Vincenzo Nicolo' DI CARO

Vincenzo Nicolò Di Caro

NATIONAL SCIENTIFIC QUALIFICATION
·      Valid from 12/06/2026. National Scientific qualification as associate professor in the Italian higher education system, in the call 2023/2025 (Ministerial Decree n. 1796/2023) for the disciplinary field of 10/G1 - Historical and general linguistics.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING
·      2015/16 - 2017/18. PhD in Linguistics (L-LIN/01), at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice – final degree grade: cum Laude. Additional certificate: Doctor Europaeus - Committee: Prof. Theresa Biberauer (University of Cambridge, Stellenbosch University), Prof. Anna Cardinaletti (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice), Prof. Alessandro De Angelis (University of Messina). 

·      2013/2014. Master’s Degree in Language Sciences (LM39), curriculum: Language Education, at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice – final degree grade: 110/110 cum Laude.

·      2011/2012. One-year Professional Master in Didactics of Italian as a Foreign Language ITALS at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice – Final degree grade: 110/110 cum Laude.

·      2005/06 - 2007/08. Bachelor’s Degree in Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (L11), curriculum: Arabic, at “Kore” University of Enna – Department of Education Sciences – Final degree grade: 110/110 cum Laude.

·      1994/95 - 1998/99. High School Diploma in Classical Studies, curriculum: foreign languages, at High School Gymnasium “Ruggero Settimo” of Caltanissetta – Final degree grade: 97/100.

DOCTORAL AND POST DOCTORAL EXPERIENCE
Research experience
·      18/03/2024 - 17/03/2025. Research Grant Holder at the Department of Humanities of University of Catania with the research project (SSD: L-LIN/01) called “Analisi linguistica quali-quantitativa dei tratti settentrionali e meridionali nel lessico delle varietà galloitaliche della Sicilia”, funded by the PRIN 2022 PNRR research project called “Contact-induced change and sociolinguistics: an experimental study on the Gallo-Italic dialects of Sicily” (cod. P2022YWS8T, CUP E53D23019660001), supervised by Salvatore Menza (University of Catania).

·      18/03/2025 - 17/09/2025. Six-month extension of the project called “Analisi linguistica quali-quantitativa dei tratti settentrionali e meridionali nel lessico delle varietà galloitaliche della Sicilia”.

·      15/06/2020 - 14/06/2022. Research Grant Holder at the Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice with the research project (SSD: L-LIN/01) called Benessere, identità e varietà linguistiche. Uno studio sull’uso dei dialetti siciliani e dell’italiano regionale di Sicilia nei social media ‘Welness, identity and language varieties. A study on the use of Sicilian dialect and regional Italian of Sicily on Social Media’, supervised by Giuliana Giusti and Gianluca E. Lebani (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice).

·      01/07/2022 - 30/06/2023. One-year extension of the project Benessere, identità e varietà linguistiche. Uno studio sull’uso dei dialetti siciliani e dell’italiano regionale di Sicilia nei social media ‘Welness, identity and language varieties. A study on the use of Sicilian dialect and regional Italian of Sicily on Social Media’.

Conferences / Workshops
·      12-13/11/2015. Poster ‘On the micro-variation in the inflected construction of the dialects of Sicily’ at UCL 2nd Graduate Conference in Linguistics (London, United Kingdom).

·      18-20/02/2016. Oral presentation ‘Dimensions of variation: The Inflected Construction in the dialect of Delia (Caltanissetta)’ with Giuliana Giusti at 42° Incontro di Grammatica Generativa’ (Lecce, Italy).

·      31/03-03/04/2016. Oral presentation ‘Dimensions of variation: The Inflected Construction in the dialect of Delia (Caltanissetta)’ with Giuliana Giusti at ‘Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages 46’ (Stony Brook, New York, United States of America).

·      04-06/07/2016. Oral presentation ‘The Inflected Construction in the dialects of Sicily: Parameters of micro-variation’ at 11th Cambridge Italian Dialect Syntax-Morphology Meeting (Vienna, Austria).

·      18-23/07/2016. Oral presentation ‘I diversi stadi della grammaticalizzazione della Costruzione Flessa nei dialetti siciliani’ at XVIII Congresso Internazionale di Linguistica e Filologia Romanza (Rome, Italy).

·      02-03/05/2017. Oral presentation ‘Present vs. Preterite Paradigms of the Pseudo-Coordination in Deliano’ at PseCoMAC 2017 (Venice, Italy).

·      02-03/05/2017. Poster ‘Multiple agreement verbal constructions with ‘go’ in the Arabic and Sicilian dialects’ with Asmaa El Hansali at PseCoMAC 2017 (Venice, Italy).

·      08-10/06/2017. Oral presentation ‘A macro-comparative analysis of Sicilian and Arabic Pseudo-Coordination with motion verb ‘go’’ at the 19th Annual International Conference of the English Department (Bucharest, Romania).

·      03-05/07/2017. Oral presentation ‘A macro-comparative analysis of Sicilian and Arabic Pseudo-Coordination with motion verb ‘go’’ at 12th Cambridge Italian Dialect Syntax-Morphology Meeting (Cambridge, United Kingdom).

·       27-29/05/2018. Poster ‘Present vs. Preterite Paradigms of Pseudo-Coordination in the dialect of Delia: a quantitative research study’ at 5th Patras International Conference of Graduate Students in Linguistics (Patras, Greece).

·       18-19/03/2019. Oral presentation ‘Verbal periphrases in Sicilian: what the ‘Aviri a + Infinitive Construction’ can tell us about the W-Pattern of the Indicative Preterite Pseudo-Coordination’ at PseCoMAC 2019 (Venice, Italy).

·       10-13/04/2019. Poster ‘Deontic periphrastic constructions and defective paradigms in the dialects of Sicily’ at VI Convegno A.L.Ba. (Potenza, Matera and Acerenza, Italy).

·       26-29/05/2019. Oral presentation ‘Deontic periphrastic constructions and defective paradigms in Sicilian’ at 14th Cambridge Italian Dialect Syntax-Morphology Meeting (Prague, Czech Republic).

·       27-28/11/2019. Oral presentation ‘Deontic periphrastic constructions and defective paradigms in Sicilian’ at Going Romance 2019 (Leiden, Netherlands).

·       29-31/01/2020. Poster ‘Indagine sullo stato di salute del lessico del dialetto deliano’ at XVI Convegno Nazionale AISV (Cosenza, Italy).

·       05-07/05/2021. Oral presentation ‘Sulla pseudo-coordinazione in area catanese’ with Salvatore Menza at International GSCP Conference. Spoken Communication (Vercelli, Italy; online).

·       04-05/06/2021. Asynchronous oral presentation ‘Bilingualism and use of the dialect in written messages on Social Media. A first survey in the Sicilian context’ with Gianluca E. Lebani at Sustainable Multilingualism Conference 2021 (Kaunas, Lithuania; online).

·       08-10/09/2021. Oral presentation ‘On Pseudo-Coordination in the area of Catania’ with Salvatore Menza at 15th Cambridge Italian Dialect Syntax-Morphology Meeting (Helsinki, Finland; online).

·       11-12/02/2022. Oral presentation ‘Competing verbal constructions with functional ‘take’ in Bulgarian. An empirical study’ with Luca Molinari at 21st Meeting of the Texas Linguistics Society (Austin, Texas, United States of America; online).

·       21-23/04/2022. Poster ‘Pseudo-Coordination in Sicilian. Patterns of Microvariation’ with Salvatore Menza at 52nd Linguistic Symposium for Romance Languages (Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America; online).

·       01-03/06/2022. Poster ‘Verbal Periphrases with functional TAKE in Bulgarian. A syntactic and semantic account’ with Luca Molinari at Colloqui Gramàtica Generativa/Colloquium on Generative Grammar 31 (Palma de Mallorca, Spain).

·       24/06/2022. Oral presentation ‘Understanding modern society’s linguistic landscape in bilectal scenarios: the Dilalic Language Profile’ with Cristina Procentese and Gianluca E. Lebani at LingO 2022 Oxford Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics (Oxford, United Kingdom; mixed event).

·       24-26/06/2022. Poster ‘Syntax and semantics of the constructions featuring vzemam ‘take’ in Bulgarian’ with Luca Molinari at 31st Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (Hamilton, Canada; online).

·       08-10/09/2022. Oral presentation ‘A pilot study on the constructions with functional TAKE in Bulgarian’ with Luca Molinari at 51st Poznań Linguistic Meeting PLM51 (Poznań, Poland).

·       12-13/09/2022. Oral presentation ‘Assessing language dominance in Italo-Romance bilectals with the Dilalic Language Profile: a preliminary pilot study’ with Cristina Procentese and Gianluca E. Lebani at International conference on bilingualism with local languages (LABiC) 2022: Language Attitudes and Bi(dia)lectal Competence (Venice, Italy; mixed event).

·       12-13/09/2022. Oral presentation ‘How different are Italian and Sicilian in terms of Abstand? Some evidence from the central dialect of Delia and some proposals for Sicilian bilectal speakers’ metalinguistic awareness’ at International conference on bilingualism with local languages (LABiC) 2022: Language Attitudes and Bi(dia)lectal Competence (Venice, Italy; mixed event).

·       19-21/09/2022. Oral presentation ‘New syntactic insights on Bulgarian TAKE constructions’ with Luca Molinari at 17th Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society (Sapporo, Japan; online).

·       30/11-02/12/2022. Oral presentation ‘Inchoativity and mirativity in Italo-Romance and Balkan Slavic verbal periphrases. The cases of functional GO and TAKE’ with Luca Molinari at Going Romance 2022 (Barcelona, Spain).

·       14-15/04/2023. Oral presentation ‘The expression of indefiniteness in central Sicilian. Evidence from the dialect of Delia’ at Purdue Linguistics Symposium 2023 (West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America; online).

·       11-13/09/2023. Oral presentation ‘How language dominance affects indefiniteness strategies in the syntax of Sicilian’ with Giuseppe Samo at 17th Cambridge Italian Dialect Syntax-Morphology Meeting (Zurich, Switzerland; mixed event).

·       21-23/09/2023. Poster ‘Ethical datives, pseudo-expletive negation and mirative GO in Italian. A preliminary analysis of stackable markers of mirativity’ with Angelapia Massaro and Luca Molinari at 16th Conference on Syntax, Phonology and Language Analysis (Brno, Czech Republic; mixed event).

·       16-18/11/2023. Oral presentation ‘On Bulgarian periphrases featuring functional vzemam ‘take’
and trăgvam ‘leave’’ with Luca Molinari at Fundamentals and Advances in Balkan Linguistics 2023 (Belgrade, Serbia; mixed events).

·       22-23/02/2024. Poster ‘Some issues on the full interpretability of multiple mirative markers in Italian’ with Angelapia Massaro and Luca Molinari at 49° Incontro di Grammatica Generativa (Pavia, Italy).

·       12-14/06/2024. Oral presentation ‘Non mi va a cadere? Interpretability and stackability of Italian mirative markers’ with Angelapia Massaro and Luca Molinari at Functional categories, dimensions of meaning, and expletiveness 2024 (Barcellona, Spain).

·       25-27/06/2024. Poster ‘A protocol for the variation in the mirative marking system in Italo-Romance’ with Angelapia Massaro and Luca Molinari at 18th Cambridge Italian Dialect Syntax-Morphology Meeting (Manchester, United Kingdom).  

·       19-21/09/2024. Poster ‘Un’analisi qualitativa preliminare delle diverse funzioni della perifrasi andare a + infinito nell’italiano parlato culinario socialmediatico’ at LVII Congresso internazionale della Società di Linguistica Italiana (Catania, Italy).

·       12-13/12/2024. Oral presentation ‘Il galloitalico di Sicilia tra tradizione e innovazione’ with Sara Natalia Cardullo, Michele Cosentino and Alessandro De Angelis (Università di Messina) at Studi e ricerche di filologia e di linguistica siciliana. Per i Settant’anni del Centro di studi filologici e linguistici siciliani (Catania, Italy).

·       30/06-05/07/2025. Oral presentation ‘Variazione e opzionalità nell’espressione della miratività in italiano’ with Luca Molinari (University of Wroclaw) at XXXI Congresso internazionale di linguistica e filologia romanza (Lecce, Italy).         

Seminars / Webinars
·      21/02/2018. In-person seminar ‘Verbal Pseudo-Coordination in the dialects of Sicily: parameters of micro-variation’ at the Anglia Ruskin – Cambridge Romance Linguistics Seminars (Cambridge, United Kingdom).

·      06/03/2018. In-person seminar ‘Verbal Pseudo-Coordination in the dialect of Delia: irregular patterns, lexical specifications and the role of frequency’ at the Cambridge SyntaxLab Linguistics Seminars (Cambridge, United Kingdom).

·      17/04/2018. In-person seminar ‘Multiple Agreement Constructions: a macro-comparative analysis of Pseudo-Coordination with the motion verb GO in the Arabic and Sicilian dialects’ at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice Linguistics Seminars (Venice, Italy).

·      25/05/2021. Webinar ‘Bilinguismo e uso del dialetto nei messaggi scritti sui Social Media. Uno studio pilota nel contesto siciliano’ for Ca’ Foscari University of Venice VeReWebLing.

·      25/10-08/11/2022. In-person seminars ‘Protocolli linguistici per la Pseudo-Coordinazione nei dialetti siciliani’ for the PhD in Modern Languages, Cultures and Societies and Linguistics at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

·      23/05/2023. Webinar ‘L’espressione dell’indefinitezza nel dialetto deliano. Uno studio quantitativo’ with Giuseppe Samo for Ca’ Foscari University of Venice Linguistics Seminars.

·      01/07/2023. Webinar ‘A preliminary quantitative study on indefiniteness marking in the dialect of Delia’ with Giuseppe Samo for the University of Cambridge Linguistics Society Seminars.

·      21/12/2023. Webinar ‘Perifrasi mirative con il verbo funzionale ANDARE. Un’analisi comparativa tra italiano e dialetti siciliani’ for the Linguistics seminars of the Bachelor’s Degree in European Languages, Cultures and Modern Literature of the Federico II University of Naples.

·      28/02/2025. Webinar ‘Strategie di miratività nel catanese’ with Salvatore Menza for Le Conversazioni del GSCP, IV Ciclo 2024-2025.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEES
·      02-03/05/2017. Workshop on Pseudo-Coordination and Multiple Agreement Constructions (PseCoMAC) 2017, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

·      18-19/03/2019.  Pseudo-Coordination and Multiple Agreement Constructions – The Second Meeting (PseCoMAC 2019), Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

·      24-26/02/2022. Incontro di Grammatica Generativa 47 (IGG47), University of Catania.

PUBLICATIONS

Papers and chapters

·      2015. Di Caro, V. N. & G. Giusti. ‘A protocol for the Inflected Construction in Sicilian Dialects’. Annali di Ca’ Foscari, serie occidentale, vol. 49. 393-422.

·      2016. Di Caro, V. N. ‘The Interpretation of Indefinites with Adnominal Adjectives in the Sicilian Dialects’. Annali di Ca’ Foscari, serie occidentale, vol. 50. 29-52.

·      2017. Di Caro, V. N. ‘Multiple Agreement Constructions: A Macro-Comparative Analysis of Pseudo-Coordination with the Motion Verb Go in the Arabic and Sicilian Dialects”. Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics. Bucharest: University of Bucharest.

·      2018. Di Caro, V. N. & G. Giusti. ‘Dimensions of variation: The Inflected Construction in the dialect of Delia (Caltanissetta)”. In Repetti, Lori & Ordóñez, Francisco (eds), Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 14. Selected papers form the 46th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Stony Brook, New York. 54-68. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

·      2018. Di Caro, V. N. ‘I diversi stadi di grammaticalizzazione della Costruzione Flessa. In Antonelli, Roberto, Glessgen, Martin & Videsott, Paul (eds), Atti del XXVIII Congresso internazionale di linguistica e filologia romanza (Roma, 18-23 luglio 2016). Strasbourg: Éditions de linguistique et de philologie.

·      2019. Di Caro, V. N. ‘The Inflected Construction in the dialects of Sicily: parameters of micro-variation”. In Cruschina, Silvio, Ledgeway, Adam & Remberger, Eva-Maria (eds) Italian Dialectology at the Interface. 63-78. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

·      2019. Di Caro, V. N. ‘Perifrasi verbali deontiche e paradigmi difettivi nel dialetto di Delia’, in Bollettino del Centro di Studi Filologici e Linguistici Siciliani, 30: 217–244.

·      2022. Giusti, G., Di Caro, V. N. & Ross, D. ‘Chapter 1. Pseudo-Coordination and Multiple Agreement Constructions’ in Giusti, G., Di Caro, V. N. & Ross, D. (eds), Pseudo-Coordination and Multiple Agreement Constructions. 1-32. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

·      2022. Di Caro, V. N. ‘Chapter 4. Preterite indicative Pseudo-Coordination and morphomic patterns. The case of the W-Pattern in the dialect of Delia’. In Giusti, G., Di Caro, V. N. & Ross, D. (eds), Pseudo-Coordination and Multiple Agreement Constructions. 99-128. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

·      2022. Di Caro, V. N. & Molinari, L. ‘Competing verbal constructions with functional TAKE in Bulgarian’. in Hamp, Barrett, Taylor Joyce, Lee Orfila, and Venkata S. Govindarajan (eds). 2022. Proceedings of the 21st Meeting of the Texas Linguistics Society. Open Access: http://tls.ling.utexas.edu/2022/files/TLS_2022_Proceedings.pdf.

·      2023. Di Caro, V. N. Di Caro, V. N. ‘Strategies of Indefiniteness Marking in Central Sicilian. Evidence from the Dialect of Delia’. Languages 8: 227. Special Issue ‘Variation and Optionality in Determiner Systems across the World Languages’ edited by Giuliana Giusti and Anna Cardinaletti. Open Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/languages8040227.

·      2023. Di Caro, V. N. & Salvatore Menza. ‘La Pseudo-Coordinazione in due commedie dialettali siciliane del primo Novecento’. In Marina Castagneto & Miriam Ravetto (a cura di), La Comunicazione parlata / Spoken Communication, Vercelli 2021. Rome: Aracne.

·      2024. Di Caro, V. N. & Salvatore Menza. ‘On Pseudo-Coordination in the area of Catania’. In Grant Armstrong, Roberta D’Alessandro & M.Carmen Parafita Couto (eds), RLLT 21, Special Issue of Isogloss. Open Journal of Romance Linguistics 10(2)/6, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/isogloss.289.

·      2024. Di Caro, V. N. & Molinari, L. ‘Functional TAKE as Inchoative and Mirative Marker in Bulgarian Multiple Agreement Constructions’. International Journal of Linguistics, 16 (3), 184–216.

·      2024. Di Caro, V. N. & Luca Molinari. ‘Inchoativity and mirativity in Italo-Romance and Balkan Slavic verbal periphrases. The cases of functional GO and TAKE’. RLLT22, eds Anna Gavarró, Jaume Mateu, Jon Ander Mendia & Francesc Torres-Tamarit. Special Issue of Isogloss. Open Journal of Romance Linguistics 10(3)/8, 1–35. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/isogloss.333.

·      2024. Di Caro, V. N. ‘Sulla creatività linguistica della perifrasi ‘mostrare a’ + infinito nel dialetto galloitalico di Nicosia’. In: www.polyphonie.at, Vol. 15, Nr. 1/2024, ISSN:2304-7607.
https://riviste.unige.it/index.php/polyphonie/article/view/2396.

·         2024. Di Caro, V. N. & Menza, S. ‘Contact-Induced Change in Sicilian Gallo-Italic. The Multipurpose Aviri a + Infinitive Construction in the Dialect of Nicosia’. Annali di Ca’ Foscari, serie occidentale, vol. 58. 309–331. DOI 10.30687/AnnOc/2499-1562/2024/12/016.

·         2024. Cantone, D., Di Caro, V. N., Longo, C., Menza, S., Asmundo, M. & Santamaria, D. ‘An OWL Ontology for Linguistic Phenomena with Applications to Gallo-Italic Dialects in Sicily’. In Proceedings of the fourth edition of the International Workshop on Semantic Web and Ontology Design for Cultural Heritage, Tours, France, October 30-31, 2024, volume 3809 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings, CEUR-WS.org, (2024)211.

·         2025. Di Caro, V. N., Massaro A. & Molinari, L. ‘Ethical Dative, Pseudo-Expletive Negation, and Mirative GO in Italian. A Preliminary Analysis of Stackable Markers of Mirativity’. Revue Roumaine de Linguistique, 08 (1-2). https://lingv.ro/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Art_4_VICENZO-NICOLO-DI-CARO-ANGELAPIA-MASSARO-LUCA-MOLINARI_89-123.pdf.

·         2025. Di Caro, V. N., Massaro A. & Molinari, L. ‘On the interaction of some mirative markers in Italian’. Linguistica Brunensia 2025, vol. 73, iss. 1, pp. 71-92. https://doi.org/10.5817/LB2025-38530. https://digilib.phil.muni.cz/sites/default/files/pdf/LinguisticaBrunensia_73_2025_1_04.pdf.

·         2025. Di Caro, V. N. & Samo, G. ‘Quantifying trends of indefiniteness strategies in Sicilian and Italian’. Italian dialects and Language contact: Theory, typology, data, eds.  Mario Wild, Stefano Negrinelli, Federica Breimaier, Stefano Cristelli, Michele Loporcaro & Tania Paciaroni. Special issue of Isogloss. Open Journal of Romance Linguistics 11(6)/4, 1-23. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/isogloss.488.

·         2025. S. N. Cardullo, M. Cosentino, A. De Angelis, V. N. Di Caro. ‘I dialetti galloitalici di Sicilia. Un laboratorio naturale per il contatto linguistico’. In Bollettino del Centro di Studi Filologici e Linguistici Siciliani, 36: 145–170.

Edited volumes
·      2022. Giusti, G., Di Caro, V. N. & Ross, D. ‘Pseudo-Coordination and Multiple Agreement Constructions’. Book Series: Linguistik Aktuell / Linguistics Today (General Editor: Elly van Gelderen). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Monographs
·      2022. Di Caro, V. N. ‘Il bilinguismo italiano-dialetto in Sicilia. Profilo sociolinguistico, nuove realtà comunicative e prospettive didattiche’. Book Series: Linguaggio e Variazione / Variation in Language (Editor in Chief: Giuliana Giusti). Venice: Edizioni Ca’ Foscari. Open Access: https://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/it/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-650-3.

Reviews
·      2026. Di Caro, V. N. ‘Susana Rodríguez Rosique (ed.), Expressing surprise at the crossroads: Mirativity, exclamativity and cooptation in Romance languages’ (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 389). Berlino/Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2025. Pp. vi + 283.

EDITORIAL COMMITTEES
·      2024/2025. Member of the editorial committee of the proceedings volume of the conference ‘I dialetti galloitalici di Sicilia tra resistenza e assimilazione’, Novara di Sicilia (ME), 04-05/06/2024, published by the Centro di Studi Filologici e Linguistici Siciliani, Palermo.

COURSES AND SUMMER SCHOOLS
·      11-15/07/2016. ‘1st Syncart Workshop / From Maps to Principles: Syntactic Cartography and Locality’ organized by Université de Genève and Università di Siena (Chiusi, Siena, Pienza and Montepulciano).

·      12-16/06/2017. ‘Corso intensivo La Sociolinguistica Oggi. Metodi per l’analisi di lingue antiche e moderne’ organized by Università per Stranieri di Siena (Siena).

·      08-09/04/2019. ‘II Scuola Internazionale di dialettologia’ organized by Università della Basilicata (Potenza).

·      04-07/08/2022. ‘Corpus Linguistics Summer School’ organized by University of Birmingham (online).

·      05/09/2023. ‘Data visualization with ggplot2 for linguists’ organized by University of Konstanz (online).

·      03-30/03/2024. ‘The sound of speech. Introduction to acoustic phonetics with Praat’ organized by Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II (online).

TUTORING ACTIVITIES
·      Academic Year 2015/2016. Bachelor’s Degree - General Linguistics 2, first semester (prof. G. Giusti).

·      Academic Year 2015/2016. Bachelor’s Degree - English Language 1, second semester (prof. G. Giusti).

·      Academic Year 2016/2017. Bachelor’s Degree - General Linguistics 2, first semester (prof. G. Giusti).

·      Academic Year 2017/2018. Bachelor’s Degree - General Linguistics 1, first semester (prof. G. Giusti).

·      Academic Year 2017/2018. Bachelor’s Degree - General Linguistics 2, first semester (prof. G. Giusti).

·      Academic Year 2018/2019. Bachelor’s Degree - General Linguistics 2 Class A, first semester (prof. G. Giusti).

·      Academic Year 2018/2019. Bachelor’s Degree - General Linguistics 2 Class B, first semester (prof. G. Giusti).

·      Academic Year 2018/2019. Bachelor’s Degree - General Linguistics 2 Class B, second semester (prof. G. Giusti).

·      Academic Year 2019/2020. Master’s Degree - Introduction to Formal Syntax, first semester (prof. G. Giusti).

ACADEMIC TEACHING EXPERIENCE
·      Academic Year 2021-2022. “Glottologia e linguistica” (4 credits; 28 hours) as part of the teaching “Comunicologia in età evolutiva” for the Bachelor’s Degree in Speech Therapy at the Faculty of Medicine, Surgery and Advanced Technologies of the University of Catania.

·      Academic Year 2024-2025. “Linguistica generale con laboratorio in codocenza” (9 credits; 36 hours) for the Bachelor’s Degree in European, Euroamerican, and Oriental Languages and Cultures L-11 at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Catania.

COSUPERVISED THESES
·      Academic Year 2018-2019. Francesco Aiello. “The syntax of Pseudo-Coordination in the dialect of Partanna”. Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Bachelor’s Degree Thesis in Language, Civilisation and the Science of Language. Supervisor: prof. Giuliana Giusti.

·      Academic Year 2021-2022. Alexandra Cretan. “Italian as a Second Language for Romanian speakers. The morphosyntactic interference between Romanian and Italian”. Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Bachelor’s Degree Thesis in Language, Civilisation and the Science of Language. Supervisor: prof.ssa Giuliana Giusti.

·      Academic Year 2023-2024. Graziana Francalanza. “L’espressione della miratività nel dialetto di Rosolini”. Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Master’s Degree Thesis in Language Sciences. Supervisor: prof.ssa Anna Cardinaletti.