Biography
I am a first-year PhD student in Linguistics at the University of Cambridge (St John’s College). I specialise in syntax and first language acquisition. I am supervised by Bert Vaux and Theresa Biberauer and I am supported by an Open-Oxford-Cambridge AHRC DTP - St John’s studentship. I am also an Honorary Cambridge Trust Scholar. My PhD project is outlined on the AHRC website.
Before my PhD, I completed a BA and MPhil in Linguistics also at the University of Cambridge (St John’s College), supervised by Theresa Biberauer.
Research
I am interested in syntax (theoretical, comparative, diachronic), language acquisition and biolinguistics. In my work, I probe a so-called neo-emergentist approach to language acquisition and variation, which assumes a maximally impoverished Universal Grammar. I have a keen interest in interdisciplinary approaches to language.
Publications
Bosch, Núria. (2023). Not all complementisers are late: a first look at the emergence of illocutionary complementisers in Catalan and Spanish. Isogloss 9(1)/12: 1-39. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/isogloss.313
Bosch, Núria. (2023). Emergent Syntax and Maturation: a neo-emergentist approach to syntactic development. MPhil thesis, University of Cambridge.
Bosch, Núria. (2023). Not all complementisers are late: a first look at the emergence of illocutionary complementisers in Catalan and Spanish. Cambridge Occasional Papers in Linguistics 15: 1-38.
Bosch, Núria. (2022). Emergence, Complexity and Developing Grammars: a reinterpretation from a Dynamical Systems perspective. Cambridge Occasional Papers in Linguistics 14(1): 1-33.
Other Professional Activities
Editorial experience
2023-Present. Co-editor of the Cambridge Occasional Papers in Linguistics (COPiL)
2023-Present. (ad hoc) Associate Copyeditor at the Journal of the Undergraduate Linguistics Association of Britain (JoULAB)
2023-Present. Associate Editor (Academic) at the Journal of the Undergraduate Linguistics Association of Britain (JoULAB)
2022-2023. Associate Editor (Production) at the Journal of the Undergraduate Linguistics Association of Britain (JoULAB)
Committee roles
2023-Present. Committee Member at the Cambridge University Linguistics Society (CU LingSoc)
2023-Present. Committee Member at the Cambridge University Catalan Society (CUCAT)
2021-2023. President of the St John’s College Linguistics Society
