Work History
February 2024 - Ongoing:
Fellow Researcher University of L'Aquila Department of Scienze Umanistiche
1 years assignment in Italian Morphology and Phonology research (PRIN)
January 2024 - March 2024:
Adjunct Professor in General Linguistics Università of Bologna
March 2022 - Ongoing:
Adjunct Professor in General Linguistics Università degli Studi Niccolò Cusano
January 2021- January 2022:
Fellow Researcher University of Bologna Department ofAncient Philology and Italian studies (FICLIT)
1 years assignment in Italian Sociolinguistics research (PRIN UniversIta)
October 2020-November 2020
Tutorship “Supporto alla didattica, Laboratorio di Lingua Italiana per LM” University of Bologna Department of Classic Philology and Italian Studies
January 2017 – January 2020
Fellow Researcher University of Chieti-Pescara Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures
3 years (1+1+1) assignment in Contact Linguistics research
Project Title: ‘Linguistic features in plurilingual contexts’
Fields: contact linguistics, plurilingualism, migrants’ communities
Working group: Prof. Consani, Prof. Perta, Prof. Guazzelli
Activities
- Study and analysis of the Senegalese community speech as immigrated community in Italy in the perspective of the contact phenomena. Worked on code-switching and code-mixing features between Wolof, French and Italian.
- Contributing to general theory on language, identity and immigration.
- Fieldwork: spontaneous speech data gathered among the members of the migrants’ community settled in Pescara, Italy.
- Teaching assistance (General Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Sociolinguistics) in BA and MA programmes (prepared multiple guest courses, prepared oral and written exams)
October 2013 – april 2016
PhD student (Synchronic, Diachronic and Applied Linguistics) university of Roma Tre, Rome, italy Department of Philosophy
Field: General Linguistics; Creole languages; Syntax
Title: ‘I nominali astratti’. (Uno studio sui Creoli della Martinica e della Guadalupa)
PhD thesis supervisor: Prof. Simone
Activities
- Doctoral classes on syntactic, lexical, pragmatic and semantics topics and issues of research
- Laboratories in Lexicography, Construction Grammar, Corpus Linguistics and Language Documentation.
- Strengthen writing and exposition competence
- Data gathering through questionnaires on lexical and syntactic features in Guadeloupean and Martinican Creoles (see Research Abroad section).
Research abroad
September 2015-December 2016
Visiting PhD student
University of Paris 8, Saint Dénis, france
Language Science Department
Grant: received by Paris IV, La Sorbonne
Contacts: Prof. Zribi-Hertz, Prof. Villoing (Université Paris X)
Activities:
- Extended fieldwork with first and second generation Guadeloupean and Martinican Creole speakers
- Collection of specific data through elicitation questionnaires on syntactic and lexical features
- Joined the activities of GRGC ‘Groupe de recherche: grammaires créoles’; lab.: Structures formelles du langage (http://www.sfl.cnrs.fr/seminaire-grammaires-creoles )
- Participation to conference and seminars organized by GRGC
October-November 2018
Visiting PostDoc student Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands Centre for Language studies
Contacts: Prof. Muysken
Education
October 2009-March 2012
MA Degree in Linguistics, University of Rome 1 ‘La Sapienza’
Domain: General linguistics; Italian dialects
Title: ‘The phonological system of Cese dei Marsi’s dialect’ (Documentation and description of the phonological and morphological system of a Italian ‘mediano’ dialect).
Supervisor: Prof.Vignuzzi, Prof. Di Giovine, Prof. Loporcaro
Grade: 110/110 cum laude
September 2005-July 2009 Ba DEGREE in Italian studies - Italian Language and Literature, University of Rome 1 ‘La Sapienza’
Domain: Romance Philology
Title: ‘Amor hereos’ (Translation - from medieval (XIII century) latin - and critical edition of Arnaud de Villanova’s medical tractate ‘Amor Hereos’.
Supervisor: Prof. Asperti
Grade: 110/110 cum laude
Education abroad
September 2010 - July 2011
Visiting student, Romanisches Seminar, Universität Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Subjects: Italian dialectology, Romance and Italian linguistics (Prof. Loporcaro); laboratory of socio-phonetics and language contact (Prof. Schmid).
