Giorgio Francesco ARCODIA

Work experience

12/2023 – present: full professor of Chinese Language and Linguistics (SSD: L-OR/21), Department of Asian and North African Studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy.

11/2019 – 11/2023: associate professor of Chinese Language and Linguistics (SSD: L-OR/21), Department of Asian and North African Studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy.

3/2016 – 10/2019: associate professor of Linguistics, Department of Human Sciences for Education, University of Milano – Bicocca, Milan, Italy.

12/2008 – 2/2016: researcher in Linguistics, Department of Human Sciences for Education, University of Milano – Bicocca, Milan, Italy.

1/2008 – 12/2008: post-doc resarch fellow in Linguistics (project title: “Processi di formazione di parola nell’area del Sud-Est Asiatico: fenomeni di grammaticalizzazione e di contatto linguistici”), University of Milano – Bicocca, Milan, Italy.

10/2006 – 9/2008: course tutor (General Linguistics) for an on-line MA programme, Iuline.

12/2007 – 7/2008: language support for courses in Italian as a foreign language for Chinese students, University of Milano – Bicocca, Milan, Italy.

10/2003 – 9/2007: course tutor (General and Applied Linguistics), University of Milano – Bicocca, Milan, Italy.

10/2002 – 6/2006: Chinese-Italian/English interpreting for judicial proceedings and trade fairs.

3/2006 – 7/2006: Chinese language instructor for a professional course for adult learners (“Lingua inglese, lingua e cultura cinese per l’internazionalizzazione delle PMI”), Custodia s.r.l. (Bergamo, Italy).

2/2004 – 5/2004: Chinese language instructor at the Scientific Secondary School “Angelo Omodeo” (Mortara – PV, Italy), within the project “Parlare cinese, giapponese e arabo in Europa per incontrare altre culture” (promoted by the Ufficio Scolastico Regionale per la Lombardia).

Education

7/2010 – 8/2010: advanced Chinese language course at the Mandarin Training Centre of Taiwan Normal University (國立台灣師範大學, Taipei, Taiwan).

6/2009: European Association of Chinese Linguistics spring school, Rossijskij Gosudarstvennyj Gumanitarnyj Universitet (Moscow, Russian Federation).

10/2007 – 6/2010: Russian language course, Civica Scuola di Lingue di via Casati (Milan, Italy).

5/2008: European Association of Chinese Linguistics spring school, Universiteit van Amsterdam (The Netherlands).

12/2004 – 3/2008: PhD programme in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (XX cycle), University of Pavia (dissertation title: “La Derivazione Lessicale in Cinese Mandarino”; degree obtained on 14/3/2008).

3/2007: European Association of Chinese Linguistics spring school, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Munich, Germany).

3/2005 – 2/2006: Language student at Renmin University of China (中国人民大学, Beijing, PRC). Extracurricular courses: Dialectology, Lexicology, Analysis of Classical Chinese, Analysis of Chinese Characters.

7/2005: Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院) Summer School in Linguistics (2005 年全国暑期语言学高级讲习班), Capital Normal University (首都师范大学, Beijing, PRC).

12/2003 - 4/2005: MA programme in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Pavia (dissertation title: “I composti coordinativi: uno studio comparatistico”; degree obtained on 23/4/2005).

9/2003 – 1/2004: Advanced Japanese language course, Educational Information College, Milan, Italy.

10/2002 – 9/2004: Intermediate Chinese and Business Chinese courses, Civica Scuola di Lingue Orientali del Comune di Milano, Milan, Italy.

10/2002 – 6/2003: Intermediate Japanese language course, Civica Scuola di Lingue Orientali del Comune di Milano, Milan, Italy.

10/1997 – 4/2003: BA/MA programme in Foreign Languages (English, German, Chinese, Japanese), University of Bologna (dissertation title: “Le categorie aspetto e azione. Un confronto interlinguistico tra inglese, italiano e cinese e il loro emergere nelle varietà di apprendimento”; degree obtained on 7/4/2003).

10/2001 – 9/2002: Chinese Language course, Civica Scuola di Lingue Orientali del Comune di Milano, Milan, Italy.

10/2001 – 9/2002: Japanese Language course, Civica Scuola di Lingue Orientali del Comune di Milano, Milan, Italy.

7/2002 – 8/2002: Japanese language course (80 hrs), Kyōto Nihongo Gakkō (Kyoto, Japan).

Teaching

BA- and MA-level courses taught:

A.Y. 2009/2010: “Introduction to Linguistics” [Istituzioni di Linguistica], BA degree programme in Education [Scienze dell’Educazione], University of Milano-Bicocca (64 class hours); “Typology of the World’s Languages” [Tipologia delle lingue del mondo], MA degree programme in Anthropology and Ethnology [Scienze Antropologiche ed Etnologiche], University of Milano – Bicocca (30 class hours).

A.Y. 2010/2011: “Introduction to Linguistics” [Istituzioni di Linguistica], BA degree programme in Education [Scienze dell’Educazione], University of Milano-Bicocca (64 class hours).

A.Y. 2011/2012: “Introduction to Linguistics” [Istituzioni di Linguistica], BA degree programme in Education [Scienze dell’Educazione], University of Milano-Bicocca (64 class hours).

A.Y. 2012/2013: “Introduction to Linguistics” [Istituzioni di Linguistica], BA degree programme in Education [Scienze dell’Educazione], University of Milano-Bicocca (64 class hours).

A.Y. 2013/2014: “Introduction to Linguistics” [Istituzioni di Linguistica], BA degree programme in Education [Scienze dell’Educazione], University of Milano-Bicocca (64 class hours); “Chinese Language II (Language, Morphosyntax and Lexicon)” [Lingua Cinese 2 (Lingua, Morfosintassi e Lessico)], BA degree programme in Language Sciences [Scienze Linguistiche], Catholic University of the Sacred Heart (Brescia, Italy) (30 class hours).

A.Y. 2014/2015: “Introduction to Linguistics” [Istituzioni di Linguistica], BA degree programme in Education [Scienze dell’Educazione], University of Milano-Bicocca (56 class hours).

A.Y. 2015/2016: “Introduction to Linguistics” [Istituzioni di Linguistica], BA degree programme in Education [Scienze dell’Educazione], University of Milano-Bicocca (56 class hours); “General Linguistics” [Linguistica Generale], BA degree programme in Intercultural Communication [Comunicazione Interculturale], University of Milano-Bicocca (56 class hours).

A.Y. 2016/2017: “Introduction to Linguistics” [Istituzioni di Linguistica], BA degree programme in Education [Scienze dell’Educazione], University of Milano-Bicocca (56 class hours); “General Linguistics” [Linguistica Generale], BA degree programme in Intercultural Communication [Comunicazione Interculturale], University of Milano-Bicocca (56 class hours).

A.Y. 2017/2018: “Introduction to Linguistics” [Istituzioni di Linguistica], BA degree programme in Education [Scienze dell’Educazione], University of Milano-Bicocca (56 class hours); “General Linguistics” [Linguistica Generale], BA degree programme in Intercultural Communication [Comunicazione Interculturale], University of Milano-Bicocca (56 class hours).

A.Y. 2018/2019: “Introduction to Linguistics” [Istituzioni di Linguistica], BA degree programme in Education [Scienze dell’Educazione], University of Milano-Bicocca (56 class hours); “General Linguistics” [Linguistica Generale], BA degree programme in Intercultural Communication [Comunicazione Interculturale], University of Milano-Bicocca (56 class hours).

A.Y. 2019/2020: “Chinese language 2” [Lingua Cinese 2 – Modulo 2], BA degree programme in Languages, Cultures and Societies of Asia and North Africa [Lingue, Culture e Società Dell'asia e Dell'africa Mediterranea], Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (30 class hours); “Chinese language” [Lingua Cinese – Modulo 2], BA degree programme in Languages, Cultures and Societies of Asia and North Africa [Lingue, Culture e Società Dell'asia e Dell'africa Mediterranea], Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (30 class hours)

A.Y. 2020/2021: “Chinese language 1 Mod. 1” [Lingua Cinese 1 – Modulo 1], BA degree programme in Languages, Cultures and Societies of Asia and North Africa [Lingue, Culture e Società Dell'asia e Dell'africa Mediterranea], Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (30 class hours); “Chinese language 2 Mod. 1” [Lingua Cinese 2 – Modulo 1], BA degree programme in Languages, Cultures and Societies of Asia and North Africa [Lingue, Culture e Società Dell'asia e Dell'africa Mediterranea], Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (30 class hours); “Chinese language 1 (I)” [Lingua Cinese 1 – Modulo 1], MA degree programme in Languages and Civilizations of Asia and North Africa [Lingue e Civiltà dell’Asia e dell'Africa Mediterranea], Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (30 class hours); “Advanced Chinese Language for Management 1 Mod. 1” [Lingua Cinese Avanzata per la Gestione Aziendale 1 – Modulo 1], MA degree programme in Language and Management to China, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (30 class hours)

A.Y. 2021/2022: “Chinese language 1 Mod. 1” [Lingua Cinese 1 – Modulo 1], BA degree programme in Languages, Cultures and Societies of Asia and North Africa [Lingue, Culture e Società Dell'asia e Dell'africa Mediterranea], Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (30 class hours); “Chinese language 2 Mod. 1” [Lingua Cinese 2 – Modulo 1], BA degree programme in Languages, Cultures and Societies of Asia and North Africa [Lingue, Culture e Società Dell'asia e Dell'africa Mediterranea], Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (30 class hours); “Chinese language 1 (I)” [Lingua Cinese 1 – Modulo 1], MA degree programme in Languages and Civilizations of Asia and North Africa [Lingue e Civiltà dell’Asia e dell'Africa Mediterranea], Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (30 class hours); “Advanced Chinese Language for Management 1 Mod. 1” [Lingua Cinese Avanzata per la Gestione Aziendale 1 – Modulo 1], MA degree programme in Language and Management to China, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (30 class hours)

A.Y. 2022/2023: “Chinese language 1 Mod. 1” [Lingua Cinese 1 – Modulo 1], BA degree programme in Languages, Cultures and Societies of Asia and North Africa [Lingue, Culture e Società Dell'asia e Dell'africa Mediterranea], Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (30 class hours); “Chinese Linguistics” [Linguistica Cinese], MA degree programme in Languages  and Civilizations of Asia and North Africa [Lingue e Civiltà dell’Asia e dell'Africa Mediterranea], Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (30 class hours); “Chinese language 1 (I)” [Lingua Cinese 1 – Modulo 1], MA degree programme in Languages  and Civilizations of Asia and North Africa [Lingue e Civiltà dell’Asia e dell'Africa Mediterranea], Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (30 class hours); “Advanced Chinese Language for Management 1 Mod. 1” [Lingua Cinese Avanzata per la Gestione Aziendale 1 – Modulo 1], MA degree programme in Language and Management to China, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (30 class hours)

A.Y. 2023/2024: “Chinese language 1 Mod. 1” [Lingua Cinese 1 – Modulo 1], BA degree programme in Languages, Cultures and Societies of Asia and North Africa [Lingue, Culture e Società Dell'asia e Dell'africa Mediterranea], Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (30 class hours); “Chinese Linguistics” [Linguistica Cinese], MA degree programme in Languages  and Civilizations of Asia and North Africa [Lingue e Civiltà dell’Asia e dell'Africa Mediterranea], Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (30 class hours); “Chinese language 1 (I)” [Lingua Cinese 1 – Modulo 1], MA degree programme in Languages  and Civilizations of Asia and North Africa [Lingue e Civiltà dell’Asia e dell'Africa Mediterranea], Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (30 class hours); “Advanced Chinese Language for Management 1 Mod. 1” [Lingua Cinese Avanzata per la Gestione Aziendale 1 – Modulo 1], MA degree programme in Language and Management to China, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (30 class hours)

Postgraduate teaching:

4/2011: “Marche dell’io. Confronto interlinguistico tra ambienti sino-giapponese e indo-europeo” [First person markers. A comparison between the Sino-Japanese and the Indo-European areas], seminario per il Dottorato in Linguistica dell’Università degli Studi di Pavia (con Federica Da Milano ed Emanuele Banfi).

3/2013: “Reduplication in Sinitic languages: structural, semantic and typological issues”, seminario per il Dottorato in Linguistica dell’Università degli Studi di Padova (con Chiara Melloni e Bianca Basciano).

5/2013: “Introduzione alle lingue dell’Asia Orientale e del Sud-est Asiatico” [Introduction to the languages of East and Southeast Asia], seminario per il Dottorato in Linguistica dell’Università degli Studi di Pavia.

2/2014: “La polisemia in derivazione” [Polysemy in derivation], corso per la Scuola Invernale TRIPLE SIT 2014, Università degli Studi di Roma Tre.

7/2018: “Chinese Morphology”, Leiden Summer School in Languages and Linguistics, Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands (with Bianca Basciano) (15 class hours).

9/2019: “Sinitic Morphology”, 11th Summer School in Chinese Linguistics of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics, “L’Orientale” University of Naples.

2/2023: “Sinitic languages: typological and areal issues”, Winter School “Foreign Languages and Translation”, PhD programme in Foreign Languages and Literature, University of Verona.

3/2023: “Tense as a grammatical category in Sinitic?”, CPCE Seminar, College of Professional and Continuing Education, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

13/3/2024: “More on areal distinctions in Sinitic”, Lecture of Dean’s International Research Collaboration Award, The Education University of Hong Kong.

Visiting scholarships and professorships

7/2010 – 8/2010: visiting scholar at National Taiwan University (國立台灣大學), Taipei, Taiwan.
6/3/2024 – 15/3/2024: visiting scholar at the Education University of Hong Kong (香港教育大學), Hong Kong., through the “Dean’s International Research Collaboration Award”.

Institutional work

Membership in committees:

7/2013 – 2/2014: member of the University Committee for the Assessment of Foreign Language Proficiency, University of Milano-Bicocca.

11/2015 – 10/2019: member of the Student Orientation Committee for the BA programme in Intercultural Communication, University of Milano-Bicocca.

5/2017 – 4/2018: member of the Selection Committee for Adjunct Professors (a.y. 2017/2018) for the BA programme in Intercultural Communication, University of Milano-Bicocca.

7/2018 – 10/2019: member in charge of Research and External Contracts of the Quality Assurance Committee of the Department of Human Sciences for Education “Riccardo Massa”, University of Milano-Bicocca.

1/2019 – 3/2019: member of the Commitee for the Allocation of Research Funds (2018) of the Department of Human Sciences for Education “Riccardo Massa”, University of Milano-Bicocca.

2/2020 – 2/2022: member of the Joint Teachers-Students Committee of the Department of Asian and North African Studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy.

2/2020 – 9/2022: member of the Quality Assurance group of the MA programme in Language and Management to China, Department of Asian and North African Studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy.

12/2020 – 9/2022: member of the Research Committee, Department of Asian and North African Studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy.

5/2020 – 9/2023: member of the Department Council (Giunta di Dipartimento), Department of Asian and North African Studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy.

11/2020 – present: dean’s delegate for interdepartmental relations, Department of Asian and North African Studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy.

3/2021 – present: coordinator of the double degree programme jointly realized by Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and by the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE) of Saint Petersburg (MA in Language and Management to China and in Business and Politics in Modern Asia – now suspended for outgoing students).

10/2022 – present: member of the Quality Assurance Committee (PQA) of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy.

3/2023 – present: member of the steering committee (cabina di regia) of the Department of Excellence project (Dipartimento di Eccellenza) 2023-2027 for the Department of Asian and North African Studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy.

Membership in PhD committees:
 

17/12/2011-2/7/2015: member of the PhD committee (board of lecturers) of the PhD programme in Linguistics, University of Pavia

15/12/2021-present: member of the PhD committee (board of lecturers) of the PhD programme in Asian and African Studies (Studi sull'Asia e sull'Africa), Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

Conference and workshop presentations

1. (with Emanuele Banfi and Chiara Piccinini) Lexical compensation strategies in Chinese learners of Italian L2, “Word structures and  lexical systems”, Pavia, 16 – 17 December 2004.
2. (with Emanuele Banfi and Chiara Piccinini) Quando mancano le parole. Strategie di compensazione lessicale in apprendenti sinofoni [Missing words. Strategies for lexical compensation in Chinese-speaking learners of Italian], “XIV convegno Giscel”, Siena, 6 – 8 April 2006.
3. Coordinative and hierarchic compounds between morphology and syntax. Towards a new classification of compounding, “XII International Morphology Meeting”, Budapest, 25 – 28 May 2006.
4. (with Emanuele Banfi and Chiara Piccinini) Rese di lessico italiano L2 da parte di sinofoni: fatti percettivi e strategie compensatorie [Lexical retrieval in L2 Italian learner varieties of speakers of Chinese: on perception and strategies for compensation], “Competenze lessicali e discorsive nell’acquisizione di lingue seconde”, Bergamo, 8 – 10 June 2006.
5. Chinese: a language of compound words?, “Forum de Morphologie – 5eme Décembrettes”, Toulouse, 7 – 8 December 2006.
6. (with Emanuele Banfi) Fenomeni di grammaticalizzazione in cinese mandarino e questioni di deriva tipologica [Grammaticalisation and typological drift in Mandarin Chinese], “ XI convegno dell’Associazione Italiana di Studi Cinesi”, Rome, 22-24 February 2007.
7. Gli strumenti per l’interazione cooperativa [Tools for cooperative interaction], “Atenei on-line: quale e-learning?”, Montecatini Terme (PT), 15 September 2007.
8. (with Emanuele Banfi) The 生 shēng/sheng complex words in Chinese between morphology and semantics, “Mediterranean Morphology Meeting 6”, Ithaki, 27-30 September 2007.
9. (with Nicola Grandi and Fabio Montermini), Structural complexity and position of the head in compounding: A hint for a new classification of compounds, “Mediterranean Morphology Meeting 6”, Ithaki, 27-30 September 2007.
10. Questioni di derivazione lessicale in cinese mandarino [On lexical derivation in Mandarin Chinese], “XXXII convegno annuale della Società Italiana di Glottologia”, Verona, 25-27 October 2007.
11. (with Emanuele Banfi) The 生 shēng/sheng complex words in Chinese: some typological, historical and comparative remarks, “12th international conference on the processing of East Asian Languages (PEARL)”, Tainan (Taiwan), 28-29 December 2007.
12. Lexical derivation in Mandarin Chinese, “XIII International Morphology Meeting”, Vienna, 3-6 February 2008.
13. Word-formation schemas with (proto-)derivational formatives: a comparative study between Chinese and Japanese, “Colloque international de linguistique japonaise - Linguistique des kango (lexique sino-japonais)”, Paris, 14-15 March 2008.
14. (with Nicola Grandi) Typology of coordinate compounds, “CompoNet congress on compounding”, Bologna, 6-7 June 2008.
15. Grammaticalization and lexical derivation: word formation schemas in Mandarin Chinese, “New Reflections on Grammaticalization 4”, Leuven, 16-19 July 2008.
16. (with Emanuele Banfi) A typological comparison between Chinese and Indo-European complex-words, “17th biennial conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies”, Lund, 6-10 August 2008.
17. Coordinating compounds between SAE and East Asia, “Transalpine Typology Meeting”, Bern, 22-24 January 2009.
18. Headedness and lexical categories: the case of Sino-Vietnamese compounds, “Morphology of the World’s languages”, Leipzig, 11-13 June 2009.
19. (with Emanuele Banfi) Conjunctive Markers in (Mandarin) Chinese and Indo-European Languages An Interlinguistic Comparison, “XVII Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics”, Paris, 2-4 July 2009.
20. A diachronic outlook on prefix-like elements in Chinese word formation, “VI Conference of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics”, Poznań, 26-28 August 2009.
21. A constructional approach to headedness and categoriality in Sino-Vietnamese compounds, “Mediterranean Morphology Meeting 7”, Cyprus, 10-13 September 2009.
22. Chinese complex nouns and the role of language contact by writing in the prosody-morphology interaction, “Word Formation in Chinese” (Conference of the Association Recherche et Enseignement du Chinois), Paris, 7-8 November 2009.
23. On some issues pertaining to the Chinese adjective, “Word classes. Nature, Typology, computational representation”, Rome, 24-26 March 2010.
24. Headedness and constructions in Mandarin prefixed words, “XIV International Morphology Meeting”, Budapest, 13-16 May 2010.
25. (with Fabio Montermini) Are reduced compounds compounds? Morphological and prosodic properties of reduced compounds, “International Conference on Lexical Blending”, Lyon, 10-11 June 2010.
26. (with Bianca Basciano) Web corpora and the study of chinese morphology, “Morphology Meets Computational Linguistics”, Bologna, 7-8 October 2010.
27. Morphologization in isolating languages: focus on Zhongyuan (Central Plains) Mandarin, “Association for Linguistic Typology 9th Biennial Meeting”, Hong Kong, 21-24 July 2011.
28. (with Bianca Basciano) Measuring the morphological productivity of two Chinese suffixes, “20th International Conference on Historical Linguistics”, Osaka, 25-30 July 2011.
29. ‘Against’ typological constraints on grammaticalization in isolating languages: evidence from Sinitic, “20th International Conference on Historical Linguistics”, Osaka, 25-30 July 2011.
30. (with Giorgio Iemmolo), Marcatura differenziale dell'oggetto in cinese mandarino e identificabilità dei referenti, “XIII convegno dell'Associazione Italiana di Studi Cinesi”, Milan, 22-24 September 2011.
31. Diachrony and the polysemy of derivational affixes, “XV International Morphology Meeting”, Vienna, 8-12 February 2012.
32. Uno sguardo diacronico sulla derivazione lessicale in cinese mandarino [A diachronic outlook on lexical derivation in Mandarin Chinese], “La lingua cinese: forme e strutture”, Confucius Institute of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan, 11 May 2012.
33. (with Giorgio Iemmolo) Differential object marking and identifiability of the referent: a corpus-based study of Mandarin Chinese ba 把, “The Second International Symposium on Chinese Language and Discourse”, Singapore, 9-11 June 2012.
34. Grammaticalization with coevolution of form and meaning in East Asia? the coding of perfective aspect in Sinitic, “New Reflections on Grammaticalisation V”, Edinburgh, 16-19 July 2012.
35. Core features of grammaticalisation and lexical derivation, “New Reflections on Grammaticalisation V”, Edinburgh, 16-19 July 2012.
36. (with Nicola Grandi) Coordination in compounding: universal vs. areal tendencies, “Universals and Typology in Word Formation”, Košice, 26-28 August 2012.
37. (with Bianca Basciano) Areal persepectives on total reduplication of verbs in Sinitic, “Total Reduplication: Morphological, Pragmatical and Typological Issues”, Bruxelles, 18-19 November 2012.
38. (with Bianca Basciano) Verbal reduplication in Sinitic (and beyond), “Les Décembrettes 8”, Bordeaux, 6– 7 December 2012.
39. Constraints and productivity in Construction Morphology, “Bologna Seminar on Construction Morphology”, Bologna, 20-21 May 2013.
40. Nonlinear grammatical markers in Northern Chinese: more on the typology of Sinitic, “XXI Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-21)”, Taipei, 6-9 June 2013.
41. (with Bianca Basciano and Chiara Melloni), Full reduplication of verbs in Sinitic: on the relation between meaning and form, “XXI Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-21)”, Taipei, 6-9 June 2013.
42. More on the morphological typology of Sinitic: focus on Northern China, “Li Fang-Kuei Society of Chinese Linguistics Young Scholars Symposium”, Seattle, 11-13 August 2013.
43. (with Giorgio Iemmolo) More on the origin of direct object markers in Sinitic, “VIII Conference of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics”, Paris, 26-28 September 2013.
44. Mǐlán,’orchidea di riso’: le lingue dei cinesi di Milano [Mǐlán, ‘rice orchid’: Chinese languages in Milan], “Terza Giornata Interculturale Bicocca”, Milan, 31 January 2014.
45. Sinitic influence on Macanese: focus on multi-verb constructions, “XX Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies”, Braga & Coimbra, 22-26 July 2014.
46. (with Bianca Basciano) The Chinese adjective: theoretical issues and implications for language teaching, “III Conference on Chinese as a Second Language Research (CASLAR)”, Parma, 28-30 August 2014.
47. Hybridisation in Macanese multi-verb constructions, “Syntax of the World’s Languages VI”, Pavia, 8-10 September 2014.
48. Osservazioni sulla tipologia morfologica delle lingue cinesi [Remarks on the morphological typology of Chinese languages], “Linguistica cinese: tendenze e prospettive”, Venice, 1-2 October 2014.
49. Morfemi, parole e classi lessicali nella lingua cinese [Morphemes, words and word classes in the Chinese language], “Words and actions in Chinese language”, Florence, 26 June 2015.
50. The Sinitic element in Macanese, “Summer Meeting of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics”, Graz, 7-9 July 2015.
51. (with Bianca Basciano) On −化 −huà derived verbs in Mandarin Chinese, “IX Conference of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics”, Stuttgart, 24-26 September 2015.
52. Towards a typology of relative clauses in Sinitic, “IX Conference of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics”, Stuttgart, 24-26 September 2015.
53. (with Bianca Basciano and Chiara Melloni) Total reduplication of verbs in the East and Southeast Asian Area, “Transalpine Typology Meeting”, Lyon, 8-9 October 2015.
54. Per una tipologia delle frasi relative nelle lingue sinitiche [Towards a typology of relative clauses in Sinitic], “Linguistica cinese: tendenze e prospettive”, Milan, 19-20 November 2015.
55. Documenting the history of a vanishing creole: The case of Maquista, “Documentary linguistics: Asian perspectives (DLAP-1)”, Hong Kong, 6-9 April 2016.
56. Towards a typology of relative clauses in Sinitic: Headedness and relativisation strategies, “XXIV conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics”, Beijing, 17-19 July 2016.
57. Sinitic relative clauses: headedness and relativisation strategies, “XXI Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies”, Saint Petersburg, 23-28 August 2016.
58. (with Francesca Masini) Lists between lexicon and syntax: a web of constructions, workshop “Costruzioni a lista: aspetti formali e funzionali”, “L Congresso Internazionale della Società di Linguistica Italiana”, Milan, 22-24 September 2016.
59. Coordination in compounding: Universal vs. areal tendencies, “Tipologia, acquisizione, grammaticalizzazione / Typology, acquisition, grammaticalization”, Pavia, 14-15 October 2016.
60. Sui verbi derivati in ­­-化 -huà in cinese moderno [on ­­-化 -huà derived verbs in Modern Chinese], “Linguistica cinese: tendenze e prospettive”, Rome, 14-15 November 2016.
61. Macanese negation in comparative perspective: focus on nunca, Annual meeting of the “Associação de Crioulos de Base Lexical Portuguesa e Espanhola”, Stockholm, 13-15 June 2017.
62. “Linguistic categories, language description and linguistic typology: introductory remarks”, Workshop “Linguistic categories, language description and linguistic typology”, 50th annual meeting of the “Societas Linguistica Europaea”, Zurich, 10-13 Sepember 2017.
63. Elementi sinitici nel creolo portoghese di Macao [Sinitic elements in the Portuguese creole of Macao], “ XVI convegno dell’Associazione Italiana di Studi Cinesi”, Milano 21-22 Sepember 2017.
64. Le lingue dei cinesi d’Italia [The languages of Chinese residents in Italy], “Terza giornata di studi Florientalia”, Florence, 10 November 2017.
65. Sull’origine delle marche dell’oggetto nelle lingue sinitiche [On the origin of object markers in Sinitic], “Giornate di Studio sulla Linguistica Cinese”, Naples, 24-25 November 2017.
66. (with Caterina Mauri) Exemplar-based compounds: the case of Chinese, “The Second International Symposium on Chinese Theoretical and Applied Linguistics”, Milan, 14-16 December 2017.
67. (with Anna Morbiato and Bianca Basciano) Topic and subject in Mandarin and in the languages of Europe: comparative remarks and implications for CSL/CFL teaching, “V Conference on Chinese as a Second Language Research (CASLAR)”, Hong Kong, 15-16 June 2018.
68. On a possible convergence area in Northern China, “XXII Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies”, Glasgow, 29 August – 1 September 2018.
69. On a possible convergence area in Northern China, “The Tenth Conference of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics (EACL-10)”, Milan, 27-29 September 2018.
70. Negation in Portuguese Creoles: the case of Macanese, “V Giornate di Studi sulla Linguistica Cinese / 5th Study Days in Chinese Linguistics”, Milan, 23-24 November 2018.
71. On the grammaticalization of speech act verbs into object markers in Sinitic, “XXVII Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-27)”, Kobe, 10-12 May 2019.
72. Diversity in Northern Sinitic languages (keynote presentation), “XXXIIèmes Journées de Linguistique sur l’Asie Orientale / 32nd Paris Meeting on East Asian Linguistics”, Paris, 27-29 June 2019.
73. (with Maria Silvia Micheli) Schemas and productivity in Construction Morphology, 12th Mediterranean Morphology Meeting, Ljubljana, 27-30 June 2019.
74. (with Bianca Basciano) I verbi derivati in -化 huà in cinese contemporaneo: uno studio qualitativo su corpus [-化 huà derived verbs in Modern Chinese: a qualitative corpus-based study], “XXVII Convegno dell’Associazione Italiana di Studi Cinesi”, Venice, 5-7 September 2019.
75. (With Maria Silvia Micheli) Emerging evaluative meanings in Neoclassical Combining Forms: The diachronic case studies of para- and semi-, "19th International Morphology Meeting", Vienna, 6-8 February 2020.
76. Decreolization as language loss? The case of maquista, First Conference on the Endangered Languages of East Asia (CELEA-1), Venice, 2-3 September 2020.
77. Potential dāk 得 in Cantonese: a diachronic analysis, “VI Giornate di Studi sulla Linguistica Cinese / 6th Study Days in Chinese Linguistics”, Forlì, 23-25 June 2021.
78. On ‘structural particles’ in Sinitic languages: typology and diachrony, “XXXIVèmes Journées de Linguistique d’Asie Orientale / 34th Paris Meeting on East Asian Linguistics”, Paris, 7-9 July 2021.
79. Le ‘particelle strutturali’ nelle lingue sinitiche: tipologia e diacronia [Structural particles in Sinitic languages: typology and diadchrony], “XXVIII Convegno dell’Associazione Italiana di Studi Cinesi”, Turin, 18-20 November 2021.
80. A(nother) convergence area in Northern China?, “Language Contact in Northern China and the Historical Evolution of Chinese Language”, Paris, 24-25 March 2022.
81. (with Luisa M. Paternicò) Cantonese dāk 得 vs. Mandarin de 得: a diachronic analysis of word order patterns. “XXVIII Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-28)”, Hong Kong, 20-22 May 2022.
82. (with Luisa M. Paternicò) A synchronic and diachronic analysis of potential dāk 得 in Cantonese. “11th International Conference of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics (EACL-11), Olomouc, 1-2 July 2022.
83. On prefixation in Modern Chinese, “XXXVèmes Journées de Linguistique d’Asie Orientale / 35th Paris Meeting on East Asian Linguistics”, Paris, 6-9 July 2022.
84. Are there prefixes in Modern Chinese?, “VII Giornate di Studi sulla Linguistica Cinese / 7th Study Days in Chinese Linguistics”, Bergamo, 9-10 September 2022.
85. 很中国 hěn Zhōngguó, 很功夫 hěn gōngfu, 很文化 hěn wénhuà: word class flexibility and the adjectival class in Modern Chinese, “VII Giornate di Studi sulla Linguistica Cinese / 7th Study Days in Chinese Linguistics”, Bergamo, 9-10 September 2022.
86. The role of prosody in shaping Chinese morphology / 论汉语的韵律对形态演变的影响, “The 8th International Conference on Prosodic Grammar (ICPG-8) / 第八届韵律语法研究国际研讨会”, Beijing-Shanghai (online), 22-23 October 2022.
87. Tense as an ‘Altaic’ feature in Northern Sinitic? / 論北方漢語時制系統的性質與來源, “International Conference on Chinese Language Contact and Typology” / 漢語語言接觸與類型研究國際會議, The Education University of Hong Kong, 24-25 March 2023.
88. Grammatical marking of past tense in Sinitic: on 来(着) lái(zhe) and related particles, “International workshop: Chinese dialect grammar in typological perspective / 漢語方言語法的類型學研究 國際研討會”, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 27-28 April 2023.
89. Il concetto di ‘crisi’ nel lessico cinese [The notion of ‘crisis’ in the Chinese lexicon], “Semantizzazioni delle nozioni di ‘crisi’ negli spazi linguistici e culturali euro-asiatici”, Milan, 16-17 May 2023.
90. Temporality and the acquisition of Chinese as a second language, “VII Conference on Chinese as a Second Language Research (CASLAR)”,  Beijing, 18-19 August 2023.
91. La grammaticalizzazione della categoria del ‘tempo’ nelle lingue sinitiche [The grammaticalisaton of ‘tense’ in Sinitic], “XIX Convegno dell’Associazione Italiana di Studi Cinesi”, Rome, 21-23 September 2023.
92. Le costruzioni verbali risultative in prospettiva tipologica [Resultative Verb Costructions in typological perspective], “XIX Convegno dell’Associazione Italiana di Studi Cinesi”, Rome, 21-23 September 2023.
93. (with Phan Thị Huyền Trang) A historical and comparative perspective on grammatical marking of past tense in Sinitic: on 来(着) lái(zhe) and related particles, “Language Contact in Northern China and the Historical Evolution of Chinese 3”, Paris, 14-16 December 2023.
94. Potential dāk 得 in Cantonese: a comparative analysis (keynote presentation), “Symposium on Languages in China: Typology and Acquisition”, Hong Kong, 11 March 2024.
95. (with Phan Thị Huyền Trang and Nguyễn Tuấn Cường) Sino-Vietnamese negative prefixes bất, vô, phi: A synchronic and diachronic examination, “Workshop on Vietnamese Linguistics (ISVL-4)”, Hsinchu, 16-17 March 2024.
     

Research projects

Member of the University of Milano-Bicocca research unit of the COFIN 2003 national research project “Strategie di costruzione del lessico e fattori di organizzazione testuale nelle dinamiche di apprendimento e insegnamento di L2” (national coordinator: Giuliano Bernini).
Member of the University of Milano-Bicocca research unit of the PRIN 2005 national research project “CompoNet: sviluppo di una risorsa interattiva per l'analisi teorica, tipologica e quantitativa dei composti” (national coordinator: Sergio Scalise).
Member of the Galileo 2009/2010 Italo-French University research project “Lessico e regole di formazione di parola: un approccio tipologico e computazionale”, in collaboration with the Université de Toulouse – Le Mirail (France).
Member of the SIR 2014 research project “LEAdhoC: Linguistic expression of ad hoc categories” (University of Bologna; principal investigator: Caterina Mauri).
Member of the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice research unit of the PRIN 2020 national research project “The acquisition of Chinese resultative verbal complexes by L1 Italian learners: Combining learner corpus and experimental data” (principal investigator: Bianca Basciano).
 

Events organised

1. XIII Conference of the Associazione Italiana di Studi Cinesi (AISC), University of Milan and University of Milano-Bicocca, 22-24 September 2011.
2. “Linguistic categories and language universals”, round table at the 49° Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, University of Naples “Federico II”, 1 September 2016.
3. L International Conference of the Società di Linguistica Italiana (SLI)”, University of Milano-Bicocca, University of Milan and Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, 22-24 September 2016.
4. “Linguistic categories, language description and linguistic typology”, workshop at the 50° Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Universität Zürich, 10-13 September 2017.
5. “The second International Symposium on Chinese Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (ISOCTAL-2)”, University of Milano-Bicocca, 14-16 December 2017.
6. “The 10th International Conference of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics (EACL-10)”, University of Milan and University of Milano-Bicocca, 28-29 September 2018.
7. “Word Formation in Diachrony”, workshop at the 19th International Morphology Meeting, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, 6-8 February 2020.
8. “International workshop: Chinese dialect grammar in typological perspective / 漢語方言語法的類型學研究 國際研討會”, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 27-28 April 2023.

Membership in associations

Founding member and treasurer of AILC (Associazione Italiana di Linguistica Cinese), 2017- present

Member of the board of EACL (European Association of Chinese Linguistics),     2018-present

Member of the Executive Committee of AILC (Associazione Italiana di Linguistica Cinese), 2017- present

Vice-president of EACL (European Association of Chinese Linguistics), 2018-2022

Member of the Executive Committee of IACL (International Association of Chinese Linguistics), 2017-2019

Member of the Executive Committee of SLI (Società di Linguistica Italiana), 2017-2019

Ordinary member of: SLE (Societas Linguistica Europaea), SLI (Società di Linguistica Italiana), IACL (International Association of Chinese Linguistics), EACL (European Association of Chinese Linguistics), AREC (Association Recherche et Enseignement du Chinois), CASLAR (Chinese as a Second Language Research), AISC (Associazione Italiana di Studi Cinesi), ACBLPE (Associação de Crioulos de Base Lexical Portuguesa e Espanhola), AILC (Associazione Italiana di Linguistica Cinese).

Language skills

Italian: native
English: full academic proficiency.
Mandarin Chinese: excellent.
German: good reading and writing, intermediate speaking skills.
Japanese: good reading and writing, intermediate speaking skills.
Russian: basic.
French: good reading and writing, intermediate speaking skills.
Portuguese: basic speaking and writing, fluent reading.
Cantonese: basic.
 

Other

Peer reviewer for:“Morphology”, “Linguistics”, “Linguistic Typology”, “Journal of Linguistics”, “PLOS ONE”, “AION”, “Language and Linguistics”, “Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale”, “Lingua”, “Frontiers in Psychology”, “Journal of Ibero-Romance Creoles”, “Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics”, “Lingua Posnaniensis”, “Lingue e Linguaggio”, “Folia Linguistica Historica”, “Annali di Ca’ Foscari – Serie Orientale”, “Review of Cognitive Linguistics”, “Language and Communication”, “Italian Journal of Linguistics”, “Testi e Linguaggi”, “Kervan”. “Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads”, “Word”, “Word Structure”, “Studia Linguistica”, “Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory”, “Languages”, “Archivio Glottologico Italiano”, "Functions of Language", "Folia Linguistica", “East Asian Pragmatics”, "MediAzioni", "Open Linguistics", "Cogent Education".

Project evaluator for: Swiss National Science Foundation, Agence Nationale de la Recherche (France), Research Grants Council of Hong Kong.

Qualified as full professor in the 10/G1 (Glottology and Linguistics) academic field (valid until 21/11/2028; art. 16, comma 1, Law n. 240/20).

Qualified as full professor in the 10/N3 (Cultures of Central and East Asia) academic field (valid until 6/9/2029; art. 16, comma 1, Law n. 240/20)