Stanislao Zompì Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, MIT   77 Massachusetts Ave Room 32-D860 Cambridge, MA 02139 zompi@mit.edu

I'm a postdoctoral associate at MIT Linguistics, where I got my PhD in August 2023. Before coming to the US, I studied linguistics at the Scuola Normale Superiore and the University of Pisa. My main research interests are in syntax and morphology⁠—especially anything to do with agreement, case, and identity avoidance.

My name is pronounced [stanizˈlao dzomˈpi]. It is spelled with a grave accent on the final i. (I myself have been inconsistent in this regard; now I'm trying to fix that.)

Vita

You can find my CV here.

Dissertation project

• *ABA in multidimensional paradigms: A Max/Dep-based account. PhD thesis, MIT. 2023. [pdf]
• A Python implementation, courtesy of Enrico Flor [link to Google Drive]

Manuscripts in progress

• “A principled exception to the Müller-Takano generalization.” Conditionally accepted by Glossa. [pdf]
• [With Tanya Bondarenko] “Leftover Agreement.” Accepted with minor revisions by Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. [pdf]
• [With Enrico Flor] “CSC-violating head movement in English conditional inversion.” Under revision for Linguistic Inquiry. [pdf]

Publications

• [With Christos Christopoulos] “Taking the nominative (back) out of the accusative: Case features and the distribution of stems in Indo-European paradigms.” Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 41: 879–909. 2023. [pdf]
• “Ergative is not inherent: Evidence from *ABA in suppletion and syncretism.” Glossa 4(1): 73. 2019. [pdf] [appendix]

Other

• “Distinctness effects in English nominals.” Ms., MIT. [pdf]
• Case decomposition meets dependent-case theories. MA thesis, University of Pisa. 2017. [pdf]