Veronica Papotti is a PhD fellow in Latin Linguistics at Ghent University. She studied Classics at the University of Bologna, where she obtained her bachelor’s degree in 2022, and master’s degree in Italian Studies in 2024. During her Master, she spent six months at Ghent University as an Erasmus+ student. Her master’s thesis focused on contemporary Latin poetry, with particular attention to the so-called Neoclassical Latin used by modern authors. In December 2024 she returned to Ghent to work on her PhD proposal for FWO fellowship. In March 2025, she started her PhD at Ghent University.
Her research focuses on the sociolinguistics of Plautine and Terentian comedy. Under the supervision of Professor Giovanbattista Galdi, she investigates syntactic variation as a tool for accommodation in early Latin, examining which syntactic strategies are employed by speakers to adapt their language in different communicative contexts.
