Career• December 2023: National Scientific Habilitation to Full Professor in Linguistics
• September 2023: Visiting professor at Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto (Canada)
• August – September 2022: visiting scholarship at CLUL – Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal)
• March 2019: Visiting scholarship at the Institute of Linguistic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow (Russia)
• July 2018: National Scientific Habilitation to Associate Professor in Linguistics
• July 2015: Tenured Assistant Professor of Historical and General Linguistics (L-LIN/01) at the Italian Institute of Oriental Studies, Sapienza University of Rome.
• November 2011: Assistant Professor of Historical and General Linguistics (L-LIN/01) at the Italian Institute of Oriental Studies, Sapienza University of Rome.
• May – October 2010: Lecturer of Russian, Faculty of Humanities, University of l'Aquila.
• July 2009 – June 2010: Teaching assistant, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Sapienza University of Rome.
• June 2005 – May 2009: Post-Doc, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Sapienza University of Rome.
Education and degrees• 13/05/2005: PhD degree, thesis title:
L'Aṣṭādhyāyī di Pāṇini: aspetti teorici e formali (supervisor: Prof. Paolo Di Giovine).
• 17/07/2001: Master degree
cum laude in Historical Linguistics at Sapienza University of Rome, thesis title:
Nuovo Testamento in gotico (supervisor: Prof Carla Del Zotto).
Conference organization• 22–23/23/2025:
CBC14. Reading Sanskrit Texts. Deep Reading as an Analytical Method for Written, Oral, and Performative Texts, Sapienza University of Rome.
• 13–14/02/2025:
Gender in Grammar: History, Theory, Policy, Sapienza University of Rome.
• 10–11/12/2021:
Vyākaraṇa and its many espouses: Linguistics, Philology, Philosophy. Panel from the
CBC11, Sapienza University of Rome.
• 31/03/2017:
Morpho-syntactic isoglosses in Indo-European: diachrony, typology and linguistic areas, workshop at ISTAL23, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece), together with Nikolaos Lavidas (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) and Leonid Kulikov (Ghent University).
• 22–24/05/2014:
CBC5. Space, culture, language and politics in South Asia: common patterns and local distinctions, Sapienza University of Rome.
• 15/06/2012:
Translation Techniques in the Asiatic Cultures. Panel at CBC3, University of Cagliari (Italy).
• 8–10/09/2011:
CBC2. The Study of South Asia between Antiquity and Modernity. Parallels and Comparisons, Sapienza University of Rome.
• 10–12/06/2010:
CBC1. Lo studio dell'Asia fra antico e moderno, Sapienza University of Rome.
Presentations at conferences and seminars• 13/02/2025: ‘Grammatical mechanisms of the gender value selection in inflectional languages’, at
Gender in Grammar: Theory, History, and Policy, Sapienza University of Rome
• 28/12/2024: ‘Champollion and the runes’, at
ICHoLS XVI: International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences, Tbilisi Ivane Javakhishvili State University (Georgia)
• 21/09/2023: ‘Axiomatization of segmental grammar’, at
Carleton Linguistics Reading group meeting, Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada)
• 19/05/2023: ‘Attorno a Pāṇini 1.4.34: Grammatica sacra o grammatica profana?’, Workshop PRIN, Università della Tuscia (Viterbo)
• 23/09/2022: ‘Introducing Axiomatic Linguistics, with a special focus on segmental grammar’, at
Seminários CLUL, Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa.
• 22/09/2022: ‘Pāṇini’s grammar and its role in the history of linguistics’, at Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa.
• 11/12/2021: ‘Hiding a verb: ritual vs. courtly interpretation of
Aṣṭhādhyāyī 1.4.34’, in:
Vyākaraṇa and its many espouses: Linguistics, Philology, Philosophy. Panel from the
CBC11. Arranged marriages between disciplines, 10–11/12/2021 Sapienza Università of Rome.
• 31/10/2020: (with Anna Polivanova) ‘Место нейтрализации в фонологическом описании языка’, in:
Звегинцевские чтения – 2020. К 60-летию кафедры и отделения теоретической и прикладной лингвистики, 30–31/10/2020, Moscow State University (Russia).
• 2/10/2019: (with Corinne D'Antonio) ‘The adventures of Pāṇini’s grammar in China and Japan: the case of kāraka/vibhakti system’, in:
Between vertere and vṛtti.. Panel from the
CBC10. Translation in Premodern Asia, 1–3/10/2019, University of Turin.
• 14/09/2019: ‘Gothicism ideology and the discovery of
Codex Argenteus’, in:
Ideology and Linguistic ideas. International Conference dedicated to Rasmus Rask, 12–15/9/2019, University of Tbilisi (Georgia).
• 29/03/2019: ‘Опыт построения базы данных фонологических соответствий индоевропейских языков’, in:
Семинар по сравнительно-историческому языкознанию и древним языкам, Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow).
• 1/11/2018: ‘Устная передача или рукописная традиция? Текстология грамматики Панини’, in:
Письменные памятники Востока: проблемы перевода и интерпретации, 31/10–3/11/2018, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow)
• 19/03/2018: ‘Strong adjectives, and similar phenomena, in the second generation IE languages’, in:
Variation and contact in the Ancient Indo-European languages: between Linguistics and Philology, 19–20/04/2018, University of Pisa.
• 18–19/12/2017: discussant at:
SAPHALA workshop. South Asian Philosophy and Language, 18–20/12/2017, Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia. Austrian Academy of Sciences (Vienna).
• 31/03/2017: ‘New NP dependency marking in the «second generation» IE languages’, in:
Morpho-syntactic isoglosses in Indo-European: Diachrony, typology and linguistic areas, workshop of ISTAL23, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece).
• 27/03/2017: ‘Categorie linguistiche di Pāṇini e linguistica del Novecento’, in:
Incontri Linguistici "Tullio De Mauro", Fondazione Leusso (Rome).
• 8/09/2016: ‘Three more subjecthood features in Pāṇini’s tradition’, in:
Forty years after Keenan 1976. Subject properties and subject tests, EVALISA – University of Ghent (Belgium).
• 25/06/2014: ‘«Fixed» vs. «shifting» words: linguistic and philosophical viewpoints’, in:
Language, Culture and Mind VI Inside/Out: Practice and Representation, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin (Poland).
• 25/06/2013: ‘Branch-crossing Indo-European isoglosses: a call for interest’, in:
Čtenija pamjati I. M. Tronskogo, Institute of Linguistic Studies, St. Petersburg (Russia).
• 15/06/2012: ‘A Semiotic Approach to the Study of Translation’, in:
CBC3. The Study of Asia – between Antiquity and Modernity, University of Cagliari (Italy).
• 8/01/2012: (with Elisa Freschi) ‘What is the goal one has in view while editing a philosophical work?’, in:
15th World Sanskrit Conference, Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, New Delhi (India).
• 22/06/2010: ‘Compositional history of Pāṇiniʼs
kāraka theory’, in:
Čtenija pamjati I. M. Tronskogo, Institute of Linguistic Studies, St. Petersburg (Russia).
• 11/06/2010: ‘How modern linguistics can help us to reconstruct the compositional history of Pāṇiniʼs grammar’, in:
CBC1. Lo studio dell’Asia fra antico e moderno. Giornate di studio, Sapienza University of Rome.
• 29/05/2010: ‘Possessive predicates from Archaic Latin to the Romance languages: an issue of topicality and word order?’, in:
Workshop: Variation and Change in Argument Realization, University of Naples (Italy).
• 4/04/2009: ‘Pāṇinīya tradition as a source for the study of the MI labile verbs”, in:
ISTAL19. International Symposium on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece).
• 29/08/2008: ‘Stratifications in Pāṇiniʼs
kāraka theory: a functionalist approach’, in:
ICHoLS11. International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences, Universität Potsdam (Germany).
• 12/05/2008: ‘Possessive constructions in Japanese and Korean: a cognitive approach’, in:
Comparative Studies in Korean and Japanese, Sapienza University of Rome.
• 19/06/2007: ‘Word boundaries in Pāṇini and Avesta: a linguistic view’, in:
Čtenija pamjati I. M. Tronskogo, Institute of Linguistic Studies, St. Petersburg (Russia).
• 20/06/2006: ‘«Kal’kirovannyj arxaizm» gotskogo jazyka’, in:
Čtenija pamjati I. M. Tronskogo, Institute of Linguistic Studies, St. Petersburg (Russia).
Memberships• 2021: Editorial board of the
Rivista degli Studi Orientali• 2017: Editorial board of the
Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics• 2017: Societas Linguistica Europaea
• 2012: Società Italiana di Glottologia
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