Francesca Dell'Oro

Active at the University of Bologna since February 2025, she carries out research in the fields of diachronic linguistics and corpus linguistics. For several years, her research has been focusing on modality at the interface between semantics, syntax, and pragmatics.

She has received international funding for several research projects, including WoPoss on the diachrony of modality in Latin and ModMap on modality, moods and clause types in a parallel corpus of New Testament translations.

In the academic year 2017/2018, she was a Fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies at Harvard University, working on a project in Greek dialectology and historical sociolinguistics, and then an Associate Fellow until 2023.

She has taught at the universities of Zurich, Lausanne, and Neuchâtel in Switzerland, Grenoble Alpes in France, and Exeter in the United Kingdom.