Cristina Guardiano
Universitą degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia (IT) - Dipartimento di Comunicazione ed Economia
Cristina Guardiano is full professor of Linguistics at Unimore.
She specialized in classics and linguistics at the Universitą di Pisa, where she also got her PhD in historical syntax, with a dissertation about the internal structure of the nominal domain in Ancient Greek.
She is active in research about formal and quantitative linguistics, crosslinguistic comparison, language change, phylogenetic reconstruction, gene-language comparison. She is expert in the parametric analysis of nominal phrases, and in the comparative study of diachronic and dialectal syntactic variation, with a special focus on Greek and Romance.
She has been developing the Parametric Comparison Method (PCM) since 2001, with Giuseppe Longobardi.
She is a Fulbright alumna (2013-2014, UCLA), has been chief research associate of the ERC AG (ERC-2011-AdG) n° 295733 LANGELIN (2012-2018) and is currently a member of the SSWL (Syntactic Structures of the world’s languages: http://test.terraling.com/groups/7) research team: she is active as a property author (with Hilda Koopman), language expert, administrator. She is also a member of the TerraLing (http://test.terraling.com/) board. She has been coordinating the Unimore research unit in the MIUR PRIN projects Models of language variation and change (2019-2023) and PARTHICO (2023-2025). Other international research projects about crosslinguistic comparison: EU Border Discourse (2000-2003); CRUI-DAAD (2003-2005); Structure and linearization in disharmonic w.o. (Cambridge, 2010); Towards expl. the pre-Babel world (UCLA/Harvard, 2014), ITHACA (MIGRATION-09-2020, 2021-2025). She has been permanent visiting scholar at the Dept. of Language and Linguistic Science (York) since 2014. Other research visits/fellowships: Hannover (2003, 2004); Cambridge (2010); UCLA (2008, 2016, 2017); UPenn (Fulbright outreach, 2014); Thessaloniki (2011-2015); Patras (2006).
Her publication record includes international venues such as Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, Frontiers in Psychology, Lingua, Journal of Physical Anthropology, Journal of Anthropological Sciences, Journal of Historical Linguistics, Journal of Greek Linguistics, L’Italia dialettale, Genes, Languages, Studi e Saggi Linguistici, The Oxford handbook of Universal Grammar (OUP), The Cambridge handbook of historical syntax (CUP), The handbook of historical linguistics (Wiley/Blackwell), The Oxford handbook of historical and diachronic linguistics (OUP), The open handbook of linguistic data management (MIT Press).
She has been member of PhD programs at Unimore, Unifi and Unipi. She has been teaching advanced PhD courses and seminars in Italy and abroad, and various graduate and undergraduate courses at Unimore since 2003. She is currently supervising the research activities of 3 PhD students and 3 PostDocs.
She has been involved in the organization of the following scientific events: Coding and Comparing Syntactic Data (2023, 2024); IRS (2022), Microwebinars (2020-2022); Linguistic Flashmobs (2020-2021); Linguistic Connections (2017-2020); Comparazione e classificazione dei dialetti d’Italia (2017); AItLA16 (2016); IGG40 (2014); Advances in phylogenetic linguistics (ERC, 2013); IGG39 (2013); Scimmie parlanti (2011); Neurolinguistica e disturbi del linguaggio (2006); DIGS9 (2006); CRUI/DAAD Meeting (2005); AItLA5 (2005); SLI 38 (2004); AItLA4 (2004); GdS Gramm. delle lingue classiche (2002); IGG27 (2001).
She is currently a member of the scientific committee of l’Italia Dialettale and of the CULT1POSTDOC panel at FWO and she has been Guest Academic Editor for PlosOne (2018, 2020). Since 2004, she has been reviewing papers and projects submitted to international journals, volumes, public and private research institutions.