Description: Roberta D'Alessandro is Professor of Syntax and Language Variation at Utrecht University and PI of ERC project Microcontact.
I am a linguist.
I work at Utrecht University as professor of Linguistics / Syntax and Language Variation and Head of the Linguistics section; I am editor-in-chief of Isogloss .
My main interests are syntactic variation, language change in contact, heritage language syntax, (Italo-)Romance and Indo-Aryan microvariation, impersonal pronouns, and the syntax-phonology interface.