Hello!

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I hold a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Geneva (January 2026), where I completed my doctoral research under the supervision of Ur Shlonsky.

I am currently a Postdoctoral Researcher

in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Geneva.

I specialize in theoretical syntax, particularly the syntax of Semitic languages.

My doctoral work investigated Tigrinya, a Semitic language spoken in Eritrea and Ethiopia. During my postdoctoral fellowship, I plan to extend this work

to Amharic, Tigre, and other Ethio-Semitic languages.

I focus on subordination, including relative clauses, complement clauses and adverbial clauses. I have also worked on negation, modality,

verum focus, and polarity particles. 

I am also a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Psychology & Speech Therapy

Research Unit at the University of Geneva. I work on the SNSF-funded project

"First language acquisition and foreign language learning in French-speaking children with DLD: Targeting grammar through explicit intervention", led by Hélène Delage and Emily Stanford.

My work within the project concerns second language acquisition,

especially the acquisition and teaching of grammar.

My name is pronounced [ˈdʒɔ.ja ka.ˈk:jɔ.li ].