Elia DAL CORSO
- Position
- Associate Professor
- Telephone
- 041 234 8839
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elia.dalcorso@unive.it
- Academic discipline
- Japanese Language and Literature, Korean Language and Literature [ASIA-01/G]
- Website
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https://www.unive.it/people/elia.dalcorso (personal record)
Teaching activity current year
Teaching activity previous years
Activities and research skills
- Academic discipline
- Lingua e letteratura del Giappone, lingua e letteratura della Corea [ASIA-01/G]
- Settore Scientifico Disciplinare (SSD) affine
- GLOTTOLOGIA E LINGUISTICA [L-LIN/01]
- Geographic areas in which the research experience mainly applies
- Internazionale: Estremo Oriente
- Known languages
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Italiano
(scritto: madrelingua parlato: madrelingua)
Giapponese (scritto: avanzato parlato: avanzato)
Inglese (scritto: avanzato parlato: avanzato)
Russo (scritto: base parlato: base)
Ainu (scritto: avanzato parlato: base)
Islandese (scritto: intermedio parlato: base)
- Participation in editorial boards of scientific journals/book series
- Membro del comitato scientifico della collana Ca' Foscari Japanese Studies - serie di linguistica e glottodidattica.
- Descriptive linguistics and language typology (Ainu language)
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- Description:
- Description of the Sakhalin variety of Ainu (phonology, morphosyntax, semantics) from a typological stance.
- Keywords:
- Comparative linguistics, Syntax, Semantics
- Ainu philology
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- Description:
- Corpora studies on Polish, Russian, Japanese, Hungarian documentation sources on Sakhalin Ainu from the 1900s-1960s.
- Keywords:
- Philology, Oriental philology
- Comparative and contact linguistics
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- Description:
- Investigation of the contact scenarios involving Sakhalin Ainu and Paleosiberian languages (Amuric and Chukotko-Kamchatkan).
- Keywords:
- Paleosiberian languages, Comparative linguistics
Publication highlights
Dal Corso, Elia Negation in Sakhalin Ainu: History and Typology in STUDIA ORIENTALIA ELECTRONICA, vol. 13, pp. 38-64 (ISSN 2323-5209)
DOI 2025,
Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5108647
Elia Dal Corso On the object-individuation function of the East Sakhalin Ainu impersonal passive in FOLIA LINGUISTICA, vol. 57, pp. 563-592 (ISSN 0165-4004)
DOI - URL correlato 2023,
Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5041620
Elia Dal Corso Materials and methods of analysis for the study of the Ainu language - Southern Hokkaidō and Sakhalin varieties , Edizioni Ca' Foscari, vol. 18 (ISBN 9788869696046) (ISSN 2724-2285)
DOI 2022,
Scientific monograph or treatise - ARCA card: 10278/3742893
Elia Dal Corso "Meko Oyasi", a Sakhalin Ainu ucaskuma narrated by Haru Fujiyama , Handbook of the Ainu Language, De Gruyter Mouton, vol. 12, pp. 677-694 (ISBN 9781501510885) (ISSN 2199-2851)
DOI 2022,
Book Article - ARCA card: 10278/3742786
Elia Dal Corso The language and folklore of West Sakhalin Ainu - A re-edition of Murasaki Kyōko's 'Karafuto Ainugo' with translation and grammatical notes , Monaco, Lincom Publishing (ISBN 9783969390795)
2021,
Scientific monograph or treatise - ARCA card: 10278/3743026
List of publications
Curriculum vitae
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS
2026 - present : Associate professor (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia)
2023 - 2026 : Researcher (rtdb) (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia)
2021 - 2023 : Adjunct professor in Japanese language and Ainu language (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia)
2019 - 2022 : Research grant holder (PostDoc) (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia)
2014 - 2018 : PhD in linguistics (SOAS University of London)
Thesis "Ainu Evidentiality: a semantico-pragmatic analysis and a morphosyntactic account"
Skills acquired in:
- indigenous languages
- language analysis and description
- semantics and pragmatics
- morphosyntax
2011 - 2013 : MA (Italian Laurea Magistrale) in Languages and Cultures of Asia and North Africa, Japanese Language (Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia)
Thesis "Giapponese e Ainu: due lingue a contatto - analisi di alcuni aspetti sintattico-funzionali" Grade 110/110 cum laude
Skills acquired in:
- Japanese language
- Japanese linguistics
- language comparison
2008 - 2011 : BA (Italian Laurea Triennale) in Languages and Cultures of Asia and North Africa, Japanese Language (Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia)
Skills acquired in:
- Japanese language
- Japanese linguistics
AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
2014 - Japanese Studies Research Scholarship (Meiji Jingu Intercultural Research Institute) for the attendance of the PhD programme in linguistics at SOAS University of London.
2015 - Postgraduate Studentship for International Students (British Association of Japanese Studies - BAJS) for the attendance of the PhD programme in linguistics at SOAS University of London.
2017 - John Crump Studentship (British Association of Japanese Studies - BAJS) for the attendance of the PhD programme in linguistics at SOAS University of London.
CONFERENCES, SYMPOSIA, WORKSHOPS, AND LECTURES
04/04 2017 - "Multilingual Japan", symposium at Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia
"Why language revitalization needs language description: The case of Ainu evidentiality"
30/08 - 02/09 2017 - European Association of Japanese Studies Conference (EAJS 2017) at University of Lisbon
"Inferential evidentiality in Sakhalin Ainu"
29/08 - 01/09 2018 - Societas Linguistica Europaea Conference (SLE 18) at University of Tallinn
"Classificatory noun incorporation and internally-headed relative clauses in Ainu"
18-20/10 2018 - Fourth International Bronislaw Pilsudski Conference (IBPC4) at Krakow Manggha Museum
"A revision of the 'auxiliaries' class of Sakhalin Ainu"
08/03 2019 - "Giornata della ricerca - Focus on endangered languages and linguistics in Asia", symposium at Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia
"Ainu dyadic time and its encoding into language"
02-03/09 2020 - First Conference on the Endangered Languages of East Asia (CELEA1) at Ca' Foscari University of Venice (organizer)
07-20/09 2020 - The 28th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference (JK28) at Preston University
"The development of analytic negatives in Sakhalin Ainu"
01-03/12 2021 - Second Descriptive Grammars and Typology Conference at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3
"Evidentiality in Ainu: Language specific description and cross-linguistic comparison"
03-05/05 2022 - Second Conference on the Endangered Languages of East Asia (CELEA2) at Ca' Foscari University of Venice (organizer)
03-05/05 2022 - Second Conference on the Endangered Languages of East Asia (CELEA2) at Ca' Foscari University of Venice
"Sakhalin Ainu inferentials as indicators of relative tense"
09/08 2023 - Invited lecture at the Hokkaido Summer Institute, Hokkaido University
"Ainu language description and teaching: challenges and promises"
17-18/08 2023 - Affixes Symposium at University of Turku
"The morphosyntax of standard negation in Sakhalin Ainu"
06-08/05 2024 - Third Conference on the Endangered Languages of East Asia (CELEA3) at Ca' Foscari University of Venice (organizer)
06-08/05 2024 - Third Conference on the Endangered Languages of East Asia (CELEA3) at Ca' Foscari University of Venice (organizer)
"Non-reflexive reflexives? The case of Sakhalin Ainu yay- and si-"
21-24/08 2024 - Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE24) at the University of Helsinki
"The conceptual domain of Sakhalin Ainu demonstratives", as part of the "Typological approaches to non-canonicity in demonstratives" workshop organized by Ekaterina Gruzdeva, Don Killian, and Chingduang Yurayong.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
February 2021 - August 2023 : Adjunct professor in Japanese language and Ainu language (Ca' Foscari University of Venice)
February 2021 - September 2021 : Teaching assistant for the course of History of the Japanese language (Ca' Foscari University of Venice)
September 2017 - January 2018 : Teaching assistant (SOAS University of London)
The position includes assistance in teaching a BA course in general linguistics for first-year students from the departments of Linguistics and Foreign Languages.
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