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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In September 2026, I’ll be giving a talk about case as a feature-gluttony repair in certain Italian copular clauses, at the Syntax of Nominal Copular Clauses Conference at the University of Bielefeld.
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In August 2026, I’ll be teaching Introduction to Syntax at the next DGfS Summer School at the University of Bielefeld.
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On May 20, 2026, I gave a talk on the typology of pied-piping and secondary wh-movement as part of the LinG/RTG2636 Colloquium series at the University of Göttingen.
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On March 25, 2026, I gave a talk on nominal-internal Distinctness effects at the Department of Linguistics of Queen Mary University of London as part of their Guest Speaker Seminar Series.
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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.