Emanuela Sanfelici, Sara Gesuato, Elena Pagliarini

Emanuela Sanfelici is associate professor at Padua University. She teaches linguistic variation and language acquisition. Her main interests lie in formal syntactic theory and language change, with a special focus on phenomena at the interface between syntax and pragmatics. Her research concerns the modeling of syntactic change, looking at both the diachronic dimension and the developmental acquisition. She has published various works on formal syntactic analyses of clausal structure and ellipsis phenomena within the nominal domain in both diachrony and L1-acquisition.

Sara Gesuato is associate professor at Padua University, where she teaches and does research in English language and linguistics. Her research fields include pragmatics, discourse and genre analysis, and corpus linguistics. She has analysed speech acts, academic genres, and catenative motion verb constructions. She has published over 100 works and organised various international conferences. She is currently investigating pedagogical applications of the analysis of oral and written initiating and responding speech acts.

Elena Pagliarini received her PhD from the University of Milano-Bicocca. In 2023, she joined the Centre de Lingüística Teòrica at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, where she carries out investigations on language acquisition. She studies how children face the challenge of mapping word forms/sentences into meaning. In her research, she asks how children learn to interpret structures that contain inherently abstract operators, such as logical connectives and quantifiers. Her work has been published in Cognition, Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, Journal of Semantics, and Scientific Reports, among others.