Curriculum Vitae
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E-mail: mirko.santoro@cnrs.fr
E-mail: santmir81@gmail.com
EDUCATION
December, 19th 2018
Ph.D in Science of Language, Option: Linguistics
‘Compounds in sign languages: the case of Italian and French Sign Language’ at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)
Advisor: Carlo Geraci
September 2013
MA degree in Science du Langage: ‘Hierarchical and Linear structure: The case of weak crossover in French and Italian Sign Language’ at Université de Paris VIII
September 2012 - August 2013
Masters of Science (M2), Université Paris 8, Paris, France.
Concentration: Formal linguistics and sign language linguistics.
Description of the activities: The courses, attended at the Department of descriptive and theoretical linguistics, are: LSF Linguistics, research methodology, advanced morphology, the sign languages in the light of write.
February 2013
Won the prize for the best M1 thesis in 2012 at the EHESS, work on "Crossover Effects in Sign Language", conducted under the direction of François Recanati.
September 2011 – August 2012
Master (M1), EHESS, Paris, France.
Description of the activities: Courses attended at the Department of Cognitive Studies at the École Normale Supériéure. Courses attended: introduction to neuroscience, logic, syntax and semantics and advanced courses in syntax, neuropsicology.
Stage: Creation of two psycholinguistic tests for Italian sign language (a sentence comprehension task and a pseudo-sign test) and to a crosslinguistic project on the structure of classifier construction in Italian, French and Catalan sign language.
First Year Thesis: ‘Crossover Effects in Sign Language’.
August 2010 -- May 2011
International Student, Fullbright Program .
Department of Linguistics, Gallaudet University, Washington, D.C.
Description of the activities: Courses attended at the Department of linguistics, Courses attended in Master program: intro to phonology theory, intro to syntactic theory, intro to cognitive linguistics, Linguistics of Non-manual Sign, ASL phonology , ASL syntax, sociolinguistics of US Deaf community.
Audit courses attended: Research methods in interpretation, intro to first and second language acquisition.
Course attended in Bachelor program at the Department of ASL and Deaf Studies: ASL literature.
Linguistics Department’s Qualifying Exams is passed.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Date: 05/2018-03/2019
Research assistant: project “ADAPT PARLOMA” a remote communication system for deafblind people, Università Cà Foscari Venezia
Date: 02/2017-10-2017
Research assistant :CNRS Paris B, UMR8129, Institut Jean Nicod.
Date: 10/2016-01/2017
Research assistant : École Normale Supérieure
Date: 08/2014-01/2015
Visiting Scholar: UConn University Connecticut (USA) Department of Linguistics
Date: 10/2013-09/2016
PhD student : EHESS Paris, doctorant contractuel
Date: 2011-2013
Research engineer: CNRS Paris B, UMR8129, Institut Jean Nicod.
Date: 08/2010-05-2011
Visiting Scholar: Fulbright Visiting Scholar international student, Gallaudet University, Department of Linguistics.
Other Professional activities
2014
Translation and adaption to LIS of the educational website: http://www.bilinguismoconta.it (November 2014).
2010-2010
Collaborative Research Project ‘PRIN 2007’: documenting and analyzing variation in Italian Sign Language’. University of Milan-Bicocca, University of Milan, University of Rome-La Sapienza, University Ca' Foscari of Venice, Gallaudet University, and University of California at San Diego (2008 -- 2010), sign language consultant
2008
University of Siena, Siena, IT.
Corpus annotator, Department of linguistics ’Corpus News: Translate LIS and Glosses Automatic Translation LIS’ – Italian Project.
2006 -2010
University of Ca’ Foscari, Venice.
Language informant and consultant for formal linguistic research on LIS.
Topics include: Classifier predicates (D. Brentari & L. Mazzoni), the syntax of main and subordinate clauses (C. Geraci), and the syntax of determinant phrases and relative clauses (L. Bertone & M. Brunelli).
TEACHING
2021
Jan, 25-28- Mar. 15,
Visuel, Paris
Course title: Linguistique et LSF
2020
Dec. 01,
Université Paris 8, Paris
Course title: Introduction à la linguistique des langues des signes.
2019
Sept. 11-12,
Visuel, Paris
Course title: Introduction à la linguistique formelle
2018
Oct. 06-07,
Bologna, ENS sezione Regionale Emilia-Romagna (Association of the Deaf)
Course title: Corso Docente LIS modulo: Linguistica generale e applicata della LIS
May 19-20,
Bologna, ENS sezione Regionale Emilia-Romagna (Association of the Deaf)
Course title: Corso Docente LIS modulo: Linguistica generale e applicata della LIS
May 05-06,
Bologna, ENS sezione Regionale Emilia-Romagna (Association of the Deaf)
Course title: Corso Docente LIS modulo: Linguistica generale e applicata della LIS
2017
Dec. 11-12,
Visuel, Paris
Course title: Introduction à la linguistique formelle
May 8-12,
FEAST Summer School
Course title: Capacity building training session for early stage Deaf researchers in sign linguistics Phonology.
January 28-29,
Napoli, ENS sezione provinciale
Workshop: "Arricchimento strutturale LIS"
2016
November 26
Bologna, cooperativa sociale ‘Serivice and Work’
Workshop: "Corso di formazione: Linguistica "Dall'unità lessicale ai Composti passando per i Classificatori"
October, 29
Bologna, Cooperativa sociale ‘Service and Work’
Workshop: "Full immersion sintassi LIS"
May, 21
Bologna, Cooperativa sociale ‘Service and Work’
Course title: ”Sintassi generativa applicata alla LIS"
March, 05
Bologna, Cooperativa sociale ‘Service and Work’
Course title: ”Il lessico e nuovi studi sui composti nelle Lingue dei Segni"
February 2012
Istituto Statale per Sordi di Roma (ISSR, Rome School for the Deaf), Rome
Linguistics of LIS Instructor; LIS Teacher Qualification Certificate: ‘Advanced cours for LIS teachers’.
2008 -- 2009
Leonardo Da Vinci Elemantary School, Noventa Padovana, IT.
Educator; LIS-Italian bilingual classroom.
March 2008 -- May 2008; June 2011
University of Verona, Verona, IT.
LIS Instructor; Expert Educators in Sensory Disability MA Degree.
2008
Province of Verona, Verona, IT.
LIS & Deaf Culture Instructor; Expert Educators in Sensory Disability MA Degree.
2008
Ente Nazionale Sordi (Association of the Deaf), Treviso.
Linguistics of LIS & Deaf Culture Instructor; Certificate of Sign Language Studies.
2008
Ente Nazionale Sordi (Association of the Deaf), Bologna.
Linguistics of LIS & Deaf Culture Instructor; Certificate of Sign Language Studies.
2007
Ente Nazionale Sordi (Association of the Deaf), Modena.
Linguistics of LIS & Deaf Culture Instructor; Certificate of Sign Language Studies.
2007
Ente Nazionale Sordi (Association of the Deaf), Bologna.
Linguistics of LIS & Deaf Culture Instructor; Certificate of Sign Language Studies.
2006
Cittadella Elementary School, Modena.
LIS/Deaf Culture Instructor for faculty and staff members.
January 2001 -- June 2010
University of Ca’ Foscari, Venice, Italy.
LIS Instructor, BA program; Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature.
LIS Instructor, Advanced Practices of Italian Sign Language Certificate Program; Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature.
REVIEWING ACTIVITIES
conference reviewer:
TISLR (2022)
FEAST (2021)
FEAST (2020)
TISLR 13 (2019)
PUBLICATIONS
Articles on peer reviewed journals
Cecchetto, C., Checchetto, A., Giustolisi, B., & Santoro, M. Age of exposure and subject/object asymmetries when wh-movement goes rightward: the case of LIS interrogatives. Sign Language & Linguistics. (2021)
Santoro, M. (2019). Compounds in sign languages: The case of Italian and French Sign Language. Sign Language & Linguistics, 22(2), 291-297.
Aristodemo V. and Santoro M. Iconic components as gestural elements: the case of LIS. Short commentary on 'Visible Meaning: Sign Language and the Foundations of Semantics' by Schlenker Philippe. Theoretical Linguistics (2018)
Schlenker, Philippe; Aristodemo, Valentina; Ducasse, Ludovic; Lamberton, Jonathan; Santoro, Mirko: The Unity of Focus: Evidence from Sign Language. Linguistic Inquiry. 47 :2 (2016) 363-381.
Cecchetto, C., Checchetto, A., Geraci, C., Santoro, M., & Zucchi, S. (2015). The syntax of predicate ellipsis in Italian Sign Language (LIS). Lingua, 166, 214-235, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2014.12.011.
Schlenker, P. Lamberton, J. Santoro, M. Iconic Variables , Linguistics & Philosophy 36(2): (2013) 91-149.
Conference proceedings
Mirko Santoro, Valentina Aristodemo. A preliminary study on causatives in Italian Sign Language. FEAST. Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign language Theory, 4, pp.139-149, 2021,
Conte, G., Santoro, M., Geraci, C., & Cardinaletti, A. Why are you raising your eyebrows? In Proceedings of Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), (2010) 53-56.
Carlo, Geraci, et al. Cecchetto Carlo, Donati Caterina, Giudice Serena, Mereghetti Emiliano, Poletti Fabio, Santoro Mirko, Zucchi Sandro. Building a corpus for Italian Sign Language: Methodological issues and some preliminary results (2010): 98-101.
Book Chapters
Morphology Chapter 1: Compunding in The Sign Hub LIS grammar Ed. Chiara Branchini (2020).
Santoro, M. and Poletti F. L'annotazione del corpus. In Anna Cardinaletti, Carlo Cecchetto and Caterina Donati (eds), Grammatica, lessico e dimensioni di variazione nella LIS, Franco Angeli, Milano (2012) 69-78.
Conte, G., Santoro, M., Geraci, C., & Cardinaletti, A. Perché alzi le sopracciglia? Le funzioni linguistiche marcate dal sollevamento in LIS. . In Anna Cardinaletti, Carlo Cecchetto and Caterina Donati (eds), Grammatica, lessico e dimensioni di variazione nella LIS, Franco Angeli, Milano (2018) 161-70.
Books
Sara Trovato, Anna Folchi, Claudio Baj, Mirko Santoro e Graziella Anselmo. Insegnare e imparare la LIS. Competenza di base nella lingua dei segni italiana. Livelli A1 e A2 Trento: Erickson (2020).
Translations
Translation and adaption to LIS of the educational website: http://www.bilinguismoconta.it (November 2014).
Translation in LIS of Pinocchio (joint translation with Gabriele Caia). Published as: Bertone C. (ed.) Pinocchio in LIS. Cà Foscarina, Venezia. 2013.
PAPER IN PROGRESS
Submitted
Santoro, M. Trovato, S. Academic matters. The Deaf perspective: Difficulties and proposed solutions. In Sara Trovato (eds.) The Social Condition of Deaf People, De Gruyter
Aristodemo, V., Geraci, C. and Santoro, M. Temporal clauses in Italian Sign Language.
Philippe Schlenker , Marion Bonnet , Jonathan Lamberton , Deanna Gagne , Mirko Santoro , Carlo Geraci, Iconic Syntax: Sign Language Classifier Predicates and Gesture Sequences
In preparation
Santoro, M., Mantovan, L., Aristodemo, V. and Geraci, C. Null subjects in Italian Sign Language.
Geraci, C., Aristodemo, V., Mantovan, L., and Santoro, M. Backwards agreement in not so backwards after all.
Santoro, M. Typological perspective on compounds in LIS and LSF.
Santoro, M. The perception of compounds in LIS and LSF: experimental perspective.
POSTER AND PRESENTATIONS
2021
Talk: A preliminary study on causatives in Italian Sign Language, FEAST Honk Hong 01-04 June 2021
2020
Poster: Typology of compounds in phonological perspective, FEAST Paris 23-25 June 2020.
2019
Poster: Typological perspective on compounds in LIS and LSF, TISLR Hambourg 26-28 September 2019.
2018
Talk: Composti sequenziali vs simultanei in LIS: un approccio sperimentale, 4° Convegno Nazionale LIS, Rome, 9-11 November 2018.
Poster: Il soggetto nullo nella LIS: Uno studio tratto dal corpus PRIN, 4° Convegno Nazionale LIS, Rome, 9-11 November 2018.
Talk: Expérience sur les mots composés séquentiels et simultanés en LSF, IIIè Rencontres Interdisciplinaire franco-brésiliennes: Surdité, Singularité et Universalité. Paris VIII University, Oct. 29-30.
Talk: Typological Perspectives on Compounds in LIS and LSF SSLL2018, Osaka, Japan, Sept. 28-30,
Invited talk: Typological Perspectives on Compounds in LIS and LSF. Workshop Sign language grammars through the formal and experimental glass, Rethymnon, Crete, July 25-26.
Talk: Compounds in French Sign Language. Paris 8, Paris, France, Feb. 05, Paris VIII University.
2017
Talk: Conflict in Sign Language Agreement: the case of backwards verbs (with Carlo Geraci, Lara Mantovan and Mirko Santoro). RCAB, Dubrovnik, Croatia, Oct. 20-22.
Talk: Compounds in Italian Sign Language (LIS) SSLL2017, Osaka, Japan, Sept. 22-34.
Talk: Agreement in Sign Language: the case of backwards verbs (with Carlo Geraci, Lara Mantovan and Mirko Santoro). IGG 43, Pavia, Italy, Feb. 15-17.
Talk: Compounds in Italian Sign Language (LIS). LANGUAGE Seminar, Institut Jean-Nicod, Paris, France, Feb. 08.
Talk: Temporal clauses in Italian Sign Language (with Carlo Geraci and Mirko Santoro). LANGUAGE Seminar, Institut Jean-Nicod, Paris, Jan. 18.
2016
Talk: A sociolinguistic view on variable subjects in Italian Sign Language (talk presented with Carlo Geraci, Lara Mantovan and Valentina Aristodemo) Grammar and Corpora, IDS, Mannheim, Germany, Nov. 9-11.Talk: Temporal clauses in Italian Sign Language (talk presented with V. Aristodemo) Società Linguistica Italiana (SLI) 2016 Workshop on “Subortination in spoken and Sign Language” Milano, Italy. Sept. 22-24.Poster: Simultaneous and Sequential compounds in LIS: Preliminary results from a perceptual experiment FEAST Venice, Italy, Sept. 1-2.
Talk: Temporal clauses in Italian Sign Language (talk presented with V. Aristodemo and Carlo Geraci) FEAST Venice, Italy, Sept. 1-2.
Talk: 7th Absolute adjectives: Signs Vs. Gestures (talk presented with Aristodemo Valentina) Conference of the international Society for Gesture Studies ISGS, Paris France, July. 18-22.
Talk: Backward agreement is not so backward after all: the role of loci in the grammar of SL (talk presented with C. Geraci, V. Aristodemo, L. Mantovan) DGfS 2016, Konstanz Germany, Feb. 22-26.Poster: Variable subjects in LIS: a corpus study (poster presented with C. Geraci, L. Mantovan) TISLR 12, Melbourne, Australia, Jan. 4-7.
2015
Talk: Italian Sign Language (LIS) Corpus (talk presented with C. Geraci) Digging into Signs London, United Kingdom, Marc 30-31.
2013
Poster: The SAME VP ellipsis in Italian Sign Language (LIS) (Poster presented with C. Cecchetto, A. Checchetto, C. Geraci, A. Zucchi) TISLR London, July 10-12.
Poster: Cross-over in Sign Language (Poster presented with C. Geraci) TISLR London, July 10-12.
2012
Talk: The SAME VP ellipsis in Italian Sign Language (LIS) (Talk presented with C. Cecchetto, A. Checchetto, C. Geraci, A. Zucchi) Vigo, Spain
2011
Talk: Annotare il corpus di LIS: individuare i fenomeni e codificarli con ELAN (Annotating the LIS corpus: finding linguistic phenomena and coding with ELAN). (Talk presented with Fabio Poletti) La lingua dei segni italiana: Grammatica, lessico e dimensioni di variazione (LIS: Grammar and Lexical Variation), Venice.
2010
Poster: Why are you raising your eyebrows? (Poster presented with: G. Conte, A. Cardinaletti and C. Geraci) LREC 2010, 4th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Corpora and Sign Language Technologies (CSLT), La Valletta, Malta. May 22-23
Poster: Building a corpus for Italian Sign Language: Methodological issues and some preliminary results. (presented with: R. Bayley, C. Branchini, A. Cardinaletti, C. Cecchetto, C. Geraci, C. Donati, S. Giudice, E. Mereghetti, F. Poletti, and S. Zucchi) LREC 2010, 4th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Corpora and Sign Language Technologies (CSLT), La Valletta, Malta. May 22-23.
2009
Talk: La Lingua Italiana dei Segni: risorsa per la persona sorda (LIS and Deaf Gain) TUTTI UGUALI, TUTTI DIVERSI. Convegno sulle Disabilità Sensoriali (All Together, All Diverse. A Sensory Disability Conference), Verona. Jan. 23-24.
2007
Talk: Comparative correlatives in LIS (Talk presented with: Carlo Geraci) Workshop on Grammatica della lingua dei segni italiana, Venice, May 16-17.
AWARDS AND PRIZES
2012: Best M1 thesis at the EHESS, work on "Crossover Effects in Sign Language", conducted under the direction of Philippe Schlenker.
LANGUAGES
LIS (Italian Sign Language): native, Italian: native, ASL (American Sign Language): advanced, Written English: upper intermediate, LSF (French Sign Language): advanced, French Written: upper intermediate.