Phd in LINGUISTICS

email: mariacarmela.benvenuto@uniroma1.it
phone: 06.49913806

Dr. Maria Carmela Benvenuto received her doctoral degree in Historical Linguistics from the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’ in 2004, with a Ph.D. dissertation entitled ‘Etimologie mediopersiane. Orientamenti metodologici e prassi degli ultimi decenni’. From 2006 to 2008 she held a post-doc fellowship at the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’ and since then she has been a Lecturer of Linguistics at the Department of Document Studies, Linguistics and Geography, now Department of Letters and modern Cultures, University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’. She held National Scientific Habilitation in Linguistics (Glottologia e Linguistica 10/G1), in 2013 (Bando 2012 DD n. 222/2012) and again in 2018 (Bando 2016 V -D.D. 1532/2016).
She was visiting student at the Institut der Vergleichende Indogermanische Sprachwissenschaft und Indo-iranistik of Saarbrücken (2003) and at the Seminar für Vergleichende und Indogermanische Sprachwissenschaft of Berlin (2004) where she attended several courses at the Indo-European Summer School. She was visiting scholar at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where participate to Workshop Middle Persian Dictionary. She attended Summer School “Sprachen und Schriften der Sogder und Türken an der Seidenstraße” organized by Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften Berlin (2006). Since 2009 she has been on the PhD board of Historical Linguistics and the Linguistic History of Italian (University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’), then Linguistics and at present is involved in several historical research projects, mainly concerning the effects of contact and interference in linguistic change. She is treasurer of SIE (Societas Iranologica Europea) and a member of SIG (Società Italiana di Glottologia), SLE (Societas Linguistica Europaea), Sodalizio glottologico milanese and ISMEO (Associazione Internazionale di Studi sul Mediterraneo e l’Oriente). Her research interests range from historical linguistics, in particular topics regarding problems of language change and linguistic reconstruction with special emphasis on Iranian etymology, through morphosyntax, in particular the issues regarding case systems, grammatical relations and argument coding, to cognitive and functional linguistics, with special focus on the expression of possession. She has presented papers at national and international conferences and seminars. Her publications include several articles in specialist journals and edited works on Iranian etymology and Ancient Greek and Old Iranian morphosyntax.