Study and Academic qualifications
Prof. Alessandro De Angelis took the High School Diploma of classical education with full marks (60/60) in 1989/90, in Rome; B.A. in Human Sciences at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, faculty of Letters and Philosophy, with full marks (110/110 cum laude), in 1995, with a thesis titled: L’ingiuntivo in Omero. Un’analisi diacronica, under the Prof. Walter Belardi and Prof. Palmira Cipriano’s supervision; Ph.D in Historical Linguistics at “Università degli Studi di Milano” on March 3rd, 2000, defending a thesis titled Le nozioni di segno e significare nella speculazione greca fino ad Aristotele (tutor: prof. Celestina Milani). He obtained a temporary research contract from the “La Sapienza University of Rome”, in the academic year 2001/2002. He was researcher at the “Università degli Studi di Messina” in the period between 2002 and 2010. At the present time, he is Associate Professor at the “Università degli Studi di Messina” from June 2010. He belongs, as an individual member, to the Doctorate in “Historical Linguistics and Italian Linguistic History” (Rome “La Sapienza”).
He has been teaching in many universities and international centres, namely: the Libera Università Maria SS. Assunta (LUMSA) in Rome, the Università degli Studi di Cassino, the Scuola Italiana di Specializzazione all’Insegnamento nelle scuole secondarie (S.I.S.S.) in the region of Lazio, and the Centro di Dialettologia e di Etnografia (CDE) in Bellinzona (Italian Switzerland). He taught in Bellinzona in September 2006, with a course titled: Influenze e contatti fra greco e dialetti meridionali d’Italia.
He is fellow of the “Sodalizio Glottologico Milanese” (SGM) since december 1999; of the “Società Italiana di Glottologia” (SIG) since april 2004; of the “Centro di Studi Filologici e Linguistici Siciliani” (CSFLS) since december 2008; of the “Accademia Peloritana dei Pericolanti” since february 2008.
Researches carried out
His research activity addresses to the following fields: historical linguistics; indoeuropean languages (Greek; Indo-Iranian languages); indoeuropean phonology; romance linguistic and philology (especially Italo-Romance Southern dialects); Greek-Romance interference in Southern Italy both in a synchronic and diachronic perspective. He carried out researches in Vienna at the Institute of “Indogermanistik”, under the Martin Peters and Heinrich Eichner’s supervision, and in Saarbrücken (Germany), Universität des Saarlandes, under the supervision of Max Pfister, at the “Lessico Etimologico Italiano”, of which team he was member. He took part and taught in different summer schools and training courses, such as the Summer courses at the Centro di dialettologia della Svizzera italiana (CDE).