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