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Albert Wall is Associate Professor of Romance Linguistics in the Department of Romance Studies at the University of Vienna's Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies. He completed his Magister degree in Romance and Eastern Slavic Philology at the University of Tübingen in 2008, including an academic exchange at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and Fluminense Federal University. Wall earned his PhD summa cum laude from the University of Zurich in 2015, with a dissertation entitled Bare Nominals in Brazilian Portuguese: An Integral Approach, for which the diploma was issued in 2017. His early career featured student and research assistant roles at the University of Tübingen from 2007 to 2014, contributing to the Galician Etymological Dictionary project and the Collaborative Research Center 833 on the construction of meaning, where he also served as coordinator from 2013 to 2014. From 2014 to 2020, he held positions as assistant and research associate at the University of Zurich, working on Swiss National Science Foundation-funded projects concerning Differential Object Marking in Spanish varieties under Professor Johannes Kabatek.

Wall's research centers on Romance linguistics, with specializations in linguistic variation, syntax and semantics of nominal phrases, argument structure, verb semantics, experimental linguistics, bare nominals in Brazilian Portuguese, and Differential Object Marking across Ibero-Romance languages. He authored the monograph Bare Nominals in Brazilian Portuguese: An Integral Approach (John Benjamins, 2017) and co-edited key volumes including Manual of Brazilian Portuguese Linguistics (de Gruyter, 2022) with Johannes Kabatek, Differential Object Marking in Romance: The Third Wave (de Gruyter, 2021) with Kabatek and Philipp Obrist, and New Perspectives on Bare Noun Phrases in Romance and Beyond (John Benjamins, 2013) with Kabatek. Selected peer-reviewed articles encompass Number-neutral indefinite objects in Brazilian Portuguese as a case of semantic incorporation (Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2022), Multilingualism effects in an elicitation study on Differential Object Marking in Cusco (Peru) and Misiones (Argentina) (2021), and Para uma história dos nomes nus no português brasileiro: o caso do singular nu (2020). His integrated approaches combining theoretical analysis, corpora, and experiments have advanced comprehension of nominal determination and object marking phenomena. Since 2020, Wall has taught and coordinated research in Romance linguistics at the University of Vienna.