Luca Alfieri

Luca Alfieri holds a degree in Humanities (2004, Sapienza University of Rome) and earned a Ph.D. in Historical Linguistics and History of the Italian Language (20th cycle, 2008, Sapienza University of Rome). He was awarded a scholarship at the University of Vienna (2005), where he furthered his studies in historical linguistics and theoretical morphology, and held a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Amsterdam (2009), focusing on linguistic typology and parts-of-speech systems. He served as adjunct lecturer at the University of Cassino (2008–2010) and at Sapienza University (2015–2016), and was a research fellow at Sapienza University (2012–2016), working on language contact and the drafting, management, and reporting of EU-funded projects. He was involved in several FARI projects (2011, 2012, 2013–2015, Sapienza University) concerning derivational morphology in ancient Indo-European languages and native Indian and Arabic grammatical traditions. He participated in the PRIN project Change and Contact in the Linguistic Diachrony of the North-Eastern Mediterranean (2011–2012) and was project manager for Multilingualism and Minority Languages in Ancient Europe (2016–2019), funded by the European Commission under the JPI-HERA program Uses of the Past. He has taken part in numerous national and international conferences (SLE, ALT, ICHL, ICHoLS, AISS, etc.). He has chaired the commission for teacher certification in Italian as a second language (A023) and served as anonymous reviewer for several academic journals. He has contributed to various school and university textbooks (La Nuova Italia, Edumond-Lemmier, Peterson, etc.) and collaborated with Groenlandia Film on the translation into “invented proto-Latin” for Matteo Rovere’s film Il primo re (2019). He is the author of about fifty publications, including articles, reviews, monographs, and edited volumes. Currently, he is Associate Professor at the University “Guglielmo Marconi” in Rome, Rector’s Delegate for the Third Mission, Director of the Department of Humanities, Director of the Master’s Program in Creative Writing, Principal Investigator of the PRIN 2022 project The lexicalization of the adjective class in Indo-European and Semitic, and editorial secretary of the journal Archivio Glottologico Italiano (ANVUR Class A).