Bianca BASCIANO

WORK EXPERIENCE

12 September 2020 - present: Associate professor of Chinese, SSD L-OR/21, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Department of Asian and North African Studies. 

3 April 2017 - 11 September 2020: Tenure-track assistant professor (ricercatore universitario a tempo determinato, lett. B) of Chinese, SSD L-OR/21, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Department of Asian and North African Studies. 

1 December 2016 - 2 April 2017: postdoctoral researcher (assegnista di ricerca), Department of Asian and North African Studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, SSD L-OR/21. Research project title: “Il sistema verbale in cinese moderno” [The verbal system in Modern Chinese].

February-March 2017: Adjunct professor, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Department of Asian and North African Studies.

1 November 2013 - 31 October 2016: Assistant professor (ricercatore universitario a tempo determinato, lett. A) of Chinese SSD L-OR/21, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Department of Asian and North African Studies.

A.Y. 2010/2011, 2011/2012, 2012/2013: Adjunct professor at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart (Brescia), Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures. 

A.Y. 2010/2011, 2011/2012, 2012/2013: Adjunct professor at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Department of Educational Human Sciences “R. Massa”. 

A.Y. 2011/2012, 2012/2013: : Adjunct professor at the University of Pavia, Department of Political and Social Sciences. 

November 2011 - September 2013: honorary fellow (cultore della materia), Linguistics, University of Verona, Department of Philology, Literature and Linguistics.

October 2010 - June 2013: Chinese language instructor at the Confucius Institute of the University of Milan. 

September 2010- June 2013: Scuola di Formazione Permanente, Fondazione Italia-Cina (Milan). Teacher of Chinese language and culture (October 2010 - June 2011); teacher of Chinese at St. Louis High School, Milan (September 2011-June 2013).

EDUCATION

2007-2010: University of Verona, Ph.D. in Linguistics, awarded with the additional qualification of “Doctor Europaeus”. Dissertation title: Verbal compounding and causativity in Mandarin Chinese. Advisor: Prof. Sergio Scalise (University of Bologna); co-advisors: Prof. Dr. Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng (Leiden University) and Prof. Giorgio Graffi (University of Verona).

1 June – 31 August 2010: Mandarin Training Center, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, course in Mandarin Chinese.

15-19 June 2009: EACL (European Association of Chinese Linguistics) Spring School in Chinese Linguistics, Moscow, Russia (30 hours): Theories of Old Chinese morphology (Wolfgang Behr), Modern Mandarin: morphology, syntax, semantics (Waltraud Paul), Tendencies in Chinese dialect phonology (Roman Shapiro).

6 October - 12 December 2008: Han Institute, Taipei (Taiwan), course in Mandarin Chinese. 

30 June 2008 - 4 July 2008: LOT (Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics) Summer school in Linguistics, Utrecht, The Netherlands: Introduction to syntax (Jan-Wouter Zwart), Lexical integrity (Peter Ackema).

12-16 May 2008: EACL (European Association of Chinese Linguistics) Spring School in Chinese Linguistics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (30 hours): Chinese Pidgin English: contact, typology and grammar (Umberto Ansaldo), Tone (Yiya Chen), Classical Chinese syntax (Barbara Meisterernst).

5 July 2005 - 6 January 2006: Dalian University of Foreign Languages, School of Chinese Studies (Dalian, China), course in Mandarin Chinese.

1999-2004: University of Bologna, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures. BA/MA degree cum laude in Foreign Languages and Literatures. Date of defence: 20 November 2004. Dissertation title: “Modernismi periferici tra Occidente e Oriente nell’opera di Ling Shuhua” [Peripheral modernisms between West and East in the work of Ling Shuhua].

RESEARCH PERIODS ABROAD

May - August 2010: Visiting scholar at the CCS (Center for Chinese Studies), Taipei, Taiwan. Research project: “Causative Strategies in Mandarin Chinese, Taiwan Southern Min and Hakka”.

September 2008 - December 2008: Visiting PhD student at National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan (supervisor: Prof. Dr. Karen Steffen Chung).

April 2008 - July 2008: Visiting PhD student at Leiden University, The Netherlands (supervisors: Prof. Dr. Lisa Cheng, Prof. Dr. Rint Sybesma).

PARTICIPATION TO RESEARCH PROJECTS

2022-2025: Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Principal investigator of the PRIN 2020 national project "The acquisition of Chinese resultative verbal complexes by L1 Italian learners: Combining learner corpus and experimental data": https://pric.unive.it/projects/achieve/home

2010: Member of the “Galileo” (Italo-French University) research project “Lessico e regole di formazione di parola: un approccio tipologico e computazionale” [Lexicon and word formation rules: a typological and computational approach], University of Bologna and Université de Toulouse le Mirail.

2009-2010: Participation to the European Network “Bantu, Chinese, Romance nouns and noun phrases”, directed by Lisa L-S. Cheng (Leiden University). Financier: NWO Council for the Humanities (D36900: Language and Literature Studies of Other Language Groups). Member of the Verona unit.

2006-2009: University of Bologna, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. Member of the “MorBo /comp” research group, directed by Prof. Sergio Scalise. Data collection and analysis of Chinese compounds.

2006-2007: University of Bologna, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. Participation to the “CompoNet” PRIN national project (Theoretical and typological approaches to compounding phenomena), directed by Prof. Sergio Scalise.

 
SCHOLARSHIPS, GRANTS AND AWARDS

FFABR (Fondo per il finanziamento delle attività di base di ricerca) - "Fund for basic research activities" by the Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of the University and Research Systems (ANVUR) 2017

Italian qualification (Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale) as Full professor, SC 10/N3, “Culture dell'Asia centrale e orientale" [Cultures of Central and East Asia] (06/05/2021-06/05/2030).

Italian qualification (Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale) as Associate professor, SC 10/G1, “Glottologia e linguistica" [Glottology and Linguistics] (28/03/2018-28/03/2027).

Erasmus+ Teaching staff mobility 2014/2015 grant for a teaching period at Université Paris Diderot, Paris 7, U.F.R. Langues et Civilisation de l'Asie orientale (LCAO), 9-13 March 2015.

SIG (Società Italiana di Glottologia) scholarship 2011 for the attendance of conferences abroad.

AISC (Associazione Italiana di Studi Cinesi [Italian Association for Chinese Studies]) 2011 prize for the best full paper (area: Linguistics) for young researchers (Light verbs causativi nella morfologia del cinese [Causative light verbs in Chinese morphology]).

Four-month research grant awarded by the CCS (Center for Chinese Studies), Taipei, Taiwan (May-August 2010). Title of the project: “Causative Strategies in Mandarin Chinese, Taiwan Southern Min and Hakka”.

University of Verona CooperInt (International cooperation project), Junior Researchers Mobility, 2007 grant for a research period at National Taiwan University, Taipei (September-December 2008).

Three-year scholarship for the attendance of a PhD programme in Linguistics at the University of Verona.

FUNDED PROJECTS

PRIN 2020 National project:  "The acquisition of Chinese resultative verbal complexes by L1 Italian learners: Combining learner corpus and experimental data" (2022-2025): https://pric.unive.it/projects/achieve/home

Erasmus+ 2015 - KA1 International Credit Mobility (project for the mobility of students, teachers and administrative staff). Partner universities: Ca' Foscari University of Venice and University of International Business and Economics (UIBE), Beijing. Academic coordinator.

TEACHING

2020/2021, 2023/2024, 2024/2025: Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Department of Asian and North African Studies

BA courses: Chinese Language 1 mod. 2 (M-R, 30 h), Chinese language 1 mod. 2 (S-Z, 30 h), Chinese Language 2 mod. 2 (M-R, 30 h), BA degree programme in Languages, Cultures and Societies of Asia and North Africa

MA courses: Chinese Linguistics (30 h), MA degree programme in Translation and Interpreting / Interpreting and Translation for Publishing and for Special Purposes

18 maggio 2024: Tempo e aspetto in cinese. Lezione per il Master di secondo livello in Didattica della lingua cinese, Università degli studi di Napoli L’Orientale (4 h).

2019/2020: Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Department of Asian and North African Studies

BA courses: Chinese Language 1 mod. 2 (M-R, 30 h), Chinese language 1 mod. 2 (S-Z, 30 h), BA degree programme in Languages, Cultures and Societies of Asia and North Africa

MA courses: Chinese Linguistics (30 h), MA degree programme in Interpreting and Translation for Publishing and for Special Purposes

2018/2019: Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Department of Asian and North African Studies

BA courses: Chinese Language 2 mod. 2 (D-L, 30 h), Chinese language 2 mod. 2 (M-R, 30 h), BA degree programme in Languages, Cultures and Societies of Asia and North Africa

MA courses: Chinese Linguistics (30 h), MA degree programme in Interpreting and Translation for Publishing and for Special Purposes

2017/2018: Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Department of Asian and North African Studies

BA courses: Chinese Language 1 mod. 2 (M-R, 30 h), Chinese Language 2 mod. 2 (D-L, 30 h), Chinese language 2 mod. 2 (M-R, 30 h), BA degree programme in Languages, Cultures and Societies of Asia and North Africa

MA courses: Chinese Linguistics (30 h), MA degree programme in Interpreting and Translation for Publishing and for Special Purposes

2016/2017:

BA courses: Chinese Language 1 mod. 2 (M-R, 30 h), Chinese Language 2 mod. 2 (D-L, 30 h), Chinese language 2 mod. 2 (M-R, 30 h), BA degree programme in Languages, Cultures and Societies of Asia and North Africa

MA courses: Chinese Linguistics (30 h), MA degree programme in Interpreting and Translation for Publishing and for Special Purposes

2015/2016:

BA courses: Chinese Language 1 mod. 2 (M-R, 30 h), Chinese Language 2 mod. 2 (D-L, 30 h), Chinese language 2 mod. 2 (M-R, 30 h), BA degree programme in Languages, Cultures and Societies of Asia and North Africa

MA courses: Chinese Linguistics (30 h), MA degree programme in Interpreting and Translation for Publishing and for Special Purposes

2014/2015:

BA courses: Chinese Language 1 mod. 2 (M-R, 30 h), Chinese Language 2 mod. 2 (D-L, 30 h), Chinese language 2 mod. 2 (M-R, 30 h).

2013/2014:

BA courses: Chinese Language mod. 2 (30 h), Chinese Language 2 mod. 2 (D-L, 30 h), BA degree programme in Languages, Cultures and Societies of Asia and North Africa; Chinese Language 3 (30 h), BA degree in Linguistic and Cultural Mediation

2012/2013:

BA courses:

Chinese Language 1 (language and phonology, 30 h), Chinese Language 2 (language, morpho-syntax and lexicon, 30 h), Chinese Language 3 (Language and professional communication, 30 h), Catholic University of the Sacred Heart (Brescia), Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures.

Chinese Language 1 (40 h), Chinese Language 2 (40 h), Chinese Language 3 (40 h), University of Pavia, Department of Political and Social Sciences.

Chinese Language 2 (M-Z, 48 h), University of Milano-Bicocca, Department of Educational Human Sciences “R. Massa”.

MA courses:

Chinese language 1 (advanced course, 60 h), Chinese language 2 (advanced course, 60 h), University of Pavia, Department of Political and Social Sciences.

2011/2012: 

BA courses:

Chinese Language 1 (language and phonology, 30 h), Chinese Language 2 (language, morpho-syntax and lexicon, 30 h), Chinese Language 3 (language and professional communication, 30 h), Catholic University of the Sacred Heart (Brescia), Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures.

Chinese Language 1 (40 h), Chinese Language 2 (40 h), Chinese Language 3 (40 h), University of Pavia, Department of Political and Social Sciences. 

Chinese Language 1 (M-Z, 48 h), Chinese Language 2 (48 h), Chinese writing (supplementary course for undergraduate students, 40 h), University of Milano-Bicocca, Department of Educational Human Sciences “R. Massa”

MA courses:

Chinese language 2 (48 h), University of Milano-Bicocca, Department of Educational Human Sciences “R. Massa”.

2010/2011: 

BA courses:

Chinese Language 1 (language and phonology, 30 h), Chinese Language 2 (language, morpho-syntax and lexicon, 30 h), Chinese Language and Linguistics 3 (30 h), Catholic University of the Sacred Heart (Brescia), Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures.

Chinese writing (supplementary course for undergraduate students, 60 h), University of Milano-Bicocca, Department of Educational Human Sciences “R. Massa”.

MA courses:

Chinese Language and Culture (30 h), Catholic University of the Sacred Heart (Brescia), Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures

October 2010 - June 2013: Intermediate Chinese B1 and B2, Confucius Institute of the University of Milan; elementary Chinese at Polytechnic University of Milan (3 December 2010 - 4 February 2011; 11 October 2011 - 16 February 2012).

September 2010- June 2013: Scuola di Formazione Permanente, Fondazione Italia-Cina (Milan). Teacher of Chinese language and culture (October 2010 - June 2011); teacher of Chinese at St. Louis High School, Milan (September 2011-June 2013).

TEACHING EXPERIENCE ABROAD

9-20 July 2018: Leiden Summer School in Languages and Linguistics, Lecturer of the course on Chinese morphology, Leiden University (with Giorgio F. Arcodia).

9-13 March 2015:  Lectures in Chinese Linguistics at Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7, U.F.R. Langues et Civilisation de l'Asie Orientale (LCAO), through the Erasmus+ Teaching staff mobility program 2014/2015.

CONFERENCE/WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS

Chinese resultative verb compounds in L2 writing: a preliminary analysis of L1 Italian learners’ output. Abstract accepted for presentation at the 12th International Conference of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics (EACL- 12), Roma Tre University, 19-20 September 2024 (with Marco Casentini and Alessia Iurato). 

The use of Chinese resultative verb compounds in the production of L1 Italian learners: Preliminary findings". Abstract accepted for presentation at the 8th edition of the Study Days on Chinese Linguistics (AILC-8), University of Verona, 19-20 June 2024 (with Marco Casentini and Alessia Iurato). 

The acquisition of Chinese resultative verb compounds by L1 Italian learners: Preliminary results. Paper presented at the 30th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-30), Yonsei University, 25-27 May 2024 (with Marco Casentini and Alessia Iurato). 

I composti risultativi del cinese: classificazione e struttura dell’evento. Paper presented at the XIX Conference of the Italian Association of Chinese Studies (Associazione Italiana di Studi Cinesi, AISC), 21-23 September 2023, Università di Roma "Sapienza" (with Marco Casentini).

Una proposta metodologica per lo studio dell’acquisizione dei composti risultativi da parte di apprendenti italofoni di cinese L2/LS. Paper presented at the XIX Conference of the Italian Association of Chinese Studies (Associazione Italiana di Studi Cinesi, AISC), 21-23 September 2023, Università di Roma "Sapienza" (with Marco Casentini and Alessia Iurato).

Resultative constructions in Mandarin Chinese and Italian: theoretical issues, comparative remarks, and implications for CSL/CFL teaching. Paper presented at the 7th International Conference on Chinese as a Second Language Research (CASLAR 7), Peking University, 17-19 August 2023 (with Marco Casentini).

Chinese resultative verb compounds (RVCs): classification, properties, and acquisitional issues. Paper presented "L2 learner corpora and the acquisition of Chinese resultative verb complexes", first workshop of the PRIN project “ACHIEVE”, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, 8-9 June 2023 (with Marco Casentini).

Directionals, objects, and definiteness in Mandarin Chinese: A corpus-based account. Paper presented at the 29th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics, Macau University of Science and Technology, 27-29 May 2023 (with Chiara Romagnoli).

Directionals, objects, and definiteness in Mandarin Chinese: A corpus-based account. Paper presented at the VII edition of the Study Days on Chinese Linguistics, Bergamo, 9-10 September 2022 (with Chiara Romagnoli).

很中国，很功夫，很文化: Word class flexibility and the adjectival class in Modern Chinese. Paper presented at the VII edition of the Study Days on Chinese Linguistics, Bergamo, 9-10 September 2022 (with Giorgio F. Arcodia).

Constraints on the position of definite objects in directional constructions: A corpus-based account. Paper presented at the 35e Journées de linguistique d’Asie orientale (JLAO35), Paris, 7-9 July 2022 (with Chiara Romagnoli).

I verbi inaccusativi in cinese moderno (Unaccusative verbs in Modern Chinese). Paper presented at the XVIII Conference of the Italian Association for Chinese Studies (Associazione Italiana di Studi Cinesi, AISC), University of Turin, 18-20 November 2021.

Degree achievements in Mandarin Chinese: A comparison between 加 jia+ADJ and ̄ 弄 nong+ADJ ̀ verbs. Paper presented at "Les 34es Journées de Linguistique Asie Orientale" (JLAO34) organized by the Centre de Recherches Linguistiques sur l’Asie Orientale (CRLAO), 7-9 July 2021.

Degree achievements in Mandarin Chinese: A corpus-based study of 加 jiā+A and 弄 nòng+A verbs. Paper presented at "VI edizione delle Giornate di studio sulla linguistica cinese / VI edition of the Study days on Chinese Linguistics", Forlì, University of Bologna, 23-25 June 2021.

I verbi derivati in -化 huà in cinese contemporaneo: uno studio qualitativo su corpus [On derived -化 huà verbs in Modern Chinese: a qualitative corpus-based study]. Paper presented at “XXVII Convegno dell’Associazione Italiana di Studi Cinesi” [XII Conference of the Italian Association of Chinese Studies],  Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 5-7 September 2019 (with Giorgio F. Arcodia).

Chinese affixes in the Internet era: a corpus-based study of X-族 zú, X-党 dǎng and X-客 kè neologisms. Paper presented at V edizione delle Giornate di studio sulla linguistica cinese / V edition of the Study days on Chinese Linguistics, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan, 23-24 November 2018 (with Sofia Bareato).

Chinese affixes in the Internet era: a corpus-based study of X-族 zú, X-党 dǎng and X-客 kè neologisms. Paper presented at 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 (with Sofia Bareato).

On 客 kè derived neologisms in Modern Chinese. Paper presented at the “22nd Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies, Glasgow, 29 August-1 September 2018.

Topic and subject in Mandarin and in the languages of Europe: comparative remarks and implications for CSL/CFL teaching. Paper presented at  “5th International Conference on Chinese as a Second Language Research” (CASLAR-5), The University of Hong Kong, June 14-16, 2018 (with G. F. Arcodia and A. Morbiato).

On the diachronic development of Mandarin verbal reduplication. Paper presented at “The Second International Symposium on Chinese Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (ISOCTAL- 2). University of Milan-Bicocca, 14-16 December 2017.

"Non solo ‘ospiti’: i neologismi derivati in 客 kè del cinese moderno". Paper presented at "IV edizione delle Giornate di studio sulla linguistica cinese", Napoles, University "L'Orientale" of Naples, 24-25 Novembre 2017.

Strategie di lessicalizzazione degli eventi causativi di cambiamento di stato in cinese, italiano e inglese: un indagine su corpora paralleli. Paper presented at "XVI Convegno dell'Associazione Italiana Studi Cinesi”, Milan, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, 21-23 September 2017.

La funzione aspettuale dei nomi di evento in italiano e cinese mandarino: uno studio comparativo. Paper presented at “51° Congresso Internazionale della Società di Linguistica Italiana [LI International conference of the Italian Association of Italian Linguistics”. Naples, 28-30 September 2017(with Marta Donazzan and Chiara Melloni).

A diachronic outlook on verbal reduplication: the role of the 兒－r suffix. Paper presented at “IACL25 (25th conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics)”, Budapest, 25-27 June 2017.

Event Nouns as aspectual delimiters: a cross-linguistic survey. Paper presentedat “Jenom 7. The 7th Workshop on Nominalizations”. University of Fribourg, 1-2 June 2017 (with Marta Donazzan and Chiara Melloni).

Sui verbi derivati in -化 -huà in cinese moderno [On -化 –huà derived verbs in Modern Chinese]. Talk given at “Linguistica cinese: tendenze e prospettive. Giornate di studi”, third edition, Rome, University of Roma Tre, 14-15 November 2016 (with G.F. Arcodia).

Expressing direct causation: a corpus-based study of externally caused change of state verbs in Mandarin Chinese, English and Italian. Talk given at第⼆届北京大学—威尼斯大学学术会议 (Second Conference Peking University – Ca’ Foscari University of Venice), 人文传统与方法分梳：多元文化视野下的中国语言文学 (Humanities, different traditions and methodologies. Multicultural Perspectives in Chinese Language and Literature), Beijing, Peking University, 14-15 October 2016.

Delimiting events in Mandarin Chinese: The case of reduplication. Talk given at “SLE 2016 (49th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea)”, workshop “The profile of event delimitation”, Naples, Università Federico II, 31 August - 3 September 2016 (with C. Melloni).

Mandarin verbal reduplication in diachronic perspective. Talk given at “XXI Biennial Conference of the European Association of Chinese Studies (EACS)”, St. Petersburg, 23-28 August 2016.

Mandarin verbal reduplication in diachronic perspective. Talk given at “IACL24 (24th conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics)”, Beijing Language and Culture University, 17-19 July 2016.

Il linguaggio pubblicitario cinese: contatto linguistico, code-mixing e politiche linguistiche. [The language of Chinese advertisements: language contact, code-mixing and language policies]. Talk given at “Linguistica cinese: tendenze e prospettive. Giornate di studi”, second edition, University of Milan, 19-20 November 2015.

Total reduplication of verbs in the East- and Southeast Asian Area. Talk given at the “Transalpine Typology Meeting”, Lyon, 8-9 October 2015 (with G.F. Arcodia and C. Melloni).

On the status of the reduplicant in Mandarin reduplicated verbs. Talk given at “The 9th Conference of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics (EACL)”, 24-26 September 2015, Stuttgart (with C. Melloni).

On −化 −huà derived verbs in Mandarin Chinese. Talk given at “The 9th Conference of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics (EACL)”, 24-26 September 2015, Stuttgart (with G.F. Arcodia).

A theoretical and typological approach to verb reduplication in Sinitic. Talk given at the mini-workshop organized by BILS - Seminari di Studio sul Linguaggio a Milano-Bicocca, University of Milano-Bicocca, 17 June 2015 (with G.F. Arcodia and C. Melloni).

Alcune osservazioni sulle classi vendleriane e sui composti risultativi in cinese [Some remarks on Vendlerian classes and resultative compounds in Chinese]. Talk given at “Linguistica cinese: tendenze e prospettive. Giornate di studi”, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 1-2 October 2014.

The Chinese adjective: theoretical issues and implications for language teaching. Talk given at the “3rd International Conference on Chinese as a Second Language Research (CASLAR)”, University of Parma, 28-30 August 2014 (with G.F. Arcodia).

On verbal and adjectival reduplication in Mandarin Chinese. Talk given at the “XX Biennial Conference of the European Association of Chinese Studies (EACS)”, Braga-Coimbra, 22-24 July 2014.

On two different kinds of resultative compounds in Mandarin Chinese. Talk given at “The 21st conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL)”, Taipei, National Taiwan Normal University, 7-9 June 2013.

Full reduplication of verbs in Sinitic: on the relation between meaning and form. Poster presentation at “The 21st conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL)”, Taipei, National Taiwan Normal University, 7-9 June 2013 (with G.F. Arcodia and C. Melloni).

Verb reduplication in Mandarin Chinese. Talk given at IGG39 (39th Incontro di Grammatica Generativa), University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, 21-23 February 2013 (with C. Melloni)

Verbal reduplication in Sinitic (and beyond). Talk given at the “Décembrettes 8 - Colloque International de Morphologie”, Bordeaux, 6-7 December 2012 (with G.F. Arcodia and C. Melloni).

Areal perspectives on total reduplication of verbs in Sinitic. Talk given at the workshop “Total Reduplication: Morphology, Pragmatics, Typology”, Brussels, 18-19 November 2012 (with G.F. Arcodia and C. Melloni).

Are all Chinese resultative compounds really resultatives? Talk given at the mini-workshop organized by the Department of Philology, Literature and Linguistics, University of Verona, 20 September 2012.

Delimitative reduplication in Mandarin Chinese. Talk given at the mini-workshop organized by the Department of Philology, Literature and Linguistics, University of Verona, 20 September 2012 (with C. Melloni).

Are all resultative compounds really resultatives? Talk given at the “XIX Biennial Conference of the European Association of Chinese Studies (EACS)”, Paris, 4-12 September 2012.

Mandarin resultative compounds in a micro-parametric perspective. Poster presentation at the “IGG38 (38th Incontro di Grammarica Generativa)”, University of Verona, 23-25 February 2012.

Patterns of reduplication in Chinese: structural and semantic issues. Talk given at the “15th International Morphology Meeting (IMM15)”, Vienna, 9-12 February 2012 (with C. Melloni).

Light verbs causativi nella morfologia del cinese [Causative light verbs in Chinese morphology]. Talk given at the “XIII convegno dell'Associazione Italiana di Studi Cinesi (AISC)”, University of Milan, 22-24 September 2011.

Reduplication of bi-morphemic words: Patterns in Chinese. Talk given at the “8th Mediterranean Morphology Meeting (MMM8)”, Cagliari, 14-17 September 2011 (with F. Forza and C. Melloni).

Microparameters and linguistic variation: the case of Mandarin resultative compounds. Talk given at the “7th Conference of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics (EACL-7)”, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, 13-15 September 2011.

VN and NV compounds: A comparative overview. Talk given at the “SLE (Societas Linguistica Europaea) 2011 conference”, Logroño (La Rioja), 8-11 September 2011 (with C. Melloni).

On the diachronic development of the Chinese root 打 da. Talk given at the “20th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHLXX)”, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, 25-30 July 2011.

Measuring the morphological productivity of two Chinese suffixes. Talk given at the “20th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHLXX)”, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, 25-30 July 2011 (with G. F. Arcodia).

Analiticity and the expression of causativity: data from Sinitic. Talk given at the “the 9th International Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology”, University of Hong Kong, 22-24 July 2011.

VN Compounding in Bantu, Romance and Chinese. Poster presentation at the “9th International Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology”, University of Hong Kong, 22-24 July 2011 (with C. Melloni).

Causative light verbs in Mandarin Chinese. Talk given at the “Décembrettes 7 - Colloque International de Morphologie”, Tolouse, 2-3 December 2010.

Modes of compounding in Bantu, Romance and Chinese. Talk given at the “European Network: Bantu, Chinese, Romance nouns and noun phrases” final conference. Leiden University, 27-29 October 2010 (with C. Melloni, N. Kula, D. Delfitto and G. Fiorin).

Web corpora and the study of Chinese morphology. Talk given at the “Morphology meets computational linguistics” workshop, University of Bologna, 7-8 October 2010 (with G. F. Arcodia).

Two kinds of complex deadjectival verbs in Mandarin Chinese. Poster presentation at the “14th International Morphology Meeting”, Budapest, 13-16 May 2010.

Modes of compounding in Bantu and Romance. Talk given at “The 5th meeting of the “European Network: Bantu, Chinese, Romance nouns and noun phrases”, University of Trento, 8-9 April 2010 (with D. Delfitto, G. Fiorin, N. Kula and C. Melloni).

Left-headed compounds in Mandarin Chinese: a focus on degree achievement verbs. Talk given at the AREC (Association Recherche et Enseignement du Chinois) 2009 Conference on “Word Formation in Chinese”, Paris (Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7), 7-8 November, 2009.

“Direct” and “indirect” causativization by morphological means: The case of Chinese. Poster presentation at the “7th Mediterranean Morphology Meeting (MMM7)”, University of Cyprus, 10-13 September, 2009.

Complex event structures and the inchoative /causative alternation in Chinese. Talk given at the “6th Conference of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics (EACL 6)”, Institute of Linguistics, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland, 26-28 August, 2009.

Nominal vs verbal compounding in Chinese: Headedness issues. Talk given at the “European Network: Bantu, Chinese, Romance nouns and noun phrases” third meeting, University of Verona, 19 January 2009.

Chinese compounds: classification and headedness. Talk given at the “6th Mediterranean Morphology Meeting (MMM6)”, Ithaca, 27-30 September, 2007 (with A. Ceccagno).

An Analysis of Chinese Neologisms: Compound Headedness and Classification Issues. Talk given at the “International Workshop of (in)Formal Linguistics: Compounding Theory and Morpho-Syntax”, University of Verona, 7 June 2007 (with S. Scalise and A. Ceccagno).

I composti del cinese [Chinese compounds]. Talk given at the “XI Convegno biennale dell’Associazione italiana di Studi Cinesi”, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Rome, “La Sapienza”, 22-24 February 2007 (with A. Ceccagno).

OTHER LECTURES

Verbal reduplication in Sinitic: a typological and areal perspective. Lecture given at The Education University of Hong Kong, 24 January 2024 (invited lecture).

Newly-coined Chinese affixes: A corpus-based study of 族 -zú, 党 -dǎng, and 客 -kè. Seminar Series in Digital Humanities, The Education University of Hong Kong, 9 December 2021 (invited lecture).

Reduplication in Sinitic languages: Structural, semantic and typological issues. Lecture for the students of the PhD program in Linguistics at the University of Padua, March 1 2013 (with G.F. Arcodia and C. Melloni).

Non solo mandarino: il cantonese e le altre lingue cinesi. Conferenza per il ciclo di incontri “Focus Cina” organizzato presso l’Università degli Studi Internazionali di Roma, 28 febbraio 2019 (con Luisa M. Paternicò).

Tempo e aspetto in cinese moderno [Tense and aspect in Modern Chinese]. Lectures for the MA program in Languages for Communication in International Enterprises and Organizations, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Department of Linguistic and Cultural Studies, 29 April 2016.

Classi vendleriane e composti risultativi del cinese [Vendlerian classes and resultative compounds in Chinese]. Lectures for the course in Chinese language at University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Department of Linguistic and Cultural Studies, 9 April 2015.

On Vendlerian classes, resultatives and degree achievements in Mandarin Chinese. Talk given at “Ling Lunch” Paris Diderot, Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7, UFR Linguistique, 12 March 2015.

Brand naming in China. Lecture for the course “Conoscere la Cina: opportunità per le imprese venete” [Knowing China: opportunities for Veneto enterprises], Regione Veneto, Mestre, 11 March 2014.

La figura della donna in Cina: i racconti di Ling Shuhua [The woman in China: Ling Shuhua’s short stories]. Lecture for the series “Brescia incontro all'Asia” [Brescia meets Asia], Libreria dell'Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Brescia, 26 November 2013 (with E. Peracin)

ORGANIZATION OF CONFERENCES

"L2 learner corpora and the acquisition of Chinese resultative verb complexes", first workshop of the PRIN project “ACHIEVE”, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, 8-9 June 2023.

Giornate di studio sulla linguistica cinese (Study days on Chinese Linguistics), “Linguistica cinese: tendenze e prospettive” [Chinese linguistics: trends and perspectives], Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 1-2 October 2014 (with M. Abbiati).

REFEREEING ACTIVITY

Member of the evaluation committee of the research unit CRLAO - Centre de recherches linguistiques sur l'Asie Orientale (High Council for the Evaluation of Research and Higher Education – Hcéres, France) (2023).

Reviewer for a DFG-Grant Proposal, German Research Foundation (2022).

Referee for the VQR (Evaluation of research quality) 2011-2014.

Member of the scientific committee of ISOCTAL 3 (The Second International Symposium on Chinese Theoretical and Applied Linguistics), University College Cork, Ireland, 12-14 December 2019.

Member of the scientific committee of ISOCTAL 2 (The Second International Symposium on Chinese Theoretical and Applied Linguistics), University of Milano-Bicocca, 14-16 December 2017.

Abstracts reviewer for:

•  “38th Incontro di Grammatica Generativa” (IGG 38), 23-25 February 2012, University of Verona;
• “Les Vingt-sixièmes Journées de Linguistique d’Asie Orientale” organized by the Centre de Recherches Linguistiques sur l’Asie Orientale (CRLAO), 27-28 June 2013, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris;
• "10th Conference of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics (EACL 10)", University of Milan and University of Milano-Bicocca, 28-29 September 2018.
• “V edizione delle Giornate di studio sulla linguistica cinese / V edition of the Study days on Chinese Linguistics”, Milan, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, 23-24 November 2018;
• “VI edizione delle Giornate di studio sulla linguistica cinese / VI edition of the Study days on Chinese Linguistics”, University of Bologna (Forlì), 23-25 June 2021.
• "Les 34es Journées de Linguistique Asie Orientale" (JLAO34) organized by the Centre de Recherches Linguistiques sur l’Asie Orientale (CRLAO), 7-9 July 2021.
• "11th Conference of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics (EACL 11)", Palacký University, Olomouc, 1-2 July 2022.
• “VII edizione delle Giornate di studio sulla linguistica cinese / VII edition of the Study days on Chinese Linguistics”, University of Bergamo, 9-10 September 2022.
• “8th edition of the Study Days on Chinese Linguistics (AILC-8), University of Verona, 19-20 June 2024.
•  “12th International Conference of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics (EACL- 12)”, Roma Tre University, 19-20 September 2024.
   

Reviewer for papers submitted to the following journals: Cahiers de Linguistique – Asie Orientale (CLAO), The Linguistic Review, Language Sciences; Linguistics, Glossa, Journal of East Asian Linguistics, Open Linguistics, Journal of Linguistics, Studia Linguistica, Folia Linguistica, The Linguistic Review, Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, Transactions of the Philological Society, Taiwan Journal of Linguistics, L'Analisi Linguistica e Letteraria. Reviewer for a monograph submitted to Language Science Press.

EDITORIAL BOARDS

Member of the editorial board of Sinica Venetiana, Edizioni Ca' Foscari.

Member of the editorial board of the journal Lingue e linguaggio.

MEMBERSHIP IN ASSOCIATIONS

AILC (Associazione Italiana di Linguistica cinese [Italian Association for Chinese Linguistics]): member of the Executive Committee from 2017 to June 2024.

AISC (Associazione Italiana di Studi Cinesi [Italian Association for Chinese Studies]): member since 2007.

CASLAR (Chinese as a Second Language Research): member since 2014.

EACL (European Association of Chinese Linguistics): member since 2007.

EACS (European Association of Chinese Studies): member since 2007.

IACL (International Association of Chinese Linguistics): member since 2009, member of the Executive Committee since 2023.

OTHER INSTITUTIONAL ACTIVITIES

18 October 2023 - present: Director's Delegate for Research, Department of Asian and North African Studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

September 2022 – present: member of the Research Committee, Department of Asian and North African Studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy.

January 2022 - present: responsible for language training (Chinese) (responsabile della formazione linguistica, lingua cinese), Department of Asian and North African Studies, Ca' Foscari University of Venice.

December 2021 - present: member of the PhD committee (collegio dei docenti) of the PhD programme in Asian and African Studies (Studi sull'Asia e sull'Africa), Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

May 2020 - present: academic coordinator of the double degree programmes jointly between Ca’ Foscari University - Department of Asian and North African Studies - and the Capital Normal University (Beijing).

March 2014 – October 2016, June 2017- April 2019; May 2020 - January 2022: Internship tutor (China), Department of Asian and North African Studies, Ca' Foscari University of Venice.

June 2017 – April 2019; May 2020 - November 2021: Responsible for Internship, Department of Asian and North African Studies, Ca' Foscari University of Venice.

March - November 2021: Department delegate for Placement, Department of Asian and North African Studies, Ca' Foscari University of Venice.

Academic coordinator of the Erasmus+ 2015 - KA1 International Credit Mobility (project for the mobility of students, teachers and administrative staff). Partner universities: Ca' Foscari University of Venice and University of International Business and Economics (UIBE), Beijing. Mobility period: 2016-2017 (until 31/10/2016).

Member of the TFA – “Tirocinio formativo attivo” committee (Teacher professional course entrance exam) 2014/15, Ca' Foscari University of Venice.

PARTICIPATION TO PhD COMMITTEES

Pre-reviewer (pré-rapporteur) and member of the PhD committee for the thesis of Zhang Xiaoqian, entitled Expressions duratives en chinois mandarin - Une étude sur l'aspect, PhD program in Linguistique théorique, descriptive et automatique, Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7. Date of defense: 4 July 2016.

Member of the PhD committee for the thesis of Julia An-Lun Cheng, entitled An Investigation of the Constraints on Nominal Argument Drop in Mandarin Chinese Using spoken Corpora, SOAS University of London. Date of defense: 18 September 2017.

Member of the PhD committee for the final exam of the PhD program in Civilizations of Asia and Africa (East Asia), 32nd cycle, Sapienza University of Rome. Date of defense: 28 February 2020.

Member of the PhD committee for the final exam of the PhD program in Civilizations of Asia and Africa (East Asia), 33rd cycle, Sapienza University of Rome. Date of defense: 14 September 2021.

Member of the PhD committee for the thesis of Yang Zhaole, entitled Yě yě yě - on the syntax and semantics of Mandarin yě, Leiden University (defense date: 25 June 2020)

Member of the PhD committee for the thesis of Chen Guanyi, entitled Computational Generation of Chinese Noun Phrases, Utrecht University (defense date: 12 April 2022).

Member of the PhD committee for the thesis of Bradley Lunsford, entitled A First Phase Syntax Approach to Verbal Compounds in Mandarin Chinese, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan (defense date: 30 June 2023).

Member of the PhD committee for the final exam of Chen Tang, PhD program in Culture letterarie e filologiche, 35th cycle, University of Bologna. Date of defense: 1 February 2024.

Member of the PhD committee for the final exam of Alessia Iurato, PhD program in Asian and Mediterranean African Studies, 35th cycle, within the
framework of the Joint Degree cotutelle between Ca' Foscari University of Venice and University of Bremen (defense date: 7 March 2024).