Michele Loporcaro#
| Membership Number: | 2982 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2011 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.rose.uzh.ch/de/seminar/wersindwir/mitarbeitende/loporcaro.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2000 - present Full professor for Romance linguistics (esp. Italian historical linguistics), University of Zuerich
- 1995 - 1999 Extraordinary professor, University of Zurich
- 1992 - 1995 Associate professor, Dept. of linguistics, University of Calabria
- 1990 - 1992 Ricercatore universitario (permanent position), Dept. of linguistics, University of Padua
Fields of Scholarship
- Comparative Romance linguistics
- Italian dialectology (phonology, morphology, syntax)
- Historical linguistics
- Phonological, morphological and syntactic theory
- Historiography of (Romance) linguistics
Honours and Awards
- 1989 Premio Borgia dell’Accademia dei Lincei per la filologia e la linguistica
- 2012 Premio “Antonio Feltrinelli“ dell’Accademia dei Lincei per la linguistica italiana
