Núria Bosch

Hello! I’m Núria Bosch [ˈnuɾiə βɔsk], a third-year PhD student in Linguistics at the University of Cambridge (St John’s College). I specialise in syntax and first language acquisition.

I’m supervised by Bert Vaux and Theresa Biberauer and I’m supported by an OOC AHRC DTP - St John’s studentship. I’m also an Honorary Cambridge Trust Scholar. My PhD project is outlined on the AHRC website.

I spent Fall 2025 as a visiting student at the Department of Linguistics at New York University, sponsored by Ailís Cournane and Gary Thoms.

From April-July 2025, I was a short-term Doctoral Research Fellow at the DFG-funded NegLaB Collaborative Research Centre (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt), where I worked with Esther Rinke and Petra Schulz.

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. You can find my full CV here.

When not doing linguistics, I can be found reading, listening to music, coding, travelling and following Barcelona’s football games (or, more rarely, playing football). I’m originally from Ripoll, a small town in the north of Catalonia, next to the Pyrenees and near the French border.

I work on...

• Syntax (theoretical, comparative, diachronic)
• Language acquisition (L1, bilingualism)
• Interdisciplinary approaches to language

I’m interested in how children build up grammatical systems and how this process sheds light on synchronic and diachronic variation. I pursue this theme through corpus methods and multilingual data analysis to evaluate theoretical approaches to grammar construction. In particular, my work develops a neo-emergentist generative approach to language acquisition and variation, which assumes a maximally impoverished Universal Grammar. I have a keen interest in comparative, multilingual and formal perspectives on syntactic acquisition.

Most of my research so far has focused on the acquisition of functional categories crosslinguistically, especially the left periphery and A’-dependencies. More recently, I’ve also studied expletive subjects, negation and expressive language. You can find a summary of my work here.