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Dr. Adina Camelia Bleotu currently teaches linguistics at the University of Bucharest. Additionally, she is the Principal Investigator of an UEFISCDI-funded project on "The Acquisition of Disjunction". Recently, during October 2021- March 2022, she was a fellow in the Research area 4 'Semantics & Pragmatics', and between April-October 2022, she was a researcher in the project "Experimental Game Theory and Scalar Implicatures. Investigating variation in context and scale type (SIGames 2)" / Research area 4 'Semantics & Pragmatics'.

Adina Camelia Bleotu has a PhD on theoretical linguistics (in particular, on denominal verbs) from Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, conducted under the supervision of Prof. Alessandra Giorgi. In her PhD thesis-which was published as a monograph at Brill in 2019, she compare various theoretical approaches to the analysis of denominal verbs (lexical syntax, distributed morphology, spanning), embracing a spanning account as the best representation. While her thesis was theoretical, in the past 6 years, she has been been fully immersed into the world of experimental cognitive and generative linguistics, conducting experiments on a variety of topics, focusing mainly on language acquisition research.

She has investigated denominal verbs in language acquisition during a postdoc on denominals and creativity at the University of Bucharest.

Together with Anton Benz (ZAS Berlin) and Nicole Gotzner (Potsdam), she has also investigated various types of embedded implicatures, in an effort to understand the semantic and pragmatic differences between quantifiers and modal items in adult and child Romanian. She has also looked at the interaction between necessity modality and negation in English and Romanian and at indirect inferences with several modal adverbs in Romanian by means of the Shadow Play Paradigm.

Another topic of great interest to her is recursion (of prepositional phrases, adjectives and relative clauses), a topic she has been exploring extensively in child language in collaboration with Tom Roeper (UMass Amherst) and Deborah Foucault (UMass Amherst) since 2018.

As part of a Fulbright Grant at UMass Amherst in 2020, I have conducted psycholinguistic experiments on agreement attraction on adults (Romanian natives) together with Brian Dillon (UMass Amherst).

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Employment (17)

University of Bucharest: Bucharest, RO

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Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft: Berlin, Berlin, DE

2021-10-01 to present
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ZAS BERLIN: Berlin, DE

2022-04-01 to 2022-09-30 | postdoc in ‘Experimental Game Theory and Scalar Implicatures. Investigating variation in context and scale type (SIGames 2) / Research area 4 'Semantics & Pragmatics' (working with Anton Benz)
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ZAS Berlin: Berlin, DE

2021-10-01 to 2022-03-31 | fellow in semantics and pragmatics at ZAS Berlin, working with Anton Benz on scalar implicatures
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BUCURESTI: BUCURESTI, Please select, RO

2020-09-01 to 2022-02-28 | postdoctoral researcher in the project “Experimental Insights into Denominals and Creativity (XIDenCre)”, funded by UEFISCDI (PN-III-P1-1.1-PD-2019-0472) during the period 1 September 2020-28 February 2022 (UEFISCDI (PN-III-P1-1.1-PD-2019-0472) )
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University of Bucharest: Bucharest, RO

2016-09 to 2022-01 | Teaching Assistant of English Language and Linguistics (Faculty of Foreign Languages)
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ISDS (Interdisciplinary School of Doctoral Studies), University of Bucharest: Bucharest, RO

2019-06 to 2021-06 | postdoctoral researcher on “A Colouring Approach to How Children Understand Recursion in Romanian” (Mentor: Larisa Avram) (ISDS (Interdisciplinary School of Doctoral Studies)
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University of Massachusetts: MA, MA, US

2020-01 to 2020-07 | Fulbright research scholar at UMass Amherst, working on psycholinguistic experiments on the ordering of Person, Number, Gender in Romanian “Processing Agreement Violations: Phi-features from a Psycholinguistic Perspective” with Brian Dillon
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ZAS Berlin : Berlin, DE

2019-07 to 2019-09 | accepted for a 3-month XPrag internship at ZAS Berlin (within the project SIGames 1/2: Experimental Game Theory and Scalar Implicatures, Dr. Anton Benz) (XPrag internship )
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University of Bucharest: Bucharest, RO

2018-01-15 to 2019-01-14 | Young Researchers Grant from the Institute of Research of the University of Bucharest “Experimental Pragmatics”
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Adina Camelia Bleotu

University of Bucharest: Bucharest, RO

2015-10 to 2016-01 | Teaching Associate of English at the Faculty of Foreign Languages, University of Bucharest (Faculty of Foreign Languages, University of Bucharest)
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Adina Camelia Bleotu

ASE - The Academy of Economic Studies: Bucharest, RO

2015-10 to 2016-01 | Teaching Associate of Business English (Business English )
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Università Ca' Foscari: Venezia, Veneto, IT

2014-10 to 2015-01 | Tutor of Linguistica generale 1
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Università Ca' Foscari: Venezia, Veneto, IT

2013-10 to 2014-01 | Tutor of Linguistica generale 1, Lingua Inglese 1 at Ca’ Foscari University, Venice
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Università Ca' Foscari: Venezia, Veneto, IT

2013-02 to 2013-06 | Tutor of Linguistica Generale, English Language for 2nd and 3rd year students
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Adina Camelia Bleotu

Università Ca' Foscari: Venezia, Veneto, IT

2012-02 to 2012-06 | English language Tutor for 1st, 2nd and 3rd year part-time students
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Adina Camelia Bleotu

No. 179 School: Bucharest, RO

2008-09 to 2009-02 | English teacher (No. 179 School)
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Education and qualifications (13)

Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft: Berlin, Berlin, DE

2021-10-01 to 2022-03-31 | fellow in semantics-pragmatics (ZAS Berlin)
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Adina Camelia Bleotu

ZAS Berlin : BERLIN, DE

2019-07-07 to 2019-10-07 | XPrag (Experimental Pragmatics) internship at ZAS Berlin (SIGames 1/2: Experimental Game Theory and Scalar Implicatures, Dr. Anton Benz), working on simple and embedded implicatures with epistemic modal adverbs
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ICUB: BUCHAREST, RO

2019-02-28 to 2019-03-03 | courses of statistics in R with Adrian Duşă (ICUB Workshop)
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University of Bucharest: Bucharest, RO

2018-01-15 to 2019-01-14 | Young Researchers Grant from the Institute of Research of the University of Bucharest “Experimental Pragmatics”
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Adina Camelia Bleotu

UMass Amherst: BOSTON, US

2018-09-11 to 2018-11-11 | research stay at UMass Amherst, working on some acquisition experiments with Tom Roeper (funded by the ICUB grant on experimental pragmatics)
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ZAS Berlin : Berlin, DE

2018-03-20 to 2018-03-26 | research stay at ZAS Berlin (funded by the ICUB grant on experimental pragmatics)
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Ca' Foscari University of Venice: Venice, IT

2015 to 2015 | Title of Doctor in Linguistics received in 2015
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Adina Camelia Bleotu

Ca' Foscari University of Venice: Venice, IT

2010 to 2015 | PhD at Ca’Foscari University, Venice under the supervision of Professor Alessandra Giorgi-“Towards a Theory of Denominal Verbs in English and Romanian” PhD Defense (2015): Committee: Prof. Gillian Ramchand (Tromsø), Prof. Alexandra Cornilescu (Bucharest),
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University of Tromsø, Norway: Tromso, NO

2012-09-11 to 2012-12-11 | doctoral stay for 3 months at the University of Tromsø, Norway, for research purposes, working with Gillian Ramchand
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University of Bucharest: Bucharest, RO

2008-09-15 to 2010-09-15 | MA (Master) of English Linguistics at the Faculty of Foreign Languages (Faculty of Foreign Languages, English Major, Romanian Minor)
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University of Bucharest: Bucharest, RO

2009-09-15 to 2010-07 | MA Degree (July 2010): (Faculty of Foreign Languages, English Major, Romanian Minor BA )
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University of Bucharest: Bucharest, RO

2004-09-15 to 2008-09-15 (Faculty of Foreign Languages, English Major, Romanian Minor BA Degree (July 2008): “Modals and Negation in English and Romanian”, supervisor: Prof. Larisa Avram)
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Mihai Viteazul National College (Mathematics-Informatics, Intensive English): Bucharest, RO

2000-09-15 to 2004-09-15
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Funding (6)

Experimental Insights into Denominals and Creativity (XIDenCre)

2020-09 to 2022-02 | Grant
UEFISCDI (PN-III-P1-1.1-PD-2019-0472) (Romania, RO)
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Adina Camelia Bleotu

Processing Agreement Violations: Phi-features from a Psycholinguistic Perspective

2020-01 to 2020-07 | Grant
Fulbright grant at UMass Amherst (AMHERST, UMass AMHERST, US)
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Adina Camelia Bleotu

Experimental Game Theory and Scalar Implicatures

2019-07 to 2019-09 | Grant
ZAS (BERLIN, GERMANY, DE)
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Adina Camelia Bleotu

A Colouring Approach to How Children Understand Recursion in Romanian

2019-06 to 2021-06 | Grant
ISDS (Interdisciplinary School of Doctoral Studies), University of Bucharest (Bucharest, ROMANIA, RO)
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Adina Camelia Bleotu

Experimental Approaches to Scalar Implicatures

2019-06 to 2019-06 | Award
Erasmus Teaching Mobility in Linguistics (Boğaziçi, Boğaziçi University, TR)
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Adina Camelia Bleotu

Experimental Pragmatics for Romanian

2018-01 to 2019-01 | Grant
TC ICUB-SSU nr. 28047/2017 (Bucharest, Romania, RO)
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Adina Camelia Bleotu

Peer review (3 reviews for 2 publications/grants)

Review activity for Journal of memory and language. (2)
Review activity for Lingua. (1)