Present Position |
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| July 2019 - : | Associate professor at the Department of Classical
Philology and Italian Studies of the University of
Bologna |
Previously |
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| July 2016 - July 2019: | Senior assistant professor, tenure track
('ricercatore a tempo determinato, tipo B') at the Department of Classical
Philology and Italian Studies of the University of
Bologna |
| April 2012 - July 2016: | Akademische Rätin auf Zeit (researcher and lecturer) at the Institut für deutsche Sprache und Literatur I, University of Cologne |
| May 2011 - March 2012: | Researcher at the Institut für Linguistik/Germanistik, University of Stuttgart (Wissenschaftliche Assistentin, Lehrstuhl Prof. Dr. Klaus von Heusinger) |
| Coordinator of the Forschungsverbund Sprachwissenschaft und Kognition (Interdisciplinary Research Center for Linguistics and Cognition), University of Stuttgart | |
| November 2008 - April 2011: | Postdoctoral fellow, Zukunftskolleg and Fachbereich Sprachwissenschaft, University of Konstanz |
| November 2006 - October 2008: | Research associate ('assegno di ricerca') in Linguistics, Department of Classics, University of Trieste. |
| January 2002 - January 2004: | Research associate ('assegno di ricerca') in Linguistics, Faculty of Communication Science, University of Trieste. |
Education |
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| 2017: |
German Scientific
Qualification for Professor
(Habilitation; venia legendi 'Romanische Sprachwissenschaft'; Philosophische Fakultät, University of Cologne) |
| 2013: |
Italian National Scientific
Qualification for Associate Professor
('Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale di Seconda
Fascia') |
| 2007: | Professional Teaching Degree ('Abilitazione all'insegnamento'), University of Trieste: Ancient Greek, Latin, Italian in Italian Secondary Schools - Level II (A051, A052); Italian, History, Geography in Italian Secondary Schools - Level I (A043) |
| 2006 - 2007: | Professional Teaching Specialization (SSIS), University of Trieste |
| 2005, May 20: | Ph.D. ('Dottorato di Ricerca') in Linguistics, University of Pisa: ‘Constituent structure and parametric resetting in the Latin DP: a diachronic study’ |
| 2002 - 2005: | Ph.D. program in General, Historical, Applied and Computational Linguistics, University of Pisa |
| 2003, October - December: | Visiting Student for the Fall term at the Department of Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles |
| 2003, June 27 - August 8: | student at the LSA Institute, Michigan State University (East Lansing, MI) |
| 2001, October 22: | ‘diploma’ of Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa. dissertation: 'I soggetti accusativi del latino tardo e del medio olandese' (Accusative Subjects in Late Latin and Middle Dutch) |
| 2001, January – June: | Exchange Fellowship: Visiting Student at the University of Utrecht and the University College, Utrecht, the Netherlands |
| 2000, November 21: | M.A. Classics and Linguistics (‘Laurea’), University of Pisa: 'Il medio in latino e il fenomeno dell’intransitività scissa' (Middle Voice in Latin and the phenomenon of Split Intransitivity) |
| 2000, April: | Visiting Exchange Student at the École Normale Supérieure, Paris |
| 1998, December: | Visiting Exchange Student at the École Normale Supérieure, Paris |
| 1996 - 2000: | undergraduate student at the University of Pisa (Classics and Linguistics) |
| 1996 - 2000: | undergraduate Fellow of Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa |
Research Grants |
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| October 2018 - March 2020 |
research and dissemination project "La classe plurilingue. Ricerca sulla complessità linguistica per una didattica inclusiva" (The multilingual classroom. A research on linguistic complexity to promote inclusive teaching methods). The project is funded by Fondazione Alsos. Ilaria Fiorentini is a researcher on this project. |
| January 2016 |
Mobility Grant - Universität zu
Köln, to collaborate with Dr. Maria
Napoli on the project 'The grammar of
reference: functions, variation, and change' |
| April 2010 - September 2011 | Award of a grant by the Zukunftskolleg - Universität Konstanz, to collaborate with Prof. Paul Kiparsky, Stanford University - Senior Fellow of the Zukunftskolleg, on the project 'The role of Case inflection in the diachronic development of Indo-European nominal syntax' |
| November 2008 -
April 2011 |
Financial support from the Zukunftskolleg, Universität Konstanz, for the project 'The history of Indo-European genitive' |
| November 2006 - October 2008: | Collaborator in a research grant at the University of Trieste (Deparment of Classics) for the project ‘Parametric Variation in the Nominal Morpho-Syntax of Indo-European Languages of Europe’; co-funded by the Italian Ministry of Scientific Research, P.I.: Prof. Giuseppe Longobardi |
| October 2004 - July 2005: | Collaborator in a research grant at the University of Roma ‘La Sapienza’, (Department of Glotto-Anthropological Studies) for the national project ‘Continuity and discontinuity in the development of Latin and Albanian’; co-funded by the Italian Ministry of Scientific Research, P.I. Prof. Paolo Di Giovine |
| January 2002 - January 2004: | Collaborator in a research grant at the University of Trieste (DSGS) for the project ‘Historical Implications of a Formal Theory of Syntactic Variation’; co-funded by the Italian Ministry of Scientific Research, P.I.: Prof. Giuseppe Longobardi |
Organizing Committees |
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| 2019: |
organizer, together with Ilaria Fiorentini, of the workshop 'Le competenze pragmatiche in prospettiva comparativa: dalla ricerca alla didattica' for the 53rd Congresso della Società di Linguistica Italiana (SLI), September 19-21, 2019, Università dell'Insubria, Como, Italy. |
| 2019: |
organizer, together with Caterina Mauri, of the workshop 'Simply not? Ways to strengthen negation', May 21, 2019, Università di Bologna, Italy. |
| 2019: |
organizer, together with Andreas Blümel, Marco Coniglio, Anke Holler (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen) of the workshop 'Dimensions of wh-words: a German-Italian question time' funded by the German-Italian Cooperation in the Field of Humanities and Social Sciences, Villa Vigoni, May 6-8, 2019, Villa Vigoni, Menaggio, Italy. |
| 2018: |
organizer, together with Pierre Larrivée, of the workshop 'The constellation of polarity sensitive items' for the 51st Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, August 29–September 1, 2018, Tallinn University, Estonia. |
| 2017: |
organizer, together with Nicola Grandi, Klaus
von Heusinger, Maria Napoli, of the
International Workshop 'The grammar of reference and quantification: functions, variation, and change' as
the 2017 edition of the RED series, Università di Bologna,
June 15-17, 2017. |
| 2016: |
organizer, together with Klaus
von Heusinger and Maria Napoli, of the
International Workshop 'The grammar of reference: functions, variation, and change' as
the 2016 edition of the RED series, Universität Köln,
May 13-14, 2016. |
| 2016: |
organizer, together with Klaus
von Heusinger and Svetlana Petrova, of the
Arbeitsgruppe 'Indefinites between
theory and language change' as
part of the 38.
Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für
Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Konstanz,
February 24-26, 2016. |
| 2012: | organizer, together with Agnes Jäger and Doris Penka, of the Arbeitsgruppe 'Language Change at the Syntax/Semantics Interface' within the Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a.M., March 7-9 2012. The website for the Arbeitsgruppe is now online. |
| 2012: | organizer, together with Miriam Butt and Klaus von Heusinger, of the International Workshop 'Dimensions of Grammar. In honor of Paul Kiparsky', August 2-3, 2011, Universität Konstanz / Zukunftskolleg, funded by the SFB 732 - Universität Stuttgart, the Zukunftskolleg and the Department of Linguistics - Universität Konstanz. |
| 2010: | organizer, together with Josef Bayer and Doris Penka, of the International Workshop ‘Case at the Interfaces of Grammar’, February 4-5, 2010, Universität Konstanz / Zukunftskolleg. |
| 2008: | member of the Organizing Committee for the International Conference ‘Levels of analysis in the evolution of Indo-European Languages’, May 22-24, 2008, Università di Trieste. |
| 2007: | member of the Organizing Committee for the International Workshop ‘Formal models of linguistic diversity’, October 12-13, 2007, Università di Trieste. |
| 2006: | member of the Organizing Committee for DiGS 9, Diachronic Generative Syntax Conference, June 8th-10th 2006, Università di Trieste. |
Editorial activities |
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| 2019 – |
Editor, together with Daniël Van Olmen, of the series 'Trends in Linguistics Studies and Monographs'
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| 2016 – |
Member of the
scientific committee for the series 'CLUB Working Papers in Linguistics', Main editors: Cristiana De Santis, Nicola Grandi, Francesca Masini, Fabio Tamburini |
| 2013 – |
Member of the international
scientific committee for the journal 'Lingue
antiche e moderne', Main editor: Renato
Oniga |
| 2009 - 2012: | Member, and since 04/2011
co-director, of the Discussion Panel for the Wiley-Blackwell
Language
& Linguistics Compass Journal
online See some of my posts: On K. A Smith's 'Grammaticalization' Aug. 2011 On M. DeGraff's Language Acquisition in Creolization and, Thus, Language Change ... On D. Schreier's Language in Isolation, and Its Implications for Variation and Change |