Carlo Meloni

Lehrstuhlassistenz

Phone: +49(0)851/509-3580

Room: HK14d 323

Lehrstuhl für Multilinguale Computerlinguistik

Ph.D. in Linguistics, 2021 – 2025
Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution, University of Zurich
Thesis title: “Syntactic Hierarchy in Linguistic Evolution: A Phylogenetic View of Clause-Linkage”
M.A. in Linguistics, 2019 – 2021
Linguistics Department, Tel Aviv University
Thesis Title: “The Reš Riddle: Identifying the Biblical Hebrew Rhotic”
B.A. in Linguistics (minor in Biology) 2016 – 2019
Linguistics Department, Tel Aviv University

Meloni, Carlo Y., Chundra Cathcart, Erik J. Ringen, Jessica K. Ivani, and Balthasar Bickel (2025). “A Phylogenetic Perspective on the Syntax-Semantics Interface: A Case Study in Clause Linkage Constructions”. In: bioRxiv. url: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2025/07/23/2025.07.19.665697.
Meloni, Carlo Y., Chundra A. Cathcart, Jessica K. Ivani, Taras Zakharko, Erik J. Ringen, and Balthasar Bickel (2025). “Linguistic evolution minimizes the amount of syntactic hierarchy in grammar”. In: bioRxiv. url: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2025/07/23/2025.07.19.665693.
Meloni, Carlo Y., Jessica K. Ivani, Taras Zakharko, Guanghao You, Chundra A. Cathcart, and Balthasar Bickel (2025). “Writing does not Impact the Evolution of Syntax”. In: bioRxiv. url: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2025/07/23/2025.07.19.665695.
Meloni, Carlo Y., Shauli Ravfogel, and Yoav Goldberg (June 2021). “Ab Antiquo: Neural Proto-language Reconstruction”. In: Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. url: https://aclanthology.org/2021.naacl-main.353.