I am Full Professor of Latin Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics at Ghent University. I obtained my PhD in Greek and Latin from the University of Bologna, conducting a morphosyntactic study of Latin inscriptions from the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire. Between 2001 and 2003, I worked as a scientific collaborator ('Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter') at the Thesaurus Linguae in Munich (Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften). In 2007, I completed my 'Habilitation' (postdoctoral thesis) at Trier University, obtaining the venia legendi with a thesis on the syntax of the late Latin historian Jordanes. This project was funded by two scholarships awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. The latter also funded a two-years research position at the University of Trier for a philological and linguistic study of Jordanes' Romana. Between 2009 and 2013, I worked as assistant professor at the University of Cyprus in Nicosia. In 2013, I joined Ghent University.
My research topics include late and non-standard Latin, non-literary Latin sources (notably inscriptions, Christian itineraries, and oracular texts), language change and variation — particularly the evolution from Latin to Romance languages —, absolute constructions, light-verb constructions, and manner-of-speaking verbs.
