Research activities
The most important research areas of the Linguistics section include:
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General and Theoretical Linguistics, with particular reference to Morphology, Lexical Semantics and Semantics of Grammar Categories
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Italian and Romance Dialectology; Linguistic Geography
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Sociolinguistics, both as the Description and Theory of Variation and as Sociology of Languages, with particular reference to minority languages
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Contact Linguistics
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Italian Linguistics, with particular reference to its diachronic dimension
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The History of the Italian Language, the Language Issue, Author Stylistics, Metrics
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Typological Linguistics, especially in a descriptive and contrastive perspective
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Historical Linguistics and the Theory of Language Change with particular reference to the evolution of the semantic-pragmatic categories
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Acquisitional and Applied Linguistics