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Alessandra Caviglia (Ph.D. Student)

General Info

Born in Cremona (Italy), in 1983.

Address: Dipartimento di Linguistica Teorica e Applicata, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Corso Strada Nuova 65, 27100 Pavia, Italy.

E-mail: alessandra.caviglia@gmail.com

Present position

Postdoctoral fellow, University of Pavia.

Currently working on the rise of ergativity in Middle Indo-Aryan languages and on the role of morphological and syntactic subject in Sanskrit, Prakrit and Hindi.

Education

October 2009– February 2013

Phd in Linguistics, University of Pavia.

Supervisor: Prof. Silvia Luraghi.

January 2012-May 2012

Visiting research student at the Department of Sanskrit, Central University of Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India.

September 2010-April 2011

Visiting research student at the Department of South Asia, School of Oriental and African Studies, London. Faculty sponsor: Prof. Whitney Cox. Language courses: Sanskrit, Pāli, Prakrit and Hindi.

July 2009

M.A. in Historical Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, University of Firenze.

Thesis title: ‘Morphological typology and diachronic evolution in Indo-Aryan languages’. Degree note: 110/110 with honors. Main supervisor: Professor Alberto Nocentini.

July 2006

B.A. in Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, University of Firenze.

July 2002

Senior high school specializing in classical studies, Cremona

Grants

2009-2012

Three-year scholarship for a Doctorate in Linguistics at the University of Pavia, funded by the Italian Ministry for Education.

Teaching experience

Teaching assistant in Indoeuropean Linguistics and in Sanskrit Language and Linguistics (coordinator: Professor Silvia Luraghi).

Presentations and talks

‘The World Atlas of Linguistic Structures: seminar’s results’. Paper presented at Circolo Linguistico Fiorentino, Firenze, 19 September 2008.

‘Fluid marking systems in Indo-Aryan languages’. Paper presented at the International Workshop on Semantic Roles, Pavia, 19-20 May 2010.

‘Alignment in Prakrit’. Paper presented at Lectures on alignments systems. Sistemi di allineamento in lingue indoeuropee e non indoeuropee dal Vicino Oriente all’India, Pavia, 19-20 maggio 2011.

‘Introduction to the poster session’. Paper presented at the Humboldt Kolleg: Historical-Comparative Linguistics in the 21st Century, Pavia, 22-25 September 2011.

‘The four enlightened kings in Buddhism and Jainism: philological issues and linguistic research’. Paper presented at the workshop Cantieri d’autunno, Pavia, 17-21 October 2011.

Organization

September 2011

Poster session, Humboldt Kolleg: Historical-Comparative Linguistics in the 21st Century, Pavia.

Languages

First language: Italian.

Modern languages: English (certificate of TOEFL, score 105), French, Hindi.

Ancient languages: Ancient Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, Prakrit.

Research interests

Historical linguistics

Indo-Aryan languages

Morphology

Syntax

Linguistic Typology