Phd in LINGUISTICS

email: paolo.digiovine@uniroma1.it
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STUDIES - 1979 B.A. in Human Sciences at the University of Rome "La Sapienza", attended the courses - 1984-86 Doctorate in Linguistics at the University of Pisa. ACADEMIC POSITION - 1987 Full professor of Dialectology in the University of Basilicata (Potenza), Faculty of “Lettere e Filosofia” - 1991 up to now. Full professor of Glottologia e linguistica (i.e. Linguistics) in the University of Rome "La Sapienza", Faculty of “Lettere e Filosofia”. ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS - 1990-1991: Director of the Department of “Scienze storiche, linguistiche e filologiche” - University of Basilicata (Potenza) - 1992-1994: Head of the Commission for Didactics of “Corso di Laurea in Lettere”, Faculty of Lettere e Filosofia, University of Rome "La Sapienza" - 1994 – 1996: Director of the Department of “Studi glottoantropologici”, University of Rome "La Sapienza" - 1997-2003: Head of the Doctorate in “Linguistica storica e Storia linguistica italiana”, (“Historical Linguistics and Italian Linguistic History"), University of Rome "La Sapienza" - 2002-2005: Director of the Department of “Studi glottoantropologici e Discipline musicali”, University of Rome "La Sapienza" - 2004-2007: member - from 2005 head - of the Research board of the Faculty of Lettere e Filosofia, University of Rome "La Sapienza" - 2007-2009: as representative of the Faculty of Lettere e Filosofia, member of the Research board of the Confederate University AUGE, University of Rome "La Sapienza" - 2008-2010: Director of the Department of “Scienze dei segni, degli spazi e delle culture”, University of Rome "La Sapienza" - 2010-2015: Director of the Department of “Scienze documentarie, linguistico-filologiche e geografiche”, University of Rome "La Sapienza". - from 2014 up to now: Head of Master course in “Linguistica” (“Linguistics”), University of Rome "La Sapienza". - 2015-2018: Head of the Doctorate in “Linguistica” (“Linguistics”), University of Rome “La Sapienza” (in agreement with the University of RomaTre). He has promoted four Erasmus programs (Technische Universität Dresden, Utrecht, Copenhagen Business School, University of Zürich). ORGANIZATION OF CONGRESSES - Organizer of an International Congress in Honor of late Gerhard Rohlfs (Potenza-Picerno, December 2nd-3rd, 1988) - Organizer of the annual Congress “Linguistica storica e sociolinguistica” of “Società italiana di Glottologia” (Rome, October 22nd-24th, 1998) - Organizer of the International Congress “Dinamiche sociolinguistiche in aree di influenza greca: mutamento, variazione e contatto - Sociolinguistic Dynamics under the Greek Influence: Linguistic Change, Variation and Contact” (Rome, September 22nd-24th, 2014). PLACES OF PUBLICATION OF SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES He published his scientific contributions in important Italian journals – e.g. in some A-class journals as "Archivio glottologico italiano", "Studi e Saggi linguistici", "Incontri linguistici", "L'Italia dialettale", "Riv. di Filol. e di Istruz. Class.", "Lingua e Stile", "Bollettino di Italianistica", "Il Veltro". He published articles in many books and proceedings, abroad (e.g. in the Festschriften for Bernhard Forssman and for Anna Morpurgo, in the Festgabe for Jerzy Kuryłowicz, in “Romanische Sprachgeschichte”, in the Proceedings of the Indogermanische Gesellschaft, Los Angeles 2010, in the series “Trends in Linguistics”, De Gruyter Mouton). EDITOR - 1991 (with N. De Blasi and F. Fanciullo). Le parlate lucane e la dialettologia italiana - Atti del Convegno di Studi in memoria di Gerhard Rohlfs (Potenza-Picerno, 2-3 dic. 1988). Galatina: Congedo editore. - 1997 (with F. Fanciullo). E. Radtke, I dialetti della Campania. Roma: Il Calamo - 2000 (with P. Cipriano e R. D'Avino). Linguistica storica e sociolinguistica, Atti del Convegno della Società Italiana di Glottologia (Roma, 22-24 ottobre 1998). p. 1-206, ROMA: Editrice Il Calamo. - 2014 (with V. Gasbarra). Dinamiche sociolinguistiche in aree di influenza greca. Mutamento, variazione e contatto, Atti del Convegno internazionale (Roma 22-24 settembre 2014), "Linguarum Varietas" 5 (2016). MEMBERSHIP IN SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES - from 1984 up to now: member (following cooptation) of "Società Italiana di Glottologia" 2002-2005 Secretary of "Società Italiana di Glottologia" 2007-2010 Chairperson of "Società Italiana di Glottologia" - from 1988 up to now: member "Sodalizio Glottologico Milanese" - from 1990 up to now: member (following cooptation) of "Indogermanische Gesellschaft" - from 2002 up to now: member (following cooptation) of the “Philological Society” (London) - from 2002 up to now: member of “Società di Linguistica italiana” - from 2013 up to now: member "Società Torricelliana di Scienze e Lettere" (Faenza) ASSIGNMENTS AS REFEREE Official referee - MIUR (from 2009 up to now) Referee for the “European Science Foundation” (from 2011 up to now) Member of the Scientific Board of: “Journal of Italian Linguistics”, "AION - Sez. Linguistica" “Linguistica e letteratura” "Studi e Saggi linguistici" "Bollettino di Italianistica". From 2014 to 2017 member of the ANVUR Committee for assessment of Scientific Journals (Area 10). MEMBER OF COMPETITIVE EXAMINING COMMISSIONS/NATIONAL HABILITATION He was elected to be a member of Commissions - for Full Professor SSD L09A (Glottologia e linguistica) and L06A (Filologia anatolica), - for Associate Professor SSD L-LIN/01 (Glottologia e linguistica) He was appointed to be a member of Commissions - for Researcher (Siena stranieri, Messina, Roma “La Sapienza”) - for PhD courses – way in and way out. He was a member of confirmation Commissions – Full and Associate Professor – in SSD L-LIN/01 and alike. In 2013 he was appointed in the National Habilitation Commission – SC 10/G1, Glottologia e linguistica – where he had the position of chairperson. RESEARCH FIELDS Indo-European morphology. Indo-Iranian linguistics and philology. Albanology. Germanic studies. Classical languages. Romance dialect – with special reference to Gallo-Romance, Italo-Romance, Rhaeto-Romance, Balkan-Romance. Acoustic phonetics. Sociolinguistics. COORDINATION OF NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH PROJECTS Coordinator of a national project PRIN 2017 (Lingue antiche e sistemi scrittorî in contatto: pietra di paragone del mutamento linguistico) Coordinator of a local research unit in the following projects: MURST (ex 40 %) / PRIN - Mutamento tipologico nella funzionalità dei morfemi verbali nelle lingue indoeuropee (1999) - Mutamento tipologico nella funzionalità dei morfemi verbali nelle lingue indoeuropee (II parte) (2001) - Continuità e discontinuità nello sviluppo del latino e dell'albanese (2003) - Contatto tra varietà e mutamento nella diacronia linguistica del Mediterraneo nord-orientale (2008) Rappresentazioni linguistiche dell'identità. Modelli sociolinguistici e linguistica storica (2010-11) FIRB Negotiating project “Europa e Mediterraneo dal punto di vista linguistico: storia e prospettive” – national coordinator: Paolo Ramat (2001). He also coordinated University projects / projects for major equipment. INVITED SPEAKER IN NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CONGRESSES He held reports in many national and international congresses, e.g. - “XIV Convegno del C.S.D.I.” (Ivrea, 17-19 ott. 1984), - "Sodalizio glottologico milanese" (17.4.1989 and 10.2.1997) - “VIII Convegno Internazionale di Linguisti” (Milano 10-12 sept. 1992), - Congress on the Indo-European Verb (Genova, 18.4.2000), - Congress “Mutamento tipologico nella morfosintassi delle lingue indoeuropee” (Viterbo 2001), - “ XXXI Convegno della Società Italiana di Glottologia” (Pisa, 26-28 oct. 2006) - Congress of the Indogermanische Gesellschaft, 2010 (UCLA - Los Angeles) - International Congress, Zürich (2011) – pertaining to G. I. Ascoli - International Congress, Pisa (2011) – pertaining to C. Merlo. - “XL Convegno della Società Italiana di Glottologia” (Trento, 22-24 ottobre 2015). He also held lectures and conferences in many Italian Universities and in Dresden T.U. (Deutschland) - lectures in English and German. He held two seminars in the “Corsi di aggiornamento in discipline linguistiche della SIG (San Daniele del Friuli – Udine)” and two lectures in the Advanced Seminar of Germanic Philology in Turin (2009 and 2017).