Prof. Dr. Francesco Gardani

Romanisches Seminar
Zürichbergstrasse 8
CH - 8032 Zürich
Room ZUG F 63
francesco.gardani@uzh.ch

Office Hours by appointment

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I am currently accepting PhD applications in any of the following fields: Italo-Romance linguistics; contact-induced grammatical change; linguistic typology; linguistic morphology. Please note that you may need external funding; information on funding opportunities can be found here.

• Italo-Romance linguistics
• language contact
• linguistic typology
• linguistic morphology

• 2025

  • Artikel in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift

    • Gardani, F., & Zanini, C. (2025). A baseline for object clitic climbing in Italian Linguistics Vanguard, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2024-0133
    • Zanini, Chiara; Battistella, Greta; Gardani, Francesco (2025). L’é ciaro che se dise cusì. On Change in the System of Expletive Subject Clitics in Opitergino Journal of Linguistics, 61(2):397-437.

  • Buchkapitel

    • Gardani, F. (2025). 2 Affix pleonasm In P. O. Müller, S. Olsen, & F. Rainer (Eds.), Word-formation – Special patterns and restrictions (pp. 17–32). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111420554-002

    • Gardani, F., & Glessgen, M.-D. (2025).
      Foreword
      In S. Matrisciano-Mayerhofer, J. Schnitzer, & E. Peters (Eds.), Patterns, variants and change: Through the prism of morphology. Studies in honor of Franz Rainer (Vol. 5, pp. xi–xiii). Editions de Linguistique et de Philologie.

  • Konferenzbeitrag, Proceedings

    • Pellegrini, M., Boano, V. I., Gardani, F., Mambrini, F., Giovanni Moretti, & Passarotti, M. C. (2025). DynaMorphPro: A new diachronic and multilingual lexical resource in the LLOD ecosystem (M. Alam, A. Tchechmedjiev, Jorge Gracia, D. Gromann, M. P. Di Buono, J. Monti, & M. Ionov, Eds.; pp. 208–220). UniorPress. https://doi.org/10.6093/978-88-6719-333-2
• 2024

  • Artikel in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift

    • Gardani, F., & Zanini, C. (2025). A baseline for object clitic climbing in Italian Linguistics Vanguard, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2024-0133
    • Zanini, Chiara; Battistella, Greta; Gardani, Francesco (2025). L’é ciaro che se dise cusì. On Change in the System of Expletive Subject Clitics in Opitergino Journal of Linguistics, 61(2):397-437.

• 2024

  • Artikel in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift

    • Gardani, Francesco (2024). Where are features?. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 14(1):53-57.
    • Gardani, Francesco (2024). L’italoromanzo in contatto: osservazioni sulla permeabilità differenziale della grammatica al prestito. Revue de Linguistique Romane, 88:325-358

• 2023

  • Artikel in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift
    • Zanini, Chiara; Battistella, Greta; Gardani, Francesco (2023)L’é ciaro che se dise cusì. On Change in the System of Expletive Subject Clitics in Opitergino.Journal of Linguistics:1-41.

• 2022

  • Buchkapitel

    • Gardani, Francesco (2022). Contact and borrowing. In: Ledgeway, Adam; Maiden, Martin. The Cambridge Handbook of Romance linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 845-869.
    • Gardani, Francesco; Zanini, Chiara (2022). On the Subitizing Effect in Language Contact. In: Levie, Ronit; Bar-On, Amalia; Ashkenazi, Orit; Dattner, Elitzur; Brandes, Gilad. Developing Language and Literacy Studies in Honor of Dorit Diskin Ravid. Cham: Springer, 263-293.

• 2021

  • Artikel in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift

    • Loporcaro, Michele; Gardani, Francesco; Giudici, Alberto (2021). Contact-Induced Complexification in the Gender System of Istro-Romanian. Journal of Language Contact, 14(1):72-126.
    • Gardani, Francesco; Loporcaro, Michele; Giudici, Alberto (2021). In and Around the Balkans: Romance Languages and the Making of Layered Languages. Journal of Language Contact, 14(1):1-23.
    • Gardani, Francesco (2021). On how morphology spreads. Word Structure, 14(2):129-147.

  • Buchkapitel

    • Gardani, Francesco; Loporcaro, Michele; Giudici, Alberto (2021). Romance languages and the others: In and around the Balkans. In: Gardani, Francesco; Loporcaro, Michele; Giudici, Alberto. Journal of Language Contact. Leiden: Brill, 1-23.

  • Herausgeberschaft eines wissenschaftlichen Werks

    • Edited by: Gardani, Francesco; Rainer, Franz (2021). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Word Structure. Morphology in contact.
    • Edited by: Gardani, Francesco; Loporcaro, Michele; Giudici, Alberto (2021). Leiden: Brill Verlag. Journal of Language Contact.

• 2020

  • Artikel in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift

    • Gardani, Francesco (2020). Borrowing matter and pattern in morphology. An overview. Morphology, 2020(3):263-282.

  • Buchkapitel

    • Voga, Madeleine; Gardani, Francesco; Giraudo, Hélène (2020). Multilingualism and the Mental Lexicon. Insights from language processing, diachrony, and language contact. In: Pirrelli, Vito; Plag, Ingo; Dressler, Wolfgang. Word Knowledge and Word Usage A Cross-Disciplinary Guide to the Mental Lexicon. Berlin & Boston: De Guyter, 506-552.
    • Loporcaro, Michele (2020). Simplification and complexification in Wolof noun morphology and morphosyntax. In: Arkadiev, Peter; Gardani, Francesco. The complexities of morphology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 136-160.
    • Arkadiev, Peter; Gardani, Francesco (2020). Introduction: The Complexities of Morphology. In: Arkadiev, Peter; Gardani, Francesco. The complexities of morphology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1-19.
    • Gardani, Francesco (2020). Morphology and Contact-Induced Language Change. In: Grant, Anthony P. The Oxford handbook of language contact. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 95-122.

  • Herausgeberschaft eines wissenschaftlichen Werks

    • Edited by: Gardani, Francesco (2020). Switzerland: Springer. Morphology - Volume 30, Special Issue 4 / Special Issue: Borrowing matter and pattern in morphology.
    • Edited by: Arkadiev, Peter; Gardani, Francesco (2020). Oxford: Oxford University Press. The Complexities of Morphology.

• 2019

  • Buchkapitel

    • Gardani, Francesco; Rainer, Franz; Luschützky, Hans Christian (2019). Competition in Morphology: a historical outline. In: Rainer, Franz; Gardani, Francesco; Dressler, Wolfgang U.; Luschützky, Hans Christian. Competition in Inflection and Word-Formation. Cham, 3-36.

  • Herausgeberschaft eines wissenschaftlichen Werks

    • Edited by: Rainer, Franz; Gardani, Francesco; Dressler, Wolfgang U; Luschützky, Hans Christian (2019). Cham: Springer. Competition in Inflection and Word-Formation.

• 2018

  • Artikel in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift

    • Gardani, Francesco (2018). On morphological borrowing. Language and Linguistics Compass, 12(10):e12302.

  • Buchkapitel

    • Loporcaro, Michele; Kägi, Nadja; Gardani, Francesco (2018). Morfomi sommersi in Pantesco o dell’arte di arrangiarsi in morfologia. In: Chilà, Annamaria; De Angelis, Alessandro. Capitoli di morfosintassi delle varietà romanze d'Italia : teoria e dati empirici. Palermo: Centro di studi filologici e linguistici siciliani, 273-305.

  • Konferenzbeitrag, Proceedings

    • Loporcaro, Michele; Kägi, Nadja; Gardani, Francesco (2018). Morfomi sommersi in pantesco o dell’arte di arrangiarsi in morfologia. In: 13th Cambridge Italian Dialect Syntax-Morphology Meeting, Messina, 2 July 2018 - 4 July 2018, Centro di studi filologici e linguistici siciliani.

Seifart, Frank & Gardani, Francesco. 2026. AfBo 2.0: A world-wide survey of affix borrowing. Leipzig: Max Planck Institut für Evolutionäre Anthropologie. 10.5281/zenodo.3610154

Gardani, Francesco & Pellegrini, Matteo & Boano, Valeria Irene & Passarotti, Marco & Mambrini, Francesco & Moretti Giovanni. 2026. DynaMorphPro. (v1.0.0). Zenodo.10.5281/zenodo.18669871

2026 
Prof. Francesca Dell'Oro

2025
Dr. Carlo Ziano, Prof. Patience L. Epps, Fabian Helmrich, Marco Fioratti, Ivan Lacic

2024
Dr. Davide Garasino, Dr. Alberto Giudici

2023
Dr. Lorenzo Ferrarotti, Prof. Massimo Cerruti

2022
Prof. Roberta D’Alessandre, Prof. Peter Arkadiev,Prof. Greville G. Corbett, Prof. Francesca Dell’Oro, Dr. Chiara Fedriani, Prof. Martin Haspelmath, Prof. Franz Rainer, Christian Seidl, Prof. Richard Waltereit

2021
Prof. Artemis Alexiadou, Prof. Kersti Börjars, Dr. Patricia Cabredo Hofherr, Prof. Martin Haspelmath, Prof. Adam Ledgeway, Prof. Géraldine Legendre, Prof. Vito Pirrelli, Prof. Anna M. Thornton, Prof. Kofi Yakpo,Dr. Gerrit Jan Kootstra, Prof. Gunther Kaltenböck

2020
Prof. Silvio Cruschina