Research

Lara Mantovan is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies, Università Ca’ Foscari.

Research interests

sign language linguistics (syntax, sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, syntax-semantics interface, pragmatics)

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Research experience

• May 2022 - present: Associate professor

Ca' Foscari University, Venice

• Dec. 2018 - May 2022: Assistant professor

Ca' Foscari University, Venice

• Mar. 2018 - Dec. 2018: Postdoctoral fellowship

Ca' Foscari University, Venice

Research on several grammatical properties of LIS

Scientific advisor: Prof. C. Branchini

• Mar. 2017 - Feb. 2017: Postdoctoral fellowship

University of Milano-Bicocca

Research on several grammatical properties of LIS

Scientific advisor: Prof. C. Cecchetto

• Mar. 2016 - Feb. 2017: Postdoctoral fellowship

University of Milano-Bicocca

Research on several psycholinguistic and linguistic phenomena concerning LIS

Scientific advisor: Prof. C. Papagno

• Feb. 2015 - Jan. 2016: Postdoctoral fellowship

Ca' Foscari University, Venice

Research on structural aspects of nominal modification in LIS

Scientific advisor: Prof. C. Branchini

• Nov. 2014: Temporary research fellowship

Institut Jean-Nicod, Paris

Research project on null arguments in LIS: data annotation and data extraction

Scientific advisor: Prof. C. Geraci

Academic awards

• Winner of "Fondo di Premialità" for the year 2020 (scientific area: linguistics-philology-language teaching). Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies (Ca' Foscari University, Venice)

• Winner of “Don Giulio Tarra 2019” award (studies about deafness). Awarded paper: “The syntax of nominal modification in Italian Sign Language (LIS)”(Mantovan & Geraci, 2017)

• Winner of a Short Term Scientific Mission (COST Action IS1006). Institut Jean-Nicod, Paris (Feb. 2013 - May 2013) . Activities: data elicitation, data annotation, comparison LIS/LSF. Scientific advisor: Prof. C. Geraci

• Winner of a PhD scholarship (2011-2014) at Ca' Foscari University, Venice