Curriculum Vitae

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Rosanna Sornicola is Professor of General Linguistics at the Department of Modern Philology of the University of Naples Federico II, where she is also the Director of the European Master's Degree in Linguistics. She graduated in Linguistics and Modern Philology at the University of Naples in 1975. She was Visiting Fellow at Wolfson College (Cambridge) in 1983 and 1987, Visiting Researcher at the Department of Linguistics of the University of California (at Berkeley) (1985), Visiting Researcher at the Department of Italian of the University of California (at Los Angeles) (1988). She is a member of Wolfson College of the University of Cambridge. She was Visiting professor at the Universities of California at Los Angeles (1990), Manchester (1990), Girona (1996), Gand (1999), and has lectured in many other European Universities.

She has worked for several international research projects (The EUROTYP project of the European Science Foundation, 1990-1996; the Project on "Diachronie, diatopie, diastratie, diaphasie des langues romanes" directed by Eugenio Coseriu and Rika Van Deyck, 1993-2001) and is currently involved in various research projects on Italian sociolinguistics and dialectology in cooperation with the Department of Linguistics of the University of Turin and the Romanisches Seminar of the University of Heidelberg.

She is member of the scientific board of the reviews "Cahiers de linguistique romane", "Lingue e Linguaggi", "Revue de linguistique romane", and is co-editor of the journal "Bollettino Linguistico Campano". She has been member of the Executive Committee of the International Society for Historical Linguistics, of the Scientific Bureau of the Societé Internationale de linguistique et philologie romanes and since 1999 has served as President of the Società di Linguistica Italiana.

Her research interests concern phonetic, phonology, syntax and pragmatics of spoken language, the relationship between spoken and written discourse, Italian and Romance sociolinguistics and dialectology, synchronic and diachronic typology and history of linguistics (especially the history of European functionalism).

Her publications include the following books: La competenza multipla (Napoli, Liguori 1977), Sul parlato (Bologna, Il Mulino 1981), Il campo di tensione. La sintassi della Scuola di Praga (co-editor with Ales Svoboda, Napoli, Liguori 1992), The Virtues of Language. History in Language, Text and Literature (co-editor with Dieter Stein, Amsterdam, Benjamins 1998), Stability, Variation and Change of Word Order Patterns over Time (editor with Erich Poppe and Ariel Shisha Ha-Levy, Amsterdam, Benjamins 2000), Langue écrite, langue parlée dans le passé et dans le present (co-editor with Rika van Deyck and Johannes Kabatek, Tübingen, Narr, forthcoming). She is also author of many articles published in books and journals.