Caterina Mauri

This curriculum covers education, academic appointments, projects, roles, scientific activities, and public engagement. Publications and teaching are available in the dedicated sections of my institutional profile. My personal website complements it by making it easier to explore the connections among research questions, projects, publications, resources, and collaborations.

My research focus. I am a linguist working at the intersection of linguistic typology, pragmatics, interaction and corpus linguistics. I study how the grammars of the world’s languages take shape in use, and how the need to understand one another influences the ways speakers build categories, connect ideas, negotiate knowledge and expectations, and make meaning together.

Languages, discourse and interaction. I move between broad cross-linguistic comparison and the fine-grained analysis of naturally occurring interaction, treating linguistic diversity as a source of theoretical insight rather than as variation to be reduced to predetermined models. I investigate how recurrent communicative practices become constructions, how meanings develop across time, and how typological generalizations can remain sensitive to speakers, contexts and genres.

Resources and intellectual approach. This perspective also guides the linguistic resources I create. As founder and co-coordinator of the KIParla corpus, I develop corpora as modular, incremental and reusable research infrastructures that grow through collaboration and can respond to questions not fully anticipated at the outset. Across my work—from coordination and logical connectives to ad hoc categorization, co-construction, reference and spoken-language variation—I follow paths that emerge from the data: rigorous in method, but open to unexpected connections across languages, disciplines and communities.

1. EDUCATION

• 3/2006 — Leipzig Spring School on Linguistic Diversity (LSSLD), University of Leipzig and Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig.
• 11/2003–10/2006 — PhD in Linguistics (joint Italian–German doctoral programme), XIX cycle, University of Pavia; degree awarded in 2007. Dissertation: Coordination relations: a cross-linguistic study.
• 9/1999–9/2003 — Advanced Diploma, IUSS Pavia; awarded in 2003. Thesis: Il linguaggio universale: tra capacità innate e funzioni comunicative.
• 9/1999–9/2003 — Single-cycle Degree in Modern Humanities, University of Pavia, 110/110 cum laude; degree awarded in 2003. Thesis: I lessemi nominali in funzione non referenziale: uno studio interlinguistico.
• 1994–1999 — Classical Studies High School Diploma, Liceo Ginnasio Statale “A. Manzoni”, Milan. Final grade: 100/100 with distinction.
• 06/1998 — Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English (CPE, CEFR C2).

2. CURRENT AND PREVIOUS POSITIONS

2.1 Academic Positions

• 1/3/2016–present — Associate Professor in Linguistics (GLOT-01/A), University of Bologna, Dipartimento di Lingue, Letterature e Culture moderne.
• 8/2/2023 — National Scientific Qualification (ASN) as Full Professor in the Italian higher education system for the disciplinary field of GLOT-01/A.
• 29/12/2010–28/2/2016 — Assistant Professor in Linguistics (GLOT-01/A), University of Pavia, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici.
• 1/11/2006–28/12/2010 — Post-Doc Fellow in Linguistics, University of Pavia

2.2 Visiting positions

• 18 April–1 May 2026 — Guest Researcher, CNRS Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle (LLF, UMR 7110) and Department of Linguistics, Université Paris Cité. Host: Ira Noveck.
• 10-20 June /2022 — Visiting Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Stockholm (invited by Prof. Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm)
• August 2008 — Visiting researcher, Department of Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig.
• Aug.-Dec. /2005 — Visiting student, Freie Universität Berlin (working with Prof. Ekkehard König).
• Sept. /2004–April /2005 — Visiting student, Universität Erfurt (working with Prof. Christian Lehmann).
• Aug.–Sept. /2004 — Visiting student, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig (working with Prof. Martin Haspelmath).

3. RESEARCH PROJECTS AND RESEARCH NETWORKS

3.1 Funded projects led or supervised

• 2025-2027 — MSCA - European Fellowship – SPEAK: Convergence of syntactic, prosodic, and interactional units in conversation. Post-Doc Applicant: Giorgia Troiani.
  Role: Supervisor
• 2025-2027 — SNSF (Swiss National Science Foundation), Postdoc Mobility Project on Towards an incremental semantics: A linguistic analysis of the emergence of categories in spoken interaction, Applicant: Elena Battaglia.
  Role: Supervisor
• 2023–present — PRIN 2022 PNRR project “DiverSIta. Diversity in Spoken Italian”.
  Funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research
  Role: Principal Investigator (PI)
• 2015-2019 — SIR project “LEAdhoC – Linguistic expression of ad hoc categories”. www.leadhoc.org [https://www.leadhoc.org]
  Funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research
  Role: Principal Investigator (PI)
• 2015-2016 — Project “LogiCon. Logical connectives in natural languages: cognitive processing and cross-linguistic variation”
  Funded by CARIPLO and Lombardia Region
  Role: Principal Investigator (PI)

3.2 Participation in funded projects

• 2024–present — COST Action CA21167 – Universality, diversity and idiosyncrasy in language technology (UniDive), coordinated by Agata Savary and Daniel Zeman.
  Role: Member of Working Group 1 ‘Corpus annotation’ and Working Group 4 ‘Quantifying and promoting diversity’.
• 2022–present — ERC Starting Grant project ABSTRACTION (PI: Marianna Bolognesi, University of Bologna).
  Role: member of the Advisory Board.
• 2018-2022 — Excellence Department Project “DIVE-IN, Diversity and Inclusion”, awarded to the Department of Modern languages, literatures and cultures, University of Bologna.
  Role: member of the Conferences Committee, member of the Executive Committee (since 2021), member of the LAB Scientific Committee, member of the Quality Assurance Committee (2018-2021).
• 2014-2017 — SNSF Project on “LogPrag: The semantics and pragmatics of logical words”,
  Funded by the Fond National Suisse (FNS), (PI: Jacques Moeschler, Université de Genève).
  Role: international partner.
• 2012–2015 — PRIN project “Rappresentazioni linguistiche dell’identità. Modelli sociolinguistici e linguistica storica” (PI: Piera Molinelli, University of Bergamo).
  Funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research.
  Role: member of the Bergamo RU.
• 2010-2012 — PRIN Project “Mutamento e contatto tra varietà nella diacronia linguistica del Mediterraneo” (PI: Marco Mancini, University of Roma Sapienza). Funding by the Italian Ministry of University and Research.
  Role: member of the Pavia RU.
• 2007-2009 — PRIN Project “Livelli di analisi nell’evoluzione delle lingue indoeuropee” (PI: G. Banti).
  Funding by the Italian Ministry of University and Research.
  Role: member of the Pavia RU.
• 2004-2006 — FIRB Project “Europa e Mediterraneo dal punto di vista linguistico: storia e prospettive” (PI: Paolo Ramat).
  Funding by the Italian Ministry of University and Research.
  Role: member of the Pavia RU.

3.3 Coordinator or member of the following RESEARCH NETWORKS:

• 2017–present — KIParla Corpus of Spoken Italian, www.kiparla.it [https://www.kiparla.it] (University of Bologna and Turin)
  Role: Founder and coordinator, with Silvia Ballaré and Ludovica Pannitto (University of Bologna), Massimo Cerruti and Eugenio Goria (University of Turin).
  Collaborators from the Universities of Bolzano-Bozen, Naples, Munich (Germany).
• 2018–present — Research network “S2G: Speaking to Grammar”, coordinated by Miriam Voghera (University of Salerno). Partners (colleagues from): University of Bologna, University of Turin, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.
  Role: member.
• 2016-2022 — Research network “LIST: LISTing in natural language”, University of Bologna. Partners (colleagues from): Roma Tre University, University of Salerno, University of Lille.
  Role: Coordinator, with Francesca Masini.

4. EDITORIAL, EVALUATION AND ACADEMIC SERVICE

4.1 Editorial roles and professional memberships

• 2021–present — Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the international journal (diamond open access) Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads. Website: https://typologyatcrossroads.unibo.it/ The journal is classified as a Class A journal by ANVUR, is indexed in ERIH PLUS, and is part of the international LingOA network, Foundation for Open Access Journals in Linguistics: https://www.lingoa.eu
• Member of the Scientific Committee of Bologna University Press. https://buponline.com/comitato-scientifico/
• 2018–present — Member of the Editorial board of the series Trends in Linguistics, Mouton de Gruyter
• 2017–present — Member of the Editorial board of the series ‘Linguistica’, Caissa Italia Editore.
• 2016–present — Member of the Editorial board of ‘CLUB Working papers in Linguistics’, AlmaDL, University of Bologna.
• 2016–present — Member of the Editorial board of Lingue e Linguaggio, Bologna: Il Mulino.
• 2012–present — Member of the Editorial board of the series ‘Materiali linguistici’, Franco Angeli Editore.
• 2014-2016 — Member of the Editorial board, Linguistics Vanguard, Mouton de Guyter. Area Editor ‘Semantics and pragmatics’
• Member of — Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT), Associazione Italiana di Linguistica Applicata (AiTLA), Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE), Società Internazionale di Linguistica e Filologia Italiana (SILFI), Società Italiana di Glottologia (SIG), International Pragmatics Association (IPrA), Società di Linguistica Italiana (SLI), International Cognitive Linguistics Association (ICLA).

4.2 Evaluation of grants

• 2026 — Reviewer for the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) – Call Ambizione 2026.
• 2023 — Reviewer for the Croatian Science Foundation – Call for proposals 2022-10 IP
• 2019-2020 — Reviewer for the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) – Humanities and Social science division
• 2016 — Reviewer for the European Research Council (ERC). International expert, Starting Grants Call.
• 2012-2013 — Reviewer for the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR). International expert

4.3 Main institutional duties

• 2025–present — Member of the University of Bologna CoARA Working Group.
• 2025–present — Member of the CLARIN-IT Governance Board, Committee for Relations with Users.
• 2024–present — Member of the Research Committee of the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University of Bologna
• 2023–present — Member of the University of Bologna Quality Presidium (Presidio della Qualità di Ateneo, PQA), Research and Third Mission Working Group; representing the Humanities area. Reappointed for the 2026–2029 term by Rectoral Decree.
• 2016–2018 — Member of the Library Committee, Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University of Bologna.
• 2016–2019 — Member of the Quality Review Committees for the BA programmes in Foreign Languages and Literatures and in Languages, Markets and Cultures of Asia, University of Bologna.
• 2021–present — Member of the Executive Committee (‘Giunta’) of the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures – University of Bologna (elected by the Department)
• 2018–present — Member of the Scientific Committee of the Experimental LAB of the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures (University of Bologna):
  https://site.unibo.it/laboratorio-sperimentale https://site.unibo.it/laboratorio-sperimentale/it
• 2018–present — Academic coordinator of the KIParla curricular internship, Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures (LILEC), University of Bologna.
• 2023–present — Faculty member of the PhD Program in Philological and Linguistic Studies in Oral and Written Records, University of Bergamo.
• 2013-2023 — Faculty member of the PhD Program in Linguistic Sciences - University of Pavia, University of Bergamo
• 2020-2023 — Member of the University Research Evaluation Committee (CVRA), responsible for Area 10 - University of Bologna (nominee by the University Rector)
• 2017–2020 — Member of the Area 10 Panel, University Research Evaluation Committee (VRA), University of Bologna.
• 2019-2022 — Director of the BA Program in “Languages, markets and cultures of Asia and Mediterranean Africa” – University of Bologna
• 2021-2022 — Member of the Executive Committee of the Excellent Department Project DIVE-IN
• 2019-2021 — Member of the Executive Committee, Società di Linguistica Italiana (SLI).
• 2019-2020 — Member of the University Access Committee, Coordinator of TOLC-SU for the University of Bologna
• 2012–2014 — Member of the Review Committee of the MA Programme in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics and Modern Languages, University of Pavia.
• 2010-2013 — Faculty member of the PhD Program in Linguistics - University of Pavia
• 2011–2014 — Co-coordinator, with Marina Chini, of the 40-hour Linguistics module, first-level Master in Immigration, Gender, Family Models and Integration Strategies , University of Pavia.

4.4 Scientific committees

• 2016–2026 — Member of the Permanent Committee of The Syntax of the World’s Languages (SWL).
• 2026 — Member of the Scientific Committee of the 16th Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT 16), Lyon, France, 1–3 July 2026.
• 2026 — Abstract reviewer, 59th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE), workshop ‘Relative Clauses Across and Within Languages: Connecting Linguistic Typology and Variationist Sociolinguistics’, Bucharest, Romania, 26–29 August 2026.
• 2025 — Member of the Scientific Committee of the LVIII International Congress of the Società di Linguistica Italiana (SLI), L’Aquila, 11–13 September 2025.
• 2025 — Member of the Scientific Committee and abstract reviewer for the 2nd PhD CLUB doctoral conference ‘Contextual and individual factors in linguistic research: How sampling shapes analytical outcomes’, University of Bologna, 5 June 2025.
• 2024 — Member of the Scientific Committee and abstract reviewer for the PhD CLUB doctoral conference ‘Il dialogo tra scienze linguistiche e nuove tecnologie’, University of Bologna.
• 2023 — Abstract reviewer for the LVI International Congress of the Società di Linguistica Italiana (SLI), Catania, 21–23 September 2023.
• 2019 — Member of the Scientific Committee of the 13th Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT 13), University of Pavia, 4–6 September 2019.
• 2019 — Member of the Scientific Committee of the 6th International Conference on Discourse Markers in Romance Languages (DISROM 6), University of Bergamo, 29–31 May 2019.
• 2016 — Member of the Programme Committee and abstract reviewer for the 49th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE), University of Naples Federico II, Naples, 31 August–3 September 2016.
• 2016 — Member of the Scientific Committee and abstract reviewer for the 3rd International Conference on Linguistic & Psycholinguistic Approaches to Text Structuring (LPTS 2016), University of Valencia, Spain, 24–26 January 2016.
• 2015 — Member of the Programme Committee and abstract reviewer for MOMA 2015: Models for Modality Annotation, workshop at the 11th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS 2015), Queen Mary University of London, 14 April 2015.
• 2014 — Member of the Scientific Committee and abstract reviewer for The Syntax of the World’s Languages VI (SWL6), University of Pavia, 8–10 September 2014.
• 2011 — Member of the Scientific Committee and abstract reviewer for the international workshop ‘Gradualness in change and its relations to synchronic variation and use’, University of Pavia, 30–31 May 2011.

4.5 Journal, volume and publisher peer review

Reviewer for Dive-In Journal Language, Linguistics, Linguistic Typology, Studies in Language, Language Sciences, Lingua, Journal of Pragmatics, Journal of Historical Linguistics, Folia Linguistica, Glossa, Catalan Journal of Linguistics, Lingue e Linguaggio, Lingua e Stile, Pragmatics & Cognition, STUF, Italian Journal of Linguistics, Studi Slavistici and Archivio Glottologico Italiano.

Reviewer of book proposals, chapters and edited-volume contributions for international academic publishers, including De Gruyter Mouton.

5. NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL AWARDS

• April 2026 — Visiting Fellowship awarded under the Université Paris Cité Guest Researcher Programme, hosted by the Department of Linguistics and CNRS Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle (LLF, UMR 7110). Host: Ira Noveck. The fellowship included two invited guest lectures.
• July 2024 — Best Poster Award. Learner Corpus Association , at Learner Corpus Research Conference, 2024.
• 2018 — Visiting Professor Fellowship of ISA Institute, Bologna. Role: sponsor (visiting Professor: Mira Ariel, Univ. Tel Aviv)
• 2017 — National Award for Scientific Dissemination “Giancarlo Dosi”. The winning edited volume, Tutto ciò che hai sempre voluto sapere sul linguaggio e sulle lingue (edited by Francesca Masini and Nicola Grandi, Caissa Italia, 2017), includes two chapters authored by me.
• 2009 — Joseph Greenberg Award 2009. Association of Linguistic Typology
• 2003 — Three-year PhD scholarship awarded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research
• 1999–2003 — Award for outstanding students, IUSS, Pavia (for four consecutive years).
• 1999-2003 — Alumna of the Humanities Class, IUSS, Pavia.
• 1999-2003 — Alumna of Collegio Ghislieri, Pavia, 1999-2003 (a merit-based college accessed through a national competition)

6. ORGANIZATION OF SCIENTIFIC EVENTS

6.1 Organization of advanced schools

• 5/2023 — Organizer of the Spring School on “ Language variation ”, Bologna, 15-17 May 2023. Co-organized with Silvia Ballarè, Simone Mattiola and Nicola Grandi.
  https://site.unibo.it/language-variation/en
• 6/2021 — Organizer of the Summer School “ Catching language data ”, co-organized with the Scientific Committee of the LILEC Experimental Lab:
  https://site.unibo.it/summer-school-catching-language-data/en
• 4/2009 — International Spring School 2009 “ Standard and non-standard languages in Europe: future and vitality of dialects, language contacts and new linguistic scenarios in today’s Europe ”, Pavia, 6-10/4/2009. IUSS, Pavia. Co-organized with Andrea Sansò and Paolo Ramat.

6.2 Organization of conferences, workshops, panels and seminar series

• 2027 — Organizer, with Elena Battaglia, of the accepted Panel ‘Towards an incremental semantics: the emergence of categories in spoken interaction’, 20th International Pragmatics Conference (IPC20), University of Helsinki, Finland.
  https://pragmatics.international/page/IPC20Helsinki
• 2/2027 — Organizer of the International Workshop ‘Interactional functions of syntax, syntactic functions of interaction’, Co-organized with Giorgia Troiani, University of Bologna, 4-5/2/2027.
  https://site.unibo.it/msca_speak/en/agenda/workshop-functions-syntax-interaction
• 2026-2027 — Organizer of the Seminar Cycle ‘Identifying units of organization in spoken discourse: theory and methods’. Co-organized with Giorgia Troiani, University of Bologna.
  https://site.unibo.it/msca_speak/en/workshops/seminar-intonation-units
• 9/2026 — Member of the Organising Committee of the LIX International Congress of the Società di Linguistica Italiana (SLI), I dati nelle scienze del linguaggio, University of Bologna, 10–12 September 2026.
• 8/2026 — Organizer of the International Workshop ‘Relative Clauses Across and Within Languages: Connecting Linguistic Typology and Variationist Sociolinguistics’, 59th Annual Conference of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. Co-organized with Silvia Ballarè, Massimo Cerruti and Karen Beaman.
• 10/2025 — Organizer of the International Conference “TALKING DATA - Methodological and theoretical challenges raised by spoken interaction data”, 8-10 October 2025, University of Bologna.
  https://eventi.unibo.it/talkingdata2025 . Coordinated the abstract-selection process.
• 9/2025 — Organizer of the International Workshop on Co-construction of reference through different genres, organized as part of the LVIII International Congress of the Italian Linguistic Society (SLI), L’Aquila 11-13 September 2025. Co-organized with Paola Pietrandrea, Elena Battaglia, Eleonora Zucchini and Carole Bossant.
• 5/2023 — Organizer of the International Conference on “Naturally occurring data in and beyond linguistic typology”, Bologna, 18-19 May 2023. Co-organized with Silvia Ballarè, Simone Mattiola and Nicola Grandi.
  https://site.unibo.it/naturally-occurring-data/en
• 2-6 /2022 — Organizer of the Cycle of seminars “Language data are waiting: methods, techniques, resources” (Experimental LAB, University of Bologna), co-organized with Francesca Masini: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZXtRzpSVAWXXsRgNH7iKhp3xsV3bPh9H/view
• 5/2021 — Organizer of 2nd DIVE-IN International Conference “Le parole sono importanti”, University of Bologna.
• 5/2019 — International workshop on “Simply not? Ways to strengthen negation”, University of Bologna. Co-organized with Chiara Gianollo.
• 10/2017 — International Conference on ‘Building categories in interaction: a multidisciplinary approach to categorization’, 19/20 October 2017, University of Bologna.
• 10/2016 — Member of the Scientific and Organising Committees of the International Conference ‘Tipologia, acquisizione e grammaticalizzazione’, University of Pavia, 14–15 October 2016; responsible for abstract selection.
• 9/2016 — Workshop ‘List constructions: formal and functional aspects’. 50th International Congress of the Società di Linguistica Italiana. Co-organized with Francesca Masini and Paola Pietrandrea. Coordinated the Scientific Committee and the abstract-selection process.
• 9/2016 — Workshop ‘Ad hoc categories and their linguistic construction. Typology, diachrony and use’, 49th Annual Conference of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. Co-organized with Andrea Sansò. Served on the SLE Programme Committee and coordinated abstract selection for the workshop.
• 9/2014 — International Conference ’Syntax of the World’s languages VI’, University of Pavia. Co-organized with S. Cristofaro and S. Luraghi. Served on the Scientific Committee and coordinated abstract selection.
• 9/2013 — Workshop “Natural-language connectives: Evidence from discourse, typology and grammaticalization”, 9–10 September 2013. 13th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA), New Delhi. Co-organized with Mira Ariel.
• 7/2013 — Workshop “The semantics and pragmatics of logical words: a cross-linguistic perspective”, 25–26 July 2013. 19th International Congress of Linguists (ICL 19), Geneva. Co-organized with Johan van der Auwera and Jacques Moeschler.
• 9/2012 — Workshop “Meaning and form of vagueness: a cross-linguistic perspective”, Stockholm, 29 August–1 September 2012. 45th Annual Conference of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. Co-organized with Miriam Voghera, Francesca Masini and Lucia Tovena.
• 5/2011 — Workshop “Gradualness in change and its relations to synchronic variation and use”, Pavia, 30-31/5/2011. Co-organized with Anna Giacalone Ramat and Piera Molinelli. Served on the Scientific Committee and coordinated abstract selection.
• 4/2010 — Workshop “Language contact and language decay: socio-political and linguistic perspectives”, Pavia, 8-9/4/2010. IUSS, Pavia. Co-organized with Andrea Sansò, Paolo Ramat, Anna Giacalone Ramat.
• 9/2008 — Workshop “What do languages code when they code Realisness?”, 41st Annual Conference of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (Forlì, 17–20 September 2008). Co-organized with Andrea Sansò.

7. TEACHING ACTIVITY

7.1 BA and MA courses

• A.A. 2024/25, 2025/26, 2026/27 — Pragmatics (University of Bologna - MA in Data, methods and theoretical models for linguistics).
• 2023/24, 2024/25, 2025/26, 2026/27 — Linguistic Diversity (University of Bologna - MA in Italian culture and language for foreigners)
• 2017/18, 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25, 2025/26, 2026/27 — General Linguistics (University of Bologna - BA in Languages, markets and cultures of Asia and Mediterranean Africa)
• 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23 — Semantics and Pragmatics (University of Bologna - BA in Foreign languages and literatures)
• 2017/18, 2018/19 — General Linguistics 2 (University of Bologna - BA in Foreign languages and literatures)
• 2013/14, 2014/15, 2015/16, 2016/17 — Pragmatics and textual linguistics (University of Pavia – MA in Linguistics)
• 2011/12, 2012/13, 2013/14, 2014/15, 2015/16, 2016/17 — Laboratory of linguistic data analysis (University of Pavia – MA in Linguistics)
• 2010/11 — Applied Linguistics (University of Milano-Bicocca – BA programme in Intercultural Communication).

7.2 PhD and advanced-school teaching

• 19-22/5/2026 — Three-lecture course, Layers of cooperation: The interactional architecture of spoken language, Spring School on Speech Matters - 2nd Edition, Lake Como School of Advanced Studies, Villa del Grumello, Como.
• 1/4/2026 — Two lectures on Il corpus KIParla per lo studio dell’italiano parlato and Un approccio diacronico alla variazione: costruzioni emergenti . PhD Program in “Studi filologici e linguistici sul patrimonio scritto e orale”, University of Bergamo.
• 11/3/2026 — Lecture on Miratività di secondo livello: quando la sorpresa riguarda le aspettative . PhD Program in ‘Studi letterari, linguistici e storici’, University of Salerno.
• 23/10/2025 — Lecture on Lingue in cambiamento attraverso il tempo e le società - dati e teorie in convergenza . PhD Program in ‘Studi filologici e linguistici sul patrimonio scritto e orale’, University of Bergamo.
• 8/4/2022 — Lecture on La correzione tra contrasto e alternativa: un approccio tipologico. PhD Program in ‘Scienze Linguistiche’ (University of Pavia and Bergamo).
• 27/5/2021 — Lecture on L’interazione linguistica tra cognizione e common ground: costruzione di categorie, vaghezza e evidenzialità. PhD Program in ‘Scienze Linguistiche’ (University of Pavia and Bergamo).
• 24/1/2019 — Lecture on Grammatica emergente tra tipologia e discorso. Questioni teoriche e metodologiche . PhD program in ‘Studi letterari, linguistici e storici’, University of Salerno.
• 31/5/2018 — Two lectures on Converging evidence in the analysis of disjunction and Variazione tipologica e variazione intralinguistica a confronto - Fondamenti teorici e applicazioni della metodologia a converging evidence . PhD Program in ‘Scienze Linguistiche’ (University of Pavia and Bergamo).

8. POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHERS SUPERVISED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA

• 05/2016–04/2017 — Ilaria Fiorentini — Framework project: LEAdhoC — Linguistic expression of ad hoc categories. Post-Doc research project: General extenders nell’italiano contemporaneo: pattern di variazione e mutamenti in atto.
• 05/2016–02/2018 — Eugenio Goria — Framework project: LEAdhoC — Linguistic expression of ad hoc categories. Post-Doc research project: Le strategie linguistiche per la costruzione online di categorie nell’italiano parlato: costruzione e analisi di un corpus.
• 10/2017–09/2021 — Alessandra Barotto — Framework project: LEAdhoC — Linguistic expression of ad hoc categories. Post-Doc research project: Aspetti linguistici e cognitivi dell’esemplificazione: una prospettiva comparativa.
• 03/2024–12/2025 — Eleonora Zucchini — Framework project: DiverSIta — Diversity in Spoken Italian. Post-Doc research project: Varietà non native di italiano parlato in interazione: registrazione, trascrizione e analisi di dati raccolti sul territorio bolognese.
• 01/2026–present — Giorgia Troiani — MSCA European Postdoctoral Fellowship. Post-Doc research project: SPEAK — Convergence of syntactic, prosodic, and interactional units in conversation.
• 01/2026–present — Elena Battaglia — SNSF Postdoc Mobility. Post-Doc research project: Towards an incremental semantics: A linguistic analysis of the emergence of categories in spoken interaction.
• 09/2026–present — Antonia Russo — Research appointment at LILEC. Post-Doc research project: Beyond Yes and No: Semantic and Pragmatic Dimensions of Responses in Spoken Italian.

9. PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT

• 2024–present — TransformAzioni: Officina delle lingue, letterature e culture in transito . Contributor to the LILEC public-engagement project and to the participatory workshop ‘ AttraVerso la mia città : lingue, parole e voci a Bologna’, working with local communities on language, belonging, migration and urban space.
  https://site.unibo.it/transformazioni-lingue-letterature-culture-in-transito/it/il-progetto
• 22/5/2026 — Parole in transito , Episode 1 – ‘ Appartenenza ’. Contribution to the University of Bologna Podcast developed from the workshop ‘ AttraVerso la mia città ’. The episode explores belonging through emotional maps, life stories and the everyday paths of migrant communities in Bologna.
  https://unibo.network.podigee.io/podcast/90078-parole-in-transito/1-appartenenza
• 15/4/2026 — ‘ Mettere in scena la comprensione: Dario Fo e la comunicazione oltre le parole ’. Contribution to the public programme celebrating the centenary of Dario Fo’s birth , DAMSLab / La Soffitta, University of Bologna.
  https://site.unibo.it/damslab/it/eventi/mistero-buffo-il-primo-miracolo-di-gesu-bambino-di-dario-fo-e-franca-rame
• 5/6/2026 — ‘ Dal “bolognese doc” all’italiano “siento per cento”. Strategie lessicali di stereotipizzazione e posizionamento nella lingua parlata ’, with Ana Pano Alamán. Public-facing contribution to the LILEC programme ‘ Riscoprire, rielaborare, sovvertire il mondo ’, on language, stereotypes and belonging.
  https://eventi.unibo.it/lilec-convegno-2026/programma
• 27/9/2024 — ‘ Senti KIParla! Esplorare la diversità nell’italiano parlato ’. Interactive activity for the European Researchers’ Night in Piazza Scaravilli, Bologna, with Eleonora Zucchini, Ludovica Pannitto and Claudia Borghetti. Games, quizzes and listening activities based on KIParla introduced the public to regional and social variation in spoken Italian.
  https://www.nottedeiricercatori-society.eu/eventi/piazza-scaravilli-senti-kiparla-esplorare-la-diversita-nellitaliano-parlato
• 21/10/2022 — ‘ Corpus KIParla: un nuovo strumento per osservare l’italiano parlato e chi parla italiano ’. Public-facing article for Linguisticamente explaining spoken-language corpora, sociolinguistic metadata and variation in interaction.
  https://www.linguisticamente.org/corpus-kiparla-un-nuovo-strumento-per-osservare-litaliano-parlato-e-chi-parla-italiano/
• 4/3/2022 — ‘ Così vicino, così lontano! Prospettive sulla diversità linguistica ’, with Silvia Ballarè. Educational sessions for students at the Rolandino de’ Passaggeri lower-secondary school, Bologna.
• 2021 — ‘ Altro: quanto è diverso davvero l’Altro? ’. Educational video module for the LILEC MOOC on words, languages and interculturality, designed for a broad non-specialist audience.
• A.A. 2014/2015 — Didattica della grammatica e relativo laboratorio . Instructor within the Tirocinio Formativo Attivo (TFA), qualification class A043 for lower-secondary-school teachers, University of Pavia.
• A.A. 2013/2014 — Didattica e acquisizione dell’italiano L2 . Instructor within the compulsory Percorso Abilitante Speciale ( PAS), qualification class A043, University of Pavia. The course introduced prospective teachers to grammar teaching through linguistic research, authentic data and spoken-language corpora.

10. LINGUISTIC RESOURCES

• (2019) Mauri, Caterina; Ballarè, Silvia; Goria, Eugenio; Cerruti, Massimo. Corpus KIParla. https://doi.org/10.60760/unibo/kiparla
• (2020) Bosco, Cristina; Ballarè, Silvia; Cerruti, Massimo; Goria, Eugenio; Mauri, Caterina. KIPoS: KIParla Part-of-Speech tagging resource. http://www.di.unito.it/~tutreeb/kipos-evalita2020/index.html
• (2019) Mauri, Caterina; Ballarè, Silvia; Goria, Eugenio. Corpus KIP. https://doi.org/10.60760/unibo/kip
• (2024) Mauri, Caterina; Ballarè, Silvia; Zucchini, Eleonora. Corpus KIPasti. https://doi.org/10.60760/unibo/kipasti
• (2024) Mauri, Caterina; Ballarè, Silvia; Zucchini, Eleonora. Corpus ParlaBO. https://doi.org/10.60760/unibo/parlabo
• (2026) Mauri, Caterina; Ballarè, Silvia; Zucchini, Eleonora. Corpus Stra-ParlaBO. https://doi.org/10.60760/unibo/stra-parlabo
• (2026) Pannitto, Ludovica; Zucchini, Eleonora; Ballarè, Silvia; Bosco, Cristina; Mauri, Caterina; Sanguinetti, Manuela. KIParla Forest: treebank of spoken Italian based on the KIParla Corpus. https://cris.unibo.it/handle/11585/1076851?locale-attribute=en https://universaldependencies.org/treebanks/it_kiparlaforest/index.html

11. INVITED TALKS AND LECTURES

• 3-5/12/2026 — KIParla Corpus. Plenary talk at the International Conference Global, aréal, local: oral spontané à travers différentes cultures scientifiques en Europe francophone, germanophone, anglophone et italophone, University of Toulouse.
• 18-20/11/2026 — Mirative responses: rejection and confirmation in common ground management. Invited talk at the International Conference “Mitigation and Mirativity in CG Management”, University of Tübingen.
• 15/4/2026 — Mettere in scena la comprensione: Dario Fo e la comunicazione oltre le parole. Giornata di studi per le celebrazioni per il centenario della nascita di Dario Fo. University of Bologna.
• 26–27/3/2026 — Building KIParla: methodological choices, challenges, and data sharing practices, with Silvia Ballarè. Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
• 13/3/2026 — KIParla: una risorsa modulare per lo studio dell’italiano parlato, Conversazioni Linguistiche, University of Trento.
• 30/1/2026 — Building KIParla: methodological choices, challenges, and data sharing practices, with Silvia Ballarè. Workshop on “RACCONTA. Narrative competences and literacy development between internal variation and plurilingualism”, University of Bologna.
• 16/1/2026 — The addressee as co-constructor of meaning. Online Seminar Series ’From the perspective of the addressee’, University of Salerno and Lille.
• 29/10/2025 — Oral and written needs: how literacy shapes the world’s grammars. Plenary talk. Doctoral Conference, Corso in Culture Letterarie e Filologiche, University of Bologna.
• 13/5/2025 — Il corpus KIParla. Language tips, Università del Piemonte Orientale.
• 3/4/2025 — Cooperative meaning-making in linguistic interaction. Workshop “Conversational Dynamics: How Abstraction and Abstractness Ebb and Flow in Interaction”. University of Bologna.
• 21/11/2024 — Diversità nell’italiano parlato: documentare un patrimonio in costante evoluzione. Plenary talk at the Conference ‘Italiano parlato e chi parla italiano. Teoria, pratica e casi di studio’.
• 22/4/2024 — KIParla corpus of spoken Italian: design, usage and future challenges, Université de Neuchatel.
• 28/4/2023 — Kiparla Corpus - History, methodological choices, future challenges, with Silvia Ballarè. CHORD talk in interaction, USI Lugano.
• 9/6/2022 — Otherness: The linguistic expression of diversity in discourse and across languages. Department of Linguistics, University of Stockholm.
• 19/5/2022 — Towards a typology of anticircumstantial clauses. International conference on ‘Negation in clause combining’, University of Helsinki.
• 28/3/2022 — Esaustività e non-esaustività esplicita nel discorso: uno sguardo interlinguistico, tra funzioni testuali e percorsi diacronici. Invited talk at the conference ‘Forme della scrittura italiana contemporanea in prospettiva contrastiva. La componente testuale’. University of Basel.
• 29/11/2021 — L’espressione dell’esaustività e della non esaustività in italiano: tra semantica e pragmatica, Seminario permanente di linguistica italiana, University of Brno.
• 11/12/2019 — Diversità tra le lingue e pragmatica, invited talk at the conference ‘Diversità linguistica, inclusione e didattica delle lingue a scuola’, University of Bologna.
• 17/01/2019 — Logical words and category constructions. Workshop ‘Logical words’, within the LOG-PRAG project coordinated by Jacques Moeschler, Université de Genève.
• 28/3/2017 — Constructing lists for constructing categories: the LEAdhoC project, BILS Seminars, University of Milan Bicocca.
• 16/6/2016 — Connectives beyond connecting: converging evidence in the analysis of disjunction. 2nd Usage-based Linguistics Conference, Tel Aviv University. Plenary speaker.
• 23/12/2011 — Logical connectives in the world’s languages. Département de Linguistique, Université de Genève.
• 25/7/2009 — Coordination Relations in the Languages of Europe and Beyond. Plenary speaker at the 8th Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT), University of California, Berkeley, 23–26 July 2009, as winner of the Greenberg Award 2009.
• 10/12/2008 — (with Andrea Sansò) Typology and diachrony of (ir)realis: an overview of the IRR-TYP project. Universität Zürich, Zürich.
• 9/12/2008 — (with Andrea Sansò) The reality status of directives and its coding across languages. Universität Zürich, Zürich.
• 12/2/2008 — (with Andrea Sansò) The (ir)reality of directives. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig.
• 22/5/2006 — Le relazioni di coordinazione: costruzioni congiuntive, disgiuntive e avversative a confronto. MorboConf, Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere, Università di Bologna.
• 1/12/2005 — Combination, alternative and contrast: conjunctive, disjunctive and adversative constructions in -and outside- Europe. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig.