S2S Researchers

• Miriam Voghera is full professor at the University of Salerno, where she teaches Linguistics. Her research interests focus on spoken communication, multimodality, syntax and prosody, semantics and pragmatics, educational linguistics. Her most recent monograph is Dal parlato alla grammatica, Roma, Carocci, 2017.

• Cecilia Andorno is associate professor of Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics at University of Turin. Her main research interests include Second Language Acquisition and Plurilingual Education, and Spoken Language and Text Analysis in a comparative perspective, with specific focus on information structure studies. Her recent publications in this last area include the edited volume Focus on Additivity. Adverbial modifiers in Romance, Germanic and Slavic languages (2017, with A.M. De Cesare).

• Silvia Dal Negro is full professor at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Faculty of Education, where she teaches Linguistics, Language Education and Language Documentation. Her research interests are mainly in the domains of sociolinguistics and contact linguistics. In the last decade she has worked in particular on the contact between German and Italian in different speech communities in northern Italy.

• Emilia Calaresu is Associate Professor at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, where she teaches General Linguistics applied to Italian, and Pragmatics. Her research interests focus especially on grammar and discourse, dialogism, polyphony and reporting speech, spoken vs written language.

• Massimo Cerruti is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Turin. His research interests lie primarily in the fields of variationist sociolinguistics, dialectology and contact linguistics. He is co-coordinator of KIParla (www.kiparla.it) and principal investigator of ParlaTO (www.corpusparlato.com). His most recent publications include Intermediate language varieties. Koinai and regional standards in Europe (with S. Tsiplakou, eds.), John Benjamins, Amsterdam-Philadelphia 2020.

• Maria Elena Favilla is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. Her research areas include various issues in neurolinguistics, psycholinguistics and applied linguistics, such as aphasia and other language pathologies, reading and writing mechanisms, first and second language acquisition, first language teaching, language practices in public administration, in the double perspective, on the one side, of applying linguistic theories to the solution of practical problems concerning language and, on the other side, of collecting real data that can shed light on language processing.

• Francesca Masini is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Bologna. Her research and publications revolve primarily around semantics, morphology, and the lexicon, with a focus on multiword expressions, word classes, lexical typology, and the lexicon–syntax interface. She works primarily within Construction Grammar and Construction Morphology, combining usage-based, typological and quantitative methods. She is currently Editor-in-Chief of the journal Constructions and Frames (John Benjamins).

• Caterina Mauri is Associate Professor at the University of Bologna. She is mainly interested in the study of cross-linguistic and intra-linguistic variation, both from a typological and diachronic perspective. Her research is aimed at observing and understanding the emergence of grammars from discourse, employing a converging evidence methodology that integrates corpus data and typological variation. She applied this methodology in the study of different phenomena, including the study of coordination and subordination, logical connectives (especially disjunction) and discourse connectives, irrealis and modality, exemplification and non-exhaustivity, heterogeneous plurals, list constructions. She coordinated a four-year project funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research on the Linguistic expression of ad hoc categories (SIR n. RBSI14IIG0), and she is the founder and coordinator of the KIPArla Corpus, a project of an incremental and modular corpus of spoken Italian (www.kiparla.it).

• Andrea Sansò is Associate Professor of Linguistics and Pragmatics at the University of Insubria (Como). His research interests focus on linguistic typology (especially voice and modality) and discourse markers. He is author of the volume I segnali discorsivi, Roma, Carocci, 2020).