Silvia Luraghi CV English

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SILVIA LURAGHI

Born: Turin (Italy), 17 April, 1958.

Address:
Office: Università di Pavia, Dipartimento di LinguisticaTeorica e Applicata, Corso di Strada
Nuova 65, 27100 Pavia (Italy), tel. [phone]; fax 984487; e-mail:
[email protected]
Home: via Tonale 22, 20125 Milano (Italy), tel. [phone]; cell: [phone]
Web page: http://lettere.unipv.it/diplinguistica/docenti.php?&id=68

Present position: Associate professor of Linguistics at the University of Pavia.

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Research interests

• Historical linguistics, dynamics of language change
• Cognitive linguistics and functional syntax
• Linguistic typology
• Greek and Latin linguistics
• Indo-European linguistics
• Anatolian languages and cultures
• Language contact in the Ancient Near East

Other interests

• Intercultural rhetorics
• Gender studies
• Languages, cultures and history of India
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Academic Degrees
• Master of Arts in Classics (1982)
• Ph.D. in Linguistics (1987)

Undergraduate studies
1978-1982 Università di Torino, Classics major. Main areas of study: Ancient Greek and
Latin Language and Literature, Biblical Hebrew, Sanskrit, History of Ancient Middle East,
Old Church Slavic, Comparative Grammar, General Linguistics. Degree: Laurea in Lettere
Classiche, 29 June, 1982 (MA in Classics); degree note: 110/110 cum laude; title of master
thesis: “The system of cases and prepositions in Ancient Greek” (in Italian).

Graduate studies
1982-1983. Fulbright Fellowship. Yale University, New Haven, Conn. (USA). First year
Ph.D. in Linguistics. Main areas of study: General Linguistics, Indo-European Linguistics,
Anatolian Languages, Comparative Germanic Linguistics, Accadian, Structure of Bantu.
September 1983. Università di Udine. Summer school of the Italian Society for
Comparative Linguistics (Società Italiana di Glottologia);
1983-1986. Università di Pavia. Ph.D. in Linguistics; main areas of study: Linguistic
Typology, General and Historical Linguistics, Anatolian Languages. Title of Ph. D.
dissertation: “Hittite syntax, with particular reference to the structure of the simple sentence
and of sentence constituents in Old Hittite” (in Italian),; supervisor: Prof. O. Carruba.
1985-1986, Winter semester. Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany). Main areas of study:
Indo-European Linguistics, Anatolian Languages, Classical Armenian.
June 1990. Agrigento, Accademia di Studi Mediterranei. Summer school on the use of
computers in the humanities.
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Fellowships and prizes
1982-1983 Fulbright Fellowship
1987 Exchange fellowship of the National Council for Research (CNR)
1987-... Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Fellowship

Memberships
• Società Italiana di Glottologia
• Società di Linguistica Italiana
• Societas Linguistica Europaea (member of the nominating committee 2005-2010)
• Association for Linguistic Typology
• Linguistic Society of America
• International Cognitive Linguistics Association
• Indogermanische Gesellschaft
• Associazione Italiana Borsisti von Humboldt
• Philological Society

Academic qualifications:
• Winner of a public competition for the position of the Associate Professor in 1992
• Assessed to be qualified for the position of the Full Professor in 2002

Modern Languages:
Italian (mother tongue); fluent in English, German, French, and Spanish; good knowledge of
Russian.

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Research
(a) Abroad (projects funded with grants by various institutions listed below)
April-September 1987. Universiteit van Amsterdam (Netherlands). Fellowship of the
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (National Council for Research). Research project on
Ancient Greek syntax.
1987-1988, Winter semester. Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany). Alexander von
Humboldt-Stiftung Fellowship. Research project on the syntax of Old Hittite.
September-October 1988. Universiteit van Amsterdam (Netherlands). Fellowship of the
Italian Foreign Ministry. Research project on Ancient Greek syntax.
1991-1992, Winter semester. Universität Konstanz (Germany). Alexander von Humboldt-
Stiftung Fellowship. Research project on the syntax of cases in Indo-European.
August-October 1996. Freie Universität Berlin (Germany). Alexander von Humboldt-
Stiftung Fellowship. Research project on Indo-European syntax.
August-October 1998. Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, Bayerische Akademie der
Wissenschaften, München (Germany). Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Fellowship.
Research project on Latin pronouns.
August-November 2000. Freie Universität Berlin (Germany). Alexander von Humboldt-
Stiftung Fellowship. Research project on the encoding of grammatical relations and
semantic roles.
July 2002. Universität München (Germany). Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Fellowship.
Research project on “The grammar of scenes and scenarios”.
July September 2006. Freie Universität Berlin (Germany). Alexander von Humboldt-
Stiftung Fellowship. Research project on “A descriptive grammar of Hittite”.
October-December 2011. Universität Jena. Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Fellowship.
Research project on “A New Introduction to Historical Linguistics”
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(b) National projects funded by the CNR (National Council for Research)
1993-1996. Project leader of a research project finalized to the preparation of working
materials for courses in general and historical linguistics.
1995-1996. Member of the research team in a of a research project finalized to the
preparation of working materials for courses in general and historical linguistics.
1994-1997. Research team leader (University of Roma 3) for CNR research project on
Grammaticalization.
1997-2000. Research team leader (University of Roma 3) for CNR research project on the
typology of the languages of the Mediterranean.
2001. Research team leader (University of Pavia) for CNR reaserch project on language
change in the area of the Mediterranean.
2002-2005 Member of the research team of the University of Pavia for the co-financed
FIRB (funded by the Italian Government) project for constructing a typological data base of
the languages of Europe.

(c) National projects funded by the MIUR (Italian Ministry for Education and Research)
1999-2001. Member of the research team of the University of Pavia in the PRIN (National
Projects) project “Typological change in the morphosyntax of Indo-European languages”.
2001-2003. Member of the research team of the University of Pavia in the PRIN (National
Projects) project “Typological change in the morphosyntax of Indo-European languages”.
2002-2005 Member of the research team of the University of Pavia in the FIRB (Basic
Research) project “Contacts of languages and cultures in Europe and in the Mediterranean
Area”.
2003-2005. Member of the research team of the University of Pavia in the PRIN (National
Projects) project “Continuity and discontinuity in the diachrony of linguistic structures”.
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2005-2007. Member of the research team of the University of Pavia in the PRIN (National
Projects) project “Linguistic levels in the evolution of Indo-European languages”.
2008-2010. Member of the research team of the University of Rome “La Sapienza”in the
PRIN (National Projects) “Contact and change in the history of Mediterranean languages”.

(d) Local projects (funded by the home institution)
1994 “Classical Greek: grammatical description” (individual project);
1995, 1996, 1997 “Translation in an intercultural perspective” (member of reasearch team);
1999 “Typology and functions of noun phrases” (individual project);
2000 “Inflection and derivation in Indo-European” (individual project);
2001 “Latin adverbials” (individual project);
2002 “The meaning of prepositions in Cognitive Grammar” (individual project);
2003 “Cause expressions in Latin and Greek” (individual project);
2004 “Verbal valence and diathesis in the Indo-Eruopean languages” (individual project);
2005 “Gender” (with G. Manzelli)
2006 “Number” (with G. Manzelli)
2007 “The translation of prepositions in the Gospels” (with G. Manzelli)
2008 “Syntactic change” (individual project)
2009 “Causes of language change” (individual project)

(e) Projects funded by Foundations and local governments
2006-2008. Member of the inter-departmental research project (funded by Cariplo
Foundation) on the valorization of cultural heritage in the Province of Pavia.
2007. Project leader of the research project on “Communicating cltural heritage in a
European perspective”, funded by the Region Lombardy.
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2008. Project leader of the research project on “Communicating cultural heritage in the
Province of Pavia”, funded by Fondazione Comunitaria della Provincia di Pavia.
2008. Project leader of the research project on “Cultural heritage: creating value by
communication”, funded by the Region Lombardy.

(e) International Projects
2011-2014. Project leader of the research project “Argumentstruktur in Texten.
Typologische und diachrone Korpusuntersuchungen” Funded by the Friz Thyssen Stiftung,
international partnership: Universität Erfurt.
2012-2013. Project leader of the research project on “Minining Argument Structure from
Texts” - Funded by Ateneo Italo-Tedesco (Programma Vigoni).

Research positions held
1990-1991. Research Associate, University of Chicago, Chicago Hittite Dictionary Project.
1991-1992 Post-doctoral research fellow, Università di Torino

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Editorial activity

Founder and managing editor of Journal of Historical Linguistics (Amsterdam/Philadelphia,
Benjamins; with J. Barðdal)

Member of the editorial board of Encyclopaedia of Greek Language and Linguistics (Brill)
Member of the editorial board of the series Materiali Linguistici (Franco Angeli)
Member of the editorial board of the series Brill’s Studies in Historical Linguistics (BSHL)

Referee for:
• Archivio Glottologico Italiano
• CogniTextes - Revue de l’Association Française de Linguistique Cognitive
• Journal of Greek Linguistics
• Journal of Language Contact
• Language Sciences
• Linguistics
• SKY Journal of Linguistics
• Studi e Saggi Linguistici
• Studies in Language
• Transactions of the Philological Society
• Cambrige University Press (Cambridge, UK)
• Carocci Editore, Roma
• John Benjamins Publ. (Amsterdam/Philadelphia)

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Quality assessment boards
• Quality assessment board of the Region Piemonte, l.r. 4/2006 “Sistema regionale per la
ricerca e l'innovazione” (2009)
• ERC withn the EU 7th FP
• Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO), Veni-Programme
• MIUR (Italian Ministry for Education and Research)
- Young researchers program Rita Levi Montalcini;
- Firb (National programs for young researchers);
- PRIN (National projects)
• Quality assessment board of the Region Calabria - POR - FSE Projects
• Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Vlaanderen ( FWO), Post-Doc program

Member of Committees for University Competitions
a. Competitions for Ricercatore (Assistant Professor)
• 1995 Università di Viterbo
• 2003 Università di Roma 3

b. Competitions for Associate Professor
• 2000 Università di Torino
• 2002 Università di Arcavacata
• 2003 Università di Sassari

c. Tenure committees
• 2004 (ricercatore, professore associato)
• 2008-2009 (ricercatore)
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