• PRIN National project Dialogic interaction in diachrony: a pragmatic history of the Italian language (2023–2025, PI of the UniGE research unit)
• The Lexicon of Embodied Experience in Latin (2019–2021; Principal investigator)
• The Role of Pragmatics in Cyclic Language Change (2021–2023; PI: Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen, University of Manchester; AHRC Research Network Grant)
• La conversación en la Antigüedad: Análisis de la interacción verbal en griego antiguo y latín (2020–2021; PI: Rodrigo Verano, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)

• PRIN National project Writing expertise as a dynamic sociolinguistic force: the emergence and development of Italian communities of discourse in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages and their impact on languages and societies (2020–2023, PI: Piera Molinelli, University of Bergamo)

   

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 Research interests

• Historical linguistics and Latin linguistics [syntax, semantics, pragmatics; cyclicity in language change]
• Pragmatics and historical pragmatics [discourse markers in Latin and Italian; the diachrony of speech acts; historical (im)politeness; conversation analysis of Latin dialogues]
• Cognitive linguistics applied to the study of Latin [conceptual metaphors; the diachrony of metaphors; embodiment; experientiality]

 Education

2012 PhD in Linguistics, University of Pavia
2008 MA in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Pavia
2006 BA in Classics, University of Pavia

 Research stays abroad

2021 Universidad Complutense de Madrid
2019 University of Exeter, UK 
2018 Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
2017 University of Amsterdam
2011 University of Oslo
2009 University of Bergen, Norway