Nicola MUNARO

In June 1991 he graduated cum laude in Foreign Languages and Literatures at the Ca' Foscari University in Venice (title of the thesis: "On the position of nominal complements in the middle field of the German sentence"); in May 1997 he obtained a PhD in Linguistics at the University of Padua (title of the thesis: "Structural and distributional properties of interrogative phrases in some Northern Italian dialects"); between March 1999 and May 2000 he had a post-doc scholarship from the Department of Linguistics in Padua; between June 2000 and October 2001 he had a research scholarship from the Department of Linguistics in Padua (research project: "Theory of syntax and morphology applied to the synchronic and diachronic reconstruction of a linguistic area of Northern Italy"); since November 1st 2001 he is Researcher in Linguistics at the Department of Language Sciences at the Ca' Foscari University in Venice.

His scientific activity includes formal and comparative linguistics, within the theoretical framework of generative grammar; more specifically, his research interests range from comparative to dialectal syntax, both in a synchronic and in a diachronic perspective, with particular reference to phenomena involving the left periphery of the clause and the syntax-pragmatics interface.

He has delivered talks at numerous conferences and workshops both in Italy and abroad.

He is a member of the scientific committee of the following journals: Grammatica & Didattica, Quaderni di Lavoro ASIt, Rivista di Grammatica Generativa/Research in Generative Grammar; he is a member of the editorial committee of the journal Annali di Ca' Foscari. Serie Occidentale.

He is a member of the programme committee of the Societas Linguistica Europaea.

He has peer-reviewed for the following journals and publishing houses: Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale, Balcania et Slavia, Canadian Journal of Linguistics, Catalan Journal of Linguistics, Glossa, Grammatica & Didattica, Isogloss, Journal of Historical Syntax, Journal of Linguistics, Language, Languages, Lingua, Linguistica, Linguistics, Linguistic Variation, Modern Languages Open, Probus, Quaderni di lavoro ASIt, Quaderns d'Italià, Storie e linguaggi, Studia Linguistica, Studi slavistici, The Linguistic Review, Transactions of the Philological Society, Zeitschrift fuer romanische Philologie; Brill, Edizioni Ca' Foscari, John Benjamins Publishing Company, Oxford University Press.

He has been an abstract-reviewer for the following conferences: Cambridge Italian Dialect Syntax-Morphology Meeting, ConSole, Generative Linguistics in the Old World, Going Romance, Incontro di Grammatica Generativa, Societas Linguistica Europaea, Theoretical and Empirical Approaches to Microvariation.

He took part in the joint research projects Minimal elements of linguistic variation (between the CNR-Centro di Studio per la Dialettologia Italiana of Padua and the French CNRS) and Dialectology and formal syntax -The microvariation of sentence types (between the French CNRS and the Ca' Foscari University of Venice).

He took part in the following PRIN research projects: Le strutture gerarchiche funzionali della frase e degli altri sintagmi maggiori, Le categorie funzionali della frase e dei suoi sintagmi maggiori, Teoria, sperimentazione, applicazioni: le dipendenze a distanza nelle forme di diversità linguistica.

He also took part in the following research projects: ItalAnt: per una grammatica dell'italiano antico, Prosynt - Prosodia e sintassi: un database per un'interfaccia flessibile, FIRB - Un'inchiesta grammaticale sui dialetti italiani: ricerca sul campo, gestione dei dati, analisi linguistica, GRAVO - Grammatica del Veneto delle Origini.

He collaborated to the ASIt project based at the university of Padua, aiming at the elaboration of a syntactic atlas of the Italo-Romance dialects.