Francesca Dell'Oro

Francesca Dell'Oro (PhD 2008) carries out research in the fields of diachronic linguistics and corpus linguistics. Her research focuses on modality at the interface between semantics, syntax, and pragmatics.

He carried out his career mainly in Switzerland, where he obtained the SNSF Professorship (Prof. Dr. in Diachronic Linguistics, 2019–2025). She led as PI the projects WoPoss on the diachrony of modality in Latin and ModMap on modality, moods and clause types in a parallel corpus of New Testament translations. She also contributed to the project for defining 'burnout' (Harmonized definition of occupational burnout).

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 a CHS 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.