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Marco Angster (Ph.D. Student)

Education

2009-ongoing PhD in Linguistics at the University of Pavia. Research project focussed on the study of word-formation processes used in European languages to mark reflexivity in the lexicon.

2008-2009 Member of the scientific committee (on behalf of Professor Anna Giacalone Ramat) of the project "Normalizzazione delle grafie delle parlate walser di Piemonte e Valle d'Aosta" concerned with the standardization of the writing systems of the seven surviving Walser German speaking communities in West-Northern Italy.

November 2006-June 2007 Formative training by Loquendo S.p.A., speech technology company based in Turin. Activity: analysis of the pausing strategies in the reading a newspaper corpus to improve the speech synthesis of German; evaluation of the POS-tagging obtained via an existent German morphological analyzer trained on the CELEX corpus.

2005-2008 MA in Scienze Linguistiche (Linguistics), University of Turin. Title of the thesis: Composizione e parasintesi negli aggettivi in tedesco: i tipi rotwangig, salzhaltig, risikofreudig in un corpus Web (Compounding and parasinthesis in German adjectives: the types rotwangig, salzhaltig, risikofreudig in a Web-corpus). Advisor: Prof. Davide Ricca. Grade: 110/110 cum laude e dignità di stampa.

2001-2005 BA in Lettere (Humanities), University of Turin. Title of the thesis: La perifrasi tue + infinito nel titsch di Gressoney (The tue + infinitive periphrasis in the German dialect of Gressoney). Advisor: Prof. Davide Ricca. Grade: 110/110 cum laude.

Research interests

Morphology (word-formation), Grammaticalization, Corpus Linguistics, Dialectology and Contact Linguistics (Walser dialects)

Papers

2006 La perifrasi con "fare" nel dialetto Walser di Gressoney; Paper published in the proceedings of the 1^st study conference of the European Interreg III B Project Alpine Space "Walser Alps", Aosta, 2-3 December 2005.

2009 (with Irene Ronga) «De la couleur du ciel en novembre»: une proposition d'étude de la terminologie chromatique allemande dans les composés avec -farbig /-farben («de la couleur de…»); paper appeared on Primaires, issue 169, July 2009, pubblication of Centre Français de la Couleur.

2011 Il verbo fare a Gressoney. Caratteri e diffusione di forme verbali analitiche in un dialetto walser. Paper appeared in Alemannica-4. Il tedesco superiore, fourth collection of studies on Southern varieties of German.

Reviews and book notices

in press Review of: Peter Zürrer (2009) Dialetti walser in contesto plurilingue. Gressoney e Issime in Valle d'Aosta, a cura di Elisabetta Fazzini, traduzione italiana di Eleonora Cianci e Maria Cristina Simone, Alessandria, Edizioni dell'Orso (Collana: Alemannica). L’Italia dialettale.

Presentations and talks

2009 (with Federica Antonietti and Monica Valenti) Normalizzazione delle parlate Walser di Piemonte e Valle d'Aosta. Poster presented in the session Ricerche e Iniziative: Elaborazione/revisione di sistemi ortografici of the 9^th International Congress of AITLA (Italian Association of Applied Linguistics), Pescara, 19-20 February 2009.

2011 Reflexivity in word formation in European languages: the case of Maltese. Poster presented during the GĦILM Third International Conference on Maltese Linguistics; Valletta 8-10 aprile 2011.

2011 Adjectival suffixed compounds in German: a hierarchical sub-lexicon. Poster presented during the 8th Mediterranean Morphology Meeting (MMM8); Cagliari 14-17 settembre 2011.

2011 (with Matteo Rivoira e Antonio Romano) Eredità, sviluppo interno e contatto: tratti fonetici, marche morfologiche e scelte (orto)grafiche per le comunità walser di Piemonte e Valle d’Aosta. Paper presented during the 45th International Congress of the Italian Linguistic Society; Aosta-Bard-Torino 26-28 settembre 2011.

2011 Clitic subject pronouns and gender agreement in the fast shifting walser language minorities in Italy. Paper presented during the workshop Complexity and Isolation; Freiburg im Breisgau 8-9 December 2011.