Università degli Studi di Pavia

Giorgio Iemmolo (Ph. D. Student)




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Biosketch

Giorgio Iemmolo studied Linguistics, Ancient Greek, Latin and History of the Italian Language at both the University of Palermo and the University of Pavia from 2003-2008. He was granted his MA from the University of Pavia in 2008 with a thesis 'Topicality, transitivity and differential object marking: a study on a corpus of Old Sicilian texts'.

Since November 2008, he has been working at the Department of Linguistics of the same University as a Ph.D. Student. He is currently working on a typological study of differential object marking.

Education

04/2009
Visiting Student at the Department of English Language and Linguistics, Lancaster University, United Kingdom.

2008-present
University of Pavia, Italy. Ph.D in Linguistics.

2006-2008
University of Pavia, Italy. Faculty of Arts. MA in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, awarded in July 2008.
Thesis in Linguistics: 'Topicalità, transitività e marcatura differenziale dell'oggetto: uno studio su un corpus di siciliano antico' ('Topicality, transitivity and differential object marking: a study on a corpus of Old Sicilian texts').
Main supervisor: Prof. Anna Giacalone Ramat. Other supervisor: Prof. Marina Chini.
Grade: 110/110 summa cum laude.

2005-2006
University of Pavia, Italy. Faculty of Arts. BA in Classical and Oriental Studies, awarded in November 2006.
Thesis in Linguistics: 'La marcatura differenziale dell'oggetto in siciliano e nelle lingue del Mediterraneo' ('Differential object marking in Sicilian and in Mediterranean languages').
Main supervisor: Prof. Anna Giacalone Ramat. Other supervisor: Prof. Sonia Cristofaro.
Grade: 110/110 summa cum laude.

2003-2005
University of Palermo, Italy. Faculty of Arts. Classical Philology.

Grants and Awards

2008-present
Ph.D. scholarship funded by the Italian Ministry for Education.

Teaching experience

Autumn 2009
Teaching Assistant for the undergraduate advanced course 'Linguistic typology' (Prof. Paolo Ramat), IUSS (Institute for Advanced Studies), Pavia, Italy.

2009-2010
Teaching Assistant for 'General Linguistics' (Prof. Gianguido Manzelli, Prof. Elisa Roma), University of Pavia, Italy.

2008-2009
Teaching Assistant for 'General Linguistics' (Prof. Gianguido Manzelli, Prof. Elisa Roma) and ‘Introduction to linguistics’ (Prof. Anna Giacalone Ramat), University of Pavia, Italy.

2007-2008 
Teaching Assistant for 'General Linguistics' (Prof. Gianguido Manzelli, Prof. Elisa Roma), University of Pavia, Italy.

Research interests

Typology
Historical linguistics
Grammaticalization and language change
Syntax
Information structure
Dialectology

Papers

(forthcoming 2009) 'La marcatura differenziale dell'oggetto in siciliano antico'. Archivio Glottologico Italiano. [draft]

(forthcoming) 'La marcatura differenziale dell'oggetto in siciliano: un'analisi contrastiva'. In Iliescu, M. et al. (eds.) Actes du XXV Congrès International de Linguistique et de Philologie Romanes (Innsbruck, 3-8 September 2007). Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag.

(accepted) 'Topicality and differential object marking: evidence from Romance and beyond'. Studies in Language.

(in preparation, with Giorgio Arcodia) 'Differential object marking and identifiability of the referent: a study of Chinese".


Reviews and book notices

(forthcoming) Book notice of Yoon, Jiyoung, Small clauses in Spanish: the semantics of transitivity.  München and Newcastle: Lincom Europa, 2007. Language.

(forthcoming) Book notice of Stolz, Thomas, Sonja Kettler, Cornelia Stroh, & Aina Urdze (eds.), Split possession: an areal-linguistic study of the alienability correlation and related phenomena in the languages of Europe. Amsterdam-Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2008. Language.

(forthcoming) Review of Dimmendaal, Gerrit (ed.), Coding participant marking. Construction types in twelve African languages. Amsterdam-Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2009. Linguist List.

(forthcoming) Book notice of Fernández, Zarina Estrada, Søren Wichmann, Claudine Chamoreau and Albert Álvarez González (eds.), Studies in voice and transitivity (Estudios de voz y transitividad). München and Newcastle: Lincom Europa, 2008. Language.


Presentations and talks

'La marcatura differenziale dell'oggetto in siciliano: un'analisi contrastiva', paper presented at XXV Congrès International de Linguistique et de Philologie Romanes, University of Innsbruck, Austria. 3-8 September 2007.

'Differential object marking and topicality: evidence from Romance and beyond',  paper presented at Transalpine Typology Meeting, University of Bern, Switzerland. 22-24 January 2009.