Ludovico FRANCO

Ruolo attuale:: Professore Associato
SSD:: GLOT-01/A - Glottologia e linguistica
Afferenza organizzativa:: Dipartimento di Lettere e Filosofia

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Ludovico FRANCO

Biografia

Nato nel 1976 a Firenze. Ha al suo attivo due dottorati di ricerca (Università di Firenze/Siena e
Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia). Attualmente è Professore Associato (L/Lin01 - Glottologia e Linguistica) presso l'Università di Firenze. Dal 2014 al 2018 è stato impegnato in attività di ricerca e insegnamento (investigador FCT in Linguistica) presso l’Universidade Nova di Lisbona dopo aver ottenuto un finanziamento per lo studio della morfosintassi dei sistemi di caso e relazioni grammaticali. Dal 2017 è membro del collegio di dottorato in “Lingue, letterature e culture comparate” (sede amministrativa: Università di Firenze). Ha ottenuto l’Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale a Professore Ordinario per il Settore Concorsuale 10/G1.
Studioso in particolare di morfosintassi e di afasia, il nucleo centrale della sua produzione scientifica riguarda la teoria della sintassi e l’analisi morfosintattica. Ha pubblicato numerosi articoli in prestigiose sedi internazionali.

Ludovico FRANCO

Curriculum

Curriculum vitae

Ludovico FRANCO

Interessi

Morfosintassi, linguistica teorica, neurolinguistica, pragmatica.

Ludovico FRANCO

Pubblicazioni

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Tesi di Dottorato

Franco, Ludovico (2024). Elementary Predicates and Related Categories. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, ISBN:9789027214997 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Franco, Ludovico; Rugna, Giuseppe (2024). The Morphosyntax of Proper Names: Individuals, Sets and the Light Noun Hypothesis. QUADERNI DI LINGUISTICA E STUDI ORIENTALI, vol. 10, pp. 9-27, ISSN:2421-7220 DOI

Franco Ludovico (2023). Persuasione e legittimazione - comunicazione sanitaria e persuasione nell'era post-Covid. In: Benedetta Baldi. Persuasione, pp. 87-106, Milano - Udine: Mimesis, ISBN:979-12-2230-158-7.

Foppolo, Francesca; Mazzaggio, Greta; Franco, Ludovico; Manzini, Maria Rita (2023). A group of researchers are testing pseudopartitives in Italian: Notional number is not the key to the facts. GLOSSA PSYCHOLINGUISTICS, vol. 2, pp. 1-34, ISSN:2767-0279 DOI

Franco, Ludovico; Lorusso, Paolo (2022). Derivational Relators in Italian. LANGUAGES, vol. 7, pp. 130-143, ISSN:2226-471X DOI

Franco, Ludovico; Lorusso, Paolo (2022). On the interpretation of proper temporal adverbs in Italian: the role of P and D. ISOGLOSS, vol. 8, pp. 1-18, ISSN:2385-4138 DOI

Ludovico Franco (2022). On Intensifiers and Categorial Shift: The Case of Temperature Terms in Italian. QUADERNI DI LINGUISTICA E STUDI ORIENTALI, vol. 8, pp. 9-22, ISSN:2421-7220 DOI

rugna giuseppe; franco ludovico (2022). Prepositions as relators in Italian Prepositional Compounds. ISOGLOSS, vol. 8, pp. 1-21, ISSN:2385-4138 DOI

Ludovico Franco; Maria Rita Manzini; Leonardo M. Savoia (2021). Locative Ps as general relators: Location, direction, DOM in Romance. LINGUISTIC VARIATION, pp. 135-173, ISSN:2211-6834 DOI

Franco, Ludovico (2021). The morphosyntactic interaction of kinship terms with evaluative morphemes in Italian. QUADERNI DI LINGUISTICA E STUDI ORIENTALI, vol. 7, pp. 75-88, ISSN:2421-7220 DOI

Ludovico franco; paolo lorusso (2020). Aspectual datives (and instrumentals). In: Anna Pineda, Jaume Mateu. Dative constructions in Romance and beyond, pp. 175-194, Berlino: Language Science Press, ISBN:978-3-96110-250-1.

Franco, Ludovico; Lorusso, Paolo (2020). Linguistic Variation: Structure and Interpretation.. Berlino: Mouton De Gruyter, 9781501505201.

Franco, Ludovico (2020). (Im)proper prepositions in (Old and Modern) Italian. In: Ludovico Franco, Paolo Lorusso. Linguistic Variation: Structure and Interpretation, pp. 249-272, Berlino: Mouton De Gruyter, ISBN:9781501505201. DOI

Franco, Ludovico*; Baldi, Benedetta; Savoia, Leonardo M. (2020). Collectivizers in Italian (and beyond). The interplay between collectivizing and evaluating morphology (and the Div paradox). STUDIA LINGUISTICA, vol. 74, pp. 1-40, ISSN:0039-3193 Accesso ONLINE all'editore

M. Rita Manzini, Leonardo M. Savoia, Ludovico Franco (2020). DOM and Dative in (Italo-)Romance. In: András Bárány, Laura Kalin. Case, Agreement, and their Interactions, pp. 219-270, Berlino: De Gruyter, ISBN:978-3-11-066623-6.

Mihaela Moreno Marchis; Ludovico franco (2020). Intervention in agreement and case assignment: the role of doubling. QUADERNI DI LINGUISTICA E STUDI ORIENTALI, vol. 6, pp. 125-159, ISSN:2421-7220 DOI

Franco Ludovico; Paolo Lorusso (2020). Verbi di maniera e predicazione elementare in una prospettiva interlinguistica. TESTI E LINGUAGGI, vol. 14, pp. 242-258, ISSN:1974-2886

greta mazzaggio; ludovico franco; m. rita manzini (2020). Pseudopartitives vs. agreement attraction: an experimental study. LINGUE E LINGUAGGIO, vol. XIX, pp. 159-190, ISSN:1720-9331

matthew reeve; mihaela marchis moreno; ludovico franco (2019). Introduction.. In: franco, ludovico; mihaela marchis moreno; matthew reeve. Agreement, case and locality in the nominal and verbal domains, pp. 1-20, berlino: Language Science Press, ISBN:978-3-96110-201-3.

franco, ludovico (2019). A Syntactic Interpretation of the Applicative-Causative Syncretism.. QUADERNI DI LINGUISTICA E STUDI ORIENTALI, vol. 5, pp. 107-134, ISSN:2421-7220 Accesso ONLINE all'editore

rita manzini; ludovico franco; leonardo m. savoia (2019). Suffixaufnahme, oblique case and Agree.. In: franco, ludovico; mihaela marchis moreno; matthew reeve. Agreement, case and locality in the nominal and verbal domains, pp. 211-255, berlino: Language Science Press, ISBN:978-3-96110-201-3.

Baldi, Benedetta; Franco, Ludovico; Savoia, Leonardo Maria (2019). Alternative truths and delegitimization pragmatic strategies around the 2018 Italian Elections. JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE AGGRESSION AND CONFLICT, vol. 7, 2, pp. 293-320, ISSN:2213-1272 DOI

ludovico franco; paolo lorusso (2019). The expression of proper location and beyond: motion-to and state-in in Italian spatial adpositions.. In: Maggie Baird, Jonathan Pesetsky. NELS 49: Proceedings of the Forty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society: Volume 1, pp. 279-290 GLSA: University of Massachusetts, Amherst, ISBN:978-1698805931. Accesso ONLINE all'editore

M. Rita Manzini, Ludovico Franco (2019). ‘Agreement of structural obliques’ parameter. LINGVISTICAE INVESTIGATIONES, pp. 82-101, ISSN:0378-4169

franco ludovico; mihaela marchis moreno; matthew reeve (2019). Agreement, case and locality in the nominal and verbal domain.. Berlino: Language Science Press, 978-3-96110-201-3.

LUDOVICO FRANCO; Paolo Lorusso (2018). On the Morpho-Syntax of Existential Sentences in Romance based Creoles. QUADERNI DI LINGUISTICA E STUDI ORIENTALI, vol. 4, pp. 47-72, ISSN:2421-7220 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

LUDOVICO FRANCO; Paolo Lorusso (2018). On the syntax of Pantiscu aspectual subject clitics. UCD Working Papers in Italian Studies, vol. 1, pp. 33-44

Ludovico franco (2018). Fake news e strategie di delegittimazione nel contesto delle elezioni politiche del 2018. In: Benedetta Baldi. Complotti e Raggiri - verità, non verità, verità nascoste, pp. 149-161, Roma: Viella, ISBN:978-88-3313-100-9.

Benedetta Baldi; Ludovico Franco (2018). Gender, number and inflectional class in some North-Italian dialects. The plural inflection -i and the interpretation of N morphology.. In: Mirko Grimaldi, Rosangela Lai, Ludovico Franco, Benedetta Baldi. Structuring Varition in Romance Linguistics and Beyond. In honour of Leonardo M. Savoia, pp. 31-54, Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, ISBN:978 90 272 0190 4.

Mirko Grimaldi, Rosangela Lai, Ludovico Franco, Benedetta Baldi (2018). Structuring Variation in Romance Linguistics and Beyond - In honour of Leonardo M. Savoia. di Mirko Grimaldi, Rosangela Lai, Ludovico Franco, Benedetta Baldi, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 1-395, 9789027201904.

LUDOVICO FRANCO (2018). Oblique Serial verbs in Pidgin/Creole languages. QUADERNI DI LINGUISTICA E STUDI ORIENTALI, vol. 4, pp. 73-108, ISSN:2421-7220 DOI

Ludovico franco (2018). Introduction: Issues in the Morphosyntax of Pidgin, Creole and Mixed Languages: a Romance Perspective. QUADERNI DI LINGUISTICA E STUDI ORIENTALI, vol. 4, pp. 9-13, ISSN:2421-7220 DOI

Ludovico franco (2018). On Nominalization: Genitives, Datives, and Elementary Predicates in Italian. In: Anna Bloch-Rozmej, Anna Bondaruk. Studies in Formal Linguistics Universal Patterns and Language Specific Parameters, pp. 73-90 Peter Lang, ISBN:978-3-631-76466-4.

Ludovico, Franco; M., Rita Manzini (2017). GENITIVE/‘OF’ ARGUMENTS IN DOM CONTEXTS. REVUE ROUMAINE DE LINGUISTIQUE, vol. LXII, pp. 427-444, ISSN:0035-3957

Ludovico, Franco; Giulia, Bellucci; Lena, dal pozzo; m. rita, Manzini (2017). Locatives, Part and Whole in Uralic.. In: Joseph Emonds & Markéta Janebovà. Language Use and Linguistic Structure - selected proceedings of OLINCO 2016, pp. 283-304 Palacky University Press, ISBN:978-80-244-5172-5.

Lorusso, Paolo; Franco, Ludovico* (2017). Patterns of syntactic agreement with embedded NPs. LINGUA, vol. 195, pp. 39-56, ISSN:0024-3841 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Ludovico franco (2017). Some Notes on Italian Ethnic Adjectives. QUADERNI DI LINGUISTICA E STUDI ORIENTALI, vol. 3, pp. 87-116, ISSN:2421-7220 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Franco, Ludovico; M. Rita, Manzini (2017). Instrumental prepositions and case: Contexts of occurrence and alternations with datives.. GLOSSA, vol. 2, pp. 1-37, ISSN:2397-1835 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Franco, Ludovico* (2017). L-syntax and phono-symbolism: On the status of ideophones in complex predicates. CANADIAN JOURNAL OF LINGUISTICS, vol. 62, pp. 243-279, ISSN:0008-4131 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Baldi, Benedetta; Franco, Ludovico (2017). Delegittimazione dell’avversario nelle tribune elettorali per le Politiche del 1972. In: Benedetta Baldi. La delegittimazione politica nell’età contemporanea 2. Parole nemiche: teorie, pratiche e linguaggi, pp. 209-247 Viella, ISBN:978-88-6728-783-3.

Leonardo M. Savoia; M. Rita Manzini; Benedetta Baldi; Ludovico Franco (2017). A morpho-syntactic analysis of evaluatives in Italian. STUDI ITALIANI DI LINGUISTICA TEORICA E APPLICATA, vol. XLVI, pp. 413-440, ISSN:0390-6809

Savoia, Leonardo M.; Maria Rita Manzini, ; Baldi, Benedetta; Franco, Ludovico (2017). Nominal evaluative suffixes in Italian. In: Roberta d'Alessandro, Gabriele Iannàccaro, Diana Passino, Anna M. Thornton. Di tutti i colori. Studi linguistici per Maria Grossmann, pp. 283-300, Utrecht: Utrecht University Repository, ISBN:978-90-9030133-4.

Mihaela Marchis Moreno; Ludovico Franco (2017). Case opacity and Cliticization: On intervention and the triggers of different agreement patterns. LINGUÍSTICA, vol. 12, pp. 99-126, ISSN:1646-6195

Sandra Villata; Ludovico Franco; Paolo Lorusso (2017). Digging in effects in Italian relative clauses. In: AMLAP 2017, Lancaster University., pp. 140-142.

Baldi, Benedetta; Franco, Ludovico (2017). Pratiche di (de)legittimazione a confronto nei discorsi di Benito Mussolini e Palmiro Togliatti. In: Benedetta Baldi. La delegittimazione politica nell’età contemporanea 2. Parole nemiche: teorie, pratiche e linguaggi, pp. 171-208, Roma: Viella, ISBN:978-88-6728-783-3.

Ludovico franco (2016). Adversative “corrective” coordination: further evidence for combining sub-clausal constituents. REVUE ROUMAINE DE LINGUISTIQUE, vol. LXI, pp. 125-142, ISSN:0035-3957

Ludovico Franco; M. Rita Manzini; Leonardo M. Savoia (2016). N morphology and its interpretation.. In: Benedetta Baldi, Leonardo Savoia. La lingua e i parlanti. Studi e ricerche di Linguistica, pp. 51-78, Alessandria: dell'Orso, ISBN:978-88-6274-735-6.

Ludovico franco (2016). On nominalization: Genitives, datives, and elementary predicates. In: Linguistic Beyond and Within, Lublino, KUL, pp. 54-55.

Manzini, MARIA RITA; Franco, Ludovico (2016). Goal and DOM datives. NATURAL LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTIC THEORY, vol. 34, pp. 197-240, ISSN:0167-806X DOI

Franco, Ludovico (2016). Axial Parts, Phi-Features and Degrammaticalization: The Case of Italian Presso/Pressi in Diachrony. TRANSACTIONS OF THE PHILOLOGICAL SOCIETY, vol. 114, pp. 149-170, ISSN:0079-1636 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Franco, Ludovico; M. Rita, Manzini (2016). The instrumental: dative and its double. In: Benedetta Baldi, Leonardo M. Savoia. La Lingua e i Parlanti. Studi e ricerche di linguistica, pp. 3-49, Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso, ISBN:978-88-6274-735-6. Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Benedetta, Baldi; Ludovico, Franco (2015). (De)Legitimization Strategies in the “Austere Prose” of Palmiro Togliatti. QUADERNI DI LINGUISTICA E STUDI ORIENTALI, pp. 139-158, ISSN:2421-7220 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Ludovico Franco (2015). The morpho-syntax of adverbs of the carpone/i type in (Old and Modern) Italian. PROBUS, vol. 27, pp. 271-306, ISSN:0921-4771 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Ludovico, Franco; Maria Rita, Manzini; Leonardo, M. Savoia (2015). N morphology and its interpretation: The neuter in Central Italian varieties and its implications. ISOGLOSS, vol. Isogloss 2015, Special Issue, pp. 41-67, ISSN:2385-4138 DOI

Lorusso, Paolo; Franco, Ludovico (2015). Parameters of agreement with embedded NPs. In: Italian Dialect Meeting 2015 and CIDSM X, Leiden University, Giugno 2015, LEIDEN UNIVERSITY CENTRE FOR LINGUISTICS, pp. 58-59. Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Franco, Ludovico; Savoia, Leonardo, Maria; Manzini, Maria Rita (2015). Linkers and agreement. THE LINGUISTIC REVIEW, vol. 32, pp. 277-332, ISSN:0167-6318 DOI

Franco, Ludovico (2015). The case of (per) addietro in Old Florentine. When before was (apparently) based on back.. ONOMAZEIN, vol. 31, pp. 282-301, ISSN:0717-1285 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Ludovico Franco (2015). VN compounds in Italian and some other Romance languages, phrasal spell-out and rebooting. RGG. RIVISTA DI GRAMMATICA GENERATIVA, vol. 37, pp. 81-98, ISSN:1122-4428

Manzini, MARIA RITA; Franco, Ludovico; Savoia, LEONARDO MARIA (2014). Linkers Are Not “Possession Markers” (but “Agreements”). In: The Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium (Olinco), Olomouc, 5-7 giugno 2014, Olomouc: Palacký University, 2014, pp. 233-251, ISBN:978-80-244-4384-3

Franco, Ludovico (2014). The Lexical/Functional Divide in Aphasic Production – Poorly Studied Aphasic Syndromes and Theoretical Morpho-Syntax A Collection of Case Studies in Italian.. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ISBN:978-1-4438-5816-8

Benedetta Baldi; Ludovico Franco (2014). Sanctions, Fate and (De)legitimization: the speeches of Benito Mussolini during the Italo-Ethiopian War (1935-1936). STUDI ITALIANI DI LINGUISTICA TEORICA E APPLICATA, vol. XLIII,3, pp. 389-418, ISSN:0390-6809

Ludovico Franco;Elisa Zampieri;Francesca Meneghello (2013). Prepositions inside (and at the edge) of words: a view from agrammatism. LANGUAGE SCIENCES, vol. 40, pp. 95-122, ISSN:0388-0001 DOI

Ludovico Franco; Elisa Zampieri; Francesca Meneghello (2013). A-Bar scrambling in repetition in a case of mixed transcortical aphasia: hints for the psychological reality of the syntax/pragmatic interface. DISCOURS, vol. 12, pp. 1-31, ISSN:1963-1723 DOI

Ludovico Franco (2013). A typological rarum in Sogdian: overt complementizers in indicative root clauses. LINGUA POSNANIENSIS, vol. 55(1), pp. 55-67, ISSN:0079-4740 Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Ludovico Franco; Elisa Zampieri; Francesca Meneghello (2013). Evaluating evaluative morphology: a view from Agrammatism. LINGUE E LINGUAGGIO, vol. XII(2), pp. 191-222, ISSN:1720-9331 DOI

Elisa Zampieri; Ludovico Franco; Giulia Bencini; Francesca Meneghello (2013). Linking Figure and Ground in Broca's Aphasia: a case study. EON'EO WA JEONGBO SAHOE, vol. 19, pp. 59-100, ISSN:1598-1886

Ludovico Franco (2013). Before strikes Back - an *ABA constraint on temporal expressions. ACTA LINGUISTICA HUNGARICA, vol. 60(3), pp. 265-302, ISSN:1216-8076 DOI

Franco, Ludovico* (2012). Against the identity of complementizers and (demonstrative) pronouns. POZNAN STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY LINGUISTICS, vol. 48, pp. 565-596, ISSN:1897-7499 DOI

Ludovico Franco; Elisa Zampieri; Francesca Meneghello (2012). A probe to check evaluative morphology in Broca’s Aphasia. An Italian case study. In: NPL- 2012, Toulouse: Université de Toulouse 2/OCTOGONE., pp. 123-124.

Ludovico Franco; Elisa Zampieri; Francesca Meneghello; Giulia Bencini (2012). Linking Figure and Ground in Broca’s Aphasia: an Italian Case Study». In: NPL- 2012, Toulouse: Université de Toulouse 2/OCTOGONE., pp. 71-72.

Ludovico Franco; Elisa Zampieri; Francesca Meneghello (2012). Not all verbs are created equal, but all verbs are light: evidence from a case of Logopenic Primary Progressive Aphasia. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MIND, BRAIN AND COGNITION, vol. 3(2), pp. 33-65, ISSN:0976-3112

Franco, L (2012). On Case and Clauses: Subordination and the Spell-Out of non-terminals. In: First Central European Conference in Linguistics for postgraduate students, Pázmány Péter Catholic University: Budapest, pp. 82-103, ISBN:978-963-308-054-2

Franco, L (2012). Constraint on merge: The roots of the lexical/functional divide. THEORY AND PRACTICE IN LANGUAGE STUDIES, vol. 2, pp. 1-5, ISSN:1799-2591 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Franco, Ludovico; Zampieri, Elisa (2012). Against a lexicalist account of inflected prepositions in Italian: experimental evidence from aphasia. REVISTA VIRTUAL DE ESTUDOS DA LINGUAGEM, vol. 10, pp. 50-63, ISSN:1678-8931

Franco, Ludovico (2012). Movement triggers and the etiology of grammaticalization: The case of Italian postposition fa. SINTAGMA, vol. 24, pp. 65-83, ISSN:0214-9141 Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Franco, Ludovico; Zampieri, Elisa; Meneghello, Francesca (2012). Evaluating evaluative morphology in broca's Aphasia-an Italian case study. STEM-, SPRAAK- EN TAALPATHOLOGIE, vol. 17, pp. 61-64, ISSN:2666-674X Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Franco, Ludovico (2012). The lexical/functional divide in Aphasic production. Five Italian Case studies. (Tutor: Anna Cardinaletti)

Franco, Ludovico; Zampieri, Elisa; Meneghello, Francesca; Bencini, Giulia (2012). Prepositions insidewords and the morphosyntax of compounds-a view from agrammatism. STEM-, SPRAAK- EN TAALPATHOLOGIE, vol. 17, pp. 32-35, ISSN:2666-674X Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Zampieri, Elisa; Franco, Ludovico; Zannoni, Ilaria; Meneghello, Francesca (2011). The interaction among figure, ground and axial part in a case of Broca's aphasia. PROCEDIA: SOCIAL & BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES, vol. 23, pp. 53-54, ISSN:1877-0428 DOI

Franco, Ludovico; Zampieri, Elisa; Garzon, Martina; Meneghello, Francesca (2011). Mente, Linguaggio, Evoluzione. In: Cosentino, Erica; Rossi, Maria Grazia. Mente, Linguaggio, Evoluzione, pp. 183-191, Roma-Messina: Corisco, ISBN:978-88-78203-57-0.

Franco, Ludovico; Zampieri, Elisa; De Biagi, Francesca; Garzon, Martina; Meneghello, Francesca; Semenza, Carlo (2011). Selective scrambling in a case of mixed transcortical aphasia. PROCEDIA: SOCIAL & BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES, vol. 23, pp. 51-52, ISSN:1877-0428 DOI

Franco, Ludovico; Zampieri, Elisa; Garzon, Martina; Meneghello, Francesca; Cardinaletti, Anna; Semenza, Carlo. (2010). (light) Verb retrieval in a case of Primary Progressive Aphasia. In: Verb2010, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, pp. 126-131.

Franco, Ludovico*; Zampieri, Elisa; Garzon, Martina; Meneghello, Francesca; Cardinaletti, Anna; Semenza, Carlo (2010). Noun-verb distinction as a consequence of antisymmetry: Evidence from primary progressive aphasia. PROCEDIA: SOCIAL & BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES, vol. 6, pp. 45-46, ISSN:1877-0428 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Franco, Ludovico (2008). Graph theory and Universal Grammar. (Tutor: Luigi Rizzi)

Ludovico FRANCO

Biography

- Ludovico Franco (Firenze, 1976) is Associate Professor in Linguistics at Università di Firenze. He has previously been a FCT Researcher (host: Research Centre in Linguistics of Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal). He has been Fellow in neurolinguistics and clinical linguistics (European Social Fund Program) at the University Ca’ Foscari of Venezia, Italy, and received his first PhD in Theoretical Linguistics from the University of Firenze/Siena, Italy, in 2008. He obtained his second PhD in Clinical Linguistics from the University Ca’ Foscari of Venezia in 2012. His areas of specialization are theoretical syntax, comparative and historical morpho-syntax, pragmatics and neurolinguistics, with an emphasis on the representation, and processing of syntax and morphology. His papers have appeared in several international journals, among which: Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, The Linguistic Review, Glossa, Studia Linguistica, Probus, Lingua, Transactions of the Philological Sociey, Language Sciences, Lingusitci Variation, Acta Lingustica Hungarica, Canadian Journal of Linguistics.

Ludovico FRANCO

Interest

Comparative Morphosyntax (Focus: Romance and Iranian languages); Morphology; Theoretical Linguistics; Neurolinguistics, Language Evolution, Historical Linguistics, Physiology, Language Contact, Gestures in Communication, Pragmatics.