Francesca Masini

Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Bologna since 2014. Her research revolves around how meaning is packaged into linguistic structures, with special focus on concept-naming strategies, reference construction and modulation, non-literal meaning and linguistic creativity, and emergent grammar. She works within usage-based constructionist approaches, combining qualitative analysis with quantitative and experimental methods as well as with typological investigation.

She is Editor-in-Chief of Constructions and Frames, Associate Editor of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Morphology and member of the Permanent Committee of the Mediterranean Morphology Meetings (MMM).

She was awarded the National Award for Scientific Popularization 2017 (Humanities Area) for Tutto ciò che hai sempre voluto sapere sul linguaggio e sulle lingue and is co-founder of Linguisticamente, the first Italian website for the popularization of linguistics.

Since 2022, she is Rector's Delegate for Open Science and Research Data. Since September 2023, she is co-chair of the Italian National Chapter of di CoARA (Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment).
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