linguistics at the University of Trento. Her current research focuses on syntactic similarities between Germanic and Romance languages in Northern Italy and language contact in the Alpine Sprachbund.

She obtained her Double Master’s Degree in “Euro-American Literatures, Translation and Literary Criticism” at the University of Trento and in “European Languages” at the Technische Universität Dresden with a thesis titled “Besonderheiten der linken Peripherie im Bairischen. Eine Analyse der Phänomene der emphatischen Topikalisierung und des Doppel-COMPs” (Features of the Bavarian Left Periphery. Analysis of the Emphatic Topicalisation and of the Doubly-Filled COMP).

She has been a university tutor in German Linguistics at the University of Trento since 2020.