A) Current position
Luca Lorenzetti is full professor of Historical and General Linguistics (“Glottologia”) at the University of Tuscia in Viterbo, Italy.
B) Education and Academic History
- LL graduated cum laude in 1991 in Philosophy at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. Major: Linguistics.
- PhD in Linguistics (1995), University “Roma Tre”. Topic: Historical Linguistics.
- Fellow in Linguistics at the University of Tuscia (1996-2002)
- Associate Professor of Historical and General Linguistics at the University of Cassino (2002-2011).
- Full Professor of Linguistics at the University of Tuscia, Dpt. of European Languages, Literatures, History, Law and Communication.
C1) Research projects
(all the following projects were funded as “PRIN” by the Italian Ministry of University):
1999-: Morphosyntactic aspects of the category of number
2000-: The building site of Lorenzo Valla (shaping of the linguistic database)
2001-: Morphology and syntax of gender and number in East Indo- European languages
2003-: Discontinuity and creolization trends in european languages
2005-: “Levels of analysis in the history of Indo-European languages”, as the responsible for the research unit of the University of Cassino (2005-2007).
2008-: Language contact and Language Change in the Mediterranean: North Africa and Ancient Near East 2011-: “Linguistic representations of identity. Sociolinguistic models and historical linguistics”, as the responsible for the research unit of the University of Tuscia (2014).
2017-: Ancient languages and writing systems in contact: a touchstone for language change.
2020-: “Metalinguistic texts as a privileged data source for the knowledge of ancient languages”, as the Principal Investigator of the four research units involved (Tuscia, Napoli “Orientale”, Roma “Sapienza”, Siena “Stranieri”).
C2) Fellowships and Awards
Società italiana di glottologia
Centro studi G.G. Belli
Sodalizio glottologico milanese
Board of the PhD School in Historical Linguistics and Italian Linguistic History, University of Rome “La Sapienza”
Editorial board of “Archivio glottologico italiano” (A-rated journal)
Editorial board of “Testi e linguaggi” (A-rated journal)
Scientific committee of the series “Studi linguistici e di storia della lingua italiana” Scientific committee of “Studi e Saggi Linguistici” (A-rated journal)
D)Teaching experience
LL has taught yearly at least 1 BA and 1 MA course in General and Historical Linguistics since 1995.
E) Supervision of graduate and PhD students
LL supervised 14 PhD thesis and 16 MA thesis in the years 2004-2016.
F) Institutional responsibilities/commissions of trust:
Head of the Language Centre of the University of Cassino (2004-2009) Board of the Research committee of the University of Tuscia (2014-2019) Head of the Confucius Classroom of the University of Tuscia (2017-present) Board of Società Italiana di Glottologia (2017-2019)
Responsible for PhD and post-graduate courses at the University of Tuscia (2017-2019)
Responsible for MA Double degree program, international agreement with the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (2014- present)
Responsible for Erasmus agreement with the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (2006-present)
Member of the national confirmation board for associate professors of Linguistics, years 2005-2008.
Member of competitive examination commissions of Linguistics at Università per Stranieri di Siena, Università di Messina, Università di Napoli “Federico II”, Università di Venezia “Ca’ Foscari”, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, IUL Firenze.
Member of commissions for PhD courses, way in and way out.
Board of the Procedure for the award of the National Scientific Qualification as Associate or Full Professor in the Research Field “Historical and General Linguistics” 10/G1, L-LIN/01 (2018-2020).