Research activities

The most important research areas of the Linguistics section include:

General and Theoretical Linguistics, with particular reference to Morphology, Lexical Semantics and Semantics of Grammar Categories
Italian and Romance Dialectology; Linguistic Geography

Sociolinguistics, both as the Description and Theory of Variation and as Sociology of Languages, with particular reference to minority languages
Contact Linguistics
Italian Linguistics, with particular reference to its diachronic dimension
The History of the Italian Language, the Language Issue, Author Stylistics, Metrics
Typological Linguistics, especially in a descriptive and contrastive perspective
Historical Linguistics and the Theory of Language Change with particular reference to the evolution of the semantic-pragmatic categories
Acquisitional and Applied Linguistics