!!Maria Rita Manzini - Curriculum Vitae
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Degrees\\
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1983    Ph.D., Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, MIT, Cambridge, Mass. (Ph.D. Dissertation Restructuring and Renalysis, supervisor Prof. N. Chomsky)\\
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1979    Diploma, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa\\
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1979    Laurea in Lettere, Università di Pisa (Tesi di Laurea Il Controllo e la Sintassi Generativa dell'Italiano, relatore Prof. A. Stussi)           \\
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FELLOWSHIPS\\
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1990-1991      Research Fellow, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies (NIAS), Wassenaar (Holland)\\
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1983-1984      Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Cognitive Science, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA\\
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Visiting positions\\
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2009                Universidade de Brasilia, Depto. de Linguistica, Portugues e Linguas Classicas\\
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2003                Georgetown University, Dept of Linguistics\\
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1999-2002      Università di Modena (then Modena and Reggio Emilia), Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia\\
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1998                Centro di dialettologia della Svizzera Italiana, Bellinzona\\
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1998                LOT (Landelijke Onderzoekschool Taalwetenschap), University of Leiden\\
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1996                University of Girona, Summer School\\
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1990                Oxford University, Linguistics Program\\
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1989                School of Oriental and African Languages (SOAS), Dept. of Linguistics\\
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1984                University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Romance Languages and Linguistics\\
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Institutional ersponsibilities\\
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2012-present Head of the Doctoral Programme in Filologie del Medioevo e Rinascimento e Linguistica , then in Lingue, Letterature e Culture Comparate \\
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2016-2018 president of the Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale committee, Glottologia e Linguistica (10/G1)\\
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Editorial work\\
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2015                           Editor, Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali/Working Papers in Linguistics and Oriental Studies (Florence University Press)\\
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1987 - present           Editorial board, Rivista di Grammatica Generativa (Unipress, Padova)\\
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1990-2003                  Editorial board, Language Acquisition (Taylor&Francis)\\
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Research projects\\
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2013-2016Responsabile Locale, PRIN: Theory, Experimentation, Applications: Long distance dependencies in forms of linguistic diversity\\
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2007-2009:     Responsabile Locale, PRIN: Towards a mapping of grammatical features and categories\\
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2005-2007:     Responsabile Locale, PRIN: Hierarchical structures and recursion in natural languages.\\
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2001-2003      Responsabile Locale, PRIN: Linguistic categories. From structural mapping to the architecture of mental representations.\\ \\