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Delia Bentley is a professor in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at the University of Manchester. Her main research interest lies in Romance languages, particularly in the interface syntax and discourse, as well as lexical meaning. She has explored evidence from grammars of lesser-studied Romance languages such as Sicilian and Sardinian. Bentley's work has extensively studied constructs including existential, locative, presentational, causative, and modal voice constructions. Her contributions to the field have been recognized through various research grants from the Arts and Humanities Research Council. As an editor for the Transactions of the Philological Society and a member of the Linguistic Society of Great Britain, Bentley actively engages with the academic community. She has produced numerous monographs and over fifty research articles in leading linguistics journals. Bentley has also supervised numerous postgraduate researchers, encouraging independent thinking and rigorous academic inquiry among her students. She is passionate about documenting and preserving the diversity of Romance dialects, particularly those in Italy, amidst the encroaching influence of national languages.
Includes MSc in Advanced Electrical Power Systems and MSc in Communications and Signal Processing.