Nicoletta Loccioni
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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:
  • Connectivity in specificational copular sentences
  • The composition of modal superlatives in English and Romance
  • DP-internal vs. sentential predication

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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