Hi!  My name is Nico(letta). I am a Adjunct Professor of Linguistics at UCLA.
I got my PhD from the UCLA linguistics department with a dissertation on superlative phrases in Romance languages. 
Main research interests:

• syntax/semantics interface
• degree constructions, predicative structures, relative clauses.

Current research:

• The composition of modal superlatives in English and Romance
• DP-internal vs. sentential predication

Recent presentations:
Salt @ UCLA (05/2019) and LSRL49 @ University of Georgia (05/2019)
Past work:

• Copular constructions across languages. 
• Interaction between so-called "Individual-Level predicates" and past tense.
• perception verbs taking infinitival clauses or pseudorelative complements in Romance languages.

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