Academic interests
I am a postdoctoral researcher at ILN. My postdoctoral project aims to fill a gap in the history of Oceanic languages by providing a comparative-historical analysis of the clausal structure in Reefs-Santa Cruz languages. I am interested in Oceanic/Austronesian languages, language documentation, typology, historical linguistics and morphosyntax.
Background
I got my PhD from INALCO (Paris) in 2021. My PhD thesis is the first grammar of Nalögo, a Reefs-Santa Cruz Oceanic language. After my PhD, I worked for one year as a temporary teacher and researcher at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University (Paris 3), where I taught various courses in Linguistics at BA and MA level. Now I am working as a postdoctoral researcher (MSCA Individual Fellowship) at ILN.
Corpus online
Alfarano, Valentina. 2018. Documenting Nalögo, an Oceanic language of Santa Cruz Island. Endangered Languages Archive. Link : http://hdl.handle.net/2196/00-0000-0000-0010-7A76-9.
Publications and thesis
Alfarano, Valentina & Brenda H. Boerger. submitted. Valency in Santa Cruz languages: a historical-comparative analysis. Oceanic Linguistics.
Alfarano, Valentina. 2024. Middle, reflexive and reciprocal constructions in Nalögo: a typological and diachronic account. Oceanic Linguistics 63(1), 1-38.
Næss, Åshild, Valentina Alfarano, Brenda H. Boerger, & Anders Vaa. 2023. Comitative Constructions in Reefs–Santa Cruz. Oceanic Linguistics 62(1), 81-116.
Alfarano, Valentina & Brenda H. Boerger. 2022. The prefix (v)ö- in Nalögo and Natügu and its origin from POc *paRi-. Language & Linguistics in Melanesia 40, 31-59.
Alfarano, Valentina. 2021. A grammar of Nalögo, an Oceanic language of Santa Cruz Island (Grammaire du Nalögo, langue océanienne de l’île Santa Cruz (Archipel des îles Salomon), PhD dissertation, INALCO.