Micaela Portilla Ikergunea, 3.2 bulegoa
Justo Vélez de Elorriaga kalea, 1
01006 Vitoria-Gasteiz
Studies:
In the 2023-2024 academic year I had the Ikasiker Research Fellowship [IkasC_2023_1_0067], which allowed me to collaborate with the Bilingual Mind research group under the supervision of Professor Beatriz Fernández (UPV/EHU). Then, in the 2024-2025 academic year, I continued my studies in the Basque Linguistics and Philology Master’s programme at the very same university. Since September 2025, I have been working on my PhD thesis under the supervision of Beatriz Fernández (UPV/EHU), Ane Odria (UPV/EHU) and Irene de la Cruz-Pavia (University of Deusto).
Linguistic variation is one of my main research interests and in my PhD thesis I study the causative structures used in the western dialect of Basque. Specifically, I investigate the relationship between the case and agreement marking of arguments and their animacy in causative constructions with embedded unaccusative verbs.
Research interests:
Morphosyntactic variation, Basque, causatives, causees, case- and agreement-marking, animacy.
Teaching:
Summer 2025: Basque teacher in the courses offered by the Zornotzako Barnetegia.
January 2024: Basque Language subject teacher at the ESO and Baccalaureate levels in Lauaxeta Ikastola, substituing.
Others:
Languages
Basque (mother tongue), Spanish (mother tongue), English (C1).
Grants
- IkasikerResearch Fellowship (2023-24) [IkasC_2023_1_0067]
- Institution: Department of Education, Language Policy and Culture of the Basque Government.
- Erasmus+ KA171grant (2022-23)
- Insitution:Servicio Español para la Internacionalización de la Educación (SEPIE).
- Basque Government Grants for the Predoctoral Training Program for Non-Doctoral Researchers (2025-2029) [PRE_2025_1_0152]
- Institution: Department of Education, Language Policy and Culture of the Basque Government
