Michela Cennamo#
| Membership Number: | 7163 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.docenti.unina.it/michela.cennamo |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2006 - present Professor of General and Historical Linguistics, School of Modern Languages, Dept of (Arts &) Humanities, University of Naples Federico II.
- 2000 - 2006 Associate Professor of Linguistics, School of Modern Languages, Dept of (Arts &) Humanities, University of Naples Federico II.
- 1984 - 2000 Lecturer in Linguistics (Assistant Professor), School of Modern Languages, Dept of (Arts &) Humanities, University of Naples Federico II.
- 1982 - 1983 Lector in Italian, Italian Department, Faculty of Arts, University of Manchester
- 1979 -1980 Holder of a British Council Scholarship in collaboration with the Italian Ministry of External Affairs, to study at the University of Manchester, attending courses for the postgraduate Degree of Bachelor of Linguistics
Fields of Scholarship
- Complex predicates
- Argument structure, alignment, voice, transitivity
- Morphosyntax of the Italian dialects
- Grammaticalization
- Synchronic, diachronic, variational aspects of the lexicon-syntax interface
Honours and Awards
- NATIONAL RESEARCH GRANTS AWARDED
- 2023 - 2025 PI, PRIN Verb’s Constructional Patterns across Languages (94.000 €)
- 2022 - 2025 PI, PNRR-Spoke 3 Multilingual Naples and Campania (58.101 €)
- 2017 - 2020 PI, PRIN Transitivity and Argument Structure in Flux (154.000 €)
