Francesca Masini

Associate Professor of Linguistics since 2014, she is Vice Head of the LILEC Department. Her research revolves around how meaning is "packaged" in linguistic structures, especially in morphology and the lexicon but also syntax, combining linguistic theory, usage-based methods and typology.

She was awarded (with Nicola Grandi) the National Award for Scientific Popularization 2017 (Humanities Area) for Tutto ciò che hai sempre voluto sapere sul linguaggio e sulle lingue. She is Associate Editor of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Morphology, and member of the Permanent Committee of the Mediterranean Morphology Meetings (MMM) and of the Executive Committee of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) and the Società di Linguistica Italiana (SLI).