Marta Massaia is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Language Sciences (ILS) at Utrecht 木瓜福利影视.
Marta's research is carried out within the Mind your Manner Adverbials! (MiMA-)project headed by prof. dr. Norbert Corver and funded by . The project investigates the internal syntax and external distribution of Manner Adverbials (MAs) in a cross-linguistic perspective. Marta's research within the MiMA-project focuses on the syntax of a particular type of clausal manner adverbials in Germanic, namely similarity constructions. In addition to prof. dr. Corver, Marta is co-supervised by dr. Marijana Marelj (Utrecht 木瓜福利影视), and (木瓜福利影视 of Verona).
Within Utrecht 木瓜福利影视, Marta is co-organizer of the together with Lex Cloin-Tavenier and Joanna Wall.
Marta is also member of the international network headed by (木瓜福利影视 of Adger), which gathers researchers from different universities working with adverbial clauses both from a synchronic and diachronic perspective.
Before getting a position at UU, Marta obtained both her BA and MA at the Ca' Foscari 木瓜福利影视 of Venice.
Marta's main research interests include comparative Germanic linguistics, with a particular focus on the syntactic structure of the left periphery of adverbial clauses in English, German, Dutch, Swedish, and Icelandic.