Francesca Masini

Associate Professor of Linguistics since 2014, her research revolves around how meaning is "packaged" in linguistic structures (lexicon, morphology, syntax), combining linguistic theory, usage-based methods and typology.

She is Editor-in-Chief of the journal 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 (with Nicola Grandi) and is now editor of Linguisticamente, the first Italian website for the popularization of linguistics.