Associate Member
Chiara Marchetiello is a PhD student in Linguistics at Trinity College Dublin. Her doctoral project The Syntax of Gestures in the Local Languages of Campania is funded by Trinity’s Provost’s PhD Project Award awarded to the research project Gestural Grammar: Investigating Gestures in Southern Italy (GestuGram) led by Prof Valentina Colasanti. Chiara’s dissertation aims to provide new insights on the grammatical integration of gestures using as empirical base the gestural inventories of the languages spoken in Campania region (e.g., Neapolitan, Torrese, Acerrano, etc.).
Chiara is primarily interested in theoretical syntax and its interfaces with semantics and phonology, with particular focus on Romance languages (especially the Italo-Romance subfamily of languages). Her research interests include negation and negative concord, the structure of nominals and vocatives, epistemic modality, and discourse markers.
About
The GestuGram Lab, Trinity College Dublin
marchtetc@tcd.ie
Selected Publications
In press. Colasanti, Valentina and Chiara Marchetiello. Gesture and information structure: a case study on topic markers in Southern Italo-Romance. Italian Journal of Linguistics.
2025. Gestures of negation: True or false? Talk to be given at the Formal Linguistics Approaches to Multimodality (FLAMM), Trinity College Dublin, 4th December.
2025. Co-speech [PDO] is an epistemic gestural marker in Campania: end of discussion! Talk given at the Linguistics Research Seminars, Trinity College Dublin, 11 November 2025.
2025. Parasitic licensing in the visual-gestural modality, Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Association of Great Britain, 4 September 2025, University of Suffolk, UK.
2025. Some initial thoughts on the syntax of gestures in the languages of Campania. Talk given at the Romance Linguistics Circle (RoLinC), University of Cambridge, 11 March 2025.