Livio Gaeta – Curriculum vitae
Current position: Full Professor (professore ordinario) for German Language and Linguistics in the Department of Humanistic Studies of the University of Turin.
Permanent positions held:
21.12.2012-31.10.2016: Associate Professor (professore associato) for German Language and Linguistics in the Department of Humanistic Studies of the University of Turin.
18.1.2005-20.12.2012: Associate Professor (professore associato) for German Language and Linguistics in the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy of the University of Naples “Federico II” at the Department of Modern Philology “S. Battaglia”.
1.3.2004-17.1.2005: Assistant Professor (ricercatore universitario) for German Linguistics in the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy of the University of Rome Three at the Department of Linguistics.
1.8.1999-29.2.2004: Assistant Professor (ricercatore universitario) for German Linguistics in the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures of the University of Turin at the Department of Language Sciences.
Temporary positions held:
1.6.-31.7.1999: Research grant [assegno di ricerca] at the University of L'Aquila on a project on “Italian word formation” directed by Prof. Dr. M. Grossmann.
1.6.1998-28.2.1999: Employment as wissenschaftlicher Gast [research guest] in Berlin at the Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft to participate in a project on complexity, markedness and diachronic change directed by Prof. Dr. W.U. Wurzel.
1993-94: Employment as wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter [scientific collaborator] with a BAT-IIa qualification at the University of Konstanz to carry out a research project on Italian action nouns directed by Prof. Dr. Ch. Schwarze.
Studies and qualification
2015: Habilitation à diriger des recherches (H.D.R. – French Full Professorship Qualification) – Section 7: Sciences du langage: phonétique et linguistique générales – campagne 2015 (date de résultat: 30.1.2015; n° de qualification: 15107276752).
2012: Full Professorship Qualification (ASN 2012) in the disciplines 10/G1 (General and historical linguistics) and 10/M1 (Germanic languages, literatures and cultures).
1998: Ph.D. in Linguistics with a dissertation on “La nominalizzazione deverbale: morfologia e semantica” [The deverbal nominalization: Morphology and semantics], supervised by Prof. Dr. M. Grossmann.
1992: Diploma di licenza [school diploma] of the Classe di Lettere of the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa.
1992: Laurea in Lettere Moderne [Arts degree] at the University of Pisa.
Language skills:
• Italian (mother tongue)
• German (fluent)
• English (fluent)
• French (proficient)
Awards and recognition:
• Research evaluation (VQR 2011-2014): 1-0.7 (Excellent-Elevated)
• Research evaluation (VQR 2004-2010): 1-1-1 (Excellent)
• Alumnus of the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Stiftung (2010-current)
• Humboldt-Stipendium für Erfahrene Wissenschaftler (Humboldt fellowship for experienced scholars) awarded by the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Stiftung (2009)
Main research interests:
In my research, I mainly devoted my attention to theoretical and descriptive studies on language and in particular on German, with particular reference to morphology / morphosyntax and to the lexicon, both in synchronic and diachronic perspective. More recently, I devoted my interest to the investigation of the German-speaking minorities in Italy, and in particular to the Walser communities of The Aosta Valley and of Piedmont.
Research projects and grants as Principal Investigator:
• 2019-2022:"CLiMAlp: Corpus linguistics meets Alpine cultural heritage: documenting and safeguarding linguistic minorities in the Alps". National Coordinator. Funded budget of the project: € 411.160.
• PRIN-Project 2015 (2017-2020): “ArchiWals: A digital archive to preserve the cultural and linguistic heritage of the Walser communities in Italy”. National Coordinator. Funded budget of the project: € 135.107.
• University of Turin’s Research Projects in convention with Compagnia di San Paolo – Year 2014 – Call 02 Addressing Horizon 2020 (2015-2017): Principal Investigator of the project: “A digital archive to safeguard the Walser cultural and linguistic heritage”. Funded budget of the project: € 73.770.
• PRIN-Project 2009 (2011-2013, resp. P. D’Achille): Principal investigator of the research unit on: “Towards a history of Italian word formation: deverbal nouns and verb-forming operations”. Funded budget of the research unit: € 34.623.
• Research grant of the Humboldt-Foundation for a project on “Origin and development of West-Germanic substitutive infinitive” (2009-2010).
• PRIN-Project (2005-2007, resp. S. Scalise): Principal investigator of the research unit on “Theoretical aspects and quantitative investigations of compounds in some languages of Europe”. Funded budget of the research unit: € 16.017.
Organizational activity:
• Organization of the Workshop “A specter is haunting Europe: The Alps as a linguistic area?” in collaboration with Guido Seiler (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) held during the 51st Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Tallinn, 29.8.-1.9.2018.
• Organization of the Workshop: “Le isole linguistiche tedescofone in Italia: situazione attuale e prospettive future”, Università di Torino, 24.2.2017.
• Member of the organizing committee of the 49th International Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Napoli “Federico II” 31.8.-3.9.2016.
• Member of the organizing committee of the 22nd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Napoli 27.-31.7.2015.
• Organization of the meeting “A cent’anni da Saussure”, in collaboration with Davide Ricca and Mario Squartini (Università di Torino), Università di Torino, 28.11.2013.
• Member of the organizing committee of the Workshop “Variation and Change in Argument Realization”, Napoli / Capri 27.-30.5.2010.
• Organization of the workshop “Das Deutsche als kompositionsfreudige Sprache: Strukturelle Eigenschaften und systembezogene Aspekte”, in collaboration with Barbara Schlücker (Freie Universität Berlin), held during the Vierte Tagung “Deutsche Sprachwissenschaft in Italien” (3.-6.2.2010), Università “La Sapienza” di Roma, 5.2.2010.
• Organization of the workshop “Fattori lessicali e non lessicali nella realizzazione degli argomenti e loro rappresentazioni”, in collaboration with Michela Cennamo (Università di Napoli “Federico II”) and Elisabetta Jezek (Università di Pavia), held during the XLII Congresso Internazionale di Studi della Società di Linguistica Italiana, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, 25.-27.9.2008.
• Organization of the workshop “Das ewige Pendel von synthetisch zu analytisch zu synthetisch ... – aktuelle Sprachwandeltendenzen”, in collaboration with Dagmar Bittner (ZAS, Berlin) held during the Dritte Tagung “Deutsche Sprachwissenschaft in Italien” (14.-16.2.2008), Università “La Sapienza” di Roma, 15.2.2008.
• Organization of the workshop Issues in Comparative Germanic Morphosyntax, Università di Napoli “Federico II”, 15.-16.5.2007, in collaboration with Michela Cennamo (Università di Napoli “Federico II”).
• Member of the organizing committee of the III Certamen Phonologicum, Cortona, april 1996.
Membership:
• Member of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, (member of the Publishing Committee 2004-2006, member of the Executive Committee 2012-2015).
• Member of the Associazione Italiana di Germanistica.
• Member of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft.
Other professional activities:
Review activities
• Member of the European Science Foundation (ESF) College of Expert Reviewers (2016-current).
• Anonymous reviewer for the Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaftten (2019).
• Anonymous reviewer for the journals Lingua (2004, 2008), Rivista di Linguistica / Italian Journal of Linguistics (2005-2006, 2008), Journal of Historical Linguistics (2012, 2014, 2017), Diachronica (2009), Word Structure (2014), Language Sciences (2015), Studies in Language (2015), Journal of Word-Formation / Zeitschrift für Wortbildung (2016), Constructions and Frames (2017), Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft (2018), for the publishing houses Benjamins (2006), Brill (2010), Language Science Press (2014), Mouton de Gruyter (2017).
• Member of the committee for the preselection of fellowships delivered by the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) for the year 2013, Roma 25.1.2013.
• Anonymous reviewer for the Czech Science Foundation (GAČR), 2012, 2015.
• Anonymous reviewer for the VQR 2004-2010 (Assessment of the quality of the national research).
Membership of editorial committees
• Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Evolutionary Linguistic Theory (2018-current).
• Member of the Advisory Board of the series Studies in European Linguistics, Sapienza Università Editrice (2016-current).
• Member of the scientific committee of Zeitschrift für Wortbildung / Journal of Word-formation (2016-current).
• Member of the editorial committee of the journal Acta Linguistica Hungarica (2009-2015).
• Member of the scientific committee of the journal Rivista di Linguistica / Italian Journal of Linguistics (2008-2013).
• Member of the scientific committee of the series directed by C. Di Meola Italienische Studien zur deutschen Sprache (ISdS) (2005-).
Membership of scientific committees
• Jenom8 – 8th International Workshop on Nominalizations, Stuttgart 21.-22.6.2019.
• 51st International Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Tallinn 29.8.-1.9.2018.
• 50th International Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Zürich 10.-13.9.2017.
• First Workshop on Paradigmatic Word Formation Modeling (ParadigMo-2017), Toulouse 19.-20.6.2017.
• 8th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLC8), Athens 25.-28.5.2017.
• 49th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Napoli “Federico II” 31.8.-3.9.2016.
• 17th International Morphology Meeting, Wien 18.-21.2.2016.
• Décembrettes 9. International Conference on Morphology, Toulouse 3.-4.12.2015.
• 22nd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Napoli “Federico II” 27.-31.7.2015.
• Jenom6 – 6th Workshop on Nominalizations, Verona 30.6.-1.7.2015.
• Syntax of the World’s Languages 6 (SWL6), Pavia 8.-10.9.2014.
• 21st International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Oslo 5.-9.8.2013.
• Décembrettes 8. International Conference on Morphology, Bordeaux 6.-7.12.2012.
• 15th International Morphology Meeting, Wien 9.-12.2.2012.
• Décembrettes 7. International Conference on Morphology, Toulouse 2.-3.12.2010.
• Second TRIPLE International Conference “Word classes: nature, typology and computational representations”, Roma 24.-26.3.2010.
• Décembrettes 6. International Morphology Conference, Bordeaux 4.-5.12.2008.
• XXXIX Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea “Relativism and Universalism in Linguistics”, Bremen 30.8.-2.9.2006.
• Series of biennal conferences: “Deutsche Sprachwissenschaft in Italien (DSWI)”.
Institutional activities
Membership in doctoral committees:
• Member of the board of the research doctorate in “Linguistics” of the Università di Roma “La Sapienza” (coord. P. Di Giovine, 2015-current).
• PhD viva examiner for the research doctorate in “Linguistics” of the Università di Pavia, Pavia 15.2.2013.
• Member of the board of the research doctorate in Modern Philology, Università di Napoli “Federico II” (coord. C. Di Girolamo, 2008-2011).
• PhD viva examiner for the research doctorate in “Linguistics” of the Università di Pavia, Pavia 26.2.2007.
• PhD viva examiner for the research doctorate in “General, Historical, Applied, Computational and Modern Languages Linguistics” of the Università di Pisa, Pisa 16.6.2006.
Other institutional responsibilities
• Member of the National Committee for a position of Full Professor – ssd L-LIN/14 – Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere, Università di Verona (2018).
• Member of the National Committee for the Attribution of the Full Professorship Qualification – sc 10/M1 – Lingue, Letterature e Culture Germaniche (2016-2018).
• Member of the National Committee for a position of Assistant Professor type a – ssd L-LIN/14 – Dipartimento di Diritto Economia e Culture, Università degli Studi dell’Insubria (2017).
• Member of the National Committee for a position of Assistant Professor type a – ssd L-FIL-LET/15 – Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Università di Torino (2017).
• Member of the Research Observatory, Università di Torino (2016-2019).
• Member of the councilor of the Dipartimento di Filologia Moderna “S. Battaglia” (2007-2009).
• Member of the National Committee for a tenured position of Assistant Professor – ssd L-LIN/14 –Facoltà di Lingue e Letterature Straniere, Università di Verona (2004).
Guest-professorship and invited teaching activities (since 2003):
15.-16.2.2018: Advanced seminar (6 hrs.) for the Doctorate in Linguistics of the University of Roma “La Sapienza” and the University of Roma Tre; lectures on “Language contact, areal typology and minority languages: the case of the Walser linguistic islands in Italy”.
16.1.2018: Lecture (2 hrs.) on “Paradigms in word-formation between diachrony and language contact” within the Oberseminar (MA: Research module part 2) held by Prof. Dr. Peter O. Müller and Dr. Christine Ganslmayer at the Department Germanistik und Komparatistik of the Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen.
10.-11.2.2016: Advanced seminar (6 hrs.) for the Doctorate in Linguistics of the University of Roma “La Sapienza” and the University of Roma Tre; lectures on “Language contact in German and in the Germanic languages”.
29.-30.4.2013 Advanced seminar (6 hrs.) for the Doctorate in Synchronic, Diachronic and Applied Linguistics of the Università di Roma Tre; lectures on “Convergence and innovation in the Germanic languages across center and periphery of the SAE-area”.
24.-28.1.2011: Advanced course (3 hrs.) on “The lemma and the morphosyntactic information” in collaboration with Francesca Masini at the Winter School on the Lexicon TRIPLE held at the Dipartimento di Linguistica of the Università Roma Tre.
25.-29.1.2010: Advanced course (3 hrs.) on “Nouns and nominalizations” at the Winter School on the Lexicon TRIPLE held at the Dipartimento di Linguistica of the Università Roma Tre.
SS 2009: Pro-Seminar (2 hrs. weekly) on “German syntax in language comparison” for the BA in Germanistik of the Humboldt-Universität Berlin.
26.-30.1.2009: Advanced course (4 hrs.) on “Lexicon and productivity” at the Winter School on the Lexicon TRIPLE held at the Dipartimento di Linguistica of the Università Roma Tre.
SS 2008: Advanced seminar (6 hrs.) at the Department of Philology (Linguistics Division) of the University of Patras; lectures on “Productivity and dynamic aspects of word formation”.
SS 2006: Advanced seminar (10 hrs.) at the Dipartimento di Linguistica of the Università di Roma Tre for the Doctorate in Linguistics; lectures on “Dynamic aspects derivational morphology”.
WS 2005-06: Advanced seminar (6 hrs.) at the Dipartimento di Linguistica of the Università di Roma Tre for the Doctorate in Linguistics; lectures on “The German plural between descriptive adequacy and language theory”.
WS 2004-05: Advanced seminar (6 hrs.) at the Dipartimento di Linguistica of the Università di Roma Tre for the Doctorate in Linguistics; lectures on “Typology of the Germanic languages: between Germanic blood and SAE”.
WS 2002-03: Block-Seminar (30 hrs.) at the Institut für Sprachwissenschaft of the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz; lectures on “Morphological productivity”.
Conferences and lectures
Invited talks at conferences (since 2003):
• “Kontrastive Linguistik als Mikrotypologie: Die Rolle des Deutschen als L3”, plenary talk, Internationale Tagung “Kontrastive Linguistik”, Università di Milano 25.-26.10.2018.
• “Übersetzungswissenschaft, Kontrastive Linguistik, Konstruktionsgrammatik: ein Plädoyer für ein glückliches Zusammenleben”, Deutsch übersetzen und dolmetschen: ein internationales Symposium, Università di Genova 11.-12.10.2018.
• “The observer’s paradox meets corpus linguistics: written and oral sources for the Walser linguistic islands in Italy”, Workshop “Language contact in fieldwork”, Università del Salento, Lecce, 7.-8.5.2018.
• “Die Schrecken des deutschen Nomens: Flexionsklassen, Nominalphrasen und Pronomina zwischen Norm und Variation”, Internationale Fachtagung: Angewandte Linguistik und Deutsch-Didaktik, Genova 27.10.2017.
• “Le parlate Walser: caratteristiche conservative e innovative rispetto al germanico comune e al tedesco”, XVIII Seminario Avanzato in Filologia Germanica: Dall’indoeuropeo al germanico: problemi di linguistica storica, Università di Torino, 18.-20.9.2017.
• “ArchiWals: Un archivio digitale per preservare l’eredità culturale e linguistica delle comunità Walser in Italia”, Convegno Annuale dell’Associazione Italiana di Germanistica / Jahrestagung des italienischen Germanistenverbandes, Istituto Italiano di Studi Germanici – Villa Sciarra, Roma, 13.-15.9.2017.
• “Pure existentials vs. pure presentationals: finding an existence out(side) of place” (Plenary talk), International Workshop “Existential Constructions in Typological Perspective”, École Normale Supérieure, Paris 18.-19.11.2016.
• “How lexical is morphology? On phrasal compounds, reduced phrases and other marginal things” (Plenary talk), Word-Formation Theories II – Typology and Universals in Word-Formation III, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University, Košice 26.-28.6.2015.
• “The role of language contact for the development of passive in Titsch”, Workshop “Morphological Variation and Contact”, University of Patras 19.-20.6.2015.
• “La linguistica contrastiva dopo la svolta tipologica”, Workshop “La lingua terza: Descrizione linguistica e apprendimento nella dimensione plurilingue”, Napoli, Università “Federico II”, 28.5.2015.
• “Nomi deverbali in MIDIA”, Per la storia della formazione delle parole in italiano: un nuovo corpus in rete (MIDIA) e nuove prospettive di studio. Convegno finale PRIN 2009, Roma, Università di Roma Tre, 19.-20.6.2014.
• “Im Passiv sprechen auf den Alpen”, Workshop “Selektionsbeschränkungen im Sprachwandel”, Universität Hannover 20.-21.3.2014.
• “Was ist eigentlich ein Wort?”, Workshop “Das Wort als Einheit: Grundlagen und Grenzfälle” – XXXIII Deutscher Romanistentag, Universität Würzburg 22.-25.9.2013.
• “The place of naturalness in a constructionist world”, Bologna Seminar on Construction Morphology, Università di Bologna 20.-21.5.2013.
• “On evolutive and adaptive change: Historical-comparative linguistics and the origin of language”, Humboldt-Kolleg “Historical-Comparative Linguistics in the 21st Century”, Università di Pavia 22.-25.9.2011.
• “Quellen der Irregularisierung und ihre Relevanz für die Morphologie”, Workshop “Prozesse der Regularität und Irregularität in Phonologie und Morphologie”, Universität Münster, 19.-20.6.2009.
• “Affix ordering and conversion: a contrastive view and its theoretical implications”, 2nd Workshop on “Affix Order: Affix Order in Slavic and Languages with Similar Morphology”. In honor of Wolfgang U. Dressler, Universität Wien, 5.-6.6.2009.
• “Synthetic compounds in German: a constructional view”, Componet Conference on Compounding, Università di Bologna 6.-7.6.2008.
• “Action nouns: at a cross-road of morphology, syntax and semantics”, Symposium “Nouns cross-linguistically”, Campobasso, Università del Molise e Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Leipzig, 22.-23.6.2007.
• “Überlegungen zum deutschen Plural” (Plenary talk), Zweite Tagung “Deutsche Sprachwissenschaft in Italien”, Roma, Università “La Sapienza”, 9.-11.2.2006.
• “Gli usi modali di werden”, Tavola rotonda sul tema “Il concetto di futurità nella codificazione linguistica” durante il convegno “Gli insegnamenti linguistici dell’area economico-giuridica in Europa”, Milano, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, 26.11.2005.
• “Topikalisierung, Fokussierung und Linearisierung. Stützpuntke einer konstrativen Grammatik”, Jährliche DAAD-Germanistentagung, Monopoli (Bari) 8.-12.10.2003.
• “La produttività nella morfologia derivazionale italiana: un approccio quantitativo” (in collaborazione con Davide Ricca, Università di Torino), Workshop di Morfologia, Università dell’Aquila, 26.-27.6.2003.
• “Morfologia derivazionale e tipologia: quali universali linguistici?”, Workshop “Morfologia, tipologia e acquisizione di lingue seconde”, Università di Milano Bicocca, 30.5.2003.
• “Quantitative methods and Italian word formation: A variable-corpus approach to productivity” (in collaborazione con Davide Ricca Università di Torino), Workshop “La productivité: regards actuels”, Paris, CHU Pitié Salpétrière, 12.5.2003.
Invited lectures (since 2003):
• “Wurzel, Lexem, Konstruktion: Unterschiedliche Grundeinheiten für die aktuellen Tendenzen der theoretischen Wortbildung”, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, 16.1.2018.
• “Linguistica contrastiva, tipologia linguistica e il tedesco come L3”, Dipartimento di lingue e culture moderne, Università di Genova, 12.5.2017.
• “Was in einem Abstraktum? Aspekt, Aktionsart und deverbale Nomina”, 21.1.2016, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen.
• “Existentielle Konstruktionen: semasiologische vs. onomasiologische Perspektiven”, 20.1.2016, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen.
• “Morphologische Differenzierung und lexikalische Beziehung: eine Übung in Exaptation”, 10.11.2015, Freie Universität Berlin.
• “Il cambiamento linguistico tra evoluzione e adattamento”, 26.1.2012, Università Telematica “Guglielmo Marconi” di Roma.
• “Die unsichtbare Hand der Grammatikalisierung: Ersatzinfinitiv im Deutschen und das Präfix ge-”, 18.1.2010, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft Berlin.
• “Mismatch, Irregularisierung und die Perspektive der Grammatikalisierung”, 13.1.2010, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
• “Prototypenbasierte Rektionskomposita im Deutschen. Eine korpusbasierte Analyse”, 17.12.2009, Humboldt-Universität Berlin, in collaborazione con Amir Zeldes (Humboldt-Universität Berlin).
• “Zur Doppelnatur der morphologischen Produktivität”, Wien, 5.6.2007, Wiener Sprachgesellschaft.
• “Sprachuniversalien in der Wortbildung: Stand der Erforschung eines unbekannten Kontinents”, 4.6.2007, Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Wien.
• “La natura ambigua della produttività in morfologia flessiva”, 20.4.2005, Dipartimento di Scienze della Comunicazione dell’Università di Salerno.
• “Forma e sostanza nella grammatica e le proprietà combinatorie dei suffissi”, 17.3.2005, Dipartimento di Linguistica dell’Università di Roma Tre.
• “Ancora sul plurale tedesco”, 8.3.2005, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia dell’Università “La Sapienza” di Roma.
• “Über die Doppelnatur der flexionsmorphologischen Produktivität”, 28.1.2005, Forschungsinstitut für deutsche Sprache - Deutscher Sprachatlas, Philipps-Universität Marburg.
Talks at refereed congresses and workshops (since 2003):
• “Contact phenomena in the verbal complex: the Walser connection in the Alpine area” (in collaborazione con Marco Angster, Università di Zara), Workshop on “A specter is haunting Europe: The Alps as a linguistic area?” – 51st International Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Tallinn 29.8.-1.9.2018.
• “Part of speech and lemma annotation of unstandardized minority languages:
the Di.Wa.C./Archi.Wals project” (in collaborazione con Marco Angster, Università di Zara, Raffaele Cioffi e Marco Bellante, Università di Torino), Panel su “Linguistic diversity and Corpus Linguistics” – CLARC 2018, International Conference on “Perspectives on Linguistic Diversity”, Rijeka 8.-10.6.2018.
• “Relative clauses in a German minority language: woa ‘where’ and dass ‘that’ in Greschòneytitsch (Northwestern Italy)” (in collaborazione con Marco Angster, Università di Zara), 6th Croatian Syntactic Days – The Syntax of Subordination, Osijek 17.-19.5.2018.
• “Loan word-formation in minority languages: lexical strata in Titsch and Töitschu” (in collaboration with Marco Angster, University of Zadar), Workshop on the “Interaction of borrowing and word-formation” – 50th International Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Zürich 10.-13.9.2017.
• “Remotivating inflectional classes: an unexpected effect of grammaticalization”, 23rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, University of Texas at San Antonio, 30.7.-4.8.2017.
• “Paradigmatic Word-Formation in a Decaying Language: The Case of -etò in Walser German” (in collaboration with Marco Angster, University of Zadar), ParadigMo 2017. First Workshop on Paradigmatic Word Formation Modeling, Toulouse 19.-20.6.2017.
• “English as a Bridge: An L3-Approach to Contrastive Linguistics”, 8th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference, Atene 25.-28.5.2017.
• “Diachrony as a source of coding asymmetries”, Workshop on “Sprachliche Kodierungs-Asymmetrien, Gebrauchsfrequenz und Informativität” – 39. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS), Saarbrücken 8.-10.3.2017.
• “Stripping paradigmatic relations out of the syntax: Adjectival compounds in German” (in collaboration with Marco Angster, University of Turin), Workshop on “Paradigms in Word Formation” – 49th International Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Napoli “Federico II” 31.8.-3.9.2016.
• “Language change, functional explanations and serendipity”, 49th International Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Napoli “Federico II” 31.8.-3.9.2016.
• “On the primacy of decategorization”, Workshop on Categorial Shift – 48th Conference of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Leiden 1.-5.9.2015.
• “Anti-relevant, contra-iconic but system-adequate: on unexpected inflectional changes”, 22nd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Napoli “Federico II” 27.-31.7.2015.
• “Inter-subjective dynamics and counter-presuppositional inference: the case of Neapolitan chillo”, 47th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Poznan 11.-14.9.2014.
• “coming and going: Passive voices in the Alps” (in collaboration with Marco Angster, Freie Universität Bozen), Syntax of the World’s Languages 6, Pavia 8.-10.9.2014.
• “What’s in a verbal noun? Achievements and nominalizations in Romance”, 11th International Conference on Actionality, Tense, Aspect, Modality/Evidentiality (Chronos 11), Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore, 16.-18.6.2014.
• “Word formation in a balanced diachronic corpus of Italian” (in collaboration with Claudio Iacobini, Università di Salerno), 16th International Morphology Meeting, Budapest 29.5.-1.6.2014.
• “Ecco giunta colei che ne pareggia: The tenacious persistence of scaffolding ecco”, 46th International Annual Meeting della Societas Linguistica Europaea, Split 18.-21.9.2013.
• “MIDIA: a balanced diachronic corpus of Italian” (in collaboration with Marco Angster e Davide Ricca – Università di Torino – and Claudio Iacobini, Aurelio De Rosa and Giovanna Schirato – Università di Salerno), 21st International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Oslo 6.-9.8.2013.
• “Lat. ecce / It. ecco: the long road of a primary cognitive scaffolding”, 21st International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Oslo 6.-9.8.2013.
• “Valency changes between inflection and derivation” (in collaboration with Michela Cennamo, Università di Napoli “Federico II”), 45th International Annual Meeting della Societas Linguistica Europaea, Stockholm 29.8.-1.9.2012.
• “On NN Compounds in Italian and beyond”, 15th International Morphology Meeting, Wien 9.-12.2.2012.
• “Existential constructions: a diachronic perspective” (in collaboration with Katherina Stathi, Freie Universität Berlin), Workshop “Variation and Change in Argument Realization”, Napoli / Capri 27.-30.5.2010.
• “Thoughts on decategorization”, Second TRIPLE International Conference “Word classes: nature, typology and computational representations”, Università di Roma Tre 24.-26.3.2010.
• “The importance of being recursive” (in collaboration with Francesca Masini, Università di Roma Tre), Workshop “Recursiveness in word-formation” – 42nd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Lisbona 9.-12.9.2009.
• “Naming instruments as agents”, Workshop on Naming Strategies, Freie Universität Berlin, 6.-7.-10.2008.
• “Strumenti come agenti: un’indagine basata sui composti sintetici”, XLII Congresso Internazionale di Studi della Società di Linguistica Italiana, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, 25.-27.9.2008.
• “The antinaturalness of system adequacy, or: Deconstructing Natural Morphology”, Workshop “Complexity in Natural Linguistics” – 41st International Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Forlì 17.-20.9.2008.
• “The invisible hand of grammaticalization: West-Germanic substitutive infinitive and the prefix ge-”, 13th International Morphology Meeting, Wien 3.-6.2.2008.
• “On heads and compounds: a typological trip”, 6th Mediterranean Morphology Meeting (MMM6), Ithaca 27.-30.9.2007.
• “The role of diachrony in shaping language universals: The case of the head in compounds”, 18th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Montréal 6.-11.8.2007.
• “Is analogy economic?”, 5èmes Décembrettes. Forum de Morphologie. Analogie et pression lexicale en morphologie, Toulouse 7.-8.12.2006.
• “On the viability of cognitive linguistics for explaining language change”, 2nd International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association, München 5.-7.10.2006.
• “The myth of verb cluster languages”, 39th International Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea “Relativism and Universalism in Linguistics”, Bremen 30.8.-2.9.2006.
• “Lexical integrity as a constructional strategy”, 5th Mediterranean Morphology Meeting (MMM5), Fréjus 15.-18.9.2005.
• “Mismatch: grammar distortion and grammaticalization”, New Reflections on Grammaticalization 3, Santiago de Compostela 17.-20.7.2005.
• “Hilfsverben und Grammatikalisierung”, Erste Tagung Deutsche Sprachwissenschaft in Italien, Università di Roma “La Sapienza” 6.-7.2.2004.
• “Combinazioni di suffissi in italiano”, XXXVII Congresso Internazionale di Studi della Società di Linguistica Italiana “La formazione delle parole”, L’Aquila 25.-27.9.2003.
• “Word Formation and Typology: Which Language Universals?”, 4th Mediterranean Morphology Meeting (MMM4): “Morphology and Linguistic Typology”, Catania 21.-23.9.2003.
• “‘Giving’ Grammaticalization: The Fatal Attraction of German geben”, 8th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Logroño 20.-25.7.2003.