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I graduated in Classics at the University of Turin in 1982, and continued my study in the USA (Yale University) and Germany (Ruhr Universität Bochum). I earned my PhD from the University of Pavia in 1987, and later held temporary teaching appointments at the Universities of Bergamo and Milan IULM. I worked for two years as research associate at the Chicago Hittite Dictionary project (University of Chicago), before receiving tenure in 1992. My first tenured position was at the University of Rome 3, where I taught general and historical linguistics. Over the years, I have been visiting professor at the Universities of Madrid Complutense, Graz, UCLA, Vienna, Erfurt, Salzburg. My research has brought me abroad on several occasions, most frequently to Germany, where I have been supported by an Alexander von Humboldt fellowship. I moved to Pavia in 1998, and since then I have been teaching several courses in general and historical linguistics, with a focus on Indo-European linguistics. I am currently the co-editor of Benjamins' Journal of Historical Lingusitics, which I founded in 2010 together with Johanna Barddal. My present research projects include argument structure in Ancient Greek, gender systems, and the syntax of clitics in a discourse perspective.
Degrees
Master of Arts in Classics, University of Torino (1982)
Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Pavia (1987)
Co-editor of:
2011-2013, Project leader
Funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation
2012-2013. Project leader
Funded by Programma Vigoni, Ateneo Italo-Tedesco.
2008-2011. Member of the research team of the University of Rome for the co-financed MURST (funded by the Italian Government) project CONTACT AND CHANGE IN THE HISTORY OF MEDITERRANEAN LANGUAGES
2005-2007. Member of the research team of the University of Pavia for the co-financed MURST (funded by the Italian Government) project “Typology and change in the languages of Europe”.
2002-2005 Member of the research team of the University of Pavia for the co-financed FIRB (funded by the Italian Government) project for constructing a typological data base of the languages of Europe.2001. Research team leader (University of Pavia) for CNR reaserch project on language change in the area of the Mediterranean (Agenzia 2000).
2001-2003, 2003-2005. Member of the research team of the University of Pavia for the co-financed MURST (Italian Ministry of University and Reseach) project on the morphosyntax of the Indo-European languages
1997-2000. Research team leader (University of Roma 3) for CNR research project on the typology of the languages of the Mediterranean.
1994-1997. Research team leader (University of Roma 3) for CNR research project on Grammaticalization.
1993-1996. Project leader CNR (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche) research project finalized to the preparation of working materials for courses in general and historical linguistics.



Upcoming
Second Pavia International Summer School for Indo-European Linguistics
September 9-14, 2013
FOURTH INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON VEDIC SANSKRIT
May 13-17, 2013
Past- Archive
QUANTITATIVE METHODS AND CORPORA IN LINGUISTIC RESEARCH Pavia, September 10-21, 2012
THIRD INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON VEDIC SANSKRIT
PAVIA, 26-31 MARCH 2012
International Workshop on WordNet and Sketch Engine
March 9, 2012 Pavia, Aula Scarpa
Humboldt Kolleg - Historical-Comparative Linguistics in the 21st Century
Workshop on the Diachrony of Null Arguments
Convenors:
Dag Haug, University of Oslo d.t.t.haug@ifikk.uio.no
Visit the workshop web page at:
www.hf.uio.no/ifikk/english/research/projects/proiel/Activities/prodrop
Lectures on alignment systems/Lezioni sull'allineamento
Pavia, 19 and 20 May 2010
SLE 2010 - Vilnius
Workshop on Partitives
Convenors:
Tuomas Huumo, University of Tartu
Visit the workshop web page at: partitives.wikidot.com/
International Workshop on Semantic Roles, Pavia April 2010
1. Old Hittite Sentence Structure. London-New York, Routledge, 1990. books.google.it/books
2. Studi su casi e preposizioni nel greco antico. Milano, F. Angeli, 1996.
3. Hittite. München - New Castle, Lincom Europa, 1997.
4. Esercizi di linguistica. Raccolta di esercizi per corsi di glottologia e linguistica generale. Roma, Carocci, 2000 (with A. M. Thornton e M. Voghera).
5. On the Meaning of Prepositions and Cases. A Study of the Expression of Semantic Roles in Ancient Greek. Amsterdan/Philadelphia, Benjamins, 2003.
6. La linguistica generale: esercitazioni e autoverifica. Roma, Carocci, 2004 (with A. M. Thornton).
7. Ancient Greek. München - New Castle, Lincom Europa, 2004 (with Anna Pompei and Stavros Skopeteas).
8. Introduzione alla linguistica storica. Roma, Carocci 2006.
9. Il greco antico. Roma, Carocci 2008 (con M.L. Garabo).
10. Key Terms in Syntax and Syntactic Theory. London/New York, Continuum 2008 (with C. Parodi).
11. Esercizi di semantica e pragmatica. Roma, Carocci 2009 (con F. Venier).
12. Linguistique historique et indoeuropéenne. Louvaine-la-Neuve, Peeters 2010.
1. Introduzione alla Linguistica Cognitiva. Roma, Carocci, 2003 (with Livio Gaeta).
2. Linguaggio e genere. Roma, Carocci 2006 (with A. Olita).
3. Continuum Companion to Historical Linguistics. London/New York, Continuum, 2010 (with V. Bubenik).
4. The Bloomsbury Companion to Syntax. London/New York, Bloomsbury, 2013 (with C. Parodi).
Forthcoming
124. Plotting diachronic semantic maps: The role of metaphor. In S.Luraghi and H. Narrog, eds., Perspectives on Semantic Roles, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, Benjamins.
123. “Clitics”. In Luraghi & Parodi Continuum Companion to Syntax .
122. “Asymmetries in Italian temperature terminology”. In M. Koptjevskaja-Tamm, ed., Linguistics of temperature, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, Benjamins.
120. “Partitives and differential marking of core arguments: a cross-linguistic survey”. Submitted.
119. “Adpositional phrase”. In Giannakis et al. Encyclopaedia of Greek Language and Linguistics. Leiden, Brill.
118. “Agency and causation”. In Giannakis et al.Encyclopaedia of Greek Language and Linguistics. Leiden, Brill.
117. “Clitics”. In Giannakis et al. Encyclopaedia of Greek Language and Linguistics. Leiden, Brill.
116. “Conjunction reduction”. In Giannakis et al. Encyclopaedia of Greek Language and Linguistics. Leiden, Brill.
115. “Contact through translation”. In Giannakis et al. Encyclopaedia of Greek Language and Linguistics. Leiden, Brill.
114. “Typology of Greek”. In Giannakis et al. Encyclopaedia of Greek Language and Linguistics. Leiden, Brill.
113. “Case syncretism”. In Giannakis et al. Encyclopaedia of Greek Language and Linguistics. Leiden, Brill.
112. “Gender” . In Giannakis et al. Encyclopaedia of Greek Language and Linguistics. Leiden, Brill.
111. "Definite referential null objects in Vedic Sanskrit and Ancient Greek”. In Acta Linguistica Hafniensia (with Götz Keydana)
2012
109. “Basic valency orientation in Hittite”. In Studies in Language.
108. “The spatial meaning of diá with the accusative in Homeric Greek”. In Mnemosyne 65/3, 2012.
2011
105. “Titling for the opera house: a test case for universals of translation?”. In L. Incalcaterra McLoughlin, ed., Audiovisual Translation, Bern/Berlin/New York: Peter Lang, 2011, 55-85 (with Maria Freddi).
104. “Human landmarks in spatial expressions: from Latin to Romance”. In S. Kittilä, K. Västi and J. Ylikoski eds., Case, Animacy, and Semantic Roles, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, Benjamins, 2011, 209-234.
103.Review of Idan Landau, The Locative Syntax of Experiencers. Linguistic Inquiry Monograph 53, The MIT Press, Cambridge (Ma) 2010. In Linguistic Typology 15/1, 2011, 119-126.
102. Review of Pietro Bortone, Greek Prepositions. From Antiquity to the Present. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2010 p. xvi + 345. Journal of Greek Linguistics 11, 2011, 109-116.
2010
98. Recensione di J. Good, Linguistic universals and language change. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. In Studies in Language 34/2, 2010, 453-461.
97. “Adverbials”. In Ph. Baldi & P. Cuzzolin, eds., A New Historical Syntax of Latin. Berlin - New York, Mouton de Gruyter, 2010.
96. Review of J. Barðdal, Productivity: Evidence from Case and Argument Structure in Icelandic, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, Benjamins 2009. In Linguistics 48/4, 2010, 955-960.
95. “The extension of the passive construction in Ancient Greek.” In Acta Linguistica Hafniensia. 42/1, 2010, 60-74
94. “History and sources of historical linguistics”. In Luraghi & Bubenik eds. 2010, pp. 1-35 ( with V. Bubenik).
93. “The rise (and possible downfall) of configurationality”. In Luraghi & Bubenik eds. 2010, 212-229.
92. “Causes of language change”. In Luraghi & Bubenik eds. 2010, 354-366.
91. “A model for representing polysemy: The Italian preposition da”. In Jacques François, Eric Gilbert, Claude Guimier, Maxi Krause, éds. Actes du Colloque “Autour de la préposition”, Caen, Presses Universitaires de Caen, 2009, 167-178.
88. “The origin of the feminine gender in Indo-European. An old problem in a new perspective”. In V. Bubenik, J. Hewson & S. Rose, eds., Grammatical Change in Indo-European Languages, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, Benjamins, 2009, 3-13.
86. Review of Th. Stolz, C. Stroh, A. Urdze, On Comitative and Related Categories. A Typological Study with Special Focus on the Languages of Europe. Berlin/New York, Mouton de Gruyter, 2006. In Linguistic Typology 13/2, 2009.
2008
2007
2006
82. “Greek prepositions: patterns of polysemization and semantic bleaching”. In E. Crespo, J. de la Villa, A. R. Revuelta, eds., Word Classes and Related Topics, Peeters, Louvain-la-Neuve, 2006, 487-499.
81. “Introduzione”. In Luraghi & Olita (2006), pp. 15-27 (see Edited books, n. 2).
80. “La nascita del genere femminile in indoeuropeo”. In Luraghi & Olita (2006), pp. 89-106 (see Edited books, n. 2).
79. Review of Z. Frajzyngier and E. Ahay, eds.: Explaining Language Structure through System Interaction, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, Benjamins. In Language 82/1, 2006, 197-198.
2005
78. “Prepositions in Cause expressions”. In Papers on Grammar 12/2, 2005, 609-619 (Proceedings of the XII International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics, ed. G. Calboli).
76. “The history of the Greek preposition meta/: from polysemy to the creation of homonyms”. Glotta 81, 2005, 130-159.
75. “Does a theory of language change need unidirectionality?”. Logos and Language 6, 2005, 9-17.
74. “Ancient Greek”. In Encyclopedia of Linguistics, 2 vols., ed. Philipp Strazny. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2005.73. “Hittite”. In Encyclopedia of Linguistics, 2 vols., ed. Philipp Strazny. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2005.
72. “Jacob Grimm”. In Encyclopedia of Linguistics, 2 vols., ed. Philipp Strazny. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2005.
71. “Jacob Wackernagel”. In Encyclopedia of Linguistics, 2 vols., ed. Philipp Strazny. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2005.
70. “Panini”. In Encyclopedia of Linguistics, 2 vols., ed. Philipp Strazny. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2005.
69. “Sanskrit”. In Encyclopedia of Linguistics, 2 vols., ed. Philipp Strazny. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2005.
68. “Spanish and the Iberoromance languages”. In Encyclopedia of Linguistics, 2 vols., ed. Philipp Strazny. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2005.
67. “Karl Brugmann”. In Encyclopedia of Linguistics, 2 vols., ed. Philipp Strazny. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2005.
66. “Louis Hjelmslev and Glossematics”. In Encyclopedia of Linguistics, 2 vols., ed. Philipp Strazny. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2005.
2004
65. “Sottotitoli per l’opera”. In Studi Italiani di Linguistica Teorica e Applicata 33/1, 2004, 7-29.
63. “The evolution of the Greek nominal paradigms from Mycenean to Modern Greek”. Classica et Mediaevalia 55, 2004, 361-379.
61. Review of Winfried Boeder & Gerd Hentschel (eds.), Variierende Markierung von Nominalgruppe in Sprachen unterschiedlichen Typs, Oldenburg, Biblioteks- und Informationssystem der Universität Oldenburg 2001. In Linguistic Typology 8/1, 2004, 133-140.
60. Review of E. Palancar, The Origin of Agent Markers, Berlin, Akademie Verlag, 2002. In Linguistic Typology 8/1, 2004, 140-143.
59. Review of R. M. W. Dixon and Alexandra Y. Aichenwald, eds.: Word. A Cross-Linguistic Typology. Cambridges, CUP, 2002. General Linguistics 43, 2004.
2003
58. “Introduzione”, con L. Gaeta, in Luraghi & Gaeta 2003, 17-35. (see Edited books, n. 1).
57. “L’origine delle espressioni di Agente”, in Luraghi & Gaeta 2003, 159-180. (see Edited books, n. 1).56. “Definite referential null objects in Ancient Greek”. Indogermanische Forschungen 108, 2003, 169-196.
2002
54. Review of J. Ch. Smith & D. Bentley (eds.), Historical Linguistics 1995, Amsterdam/ Philadelphia, Benjamins, 2000, in Archivio Glottologico Italiano 1/2002.
2001
53. “Gapping in Classical Greek”. Studies in Language 25/1, 2001, 89-113 (con L. Gaeta).
51. “The discourse function of cum with the subjunctive in narrative texts”. In C. Moussy, ed., Actes du ix Colloque de linguistique latine. Louvain, Editions Peeters, 2001, 409-426.
49. “Some remarks on Instrument, Comitative, and Agent in Indo-European”. Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung 54/4, 2001, 385-401.
2000
48. “Spatial metaphors and agenthood in Ancient Greek”. In Ch. Zinko & M. Offisch, Hrsg., 125 Jahre Indogermanistik in Graz. Graz, Leykam, 2000, 283-298.
47. “Synkretismus”. In J. Koij, Ch. Lehmann u. H. Mugdan, Hrsg., Handbuch der Morphologie, Berlin, Mouton - de Gruyter, 2000, 638-648.
1999
46. “The subject of complement clauses with the infinitive”. In B. Jaquinod, ed., Les complétives en grec ancien, St. Etienne, Publications de l’Université, 1999, 199-213.
1998
42. “The grammaticalization of the left sentence boundary in Hittite”. In A. Giacalone Ramat & P. Hopper, eds., The Limits of Grammaticalization, Amsterdam, Benjamins, 1998, 189-210.
40. “On the directionality of grammaticalization”. Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung 51/4, 1998, 355-365.
39. “Presentazione dell’edizione italiana”. In W. P. Lehmann, Linguistica Storica, Bologna, il Mulino, 1998, pp. 11-16.
1997
38. “Omission of the direct object in Classical Latin”. Indogermanische Forschungen 102, 1997, 239-257.
37. “Anatolian”. In P. Ramat & A. Giacalone Ramat, eds., The Indo-European Languages, London - New York, Routledge, 1997, 169-196 (revised translation of "L'anatolico", 1993).books.google.com/books
36. Review of Th. V. Gamkrelidze & V.V. Ivanov, Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans, Berlin - New York, 1995. Studi Italiani di Linguistica Teorica e Applicata. 26, 1997, 228-235.
1996
35. “Processi di grammaticalizzazione in ittita”. Archivio Glottologico Italiano 81/1, 1996, 45-75.
1995
1994
31. “Animate nouns in Cause expressions”. In B. Jaquinod, éd., Cas et prépositions en grec ancien, Saint-Etienne, Publications de l’Université, 1994, 227-237.
30. “Greek Linguistics in Italy”. Syntaktika 6, 1994, 21-27.
29. “Suffix copying and related phenomena: A prototype approach”. Linguistics 32, 1994, 1095-1108.
28. “Dativo o en piú dativo: una questione di sintassi poetica”. Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici 33, 1994, 148-159.
1993
27. “Verb serialization and word order. Evidence from Hittite”. In H. Aertsen & R. Jeffers, eds., Historical Linguistics 1989, Amsterdam, Benjamins, 1993, 267-281.
26. “I verbi in -nu- e il loro valore causativo”. In O. Carruba, a cura di, Per una grammatica ittita, Pavia, Iuculano, 1993, 153-180.
25. “L’anatolico”. In P. Ramat e A. Giacalone Ramat, a cura di, Le lingue indoeuropee, Bologna, il Mulino, 1993, 197-223.
24. “La modificazione nominale nelle lingue anatoliche”. Archivio Glottologico Italiano 78/2, 1993, 144-166.
23. “Il concetto di prototipicità in linguistica”. Lingua e Stile 28/4, 1993, 511-530.
1992
22. Review of G. Lakoff, Women, Fire and Dangerous Things, Chicago, 1987. Lingua e Stile 27/4, 1992, 566-569.
1991
21. “Paradigm size, possible syncretism, and the use of cases with adpositions in inflectional languages”. In F. Plank, ed., Paradigms: The Economy of Inflection, Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter, 1991, 57-74.books.google.com/books
20. Note al testo di H. Pinkster, Sintassi e Semantica del latino, Torino, Rosenberg e Sellier, 1991, 345-350.
1990
19. “Osservazione sulla Legge di Wackernagel e la posizione del verbo nelle lingue indoeuropee”. In P. Ramat, M. E. Conte e A. Giacalone (a cura di) Dimensioni della Linguistica, Milano, Franco Angeli, 1990, 31-60.
1989
18. “Cause and Instrument expressions in Classical Greek”. Mnemosyne 43, 1989, 294-308.
16. “The structure and development of possessive noun phrases in Hittite”. In H. Andersen & K. Koerner, eds., Historical Linguistics 1987, Amsterdam, Benjamins, 1989, 309-325.
1988
15. “The opposition total/partitive and the use of cases with prepositions in Ancient Greek”. In A. Rijksbaron et al., eds., In the footsteps of Raphael Kühner, Amsterdam: Gieben, 1988, 177-192.
1987
14. “Patterns of case syncretism in Indo-European languages”. In A. Giacalone Ramat et al., eds., Papers from the viith International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1987, 355-371.
13. “Reconstructing Proto-Indo-European as an ergative language: A test”. Journal of Indo-European Studies 15, 1987, 359-379.
1986
12. “Il sincretismo dei casi in germanico”. Lingua e Letteratura 6, 1986, 153-164.
11. “Der semantische und funktionelle Bau des althethitischen Kasussystems”. Zeitschrift fur vergleichende Sprachforschung 99, 1986, 23-42.
10. “On the distribution of instrumental and agent markers for human and non-human agents of passive verbs in some Indo-European languages”. Indogermanische Forschungen 91, 1986, 48-66.
9. “On the relational meaning of Russian instrumental”. La Linguistique 22, 1986, 53-61.
1985
8. “Funzioni sintattiche e sviluppo del sistema casuale indoeuropeo. Il contributo dell’ittita”. Actes du xi colloque de linguistiqe fonctionnelle, Bologna, CLESP, 1985, 214-218.
7. “I verbi gotici in -ino- e i loro derivati in -assu-”. Lingua e Letteratura 5, 1985, 153-165.
1984
6. Review of G. Calboli, Problemi di linguistica latina, Berlin, 1983. Lingua e Stile 19, 1984, 642-644.
5. Review of P. Berrettoni, a cura di, Studi linguistici in memoria di A. Penna, Rimini, 1983. Italiani di Linguistica Teorica e Applicata 13, 1984, 558-562.
1983
3. “Note in margine alla tipologia linguistica di Greenberg in ambito storico-ricostruttivo”. Incontri Linguistici 9, 1984, 41-50.
2. Review of G. Michelini, La linguistica testuale e l’indoeuropeo, Brescia, 1982. Archivio Glottologico Italiano 68, 1983, 130-134.
1982
1. Proposte per lo studio sistematico di preposizioni e morfemi casuali”. SILTA11, 1982, 35-67.