Francesca Masini

Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Bologna since 2014. Her research revolves around how meaning is packaged into linguistic structures, with special focus on concept-naming strategies, evaluative semantics, emergent grammar, non-literal meaning and linguistic creativity. She works within usage-based constructionist approaches, combining qualitative analysis with quantitative and experimental methods as well as with typological investigation.

She is Editor-in-Chief of Constructions and Frames, member of the Permanent Committee of the Mediterranean Morphology Meetings (MMM), scientific coordinator of the Experimental Lab at the LILEC Department, and co-founder of Linguisticamente, the first Italian website for the popularization of linguistics.

Since 2022, she is Rector's Delegate for Open Science and Research Data. Since September 2023, she is co-chair of the Italian National Chapter of di CoARA (Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment).
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