Monica Palmerini works at the Department of Foreign Languages, literatures and cultures, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, where she teaches “Spanish language and translation” since 2007. With a PhD (2005) and a Post-Doc (2007) in General Linguistics, Monica Palmerini carries out research in General and Spanish Linguistics, with a functional-pragmatic approach and a typological orientation.
Her research focuses on a wide range of topics, including lexicology, word classes and constructions, theory of grammar between system and discourse, syntax-lexicon interface, discourse and pragmatic functions of linguistic structures. Monica has worked on information structure and focalization strategies, argument structure and alternations, nominalization process and verbo-nominal forms, especially infinitive and some deverbal nouns, conversational narrative and other discourse phenomena. Another research interest regards intercomprehension between romance languages and translation (spanish-italian).