Alessandro PAPINI

Position
Research Grant Holder
E-mail
alessandro.papini@unive.it
Website
https://www.unive.it/people/alessandro.papini (personal record)
Office
Department of Humanities
Website: https://www.unive.it/dep.humanities

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Main departmental research areas and fields
Area: Filologia e Lingua Linea: Linguistica storica
Area: Scienze del linguaggio Linea: Dialettologia
Digital Latin Dialectology (DiLaDi): Tracing Linguistic Variation in the Light of Ancient and Early Medieval Sources
SSD:
L-FIL-LET/04
Other members of the research group:
Béla ADAMIK
Elisa D'ARGENIO
Digital Latin Dialectology (DiLaDi): Tracing Linguistic Variation in the Light of Ancient and Early Medieval Sources
SSD:
L-FIL-LET/04
Other members of the research group:
Béla ADAMIK
Digital Latin Dialectology (DiLaDi): Tracing Linguistic Variation in the Light of Ancient and Early Medieval Sources
SSD:
L-FIL-LET/04
Other members of the research group:
Béla ADAMIK
Digital Latin Dialectology (DiLaDi): Tracing Linguistic Variation in the Light of Ancient and Early Medieval Sources
SSD:
L-FIL-LET/04
Other members of the research group:
Béla ADAMIK
Digital Latin Dialectology (DiLaDi): Tracing Linguistic Variation in the Light of Ancient and Early Medieval Sources
Funding body:
ERC
Type:
HorizonEurope - Excellence Science
Role in the project:
LD
Sito di progetto:
https://pric.unive.it/projects/diladi/home
Starting date:
Year: 2023 Length in months: 60
Other members of the research group:
Béla ADAMIK

Publication highlights

Alessandro Papini Horrida Romoleum Certamina Pango Duellum : J. Fr. Champollion’s Latin Studies in the BNF Manuscript NAF 20365 in SCIENZE DELL'ANTICHITÀ, vol. 31, pp. 181-193 (ISSN 1123-5713)
2025, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5120970

Papini, Alessandro Some (statistical) considerations on the use of inscriptions for the study of “sociolinguistic” variation in Latin: the problem of “frequency” in ACTA LINGUISTICA ACADEMICA, vol. 73, pp. 96-114 (ISSN 2559-8201)
DOI 2025, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5120969

Papini, Alessandro On the interaction between vowel confusions ( e > for /i/ and o > for /u/) and lexical stress in Latin inscriptions from Rome (ca. 119 BCE – ca. 600 CE) in ACTA ANTIQUA ACADEMIAE SCIENTIARUM HUNGARICAE, vol. 63, pp. 561-574 (ISSN 0044-5975)
DOI 2024, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5120968

Papini Alessandro Ipsa Latinitas et Regionibus Cotidie Mutetur et Tempore : Some Methodological Considerations on the Use of Herman’s Quantitative Method in LISTY FILOLOGICKE, vol. 145, pp. 343-378 (ISSN 0024-4457)
2022, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5120967

Papini, Alessandro The e >/ i > spelling variation in Latin inscriptions from Rome (250 BC-AD 300): a preliminary (historical) sociolinguistic analysis based on the inscriptional data in REVUE BELGE DE PHILOLOGIE ET D'HISTOIRE, vol. 100, pp. 231-274 (ISSN 0035-0818)
2022, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5120950

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Curriculum vitae

I obtained my PhD in Linguistics from Ghent University (UGent) in 2024. My thesis focused on the qualitative and quantitative analysis of changes to the vowel system in Latin inscriptions from Rome between 250 BCE and 600 CE. I have also studied epigraphic forgeries and the transmission of the Latin literary tradition in the 19th century CE. I am currently a research grant holder at Ca'Foscari University of Venice, working on the ERC project Digital Latin Dialectology (DiLaDi). My primary focus here is on non-literary Latin in documentary sources from the early Middle Ages (Chartae Latinae Antiquiores).
My research approach combines traditional epigraphy and philology with historical sociolinguistics, as well as quantitative and statistical methodology. This aims to provide new, data-driven insights into questions that have long been addressed through qualitative methods alone.

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