Elia DAL CORSO

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS

2021 - present : Adjunct professor in Japanese language and Ainu language (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia)

2019 - 2022 : Research grant holder (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"

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE  

February 2021 - present : 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.