Prof. Dr. Francesco Gardani

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Main focus areas:

• Italo-Romance varieties
• Morphology
• Language contact

Current research activities:

• Contact-induced morphological and syntactic change incl. fieldwork on heritage languages
• Subject clitics in northern Italo-Romance (with Dr. Chiara Zanini and Dr. Lorenzo Ferrarotti)
• Syncretism in Italo-Romance (with Dr. Borja Herce)

• 2023

  • Journal Article

    • 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

  • Book Section

    • 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

  • Journal Article

    • 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.

  • Book Section

    • 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.

  • Edited Scientific Work

    • 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

  • Journal Article

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

  • Book Section

    • 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.

  • Edited Scientific Work

    • 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

  • Book Section

    • 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.

  • Edited Scientific Work

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

• 2018

  • Journal Article

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

  • Book Section

    • 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.

  • Conference or Workshop item

    • 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.

• 2017

  • Book Section

    • Gardani, Francesco (2017). Business negotiations. In: Mautner, Gerlinde; Rainer, Franz. Handbook of business communication: Linguistic approaches. Boston & Berlin: De Gruyter, 91-109.

• 2016

  • Book Section

    • Gardani, Francesco (2016). Allogenous exaptation. In: Norde, Muriel; Van de Velde, Freek. Exaptation and Language Change. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing, 227-260.

• 2014

  • Journal Article

    • Loporcaro, Michele; Faraoni, Vincenzo; Gardani, Francesco (2014). The third gender of Old Italian. Diachronica, 31(1):1-22.

• 2013

  • Book Section

    • Faraoni, V; Gardani, F; Loporcaro, M (2013). Manifestazioni del neutro nell’italo-romanzo medievale. In: Casanova Herrero, E; Calvo Rigual, C. Actas del XXVI congreso internationcal de linguística y de filología románicas, Valencia 2010. Berlin: De Gruyter, 171-182.

2023

Dr. Lorenzo Ferrarotti, Prof. Massimo Cerruti

2022

Prof. Roberta D’Alessandro, Prof. Peter Arkadiev, Prof. Greville G. Corbett, Prof. Francesca Dell’Oro, Dr. Chiara Fedriani, Prof. Martin Haspelmath, Prof. Franz Rainer, Dr. 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