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Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali / Working Papers in Linguistics and Oriental Studies n. 2 (2016), pp. 323-324 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.13128/QULSO-2421-7220-18758

Contributors

Laura Bafile is Associate Professor at the University of Ferrara. Her research con- cerns theoretical linguistics, phonology and the grammar of Italian dialects. Benedetta Baldi is Professor of communication and discourse analysis at the Uni- versity of Florence. Her scientific research is dedicated to different fields of the study of language, with particular interest for special languages, the concept of text and the relationship between media, cognitive / pragmatic / language training and so- cial identity. In several publications, she deals with issues concerning communica- tion theory seen also in a historical setting. Giulia Bellucci obtained her MA in Linguistics and Cognitive Studies from the University of Siena. She is currently a PhD student in Linguistics at the University of Florence. Her research interests include theoretical syntax, first and adult sec- ond language acquisition. Giuseppe Cecere is Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the University of Bologna. He holds a PhD in Near Eastern Studies (History and Phi- lology) from the University of Florence. He was Fellow Researcher in Arabic and Islamic Studies at the IFAO (Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale) in Cairo from 2009 to 2014, and Visiting Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israel in 2013-2014. His researches focus on Sufi “presence” in the multicultural and multi-religious context of the Egyptian society, mainly in Mamluk times. Gloria Cocchi teaches General Linguistics at the University of Urbino. Her fields of research include formal syntax and language acquisition. She is author and co- author of three books and numerous articles on various subjects, such as Bantu languages, Italian and its dialects, the acquisition of Italian as a second language. Lena Dal Pozzo obtained her PhD in Cognitive Sciences at the University of Siena. She is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the PUC University of Rio de Janeiro and has been teaching Finnish language at the University of Florence since 2007. Her re- search interests include adult and child L2 acquisition, bilingualism, Finnish syntax. Salvatore Del Gaudio is currently Associate Professor at the Department of Transla- tion Science, Institute of Philology, University of Kyiv Taras Šečenko. He also coop- erates with the Institute of Linguistics “Potebnja” and the Institute of the Ukrainian Language at the Ukrainian Academy of Science. His research interests range from Language Contact, Sociolinguistic and Dialectology of East Slavic Languages to the History of Ukrainian and its standardization, Slavic Philology, Italian-Slavic contrastive studies and Language typology.

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Alberto Legnaioli graduated in Hebrew Literature and Language from the Uni- versity of Florence and is currently working on his PhD thesis on the lexical field of time in post-biblical Hebrew. Heloisa Maria M. Lima Salles holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Wales (Great Britain). She is currently Associate Professor at the University of Brasíl- ia. Her interests range from the history of Portuguese, especially its implications for rise of the dialects of Brazilian Portuguese, to methods and techniques for teaching Portuguese under a view of language acquisition based on the generative framework. Irene Micali is currently a Post-Doctoral fellow at the University of Florence. Her research focuses upon the linguistic community of Guardia Piemontese. Her aca- demic interests include pragmatics, sociolinguistics and minority languages. Vincenzo Moscati is a Post-Doctoral fellow at the University of Siena and Adjunct Professor of Psycholinguistics and Applied Linguistics. He previously worked as researcher at the Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia) and he has been Vis- iting Scholars at MIT (Boston, USA). His research interests include Theoretical Linguistics and Language Acquisition, both in typically developing children and in children with language-related pathologies. Cristina Pierantozzi teaches ‘Element of Phonology and Syntax’ in the Master’s pro- gramme ‘Teaching Italian as a foreign language’ at the University of Urbino. Her PhD dissertation was on formal aspects of Code-switching in early bilingualism, and carried out research on L2 acquisition at the University of Hamburg. Leonardo M. Savoia is Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Flor- ence. He has been the Dean of the Faculty of Education and the Director of the Department of Linguistics. He is Accademico corrispondente of the Accademia della Crusca and was President of the Italian Linguistics Society (Società di Linguistica Italiana) from 2003 to 2007. His research concentrates on phonology and morpho- syntax of Italian dialects and Balkan varieties, including Albanian and Aromanian, minority languages and sociolinguistics. Ilenia Vottari has received an MA in Linguistics and Cognitive Studies in 2015 at Università degli Studi di Siena, with a year abroad at the University of Edinburgh, where she joined the Edinburgh Laboratory for Language Development. She is now working as Italian project manager for an intelligent data platform, doing data processing solutions for AI applications. Serena Zuccheri holds a PhD in Chinese Language and Literature from Sapienza University of Rome. He is currently Fixed-Term Junior Assistant Professor at the Department of Interpreting and Translation, Bologna University. Her research fo- cuses on Corpus-Based Terminology and Chinese language teaching and transla- tion using new technologies.