Biosketch

Professor Emerita of Linguistics. Full Professor for Linguistics (1975 -2010 )and for Sociolinguistics (1982-1991),she has taught in several universities, both in Italy and abroad. President of the International Society for Historical Linguistics (1983-85), of the Società Italiana di Glottologia (1991-92), President and Vice-President  of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (1999-2000). Head of the Department of Linguistics 2002-2008. Organizator of sevel national and international conference on Historical Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition.
Main areas of research: 1) Historical Linguistics, history of Greek and Latin, Grammaticalization theory,Typological Linguistics;  2) Languages in contact, plurilingualism and minority languages; 3) Theory and practice of Second Language Acquisition. She has published widely in all these areas. She has edited a volume on the acquisition of Italian by immigrants (Verso l'italiano, 2003).

Her current research focuses on new perspectives on grammaticalization theory, on the diachronic development of interclausal connectives  and on the evolution of passives and impersonals in Romance.

 


Education

1959 University degree in Comparative Philology, Faculty of Arts, University of Florence. Advising professor: Prof. Giacomo Devoto

1960-1962 Period of study abroad at Bayerische Julius-Maximilians-Universität in Würzburg, Germany (1960-61) and at Universität des Saarlandes in Saarbrücken (1961-62) with scholarships from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst. Specialization in Indo-European linguistics with special focus on Sanskrit and Germanic languages

1970 Qualification for University teaching of Comparative Philology (venia legendi)

Teaching Positions

1962-1968 Professor of Latin and Greek Letters at Siotto-Pintor High School in Cagliari

1968-1975 Assistant Professor of Comparative Philology, Faculty of Arts, University of Cagliari (Sardinia)

1969-1972 Professor of Comparative Philology, University of Cagliari

1972-1976 Professor of Comparative History of Classical Languages, Faculty of Arts, Milan State University

1974-1976 Professor of Germanic Philology, Faculty of Arts, University of Pavia.

1975-1976 Professor of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, University of Messina (Sicily)

1982-1991 Responsible for the teaching of Socio-linguistics, Faculty of Arts, University of Pavia

1976-1996 Professor of Comparative Philology, Degree Course in Foreign Languages, Faculty of Arts, University of Pavia

1996 to 2010  Professor of General Linguistics, Degree Course in Letters , Faculty of Arts, University of Pavia

2004 to present Professor of Theory of Grammar, Master Degree in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, University of Pavia


      

• Past Projects, co-funded by the MIUR (Ministry for Education, University and Research),  by the National Research Council (CNR) and by the local endowmenr (FAR):
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• Historical linguistics: the history of the Latin language and Greek language, the diachrony of Indo-European languages in the framework of grammaticalization theory. 

• Sociolinguistics and Contact Linguistics: plurilinguism and minority languages, with particular reference  to the German-speaking area of Gressoney  Valle d'Aosta (cf. the volume: Lingua dialetto e comportamento linguistico, 1979) and various articles). Theoretical and methodological reflections on code-switching, particularly between Italian and Italian dialects.

• Diachronic syntax: theories of linguistic change.

• Second language acquisition: Spontaneous acquisition of Italian in comparison to other European languages from socio-linguistic and psycholinguistic standpoints. The characteristics of Italian as L2 of immigrants and of foreigners of different linguistic backgrounds (cf the edited volumes Verso l'italiano, Roma 2003 and Typology and Second Language Acquisition, Berlin/New York 2003) and several articles).

• Current research focuses on semantic change in grammaticalization and on the evolution of passives and impersonals in Romance.
• Research on Grammaticalization processes: Diachronic sources of interclausal coordinating connectives, with special attention to Italian and Romance languages.
• Studies on the development of the motion verb venire as passive auxiliary : data from the history of Italian and typological perspectives.
• The study of Second language Acquisition is pursued investigating the role of formulaic language in acquisition in a Construction Grammar framework .

                       Papers online

Giacalone Ramat-Mauri- Molinelli, Synchrony and diachrony: Introduction to a dynamic interface, in Anna Giacalone Ramat, Caterina Mauri & Piera Molinelli (eds), Synchrony and Diachrony: A Dynamic Interface, Amsterdam: Benjamins

 The development of adversative connectives: stages and factors at play , Linguistics 50.2. (2012): 191-239 , (co-authored with Caterina Mauri)   MauriGiacalone%20The%20development%20of%20AdversativeConnectives_FINAL.pdf

The grammaticalization of coordinating interclausal connectives in Heiko Narrog and Bernd Heine  (eds), Handbook of Grammaticalization, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2011, 656-66, (co-authored with Caterina Mauri)

Dalla continuità temporale al contrasto: la grammaticalizzazione di tuttavia come connettivo coordinativo, with Caterina Mauri. In In Angela Ferrari (ed) Sintassi storica e sincronica dell'italiano. Subordinazione, coordinazione e giustapposizione, Vol. I, pp. 449-470. Firenze: Franco Cesati Editore, 2009

Evidentiality: a comparative look at Georgian and Italian, with Manana Topadze , in Mario        Squartini (ed.), Evidentiality between lexicon and grammar. Special issue of Italian Journal of Linguistics  19.1. 2007, 7-38. 

The indefinite usage of uomo ('man') in Early Italo-Romance. Grammaticalization and areality, Archivio Glottologico Italiano XCII (I), 2007, pp. 65-111; with Andrea Sansò.

The spread and decline of indefinite man-constructions in European languages: An areal perspective, In Paolo Ramat and Elisa Roma (eds.), Europe and the Mediterranean as linguistic areas: convergencies from a historical and typological perspective, Amsterdam, Benjamins, 2007, pp. 95-131; with Andrea Sansò.

Typological universals and second language acquisition, (report at the international Conference: With more than chance frequency. Forty years of Universals of language. Bologna, 19-10 January 2007).
In: Sergio Scalise, Elisabetta Magni, Antonietta Bisetto (eds) (2008), Universals of Language Today, Berlin:Springer Netherlands 2009, 253-272

Areal convergence in grammaticalization processes, (Main Report at the international Conference New Reflections on Grammaticalization Santiago de Compostela, 17-20 July 2005, in  María José López-Couso and Elena Seoane (eds), in collaboration with Teresa Fanego. Rethinking Grammaticalization: New perspectives, Amsterdam and   Philadelphia: John Benjamins 2008, pp.129-167.

Publications from 1990


1. (with M. E. Conte e P. Ramat, eds.), Dimensioni della linguistica (Materiali Linguistici 1), Milano, F. Angeli, 1990.

2. "Clitici latini e romanzi", in M. E. Conte, P. Ramat, A. Giacalone Ramat (eds.), Dimensioni della linguistica (Materiali Linguistici 1) Milano, F. Angeli, 1990, 11-30.

3. "Discourse functions and syntactic change", in H. Andersen e K.Koerner (eds), Historical Linguistics 1987, Amsterdam, Benjamins 1990, 175-190.

4. (in collaborazione con G. Bernini) cura del volume: La temporalità nell'acquisizione di lingue seconde (Materiali linguistici 2). Milano, F.Angeli, 1990.

5. Presentazione del progetto di Pavia sull'acquisizione di lingue seconde. Lo sviluppo di strutture temporali. In G. Bernini & A. Giacalone Ramat (a cura di), La temporalità nell'acquisizione di lingue seconde Materiali Linguistici 2), Milano, F. Angeli, 1990, 13-38.

6. "Sulla rilevanza per la teoria linguistica dei dati di acquisizione di lingue seconde. L'organizzazione temporale del discorso", in E. Banfi & P. Cordin (a cura di), Storia dell'italiano e forme dell'italianizzazione. Atti del XXIII Congresso internazionale della SLI, Trento, 18-20 maggio 1989. Roma, Bulzoni, 1990, 123-140.

7. (in collaborazione con E. Banfi), "The acquisition of temporality. A second language perspective", Folia Linguistica 24, 1990, 405-428.

8. "Il mutamento linguistico in contesto plurilingue", in Aspetti metodologici e teorici nello studio del plurilinguismo nei territori dell'Alpe-Adria. Atti del Convegno internazionale (Udine, 12-14 ottobre 1989), Udine, Aviani Editore, 1990, 79-100.

9. Relazione sul III Incontro del "Réseau européen Acquisition des langues", in Lingua e Stile 25, 1990, 674-675.

10. Presentazione del volume Modelli e strategie per la didattica dell'italiano lingua seconda, (a cura di M. Mazzoleni e M. Pavesi) Milano, F. Angeli, 1991.

11. "Code-switching in dialectal communities: effects on language shift", in Papers for the workshop on impact and consequences: broader considerations (Brussels, 22-24 November 1990), Strasbourg, European Science Foundation, 1991, 189-223.

12. "Appredimento spontaneo e apprendimento guidato di italiano lingua seconda", in Remo Sensoni (a cura di), Verso l'italiano. Insegnamento e apprendimento dell'italiano come seconda lingua. Genova, Marietti, 1991, 23-31.

13. "Grammaticalization processes in the area of temporal and modal relations", Studies in Second Language Acquisition 14, 1992, 297-322.

14. "Educazione linguistica: seconda lingua", in A. M.Mioni e M.A. Cortelazzo (a cura di), La linguistica italiana degli anni 1976-1986, Roma, Bulzoni, 1992, 475-491.

15. "The pairing of structure and function in syntactic development", in M. Gerritsen & Dieter Stein (eds.), Internal and external factors in syntactic change. Berlin, Mouton De Gruyter, 1992.

16. "I Centri linguistici e l'apprendimento delle lingue. In P. Cuzzolin & A.Giacalone Ramat (a cura di), Linguistica e insegnamenti linguistici nell'Università italiana. Atti del Convegno della Società Italiana di Glottologia (Pavia, 25-26 ottobre 1991). Pisa, Giardini, 1992, 55-60.

17. "Sur quelques manifestations de la grammaticalisation dans l'acquisition de l'italien comme deuxième langue". AILE (Acquisition et interaction en langue étrangère) 2, 1993: 173-200.

18. "Il ruolo della tipologia linguistica nell'acquisizione di lingue seconde". In A. Giacalone Ramat & M.Vedovelli (a cura di), Italiano: lingua seconda/lingua straniera. Atti del XXVI Congresso internazionale della Società di linguistica italiana. Roma, Bulzoni, 1994, 27-43.

19. "Italiano di stranieri". In A. Sobrero (a cura di), Introduzione all'italiano contemporaneo. La variazione e gli usi. Bari, Laterza, 1993: 341-410.

20. Recensione a B. Heine, U.Claudi & Friederike Hünnemeyer. Grammaticalization, A conceptual framework. In Linguistics 31 , 1993, 1165-1174.

21. "Fonti di grammaticalizzazione. Sulla ricategorizzazione di verbi e nomi come preposizioni". Miscellanea di studi linguisitci in onore di Walter Belardi. Roma, Il Calamo, 1994, 877-896.

22. "The acquisition of grammatical means to express semantic relations". In A. Crochetière, J.C. Boulanger, C. Ouellon. Proceedings of the XVth International Congress of Linguists. Québec, Les Presses de L'Université de Laval, 1994, 477-480.

23. "Iconicity in grammaticalization processes". In R. Simone (ed.), Iconicity in language, Amsterdam, Benjamins, 1995, 119-139.

24. "Tense and aspect in learner Italian". In P.M. Bertinetto, V. Bianchi, Ö. Dahl & M. Squartini (a cura di), Temporal reference, aspect and actionality, vol. II Typological perspectives, Torino, Rosenberg & Sellier, 1995, 289-307.

25. "L'expression de l'aspect progressif en italien langue seconde", AILE (=Acquisition et interaction en langue étrangère) 5, 1995, 47-78.

26. "Code-switching in the context of dialect/standard language relations". In L. Milroy & P. Muysken (eds), One speaker, two languages. Cross-disciplinary perspectives on code-switching. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1995, 45-67.

27. "L'italiano parlato da stranieri immigrati. Prime generalizzazioni". Scritti di Linguistica e di dialettologia in onore di Giuseppe Francescato. Trieste, Edizioni Ricerche 1995, 121-137.

28. "Condizioni e restrizioni nel contatto tra lingue", Lingua e Stile XXX, 1995, numero speciale dedicato alla memoria di L. Rosiello, pp. 227-241.

29. "Function and form of modality in learner Italian". In: A.Giacalone Ramat & G.Crocco Galèas (eds.), From pragmatics to syntax. Modality and language acquisition, Gunter Narr, Tübingen 1995, 269-293.

30. "Sulla Grammaticalizzazione di verbi di movimento: andare e venire + gerundio", Archivio Glottologico Italiano LXXX, 1995, 168-203.

31. Recensione a W.Pagliuca (ed), Perspectives on Grammaticalization, Amsterdam, Benjamins, 1994. In Lingua e Stile XXX, 1995, 780-782.

32. Recensione a Historical Linguistics 1991. Papers from the 10th ICHL, ed. by Jaap van Marle, Amsterdam, Benjamins 1993, in Kratylos 41, 1000-1005.

33. "Progressive periphrases, markedness, and second language data". In S. Eliasson & E.H. Jahr (eds), Language and its Ecology. Essays in Memory of Einar Haugen, Mouton-De Gruyter, 1997, 261-285.

34. "Grammaticalizzazione ed oltre", in Sintassi Storica. Atti del XXX Congresso internazionale della Società di Linguistica Italiana, a cura di Paolo Ramat ed Elisa Roma, Roma, Bulzoni, 1998, 441-456.

35. "Testing the boundaries of grammaticalization ", in A. Giacalone Ramat & P.J. Hopper (eds.), The limits of grammaticalization, Amsterdam, Benjamins, 1998, 107-127.

36. Introduzione e cura, con P.J. Hopper, di A. Giacalone Ramat & P.J. Hopper (eds), The limits of grammaticalization, Amsterdam, Benjamins, 1998, 1-11.

37. "L'acquisizione di lingue seconde nei progetti promossi dall'Università di Pavia", in: M. Pavesi-G. Bernini (a cura di), L'apprendimento linguistico all'Università: le lingue speciali, Roma, Bulzoni, 1998, 15-27.

38. Introduzione e cura, con Marina Chini, di Strutture testuali e principi di organizzazione dell'informazione nell'apprendimento linguistico, Numero tematico di "Studi Italiani di Linguistica Teorica e Applicata" I, 1998, a cura di Marina Chini e Anna Giacalone Ramat.

39. "Le strategie di collegamento tra proposizioni nell'italiano di germanofoni. Una prospettiva di tipologia funzionale". In N.Dittmar & A.Giacalone Ramat, Grammatik und Diskurs/ Grammatica e discorso. Studi sull'acquisizione dell'italiano e del tedesco/Studien zum Erwerb des Deutschen und des Italienischen, Tübingen, Stauffenburg Verlag, 1999, 13-54.

40. "Grammaticalization of Modality in Language Acquisition", Studies in Language 23:2 (1999), 377-407.

41."Functional typology and strategies of clause connection in Second Language Acquisition", Linguistics 37-3 (1999), 519-548.

42. Some questions concerning the development of inflectional morphology (in collaboration with Wolfgang Klein). Position paper prepared for the Euroconference "The structure of learner languages", San Feliu de Guixols, Spain, 7-1 October 2000.

43. "On some grammaticalization patterns for auxiliaries". In J.C. Smith & D. Bentley (eds.), Historical Linguistics 1995. Vol.I: General issues and non-Germanic languages. Amsterdam, Benjamins, 2000, 125-154.

44. "Mutamento linguistico e fattori sociali: una correlazione da ripensare", in Sociolinguistica e Linguistica Storica. Atti del XXIII Convegno della Società italiana di Glottologia, a cura di Palmira Cipriano, Rita D'Avino e Paolo di Giovine, Roma, Il Calamo, 2000.

45. "Typological considerations on Second language Acquisition" (Invited report for EUROSLA9, June 10-12 1999, Lund, Sweden), Studia Linguistica 54,2 (2000), 123-135.

46. "Emergent Auxiliaries and the Theory of Grammaticalization". In Chris Schaner Wolles, John Rennison, Friedrich Neubarth (eds.), Naturally! Linguistic Studies in honour of Wolfgang Dressler presented on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Torino, Rosenberg & Sellier, 2001: 121-131.

47. L'italiano appreso dagli immigrati stranieri. In Massimo Vedovelli, Stefania Massara e Anna Giacalone Ramat, (a c. di), Lingue e culture in contatto. L'italiano come L2 per gli arabofoni. Milano, Franco Angeli, 2001: 67-74.

48. (con Sonia Cristofaro), Relativization patterns in Mediterranean languages, with particular reference to the relativization of circumstantials. In Paolo Ramat & Thomas Stolz (eds.), Mediterranean languages. Papers from the MED-TYP workshop, Tirrenia, June 2000. Diversitas Linguarum 1. Universitaetsverlag Dr. N. Brockmeyer, Bochum, 2002.

49. "How do learners acquire the classical three categories of temporality". In corso di stampa in Raphael Salaberry & Yasuhiro Shirai (eds.), Description and explanation in the L2-Acquisition of Tense-Aspect Morphology. Amsterdam, Benjamins

50. "Morfologia dell'italiano L2: difficoltà e strategie di sinofoni". In Emanuele Banfi (a c. di), Italiano L2 di cinesi, Milano, Franco Angeli 2002.

51. "Gerunds as optional categories in second language learning". In A. Giacalone Ramat (ed.), Typology and Second Language Acquisition. Berlin-New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

52. (ed.), Typology and Second Language Acquisition, Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter, 2003.

53. (a c. di), Verso l'italiano. Strategie di acquisizione, Roma, Carocci, 2003.

54. (with Sonia Cristofaro), Relativization in Sardinian. In Ignazio Putzu (a cura di ), numero speciale di STUF (Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung), Sardinian in typological perspective, 2005, 163-175.

55. Acquisizione e mutamento in prospettiva tipologica, in: Lidia Costamagna e Stefania Giannini (a cura di), Acquisizione e mutamento di categorie linguistiche. Atti del XXVIII Convegno della Società Italiana di Glottologia. Roma, Il Calamo, 2005, 195-223.

56. Persistence and renewal in the relative pronoun paradigm: the case of Italian. Folia Linguistica Historica XXVI, 2005, 115-138.

57. (with Cecilia Andorno), Referential relations in spoken discourse, Encyclopaedia of Language and
Linguistics, 2nd Edition, edited by Keith Brown. Elsevier, Oxford, 2006, vol.10, 450-458.

58. On the road: verso l'acquisizione dell'italiano lingua seconda, in Marina Chini, Paola Desideri, M.Elena Favilla e Gabriele Pallotti (a cura di), Atti del 6° Congresso Internazionale dell'Associazione Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, Perugia: Guerra Edizioni,2007.59. (with Andrea Sansò). The spread and decline of indefinite man-constructions in European languages: An areal perspective. In Paolo Ramat and Elisa Roma (eds), Europe and the Mediterranean as linguistic areas: convergencies from a historical and typological perspective, Amsterdam, Benjamins, 2007, 95-131

60. (with Sonia Cristofaro). Relativization strategies in the languages of Europe. In Paolo Ramat and Elisa Roma (eds), Europe and the Mediterranean as linguistic areas: Convergencies from a historical and typological perspective, Amsterdam, Benjamins, 2007 , 63-93

6 1.Acquisizione e contatto nel divenire linguistico. Relazione al Convegno “ Minoranze linguistiche e italiano L2 in area abruzzese e molisana”, Pescara 6-8 aprile 2005. In Carlo Consani e Paola Desideri (a cura di). Minoranze linguistiche. Prospettive, strumenti, territori. Roma, Carocci, 2007, pp. 291-309

62.(with Andrea Sansò) : The indefinite usage of uomo (‘man’) in early Italo-Romance. Grammaticalization and areality. “Archivio Glottologico Italiano” vol. XCII (2007)

63. (with Stefano Rastelli): Learning actionality: an investigation of L2 Italian data.In: B.Ahrenholz, U.Bredel, W.Klein, M.Rost-Roth, R.Skiba: Empiriche Forschung und Theoriebilbung. Beiträge aus Soziolinguistik, Gesprochene-Sprache- und Zweitspracherwerbsforschung. Festschrift für Norbert Dittmar zum 65.Geburtstag, Frankfurt am Main, Peter Lang, 2008, pp.239-250