Fae Hicks
Research Assistant @Unimore
Fae Hicks is a PhD student at the University of Edinburgh studying the interaction of phonology and syntax in the emergence of functional words in the history of English and the development of Romance languages from Latin. This comes off the back of her MRes at York where she worked with the Parametric Comparison Method on the syntax of Classical and Late Latin, a project which is continued in her current role with the study of Early Latin.
She is currently involved in the PARTHICO project as a research assistant. Her research consists in the application of the Parametric Comparison Method on the investigation of diachronic change in the (Italo-)Romance domain. The purpose is twofold: (a) developing dedicated tools for the investigation of diachronic data through the Parametric Comparison Method; (b) describe and explain the distribution of diachronic diversity in Italo-Romance. The research will perform the following tasks: (1) collect syntactic data from Late Latin and Old Italian texts; (2) collect bibliographical information about the history of language contact in Italy and its relationship with cultural and genetic information.