Chiara Zanchi is teaching assistant in linguistics at the University of Pavia, where she teaches introductory courses in linguistics (Bachelor of Arts) and Laboratory of Linguistic Data Analysis (Master of Arts in Theoretical, Applied and Modern Languages Linguistics). She earned her PhD in 2018 from the University of Pavia and the University of Bergamo  with a thesis on comparative morphosyntax on Vedic, Homeric Greek, Church Slavonic, and Old Irish. She worked for four years as a post-doc fellow in linguistics at the University of Pavia. Research and teaching brought her abroad several times: to Salzburg (Austria; 2012, 2019), Jena (Germany; 2015), Columbus (OH, USA; 2017), Madrid (Spain; 2019), and Cambridge (MA, USA; 2022).

Her main research interests are in the fields of Indo-European linguistics (with a focus on Ancient Greek), pragmatics (of ancient and modern languages), cognitive linguistics, and language resource construction.

Ongoing and upcoming events

• Digital Humanities and the ancient world: the role of digital technologies in preserving, investigating and revitalizing antiquity, 11-16 September 2023 (co-organized with Erica Biagetti and Paolo Rondini)

Past events (selection)

• Third European Symposium in Celtic Studies, 7-9 September 2022 (co-organized with Elisa Roma)
• Seminars Discorsi sul Metodo, march-april 2022
• Digital Humanities in pratica, 25-25 February 2022 (co-organized with Erica Biagetti and Silvia Luraghi)
• Le lingue sul web tra inclusione ed esclusione, 27 November 2021 (co-organized with Ilaria Fiorentini)
• Panel at IPra Conference 2021: How vague and ambiguous are vagueness and ambiguity? (co-organized with Ilaria Fiorentini)
• Violenza di genere: parliamone con le parole giuste, 14 December 2019

Coordinator

2018-2019 Words Matter. Il peso delle parole nel dibattito pubblico, project selected to be hosted on the crowdfunding platform of the University of Pavia (https://universitiamo.eu/campaigns/words-matter-il-potere-delle-parole-nel-dibattito-pubblico/). Project website: https://sites.google.com/unipv.it/wordsmatter/.

Member

2013 Argument structure in texts. Diachronic and typological corpus research. Role: Intership student member. Coordinators: Christian Lehmann, Silvia Luraghi. Funded by Fritz Thyssen Foundation (Köln, Germany). project Website: https://sites.google.com/site/argumentstructureintexts/home.

2017-2020 Transitivity and Argument Structure in Flux (2015PRIN call, grant n° 20159M7X5P). Role: postdoc member. Coordinator: Michela Cennamo. Funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Rersearch. Project website: https://sites.google.com/universitadipavia.it/tasf/home

2019-now Laboratory for Greek Dialectology. Role: foreign correspondent. Coordinator: Brian D. Joseph. Ohio State University, Columbus (OH), USA. Project website: https://u.osu.edu/greekdialectology/. 

2020-now: Ancient Greek WordNet. Role: technical coordinator. Coordinators: William M. Short, Alexander Forte, James Tauber, Silvia Luraghi. Project website: https://greekwordnet.chs.harvard.edu.

2021 PaVeDa – Pavia Verbi Database. Role: postdoc member. Cordinator: Silvia Luraghi. Funded by the Department of Humanities of the University of Pavia through the Excellence Program (2018-2022).

2021-now Dutch FrameNet. Role: external collaborator and consultant for Italian. Coordinator: Piek Vossen. Project website: http://dutchframenet.nl.

Monographs

1. Zanchi, Chiara. 2019. Multiple Preverbs in Ancient Indo-European Languages. Tübingen: Narr. ISBN: 9783823382744. 

Edited volumes and special issues

1. Luraghi, Silvia, Tatiana Nikitina e Chiara Zanchi (eds). 2017. Space in diachrony. Amsterdam: Benjamins. ISBN: 9789027259530.https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.188.
2. Biagetti, Erica, Chiara Zanchi e Silvia Luraghi (eds). 2021. Building new resources for historical linguistics. Pavia: Pavia University Press. ISBN: 9788869521324.

Papers in journals

1. Zanchi, Chiara. 2016. La semantica della preposizione ?π?ρ nel greco omerico. In: Emerita, Revista de Lingüística y Filología Clásica84(1): 1–30. ISSN 0013-6662, doi: 10.3989/emerita.2016.01.1418.
2. Zanchi, Chiara. 2018. On the Italian demonstratives with attitude: a cognitive intersubjective account. In: Archivio Glottologico Italiano 103(1): 98–128. ISSN: 2239-740X, https://doi.org/10.1400/273484.
3. Inglese, Guglielmo e Chiara Zanchi. 2020. Reciprocal constructions in Homeric Greek: a typological and corpus-based approach. In: Folia Linguistica Historica 54 (s41): 117–170. https://doi.org/10.1515/flih-2020-0005.
4. Zanchi, Chiara. 2021. The Homeric Dependency Lexicon: what it is and how to use it. In: Journal of Greek Linguistics 21(2): 263–297. https://doi.org/10.1163/15699846-02102002.
5. Meluzzi, Chiara, Erica Pinelli, Elena Valvason e Chiara Zanchi. 2021. Responsibility attribution in gender-based domestic violence: a study bridging CDA and readers’ perception. Journal of Pragmatics 185: 73–92. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2021.07.023.
6. Zanchi, Chiara e Silvia Luraghi. 2021. HoDeL: una nuova risorsa per lo studio dei verbi nel greco omerico. In: Studi Italiani di Linguistica Teorica e Applicata, SILTA 5(2): 146–166. 
7. Biagetti, Erica, Guglielmo Inglese, Chiara Zanchi, and Silvia Luraghi (forthcoming.). Reconstructing variation in Indo-European word order: a treebank-based quantitative study. Language Dynamics and Change.

Papers and chapters in edited volumes

1. Zanchi, Chiara. 2017. New Evidence for the Source-Goal asymmetry: Ancient Greek preverbs. In: S. Luraghi, T. Nikitina, & C. Zanchi (eds), Space in diachrony, 147–178. https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.188.06zan.
2. Zanchi, Chiara. 2017. Metro e confini di parola: il caso dei preverbi multipli in Omero. In: P. Poccetti & F. Logozzo (eds), Ancient Greek Linguistics. New Approaches, Insights, Perspectives. Berlin/New York: De Gruyter, 77–99. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110551754-089.
3. Luraghi, Silvia, Tatiana Nikitina, & Chiara Zanchi. 2017. Introduction. In: S. Luraghi, T. Nikitina e C. Zanchi (eds), Space in diachrony,xi–xviii. https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.188.002int.
4. Luraghi, Silvia & Chiara Zanchi. 2018. Double accusative constructions and ditransitives in Ancient Greek. In: A. Korn & A. Malchukov(eds). Ditransitive constructions in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective. Wiesbaden: Reichert, 9–31. ISBN: 978-3-95490-373-3.
5. Zanchi, Chiara, Eleonora Sausa, & Silvia Luraghi. 2018. HoDeL, a Dependency Lexicon for Homeric Greek: issues and perspectives. In: P. Cotticelli & F. Giusfredi (eds). Proceedings of Formal Representation and Digital Humanities. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 230–256. ISBN: 978-1-5275-0803-3.
6. Pinelli, Erica & Chiara Zanchi. 2021. Gender-based violence in Italian local newspapers: How argument structure constructions can diminish Perpetrator’s responsibility. In: A. Fragonara & P. Anesa (eds),  Discourse processes between reason and emotion: a post-disciplinary perspective, 117–143. London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70091-1_6.
7. Zanchi, Chiara. 2021. Late Latin demonstratives as markers of engagement: The Addresses’ role in explaining synchronic distribution and diachronic evolution. In: N. Agresta, A. Bottone, G. Genna, R. Orrico, C. Sammarco, & D. Sarnelli (eds), Riceventi, lettori e pubblico: una proposta transdisciplinare, 305–330. Salerno: “Biblioteca di Studi e Testi”, Università degli Studi di Salerno. https://doi.org/10.6093/978-88-946103-0-7.
8. Zanchi, Chiara. 2021. Old Latin demonstratives as markers of attitudes and engagement. In: A. M. Martín Rodríguez (ed), Linguisticae Dissertationes. Current Perspectives on Latin Grammar, Lexicon and Pragmatics, 787–802. Madrid: Ediciones Clásicas.
9. Zanchi, Chiara. 2021. HoDeL: a Dependency Lexicon for Homeric Greek. In: E. Biagetti, C. Zanchi & S. Luraghi (eds), Building new resources for historical linguistics, 157–182. Pavia: Pavia University Press. ISBN: 9788869521324.
10. Zanchi, Chiara & Matteo Tarsi. 2021. Valency patterns and alternations in Gothic. In: S. Luraghi & E. Roma (eds), Transitivity and Valency Patterns, 31-87. Berlin/New York: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/ 9783110755657-003.
11. Coschignano, Serena & Chiara Zanchi. 2021. Il connettivo mentre nella comunicazione politica su Twitter: elementi di continuità nella rappresentazione dell’altro. In: P. Orrù (ed), Percorsi/contatti/migrazioni/dualismi: Nord-Sud e Mediterraneo nella lingua, nella letteratura e nella cultura italiana, 147–164. Firenze: Franco Cesati. ISBN: 9788876679155.
12. Biagetti, Erica, Chiara Zanchi & Silvia Luraghi. 2021. Introduction: The value of digital resources for historical linguistics. In: E. Biagetti, C. Zanchi, & S. Luraghi (eds), Building new resources for historical linguistics, 1–20. Pavia: Pavia University Press. ISBN: 9788869521324.
13. Zanchi, Chiara. 2022. Linguistica storica e risorse linguistiche digitali. In: C. Meluzzi e N. Nese (a cura di), Metodi e prospettive della ricerca linguistica, 95–116. Milano: Ledizioni. ISBN: 9788855267274.
14. Coschignano, Serena e Chiara Zanchi (in corso di stampa). The usage of rifugiato, profugo, and richiedente asilo in the Italian written media: how frames and metaphors contribute to building dehumanization. In: R. Zago, M. Deckert e P. P?zik (a cura di). London: Palgrave Macmillan.
15. Zanchi, Chiara (in corso di stampa). Per una sistematizzazione delle ingiustizie perpetrate attraverso il discorso: la rappresentazione delle donne e dei migranti nei media italiani. In: R. Francavilla, L. Santini e E. Zurru (a cura di), Lingue, scritture e potere (serie QPSNS). Genova: Genoa University Press. 

Conference proceedings (with peer-review)

1. Sausa, Eleonora & Chiara Zanchi. 2015. Non-accusative null objects in the Homeric Dependency Treebank. In: F. Mambrini, M. Passarotti & C. Sporleder (eds), Proceedings of the Workshop on Corpus-Based Research in the Humanities (CRH). http://crh4.ipipan.waw.pl/proceedings/.  ISBN: 9788363159191.
2. Zanchi, Chiara & Chiara Naccarato. 2016. Multiple prefixation in Old Church Slavonic and Old Russian. In: Maria B. Konošenko, Ekaterina A. Ljutikova, & Anton V. Zimmerling (eds), Tipologija morfosintaksi?eskich parametrov. Materialy meždunarodnoj konferencii “Tipologija morfosintaksi?eskich parametrov 2016”. Moskva: MPGU, 359–390. ISBN: 9785426304499.
3. Zanchi, Chiara & Silvia Luraghi. 2020. Presenting HoDeL – A new resource for research on Homeric Greek verbs. In Papers from the Annual International Conference “Dialogue” 2020. http://www.dialog-21.ru/media/5185/zanchicplusluraghis-075.pdf. DOI: 10.28995/2075-7182-2020-19-1188-1200.
4. Biagetti, Erica, Chiara Zanchi, & William M. Short. 2021. Toward the creation of WordNets for ancient IE languages. In: S. Bosch, C. Fellbaum, M. Griesel, A. Rademaker & P. Vossen (eds), Proceedings of the 11th Global WordNet Conference 2021. Potchefstroom, South Africa: South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), Global Wordnet Association, 258–265. https://aclanthology.org/2021.gwc-1.30. ISBN: 9789464027310.
5. Zanchi, Chiara, Silvia Luraghi, & Erica Biagetti. 2021. Linking the Ancient Greek WordNet to the Homeric Dependency Lexicon. In: Computational Linguistics and Intellectual Technologies: Proceedings of the International Conference “Dialogue 2021”, 729–737. DOI: 10.28995/2075-7182-2021-20-729-737.
6. Minnema, Gosse, Sara Gemelli, Chiara Zanchi, Viviana Patti, Tommaso Caselli, & Malvina Nissim. 2021. Frame Semantics for Social NLP in Italian: Analyzing Responsibility Framing in Femicide News Reports. In: Proceedings of the Eighth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (Milan, Italy, January 26-28, 2022), E. Fersini, M. C. Passarotti, & V. Patti (eds). http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3033/paper32.pdf. ISSN: 1613-0073. 
7. Gosse Minnema, Sara Gemelli, Chiara Zanchi, Tommaso Caselli, and Malvina Nissim. 2022. SocioFillmore: A Tool for Discovering Perspectives. In: Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations, 240–250, Dublin, Ireland. Association for Computational Linguistics. DOI: 10.18653/v1/2022.acl-demo.24
8. Brigada Villa, Luca, Erica Biagetti, & Chiara Zanchi. 2022. Annotating "Absolute" Preverbs in the Homeric and Vedic Treebanks. In: Proceedings of the LREC 2022 Second Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages LT4HALA 2022, R. Passarotti & M. C. Passarotti (eds.), 26-30. Paris: European Language Resouces Association. ISBN: 979-10-95546-78-8.
9. Zanchi, Chiara, Silvia Luraghi e Claudia Roberta Combei. 2022. PaVeDa - Pavia Verbs Database: Challenges and Perspectives. In Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Research in Computational Linguistic Typology and Multilingual NLP, pages 99–102, Seattle, Washington. Association for Computational Linguistics. ISBN 978-1-955917-93-3.  https://aclanthology.org/2022.sigtyp-1.14/.

Encyclopedia entries

1. Zanchi, Chiara 2016 (on-line). Adpositional Phrase. In: J. Dagmar & J. Helmbrecht (eds), WSK 13 - Linguistic Typology. Berlin/New York: De Gruyter.
2. Zanchi, Chiara 2016 (on-line). Local preverb. In: J. Dagmar & J. Helmbrecht (eds), WSK 13 - Linguistic Typology. Berlin/New York: De Gruyter.
3. Zanchi, Chiara 2016 (on-line). Motion verb. In: J. Dagmar & J. Helmbrecht (eds), WSK 13 - Linguistic Typology. Berlin/New York: De Gruyter.
4. Zanchi, Chiara 2016 (on-line). Perlative case. In: J. Dagmar & J. Helmbrecht (eds), WSK 13 - Linguistic Typology. Berlin/New York: De Gruyter.
5. Zanchi, Chiara 2016 (on-line). Prepositional phrase. In: J. Dagmar & J. Helmbrecht (eds), WSK 13 - Linguistic Typology. Berlin/New York: De Gruyter.
6. Zanchi, Chiara 2016 (on-line). Preverb. In: J. Dagmar & J. Helmbrecht (eds), WSK 13 - Linguistic Typology. Berlin/New York: De Gruyter.
7. Zanchi, Chiara 2016 (on-line). Typological classification. In: J. Dagmar & J. Helmbrecht (eds), WSK 13 - Linguistic Typology. Berlin/New York: De Gruyter.

Teaching materials

1. Zanchi, Chiara. 2016. Esercizi. In: S. Luraghi, Introduzione alla Linguistica Storica, Roma: Carocci. ISBN: 9788843082025.

Electronic linguistic resources

1. Zanchi, Chiara, Paolo Ruffolo & Silvia Luraghi (eds). 2020. HoDeL. The Homeric Dependency Lexicon OnLine:https://hodel.unipv.it/hodel-res/.
2. Zanchi, Chiara, Paolo Ruffolo & Silvia Luraghi (eds). PaVeDa – Pavia Verbi Database.
3. Minnema, Gosse, Sara Gemelli, Chiara Zanchi, Tommaso Caselli & Malvina Nissim (eds). 2022. News perspective observer. Real-time analysis of perspectives and responsibility frames in the news.  (main developer: Gosse Minnema within the project Dutch FrameNet).
4. Minnema, Gosse, Sara Gemelli, Chiara Zanchi, Tommaso Caselli & Malvina Nissim (eds). SocioFillmore. A tool for descovering perspectives (main developer: Gosse Minnema within the project Dutch FrameNet). Link to the demo version
5. Ancient Greek WordNet