Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Netherlands
fellow
Lucia Donatelli
2026-2027
Home institution
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Country of origin (home institution)
Netherlands
Discipline(s)
Language sciences and linguistics
Theme(s)
Behavior & Cognition
Fellowship dates
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Biography
Assistant Professor of Social Sciences and Humanities at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Research Project
Language and Analogical Reasoning
Lucia Donatelli investigates the relationship between analogical reasoning and language, with a particular interest in how analogy and composition underpin compositional generalisation — the capacity to systematically recombine familiar concepts, as encoded in linguistic structure, into novel ones of a differing linguistic form. Her work seeks to illuminate the mechanisms by which speakers extend and repurpose what they already know to express something entirely new.
Research Interests:
linguistics; analogical reasoning; language