About

I’m a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Linguistics of the University of Potsdam and a member of the Potsdam Morpho-Syntax Lab.

I got my PhD from MIT in 2023.

My main research interests are in syntax and morphology⁠.

Contact

zompi [at] uni-potsdam.de

My name

My full name is pronounced [stanizˈlao dzomˈpi] and spelled with a grave accent on the final i. (I myself have been inconsistent in this regard; now I’m trying to fix that.) In English-speaking contexts, I usually go by Stan.

Updates

• In September 2025, a paper I co-authored with Luke James Adamson, “Polite pronouns and the PCC,” was accepted by Linguistic Inquiry. The online-early version is available in open access here.

• In the summer of 2025, I taught at the EGG. The handouts for my seminar on *ABA effects, partly based on joint work with Zhouyi Sun, are available here. Zhouyi and I also presented some of our joint work at DM meets Nano in Vienna in July.

• In April 2025, Tanya Bondarenko and I published an NLLT article about the morphosyntax of agreement in South Caucasian languages. It is available in open access here.

• In December 2024, I published a Glossa paper about remnant wh-movement in Bulgarian. It is available in open access here.