Riccardo Contini#
| Membership Number: | 3301 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLASSICS & ORIENTAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2012 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2004, 01- Full professor of Semitic philology, Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”
- 2001,01 - 2004,01 Extraordinary professor of Semitic philology, ivi
- 1999 - 2000 Associate professor of Semitic philology, ivi
- 1992 - 1999 Associate professor of Semitic philology, University Ca’ Foscari of Venice
- 1990 - 1991 substitute teacher of Semitic philology, University Ca’ Foscari of Venice
- 1984 - 1991 Ricercatore confermato (tenured research fellow), University of Rome “La Sapienza”
- 1981 - 1984 Ricercatore confermato (tenured research fellow), Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
Fields of Scholarship
- Comparative Semitic morphosyntax
- Hebrew linguistics
- Aramaic and Arabic dialectology
- Linguistic history of the Semitic-speaking Near East in late antiquity
- Syriac linguistic tradition
- Syriac historiography
- History of Semitic studies
Honours and Awards
- 2007 Winner of the Tartufari prize for Semitics by the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
