Michele Loporcaro - Curriculum vitae#

Degrees and academic appointments:

• 1986: Laurea in Lettere e filosofia, University of Pisa (Historical and general linguistics)
• 1986: Diploma Corso Ordinario, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
• 1990: Ricercatore universitario (permanent position), Dept. of linguistics, University of Padua
• 1992: Associate professor, Dept. of linguistics, University of Calabria
• 1993: PhD in General Linguistics, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
• 1995: Extraordinary professor, Romanisches Seminar, University of Zürich
• 2000-present: Full professor for Romance linguistics (esp. Italian historical linguistics), University of Zürich

Charges:

• 2000-2004: Chief of Department, Romanisches Seminar, University of Zürich
• 2006-2011: Chief of Department ad interim, Dept. of general linguistics, University of Zürich

Memberships & other charges:

Scientific board Vocabolario dei Dialetti della Svizzera Italiana, Bellinzona 1998– (president 2018–), Phonogrammarchiv UZH 1998– (co-chair 2004-13), Istituto Svizzero di Roma 2001–19; executive committee Societas Linguistica Europaea 2001-06; bureau Société Internationale de Linguistique et Philologie Romanes 2004-10; co-chair scientific board, Phonogrammarchiv UZH 2004-13; vice-president Collegium Romanicum (Swiss association for Romance Philology, 2005-09); president (2009-11); chair PhD program Linguistics, UZH 2008-11; chair scientific board, Phonetisches Labor, UZH (2007-13); fellow Academia Europaea, Section Linguistic Studies (2011–); ANVUR (Agenzia Nazionale Valutazione Università e Ricerca, Italy), member of the referee panel for linguistics (2011-13); Kommission Nationale Wörterbücher, Schweizerische Akademie der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften, Bern 2013– (president, 2020–); Senior Editor, Oxford Research Encyclopaedia – Romance Linguistics, Oxford University Press 2015–.

Guest professorships:

University of Vienna: SS1996, SS1998, WS 2001, WS 2005; University of Wisconsin, Madison: visiting scholar, September 2000; University of Graz: WS 2004; Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa: WS 2004, WS 2009-10, WS 2014-15, WS 2016-2017, 2020-21; Università di Pavia/Collegio Ghislieri, February 2007; SUM – Istituto di Scienze Umane, Naples: February 2008; Universidad de Oviedo (España), Máster Universitario Internacional en Lengua Española y Lingüística, 2017.

Teaching at summer schools:

• Bellinzona, Centro di Dialettologia, Summer school in dialectology: September 1998; August 2007.
• Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT): September 2003, University of Cagliari.
• Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE): July 2007, University of Molise (Campobasso).
• Société Internationale de Linguistique et Philologie Romanes (SILPR): June 2009, Procida (University of Naples).
• Società Italiana di Glottologia (SIG): September 2014.
• Universiteit Gent 2020, PhD School “Prosody: structures, interfaces, contact”: March 2020.

Research interests:

Comparative Romance linguistics. Italian dialectology (phonology, morphology, syntax). Historical linguistics. Phonological, morphological and syntactic theory. Historiography of (Romance) linguistics.

Grants received:

• SNSF 100012-109717, “Edizione degli scritti linguistici di Carlo Salvioni” (cofinanced by Divisione della Cultura, Repubblica e Cantone del Ticino; 2003-2006: SNF: SFr. 125'000, Canton Ticino: SFr. 120'000; 2008: Print expenses, Stiftung für wissenschaftliche Forschung, SFr. 25'000).
• Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, “Latin-Romance gender in typological perspective” (2013-14, € 80'000).
• SNSF 100012-150135, “Etimologie del romanesco contemporaneo” (2014-17, 375'200 SFr.)
• Stiftung für wissenschaftliche Forschung an der UZH: “Per il Vocabolario etimologico del dialetto di Altamura (VEDA)” (2014-17, SFr. 15'571);
• SNSF 100012-156530, “The Zurich database of agreement in Italo-Romance” (2015-18, SFr. 666'064)
• SNSF 100012-159544, “The morphosyntax of agreement in Tuatschin: acquisition and contact” (2016-20, CHF 897'686).
• SNSF 100012-159544, “Romance morphology in contact” (2016-19, SFr. 317'254), part of “Celtic/Romance”, subproject in the Sinergia-Projekt “Linguistic morphology in time and space (LiMiTS)” (PI prof. Balthasar Bickel), SNSF CRSII1_160739 / 1 (total volume SFr. 1'500'000).
• SNSF 100012-162482, “AIS, reloaded” (2016-19, SFr. 684'426).
• Stiftung für wissenschaftliche Forschung an der UZH: “An ERP study into gender agreement: the neuter in an Italo-Romance dialect” (2016-19, SFr. 9'810).
• SNSF 100012-169814, “Grammatica storica del romanesco” (2018-22, SFr. 887'706).
• Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University, “Morphosyntactic Change in the Brain: Capitalizing on Language Variation in Italo-Romance” (2017, USD 8'000).
• Stiftung für wissenschaftliche Forschung an der UZH: “Edizione degli scritti linguistici di Clemente Merlo” (2019-22, CHF 12’679).
• SNSF 100012-192259, “AIS, the digital turn” (2021-25, CHF 996'002).
• Various grants for the organization of conferences and for scientific publications (about Fr. 80'000).

Awards:

• 1989: Premio Borgia dell’Accademia dei Lincei per la filologia e la linguistica
• 2012: Premio “Antonio Feltrinelli” dell’Accademia dei Lincei per la linguistica italiana

Fellowships, honours:

• 2011 Fellow Academia Europaea, Section Linguistic Studies
• 2012 Fellow vom Magdalen College Oxford (Michaelmas term)
• 2013 - 2014 Fellow vom Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
• 2017 Fellow of the of The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University, New York (Fall term 2017)
• 2019 Finalist (with Gender from Latin to Romance: history, geography, typology, OUP 2018), Language Sciences, 2019 Prose Awards of the Association of American Publishers (AAP)

Scientific journals:

1989-94: secretary, Rivista di linguistica; mem. scientific board, Rivista di linguistica (1998-2002), Revue de linguistique romane (2004-), Lingua e Stile (2008-), Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (2009-), Diachronica (2016-), Romanica Olomucensia (2017-), ARCHIVUM. Revista dela Facultad de Filología (Oviedo) (2018-); co-editor: Rivista di linguistica/Italian Journal of Linguistics (2008-); Bollettino dell’Opera del Vocabolario Italiano (2009-15); Lingua e Stile (co-director 2019-; co-editor 2021-).

Series:

2012- member of the advisory board, Vienna Studies in Linguistics - Wiener Arbeiten zur Linguistik, (Vienna University Press)

MA theses in co-operation with foreign universities:

Joint supervision (2011-) with the Dept. of Linguis­tics of the Uni­versità di Roma “La Sapienza” at MA level: Laura Tramutoli, 2012; Laura Libbi, 2019; Eleonora Delfino, 2019; Lorenza Brasile, 2021.

Supervision of doctoral students and post-doctoral researchers:

• External examiner: Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa: PhD exam, Domokos Vekas 2002, Vittorio Formentin 1997, Chiara Celata 2006; University of Pisa: PhD exam, Lorenzo Filipponio 2007; Université de Lausanne/Università di Padova: Enrico Castro, 2021; Università di Pisa: Piero Cossu, 2021: École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris: Carlotta Viti 2020 (soutenance d’habilitation à diriger des recherches (HDR).
• University of Vienna: PhD co-supervision, Franceso Gardani 2009.
• PhD supervision (UZH, completed): Mauro Trombetta 1998, Elena Weber-Wetzel 2000, Alessandra Pasqui 2004, Biagio Mele 2006, Raffella Badiale 2007, Lorenza Pescia 2011, Rachele Delucchi 2012, Serena Romagnoli 2019, Andrea Ghirarduzzi 2019 (joint supervision, Siena Stranieri); Duccio Piccardi 2020 (joint supervision, Pisa); Camilla Bernardasci 2020, Giulia Donzelli 2020, Alice Idone, 2020, Davide Basaldella 2021 (joint supervision, Venezia).
• Postdoc supervision (UZH, completed): Mario Squartini (1995-99), Marcello Barbato (2003-07), Lorenzo Filipponio (2008-18), Tania Paciaroni (2009-18), Daniele Baglioni (2010-13, project SNSF-Ambizione), Diego Pescarini (2015-17), Vincenzo Faraoni (2014-17), Davide Garassino (2016), Chiara Zanini (2017-19).
• Habilitation theses (UZH): Tania Paciaroni (2017), Francesco Gardani (2019).
• PhD supervision (UZH, ongoing): Carolina Bianchi, Federica Breimaier, Stefano Cristelli, Dalila Dipino, Alberto Giudici, Tommaso Intreccialagli (joint supervision, Siena Statale), Martina Ludovisi, Stefano Negrinelli, Mario Wild, Luca Willi;
• PhD supervision (Sapienza Università di Roma, ongoing): Giovanni Manzari.
• Postdoc supervision (UZH, ongoing): Giulia Donzelli, Alice Idone, Luca Pesini.

Scientific co-operation:

International consultantships in scientific projects: 2000-08: Co-operation with Tesoro della Lingua Italiana delle Origini (TLIO), directed by Prof. Pietro G. Beltrami, redaction of entries of the Old Italian lexicon by MA-students in Zurich; 2006-10: Oxford University, AHRC-funded project (PI Prof. Martin Maiden) on “The inflectional morphology of the Romance verb”; 2010-12: University of Cagliari (funded by Regione Sardegna): “Repertorio plurilingue e variazione linguistica in uno spazio urbano mediterraneo: Cagliari” (PI Prof. Giulio Paulis); 2010-13: University of Manchester, AHRC-funded project (PI Prof. Delia Bentley) on “Existential Constructions: an Investigation into Italo-Romance”.

Award juries:

2005: ALT (Association for Linguistic Typology) Junior Award.

Organization of conferences:

September 1999, Theorie und Empirie. Sprachgeschichtliche und dialektologische Daten in der linguistischen Theoriebildung (Centro Seminariale Monte Verità, Ascona/Centro Stefano Franscini - ETH Zürich) in co-operation with Elvira Glaser (Zurich; main organizer) and Karin Donhauser (Berlin); November 2002, Teoria morfologica e morfologia italiana, Romanisches Seminar, UZH; Februar 2006, Le ‘Derivazioni’ di Uguccione da Pisa: crocevia della cultura medievale – Die ‘Derivationes’ Ugutios von Pisa im Brennpunkt der mittelalterlichen Bildungsgeschichte, Romanisches Seminar & Mittellateinische Seminar, UZH (with Peter Stotz); September 2007: Section 4 (“Description historique et contrastive des langues romanes: phonétique et phonologie”) at CILPR XXV, Innsbruck; December 2008, Carlo Salvioni e la dialettologia in Svizzera e in Italia, Bellinzona (in co-operation with the Centro di Dialettologia e di Etnografia di Bellinzona); December 2008, Un linguista oltre i confini: Carlo Salvioni tra Svizzera e in Italia, Rome (in co-operation with the Istituto Svizzero di Roma); September 2009, Vicende storiche della lingua di Roma, UZH (in co-operation with the Istituto di Cultura italiano in Zurigo); November 2010, La lingua d’Italia e le altre. Contatti, sostrati e superstrati nella storia linguistica della Penisola, UZH (in co-operation with the Istituto di Cultura italiano in Zurigo); December 2010, Clemente Merlo cinquant’anni dopo, University of Pisa/Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, with Franco Fanciullo and Romano Lazzeroni (Pisa); February 2012, workshop Exploring grammatical gender at the 15th International Morphology Meeting, Wirtschaftsuniversität Vienna, with Tania Paciaroni (UZH) and Anna M. Thornton (L’Aquila). October 2015, workshop Aspetti della variazione grammaticale in ambito italo-romanzo: fra tradizione dialettologica e prospettive neurolinguistiche, Gaeta, Castello Angioino, with Diego Pescarini (UZH), Università di Cassino (Giancarlo Schirru), Università della Tuscia (Luca Lorenzetti); November 2016, workshop Prospettive dell’etimologia e della lessicologia romanesche, UZH, with Vincenzo Faraoni; October 2017, workshop Unlocking new data: Linguistic typology as a key to agreement variation, UZH, with Tania Paciaroni; May 2018, workshop Romance languages and the others: the Balkan Sprachbund, UZH, with Francesco Gardani and Alberto Giudici; October 2019, conference The many facets of agreement, UZH, with Tania Paciaroni et al..

Organization of fieldwork:

May 1999: Làconi (Sardinia); June 2000: Subiaco (Lazio); June 2001: Mesocco, Claro (CH); June 2002: Soglio (Val Bregaglia, CH); June 2003: Luras, Tempio Pausania (Sardinia); September 2004: Lizzano in B., Piandelagotti (Emilia); June 2005: Airolo (Val Leventina), Evolène (Wallis), Delémont (Jura); July 2006: Vallo di Diano (Campania: 5 points); July 2007 and June 2013: Agnone (Molise); June 2008: Piandelagotti (Emilia); June 2009: Pantelleria (Sicily); July 2010: central Sardinia (18 points); June 2011: Val Müstair (Graubünden), Val Marebbe/Enneberg (Südtirol); June 2012: Corsica (Pigna, Balagna; Capocòrso); June 2013: Agnone (Molise); July 2013: Pantelleria (Sicily); June 2015: Altamura (Apulien); June-July 2016: Luras, Perfugas, Sènnori (Sardinien); May 2017: Pantelleria (Sicily); June 2017: Istrien (Žejane, Šušnjevica: Istroromanian); June 2017: Ripatransone (Marche).

Peer reviewing:

• Institutions: Schweizerischer Nationalfonds (SNF) zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung; Schweizerische Akademie der Geisteswissenschaften (Switzerland); Ministero dell’Università e della Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica (MURST, prin programs, 1999, 2000, 2001); Ministero dell’Università e della Ricerca (MIUR, program “Rientro cervelli”, 2002-2004) (Italy); Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Germany); British Academy; National Science Foundation (USA).
• Publishers: Blackwell-Wiley; John Benjamins; Oxford University Press.
• Scientific journals: Archivio di Etnografia, Archivio Glottologico Italiano, Diachronica, Folia Linguistica, Folia Linguistica Historica, Glossa, Indogermanische Forschungen, Italian Journal of Linguistics, Journal of Historical Linguistics, Journal of Language Contact, Language, Language Variation and Change, La lingua italiana, Lingua, Morphology, Revue canadienne de linguistique, Revue de Linguistique Romane, Revue Romane, Romance Philology, Studies in Language, Studi Linguistici Italiani, Transactions of the Phil-ological Society, Vox Romanica.
• Conferences: 8th International Phonology Meeting, Vienna 1996; 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), Barcelona, August 2003; International Morphology Meeting, Vienna: 13th, 2008; 17th, 2016; Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages: 43rd New York 2013, 46th Stony Brook 2016: Associazione Italiana di Scienze della Voce (AISV): 11th Bologna 2015, 15th Arezzo 2019, 16th Zurigo 2020.

Organization of fieldwork:

May 1999: Làconi (Sardinia); June 2000: Subiaco (Lazio); June 2001: Mesocco, Claro (CH); June 2002: Soglio (Val Bregaglia, CH); June 2003: Luras, Tempio Pausania (Sardinia); September 2004: Lizzano in B., Piandela­gotti (Emilia); June 2005: Airolo (Val Leventina), Evolène (Wallis), Delémont (Jura); July 2006: Vallo di Diano (Campania: 5 points); July 2007 and June 2013: Agnone (Molise); June 2008: Piandelagotti (Emilia); June 2009: Pantelleria (Sicily); July 2010: central Sardinia (18 points); June 2011: Val Müstair (Graubünden), Val Mareb­be/En­neberg (Südtirol); June 2012: Corsica (Pigna, Balagna; Capocòrso).

Plenary lectures (selected)

• 2000 External and internal causation in morphological change: evidence from Italo-Romance dialects. 9th International Morphology Meeting, Vienna, 25-27 February
• 2001 Dialettologia, linguistica storica e riflessione grammaticale nella romanistica del Duemila. Con esempi dal sardo. 22rd Congreso Internacional de Linguistica y Filologa Romanica Salamanca, 24-30 September
• 2005 Facts, theory and dogmas in historical (Romance) linguistics. 17th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, 31 July - 5 August
• 2006 The logic of Romance past participle agreement. 1st Cambridge Italian Dialect Syntax Meeting, 21-22 April
• 2007 Retorica del notiziario nell'Italia contemporanea. 7th AItLA Annual Conference, Milan, 23 February
• 2007 Ascoli, Salvioni, Merlo. Convegno nel centenario della morte di Graziadio Isaia Ascoli, Rome, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 8 March
• 2008 Variation and change in morphology and syntax. Romance object agreement. 13th International Morphology Meeting, 6 February
• 2008 What's wrong with "split intransitivity"? Evidence from Romance. 4th Kobe Linguistics Seminar, Kobe Institute (Japan), 3 April.
• 2008 Syncretism in the marking of Romance object agreement. 1st Oxford Workshop on Romance Verb Morphology (OxMorph1), 28 August
• 2008 In defence of indirect objects: evidence from Italo-Romance. European Dialect Syntax III, Venice, 19 September
• 2008 Variazione dialettale e ricostruzione. 33rd Annual Meeting of the Società Italiana di Glottologia, Palermo, 18 October
• 2009 Dialettologia, storia della lingua e linguistica generale nell'opera di Carlo Salvioni. 10th Annual Meeting of the ASLI, Palermo, 31 October
• 2009 Sobre el origen del neutro asturiano: evidencia comparativa. 28th Xornaes Internacionales D'Estudiu – Academia de la Llingua Asturiana, Uvieu/OOviedo, 5 November
• 2009 The future of Romance linguistics. Speech held on the Centenary of the Chair of the Romance Languages, University of Oxford, 20 November
• 2010 On the origin of the pronominal progressive construction in Pantiscu. 2nd Oxford Workshop on Romance Verb Morphology (OxMorph2), 8 October
• 2011 Perfective auxiliaries over time: syntax and semantics. Leiden, 1st Italian (Dialects) in Diachrony conference, 20 May
• 2011 Metaphony and diphthongization in the Romance languages. Munich, 15th LIPP-Symposium ("Sprachwandel /Language change"), 14 July
• 2011 The verb inflection system of Logudorese Sardinian. 8th Mediterranean Morphology Meeting, Cagliari, 14 September
• 2012 Complexity in NSAE: an overview of the Italo-Romance evidence. Workshop “Non-Standard Average European“, Universität Freiburg in Breisgau, FRIAS, 2 February
• 2012 The impact of morphology on change in agreement systems. Workshop “Agreement from a diachronic perspective“, Universität Marburg, 4 October
• 2012 Change in vowel quantity from Latin to Romance: the importance of marginal dialects. Philological Society, London, 12 October
• 2013: Intelligenza del testo mistilingue: esperimenti neo-macaronici nell’Italia del Duemila. Society for Italian Studies Biennial Conference, Durham University, 11 July
• 2015 [±animate], [±human] and grammatical gender in Italo-Romance. Italian Dialect Meeting 2015/CIDSM X, Leiden, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, 22-24 June
• 2016 Vowel length in the diachrony of Northern Romance: phonetics and phonology. 3rd Workshop on Sound Change, Universidad de Salamanca, 4 March.
• 2016 Categorie, variazione, diversità linguistica. Orizzonti della linguistica, Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore, 30. May.
• 2017 Concurrent gender systems in Europe: a new look at the Asturian neuter. AG Morphologische Variation – Theorie und Empirie (39. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft), Saarbrücken, 8-10 March.
• 2019 Discrepancies (and convergences) between natural and linguistic gender in Romance. Pragmatik der Genuszuweisung, Fribourg, 1-2 February.
• 2019 Aspetti di morfologia e sintassi del romanesco: il costrutto allocutivo a Nando!. Il romanesco tra ieri e oggi, Université de Liège, 9 September.
• 2019. Contact-induced complexification in the gender system of Istro-Romanian. Gender in heritage languages and grammar change, Oslo, Centre for Advanced Study (CAS), 29-30 October.