Research

PUBLICATIONS

PEER-REVIEWED BOOKS

C. R. Combei & V. Reggi. (2024). Appraisal, Sentiment and Emotion Analysis in Political Discourse A Multimodal, Multi-method Approach. Routledge, London/New York.

C. R. Combei. (2023). Speaking Italian with a Twist: A Corpus Study of Perceived Foreign Accent. Franco Angeli, Milano.

PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES 

A. Clementelli & C. R. Combei. (2025). Prospettive linguistiche e giuridiche sulla legge 482 del 1999. Quaderni Borromaici, 12, 215-229. 

A. Barcellini, C. Cassani, A. M. Mancuso, G. Antonelli, C. Baggini, L. Beduschi, E. Bettega, F. Bologna, D. Calzavara, C. Campiglio, F. Celestina, M. G. Colombo, C. R. Combei, S. D’Alpaos, S. Deandrea, S. Desigis, A. Dell’Era, F. Dionigi, C. Fasola, S. Illari, B. Iula, N. La Verde, M. Nebuloni, G. Negri, M. Ravasi, L. Ruggieri, R. Sartori, S. Secondino, M. S. Spinelli, B. Tagliaferri, D. Dalu, & L. D. Locati. (2025). Turning lessons into action: Building an inclusive oncology care for transgender and gender-diverse people – Pavia & Milano framework. Journal of Cancer Policy, 45, 100621. 

A. Luporini, C. R. Combei, L. Pannitto. (2024). Verbal and visual metaphors of an unfolding crisis:  Emerging styles of representation in British and Italian front page news at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic . DIVE-IN: An International Journal on Diversity and Inclusion, 4(2), 35-63. 

E. Didoni & C. R. Combei. (2024). Beyond "I Didn't Do it": A Linguistic Analysis of Denial in US Legal Settings. Languages, 9(11), 351, 1-22. 

F. Maracchione, G. Sciorati, & C. R. Combei. (2024). Changing Images? Italian Twitter Discourse on China and the United States during the First Wave of COVID-19. The International Spectator, 59(2), 77-94. 

M. M. Bolognesi, C. R. Combei, M. La Pietra, F. Masini. (2024). What makes an awfully good oxymoron. Language and Cognition, 16(1), 241-261. 

A. Bianco, C. R. Combei, C. Zanchi. (2023). Painting the Senate #Green: A Corpus Study of Twitter Sentiment Towards the Italian Environmentalist Blitz. Komp'ûternaâ Lingvistika I Intellektual'nye Tehnologii, 22(Supplementary Issue), 1021-1031.

C. R. Combei. (2022). A mixed-method corpus approach to the COVID-19 vaccination debate. In Lingue e Linguaggi, 47, 191-223.

C. R. Combei & A. Luporini. (2021). Sentiment and Emotion Analysis Meet Appraisal: A corpus study of tweets related to the Covid-19 pandemic. In Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 53(1/2), 115-136.

C. R. Combei, O. Tordini & F. Ardolino. (2020). L’acquisizione del sistema vocalico italiano: uno studio acustico su parlanti germanofoni e romenofoni. In Italiano LinguaDue, 12(2), 175-188.

C. R. Combei, M. Farnè, L. Pinto & D. Giannetti. (2020). Populism and Policy. Examining Political Communication on Twitter in Italy 2018-2019. Italian Political Science, 15(2), 223-241.

L. Busso, C. R. Combei & O. Tordini. (2020). The mediatization of femicide: a corpus-based study on the representation of gendered violence in Italian media. L’Analisi linguistica e letteraria, 28(3), 29-48.

C. R. Combei & D. Giannetti. (2020). The Immigration Issue in Twitter Political Communication: Italy 2018-2019. Comunicazione Politica, 21(2), 231-265.

PEER-REVIEWED BOOK CHAPTERS

L. Troncone, C. R. Combei. (2025). Non-structural vowel reduction in Italian: a study on diaphasic and diatopic variation. In Maria Roccaforte (Ed.), La comunicazione parlata / Spoken Communication, Vol. 4, Aracne: Roma, 515-529.

F. Masini, C. R. Combei, R. Cicchirillo. (2025). The Prosody of List Constructions. In K. Nikiforidou & M. Fried (Eds.), Multimodal communication from a Construction Grammar perspective, John Benjamins: Amsterdam, 116-151.

M. Gay & C. R. Combei. (2025). Whose Voice Speaks Volumes? The Problem with Gender Identification from Speech. In D. Mereu et al. (Eds.), Voci, media e nuove tecnologie, Collana di Studi AISV, Vol. 12. Officinaventuno, Milan, 225-241.

F. Masini & C. R. Combei. (2024). RadioCast-It - Corpus di italiano della radio e dei podcast. In S. Ballarè et al. (Eds.), Le varietà dell'italiano contemporaneo, Carocci: Roma, 195-196.

A. Barotto & C. R. Combei. (2023). Outlier latenti nelle costruzioni a lista: il caso del discorso politico su Twitter. In M. Roitman et al. (Eds.), The New Challenges of Populist Discourses in Romance Speaking Countries, Vol. 4, Stockholm University Press: Stockholm. 177-196.  

C. R. Combei. (2023). The Multimodal Expression of Denial: A Case Study on Femicide Suspects. In S. Cenceschi & C. Meluzzi (Eds.), Linguistica forense in prospettiva multidisciplinare, Vol. 10. Officinaventuno, Milano, 27-44.

C. R. Combei, A. Luporini, A. Pano Alaman & M. Turci. (2022). In guerra contro il virus invasore: un'analisi critica delle metafore sul COVID-19 nel discorso politico istituzionale. In S. Fusari, B. Ivancic & C. Mauri (eds.), Diversità e inclusione. Quando le parole sono importanti. Meltemi, Milano, 207-226.

C. R. Combei. (2022). Discussing Politics on Twitter: Some Evidence from Linguistics. In M. Ceravolo & A. Finozzi (Eds.),  Italian Studies Across Disciplines: Interdisciplinarity, New Approaches, and Future Directions. Aracne, Roma, 129-164.

C. R. Combei. (2020). “Parlo come mangio!” Il lessico populista su Twitter. In E. Magni & Y. Martari (Eds.), CLUB Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol. 4. AMSActa, Bologna, 102-122.

L. Busso, C. R. Combei & O. Tordini. (2020). Narrating Gender Violence. A Corpus-Based Study on the Representation of Gender-Based Violence in Italian Media. In G. Giusti & G. Iannàccaro (Eds.), Language Gender and Hate Speech. Edizioni Ca’ Foscari, Venice, 39-58.

C. R. Combei & G. Marotta. (2019). Where Do Accents Come from? Factors Affecting the Degree of Foreign-accented Italian. In D. Piccardi et al. (Eds.), Audio archives at the crossroads of speech sciences, digital humanities and digital heritage, Collana di Studi AISV, Vol. 6. Officinaventuno, Milan, 233-248.

L. Busso, C. R. Combei & O. Tordini. (2019). La rappresentazione lessicale della violenza di genere: “donne come vittime” nei media italiani. In B. Aldinucci et al. (Eds.), Parola. Una nozione unica per una ricerca multidisciplinare. Edizioni Università per Stranieri di Siena, Siena, 261-279.

C. R. Combei & O. Tordini. (2017). A pilot sociophonetic study on open-mid vowels uttered by young male and female speakers of the Pisan variety. In C. Bertini et al. (Eds.), Sources and functions of speech variation. Disentangling the role of biological and social factors, Collana di Studi AISV, Vol. 3. Officinaventuno, Milan, pp. 111-131.

PEER-REVIEWED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS (with ISBN)

A. Vignoli, C. R. Combei & F. Zappulla (2025). Verso la valutazione automatizzata dell'italiano L2: ETET tra LLM e tecnologie vocali. In C. Bosco et al. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 11th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (Cagliari, September 2025), ACL Anthology & CEUR Workshop Proceedings.

B. Marchesi, A. Clementelli, A. M. Mammarella, S. Zampetta, E. Biagetti, L. Brigada Villa, V. Mastellari, R. Ginevra, C. R. Combei & C. Zanchi (2025). Towards the Semi-Automated Population of the Ancient Greek WordNet. In C. Bosco et al. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 11th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (Cagliari, September 2025), ACL Anthology & CEUR Workshop Proceedings.

C. Cattaneo, C. R. Combei & C. Zanchi (2025). “Glottolab: A Linguistic Adventure”: Lo sviluppo di un’attività gamificata incentrata sulla linguistica. In S. Rebora et al. (Eds.) Diversità, Equità e Inclusione: Sfide e Opportunità per l’Informatica Umanistica nell’Era dell’Intelligenza Artificiale, Proceedings del XIV Convegno Annuale AIUCD2025 (Verona, June 2025), 411-418, Quaderni di Umanistica Digitale, AMS Acta, ALMA DL.

D. Santoro, B. Marchesi, S. Zampetta, M. Del Tredici, E. Biagetti, E. Litta, C. R. Combei, Stefano Rocchi, Tullio Facchinetti, Riccardo Ginevra & Chiara Zanchi (2025). Exploring Latin WordNet synset annotation with LLMs. In C. Zanchi et al. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 13th Global Wordnet Conference GWC2025 (Pavia, January, 2025).

L. Busso & C. R. Combei. (2024). Written Goodbyes: How Genre and Sociolinguistic Factors Influence the Content and Style of Suicide Notes. In F. Dell'Orletta et al. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 10th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (Pisa, December 2024), 114-121, ACL Anthology & CEUR Workshop Proceedings.

C. Zanchi, S. Luraghi, & C. R. Combei. (2022). PaVeDa – Pavia Verbs Database: Challenges and Perspectives. In E. Vylomova et al. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Computational Typology and Multilingual NLP (Seattle, July 2022), 99-102, ACL Anthology.

L. Pannitto, L. Busso, C. R. Combei, L. Messina, A. Miaschi, G. Sarti & M. Nissim. (2021). Teaching NLP with Bracelets and Restaurant Menus: An Interactive Workshop for Italian Students. In D. Jurgens, V. Kolhatkar, L. Li, M. Mieskes, T. Pedersen (Eds.) Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Teaching NLP (Mexico City, June 2021), 160-170, ACL Anthology.

L. Messina, L. Busso, C. R. Combei, L. Pannitto, A. Miaschi, G. Sarti & M. Nissim. (2021). A dissemination workshop for introducing young Italian students to NLP. In D. Jurgens, V. Kolhatkar, L. Li, M. Mieskes, T. Pedersen (Eds.) Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Teaching NLP (Mexico City, June 2021), 52-54, ACL Anthology.

C. R. Combei. (2019). Is “manovra” Really “del popolo”? Linguistic Insights into Twitter Reactions to the Annual Italian Budget Law. In R. Bernardi, R. Navigli & G. Semeraro (Eds.), Proceedings of the 6th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics CLiC-it 2019 (Bari, November 2019), Accademia University Press, Turin, paper21, 1-8.

C. R. Combei, D. Giannetti, M. Farnè & L. Pinto. (2019). Disentangling Populism in Floor Debates and Social Media: the Italian Case. In Proceedings from the 115th American Political Science Association’s Annual Meeting “Populism and privilege” (Washington DC, August-September 2019), APSA Pre-prints, Washington DC, 1-24.

C. R. Combei. (2017). CorAIt – A non-native speech database for Italian. In R. Basili et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 4th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (Rome, 2017). Collana dell'Associazione Italiana di Linguistica Computazionale, Accademia University Press, Turin, pp. 113-118.