Maria Rita Manzini - Curriculum Vitae#

Degrees

1983 Ph.D., Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, MIT, Cambridge, Mass. (Ph.D. Dissertation Restructuring and Renalysis, supervisor Prof. N. Chomsky)

1979 Diploma, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa

1979 Laurea in Lettere, Università di Pisa (Tesi di Laurea Il Controllo e la Sintassi Generativa dell'Italiano, relatore Prof. A. Stussi)



FELLOWSHIPS

1990-1991 Research Fellow, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies (NIAS), Wassenaar (Holland)

1983-1984 Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Cognitive Science, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA



Visiting positions

2009 Universidade de Brasilia, Depto. de Linguistica, Portugues e Linguas Classicas

2003 Georgetown University, Dept of Linguistics

1999-2002 Università di Modena (then Modena and Reggio Emilia), Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia

1998 Centro di dialettologia della Svizzera Italiana, Bellinzona

1998 LOT (Landelijke Onderzoekschool Taalwetenschap), University of Leiden

1996 University of Girona, Summer School

1990 Oxford University, Linguistics Program

1989 School of Oriental and African Languages (SOAS), Dept. of Linguistics

1984 University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Romance Languages and Linguistics



Institutional ersponsibilities

2012-present Head of the Doctoral Programme in Filologie del Medioevo e Rinascimento e Linguistica , then in Lingue, Letterature e Culture Comparate

2016-2018 president of the Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale committee, Glottologia e Linguistica (10/G1)



Editorial work

2015 Editor, Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali/Working Papers in Linguistics and Oriental Studies (Florence University Press)

1987 - present Editorial board, Rivista di Grammatica Generativa (Unipress, Padova)

1990-2003 Editorial board, Language Acquisition (Taylor&Francis)



Research projects

2013-2016Responsabile Locale, PRIN: Theory, Experimentation, Applications: Long distance dependencies in forms of linguistic diversity

2007-2009: Responsabile Locale, PRIN: Towards a mapping of grammatical features and categories

2005-2007: Responsabile Locale, PRIN: Hierarchical structures and recursion in natural languages.

2001-2003 Responsabile Locale, PRIN: Linguistic categories. From structural mapping to the architecture of mental representations.