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
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On March 25, 2026, I’m giving a talk at the Department of Linguistics of Queen Mary University of London as part of their Guest Speaker Seminar Series.
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On February 9–10, 2026, I took part in the Workshop on Phi and Markedness organized by Nina Haslinger and Uli Sauerland at the Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft.
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In January 2026, I taught Foundations of Syntax at the 11th V-NYI.
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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.
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In July–August 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.
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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.