Telephone number:	+31 (0)71 527 2187
E-Mail:	i.franco@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Faculty / Department:	Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Leiden Univ Centre for Linguistics, LUCL Italiaans
Office Address:	Witte Singel-complex van Wijkplaats 3 2311 BX Leiden Room number 1.04a

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Research

Comparative syntax and linguistic variation:

• Diachronic variation: Old and Renaissance Italian; other Old Romance languages; Old Eastern/Western Scandinavian; Icelandic and Faroese 

• Synchronic variation: Italian and other Romance dialects; Norwegian and Swedish dialects
  Acquisition of relative clauses in Norwegian and Italian

Acquisition of relative clauses in Norwegian and Italian

Teaching activities

• - Taalkunde I: De Erfenis van Trajanus (I semester), Introduzione alla linguistica italiana (II semester) 

• Master: Italiano antico e italiano moderno a confronto

• Romaanse taalkunde

• Culturkunde II: temi dell'Italia contemporanea

• Corso monografico: l'italiano in musica, la canzone italiana contemporanea

• Taalkunde III: linguistica storica - dal Seicento a oggi

Curriculum Vitae

Education
1999-2004 MA in Philosophy and Theory of Science, Universitá Ca'Foscari, Venice, Italy
2005-2009 PhD in Cognitive Science, Linguistics, Universitá di Siena, Italy
2007 - Spring semester - Visiting researcher at the Centre of Cognitive Science, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.

Work
2009-2010 Post-doctoral fellow at CASTL, Center for Advanced Studies in Theoretical Linguistics, University of Tromsø, Norway
2002-2003 Teaching assistant of Italian language and culture, Colgate University, Hamilton, NYs, USA

Key publications

• (to app.) "Issues in the syntax of Scandinavian embedded clauses", in Working Papers in
  Scandinavian Syntax, Lunds Universitet.

• (2010) "Typology of Verb Movement in Scandinavian", in Torrens, V., Escobar, L. Gavarró, A., Mangado J.G., Movement and Clitics. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 5-27

• (2009) Verbs, Subjects and Stylistic Fronting. A comparative analysis of the interaction of CP
  properties with verb movement and subject positions in Icelandic and Old Italian, unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Siena. PDF available

• (2009) "Stylistic Fronting: a comparative analysis", Proceedings of IGG XXXV, University of Siena, 26-28 february 2009, STiL, CISCL Working Papers, special issue. PDF available
• (2008)"V1, V2 and criterial movement in Icelandic", in STiL, vol. II, CISCL working papers,Università di Siena, PDF available