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Who I am
I am assistant professor in the department Minorities & Multilingualism at the University of Groningen (NL), Faculty of Arts. My areas of research are polysynthetic morphology, Creole languages, and the sociolinguistics of endangered and minority languages. Here my RUG page.
Currently holder of a NWO-funded VIDI grant: Shades of grammar: The cognitive basis of morphological productivity in polysynthetic languages.
Previously, I worked as a Marie-Curie postdoctoral fellow at the University of Bremen (DE), in the Postcolonial Language Studies group of Prof. Eeva Sippola, with a project on morphological productivity in Michif (mixed language, Canada/USA). I also collaborated with the University of Milano-Bicocca (IT) in the European FP7 project Mobility and Inclusion in Multilingual Europe (MIME).
I received my PhD from the University of Padova (IT) in 2013. My dissertation describes the copular system of Naijá (or Nigerian Pidgin), an English-lexifier Creole spoken in southern Nigeria.
In this website, you find more about my research and teaching. You also find a blog with news about my work. You can reach out to me at m.mazzoli(at)rug.nl
Latest blog entries
Thematic mapping of nêhiyawêwin
In September 2023, Hanno Dahmen concluded his internship under the joint supervision of Peter Merx (Geodienst) and me (Minorities & Multilingualism) The choropleth map above represents speakers who declared Plains Cree as (one among) their mother tongue(s) in the Canadian Census 2021 in the different census divisions of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. The dotted map…
The “productscape” of milk products in Israel
Deia Ganayim and I have published a paper about the linguistic landscape of milk products in Israel in the Journal of Language and Discrimination (November 2023). The paper addresses the topic of Arabic and Hebrew visibility on basic necessity goods, like diary products, in Israel, where since March 2018 Arabic has been downgraded from “official…
It was again Poster Day!
On Wednesday 15 November 2023 the students in Language Planning and Policy presented their class work to the staff members of the MA Multilingualism Their posters reflected our class work in sociolinguistics, with research on language attitudes and use, language contact and revitalization. The students used qualitative research methods for their projects. A lot of…
Maria Mazzoli, PhD 