Dr. Pinzin is a linguist interested in theoretical and experimental approaches to language variation, both on the historical and the synchronic level. Working at the Goethe University Frankfurt as a post-doc researcher with the team of the DiFuPaRo project (DFG/SNSF, 2018-2021) led him to exploring the morphosyntactic encoding of indefiniteness in the Romance varieties, while in his cooperation with the MICLE project (DFG/ANR, 2021-2024) he delved into word-order variations in Medieval Italo and Gallo-Romance.

In both projects he created an open access corpus, the DiFuPaRo Corpus and the MICLE corpus. He previously worked during his PhD (Università Ca’ Foscari Venice, 2014-2018) on voice alternations from Latin to Romance, investigating the category of deponent verbs. This also got him interested in other apparent quirks of Latin morphology, as thematic vowels, aspectual morphology and deverbal nominalisations.

Dr. Pinzin is currently developing at the University of Padova – where he honed his linguistic skills during his BA and MA studies – novel approaches to language change, correlating measures of change and psycholinguistic approaches. More specifically, he focuses on how priming and crosslinguistic influence can shape diachronic language variation.