martina.wiltschko@upf.edu
Martina Wiltschko is an ICREA research Professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. She is a theoretical linguist, focussing on syntax and its interfaces. She obtained her PhD in 1995 (focussing on German syntax), spent much of her career at the University of British Columbia until 2019 when she assumed her current position. During her tenure at UBC, Wiltschko focussed mainly on language variation and fieldwork (culminating in her 2014 Cambridge University monograph on the universal structure of categories). She then developed an interest in the nature of language in interaction which led to her 2021 Cambridge University monograph on the grammar of interactional language. She has recently started a project (currently funded by the Spanish government) on the nature of human machine interaction, focussing on the role of interactional language.