Linguistics and Oriental Studies

 Areas of research:

1. Linguistic theory. Analysis of natural languages: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics. Psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics.
2. Linguistic variation. Dialectology, sociolinguistics. Second language acquisition. Multilingualism, language contact. Linguistic change. Translation. Corpora and automated processing. The lexicon and specialized languages. 
3. Philological and linguistic analysis of texts, with particular attention to oriental languages. Analysis and interpretation of documents and texts in modern and ancient languages. Textual genres.