Education
2020
Ph.D. in Icelandic Linguistics, University of Iceland.
2014
B.A. in Icelandic as a second language, University of Iceland.
2013
M.A. in Modern Philology, University of Pisa, Italy.
2010
B.A. in European Languages and Literatures, University of Pisa, Italy.
2007
Liceo Classico high-school diploma, Grosseto, Italy
Employment
2025, Sept. [–2027, Aug.]
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, Università di Pavia, Italy.
2024, March–2025, March
JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.
2023, October–2024, February
2025, March–2025, Aug.
Researcher, Uppsala University, Sweden
2021, August–2023, July
Postdoctoral Fellow, Uppsala University, Sweden.
2020, December– 2021, July
Postdoctoral Fellow, Università di Trento, Italy.
Major publications
Books
2025
Fornisländska: Språk och texter. Uppsala: Institutionen för nordiska språk.
2022
Loanwords and native words in Old and Middle Icelandic (12th c.–1550) — A study in the history and dynamics of the Icelandic medieval lexicon. Studies in Viking and Medieval Scandinavia 4. Turnhout: Brepols.
Edited Volumes
2023
Från Island till Sverige och tillbaka, edited as the main editor in collaboration with Henrik Williams and Lasse Mårtensson. Nordiska texter och undersökningar 33. Uppsala: Institutionen för nordiska språk.
2021
Studies in general and historical linguistics offered to Jón Axel Harðarson on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft 166. Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachwissenschaft.
Journal articles and conference proceedings
[forthc. 2026]
(co-authored with Stephen Laker, Kyushu University) ‘to know’, ‘to teach’, and ‘to learn’ in Germanic. Journal of Germanic Linguistics 38 (issue to be assigned).
[forthc. 2025]
Lat. vīpera ‘viper, snake’. Die Sprache 57. 141–145.
2025
(co-authored with Chiara Zanchi, Università di Pavia) Basic valency orientation in Gothic. Indogermanische Forschungen 130. 257–283.
2023a
PIE *lei̯s-. Historische Sprachforschung 136. 226–256.
2022a
OIcel. kærr ‘dear, beloved’ and the “Picardian hypothesis”. Scripta Islandica 73: 65–74.
2022b
Grammatical core terminology in Icelandic: An onomasiological study. NOWELE 75(2): 123–159.
2021a
(co-authored with Chiara Zanchi, Università di Pavia) Valency patterns and alternations in Gothic. Luraghi, Silvia and Elisa Roma (eds), Valency over Time, 31–87. Trends in Linguistics — Studies and Monographs 368. Berlin: de Gruyter.
2021b
The language of Halldór Laxness’ Gerpla. Arkiv för Nordisk Filologi. 136: 163–207.
2019a
Towards a phonology of Scandinavian Latin runic inscriptions: A corpus-based analysis. Latin Vulgaire - Latin Tardif XIII (Acta Antiqua Academiæ Scientiarum Hungaricæ 59(1–4): 85–96). Budapest: Eötvös Loránd University.
2019b
Lat. scrībere in Germanic. NOWELE 72(1): 42–59.