Project Members

Silva Nurmio is the PI of the project Make it count: new advances in understanding grammatical number. She did her PhD on grammatical number in Welsh at the University of Cambridge and an MPhil at Aberystwyth University. She still works on Welsh and the Celtic languages, while her interests have widened to the typology of grammatical number.

Giada Palmieri is a research fellow at the University of Bologna, and an external collaborator of the project 'Make it count'. She did her PhD at the Institute for Language Sciences of Utrecht University, focusing on reciprocal predicates. She's interested in collectivity and plurality, and on the semantics and morphosyntax of nominal countability. 

Matilda Carbo (link TBD) is a linguist (ongoing MA at University of Helsinki; BA Hons McGill). 

She assists in research on language description and documentation, as well as on typology. She co-edited a dictionary of Mano (< Mande, West Africa) with Maria Khachaturyan, and has experience in fieldwork (remotely with African consultants, and on-site in Estonia and Kyrgyzstan). She also creates illustrations for linguistic research.

Her upcoming MA thesis is a typological and descriptive study of singulatives in West Germanic languages. Her research interests fall under language description (morphosyntax), sociolinguistics and lexicography.

Mikhail Zolotilin (MA) is a doctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki, working on language typology, information theory, and computational linguistics. He has also participated in linguistic fieldwork in Romania and Kyrgyzstan. He contributed to the development of the project website, database, and test structure.

Aleksei Zolotilin (MS) is a full-stack web developer and language enthusiast who contributed to the design and development of the project website.