Ermenegildo Bidese CURRICULUM VITAE August 2020 Academic Qualification 2020 Opening of the Habilitation procedure in German Linguistics and in General Lin- guistics, University of Frankfurt/Main (Germany) 2018 National Scientific Habilitation (Italy) for Full Professorship in German Linguistics 2007 Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Verona (Italy) (Tutor: Alessandra Tomaselli) Dissertation: Der Verlust der Verb-Zweit-Regel und die Entwicklung der Clitic Phra- se in der Geschichte des Zimbrischen. Empirische Daten und theoretische Analysen. 2001 Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of Frankfurt/Main (Germany) (Tutor: Matthias Lutz-Bachmann). Dissertation: Die Strukturen des freien und kreativen Handelns. Interpretationen und Perspektiven aus der linguistischen Forschung Noam A. Chomskys und der ethischen Reflexion Thomas von Aquins Research Interests Contact Linguistics; Theoretical syntax; Dialect and heritage syntax; Syntactic variation and change; Contact-induced language change; Philosophy of Language; Language Origin and Evolution; Language and Cognition. Academic Positions 2016 Associate Professor in German Linguistics, University of Trento 2006 Research Assistant Professor in German Linguistics, University of Trento 2002 Lecturer in German Linguistics, University of Verona and University of Milan – ‘San Raffaele’ International Awards 2012-2013 J.-W.-Fulbright Research Fellowship, Massachusetts Institute of Technolo- gy, Depart. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (Ken Wexler Lab) 2010 Johann-Andreas-Schmeller Preis, „Johann-Andreas-Schmeller-Socie- ty“ (Tirschenreuth, Germany), for the book Die diachronische Syntax des Zimbrischen, Tübingen, 2008. Research Projects [13] Co-investigator of the Verona-Trento Research Unit, PRIN (Research Projects of Significant National Interest) 2018 (SH4, Linea A): Models of language variation and change: new evidence from language contact. Total Budget: € 450.574,--; [12] Co-investigator: University Strategic Plan, Interdepartmental Project for the Estab- lishment of a Research Center of Language studies (https://www.cogsci.unitn.it/673/centro-studi-di-linguaggio). [11] Co-investigator of the Trento Research Unit, European 7th Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration. Grant Agreement no. 613465: Advancing the European Multilingual Experience (AThEME, http://www.atheme.eu), 2014-2019. Total Budget: € 4.999.990,--; Trento research unit: € 370.979,--. [10] Supervisor, Autonomous Province of Trento (Research fund for the historical lan- guage-minorities): Comparing Linguistic varieties: description and didactic applica- tion of grammatical phenomena in German, Mòcheno and Cymbrian. 2019-2020. € 24.000,--. [9] Supervisor, Foundation CARITRO: Cimbrian Online Digital Archive – The linguis- tic-historical memory of the Cimbrian Community of Lusérn (TN), 2017-2018. € 24.000,--. [8] Supervisor, Autonomous Province of Trento (Research fund for the historical lan- guage-minorities): The effects of Bilingualism between minority and standard lan- guage on the development of pragmatic competence, 2017-2018. € 24.000,--. [7] Supervisor, Autonomous Province of Trento (Post-doc Research fund): Optionality and pragmatics in syntax: the mixed word order in the subordinate clauses of Mòcheno as a labor for a unitary theory on the syntactic variation in the old phases of the Germanic languages, 2012-2015. € 141.900,--. [6] Principal Investigator, The U.S. – Italy Fulbright Commission: The Syntactic Nature of Protolanguage and Its Cognitive Power. A Merge-based Investigation into the Dif- ferent Stages of Language Origin, 2012-2013. $ 11.000,--. [5] Co-investigator, Foundation CARITRO (Research Fund): The acquisition of syntax in a multilingual context: a longitudinal study on the children of Fersina-Valley, 2011-2013. € 40.000,--. [4] Supervisor, Autonomous Province of Trento (Post-doc Research fund): The lexicon- morphosyntax interface in language obsolescence with particular attention to the Cimbrian semi-speakers in Trentino and the Veneto region. 2009-2011. € 112.000,--. [3] Supervisor, Autonomous Province of Trento (Research fund for the historical lan- guage-minorities): The Germanic and the Romanic syntax in the Cimbrian language of Lusérn, 2008-2009. € 19.000,--. [2] Principal Investigator, University of Verona, co-founded by the Curatorium Cimbri- cum Veronense: The Syntax of the Extraposition in Cimbrian: the Germanic and the Romance Model. 2002-2006. € 3.000,--. [1] Principal Investigator, EU-Programm LEADER II: Cimbrians, the past and the fu- ture – Section: Cimbrian Language and Grammar. 2001. 2 Research Support Academic Journal [20] Founder and Co-editor of Evolutionary Linguistic Theory (ELT), Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company 2019. Conferences and workshop [19] Co-organizer (Scientific and Organizing committee) of Comparative Germanic Syn- tax Workshop (CGSW 35), University of Trento, October 2020. [18] Co-organizer (Scientific and Organizing committee) of Giornate di Studi Scientifici sul Linguaggio (Società Studi Scientifici sul Linguaggio 2019), University of Trento, 2019. [17] Co-organizer (Scientific committee) of Workshop in Syntax Processing, University of Trento, 2017. [16] Organizer of the International Workshop Theory of language and the debate on lan- guage origins, University of Trento, November 2015. [15] Co-organizer of the International Conference Understanding pro-drop. A synchronic and diachronic perspective, University of Trento, June 2014. [14] Co-organizer of the 40th Incontro di Grammatica Generativa (IGG 40), University of Trento, February 2014. [13] Co-organizer of the International Conference Ferdinand Ebner: Denker des Logos und des Dia-Logos. Pneumatologie als Grammatik der Subjektivität, University of Trento, Bressanone, November 2009. [12] Organizer of the International Conference Das Zimbrische zwischen Germanisch und Romanisch. University of Bremen, January, 2005. Courses and lecture series [11] Organizer and Coordinator of the Linguistics Colloquium “Conversazioni Linguis- tiche”, University of Trento, Department of Humanities, 2016-2020. [10] Co-organizer (Scientific committee) of the Course on Teaching and learning minori- ty languages – IALM, University of Trento, 2017. Taught courses: Cimbrian Linguis- tics and Introduction in contact linguistics. [9] Co-taught course on Multilingualism and Neurosciences for the Teacher Continuing Training Lo studio della mente e l’arte di insegnare, University of Trento, October 2016. [8] Co-organizer of the Lecture Series (Ringvorlesung) in German Studies Seminari di Germanistica a Trento, University of Trento, February – May 2016. [7] Co-organizer (Scientific committee) of the Course on Research and Didactics of the minority languages of Trentino, University of Trento, 2009-2010. 3 [6] Co-organizer (Scientific committee) of the Course on Research and Didactics of the minority languages of Trentino, University of Trento, 2008-2009. Centers, Bureaus, and Institutes [5] President of the Scientific Committee of the Cimbrian Institute of Lusern, 2008- 2019. [4] Member (Linguistic consultant) of the Scientific Committee of the Mòcheno- Cimbrian Institute, 2004. Reviewing [3] Abstract Reviewer: Workshop in Syntax Processing (2017), Incontro di Grammatica Generativa (IGG 40) (2014), Societas Linguistica Europea (SLE). [2] Application Reviewer: The U.S. – Italy Fulbright Commission (2013-2016). [1] Manuscript Referee: Frontier in Psychology – Language Sciences (2015). University and Department Service [4] Member of the Coordination Committee of the International Research Doctoral Course in “Forms of cultural exchange”, in collaboration with the University of Augsburg, 2019-present day. [3] Deputy coordinator of the Didactic Area “Modern Languages” of the Department of Humanities of the University of Trento. [2] Member of the Committee for the Open Access of the University of Trento, 2014- present day. [1] Member of the Doctoral School in Literary, Linguistics and Philology Studies, Uni- versity of Trento, 2008-2018. 4 Publication Record [89] 2019. Evolutionary Linguistic Theory (ELT), Editor-in-chief (with Anne Reboul, Director of the Institut des sciences cognitives – Marc Jeannerod, Centre National de la Recherche Scien- tifique) Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2019. - Issue 1.1: https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/25891596/1/1 - Issue 1.2: https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/25891596/1/2 - Issue 2.1: in print a. Monographs [88] Bidese, E. 2011. Das Zimbrische von Giazza. Zeugnisse und Quellen aus einer deutschen Sprachinsel in Oberitalien. Übersetzungen, Hörbeispiele und Bildmaterial zu den von Bruno Schweizer gesammelten Erzählungen / Il Cimbro di Giazza. Testimonianze e fonti da un’isola lin- guistica tedesca in Norditalia. I racconti di Bruno Schweizer con traduzioni, esempi sonori e mate- riali visivi. Innsbruck: StudienVerlag. [87] Bidese, E. 2008. Die diachronische Syntax des Zimbrischen (Tübinger Beiträge zur Linguistik 510). Tübingen: Gunter Narr. [86] Bidese, E. 2002. Die Strukturen des freien und kreativen Handelns. Interpretationen und Per- spektiven aus der linguistischen Forschung Noam A. Chomskys und der ethischen Reflexion Tho- mas von Aquins. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann. b. Books and Manuals [85] Bidese, E., J. Casalicchio & M.C. Moroni (eds.). 2019. La linguistica vista dalle Alpi. Teoria, lessicografia e multilinguismo – Linguistic views from the Alps. Language Theory, Lexicography and Multilingualism (= Studia Romanica et