Federica Cominetti

Personal information

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Date of Birth: 12 June 1986

Mail: fedcominetti@gmail.com; federica.cominetti@uniroma3.it

Skype: federica.cominetti

 

Education

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• 9 May 2014
  • European Ph.D. (Dottorato di Ricerca, Titolo Europeo) in Synchronic, Diachronic and Applied Linguistics; University Roma Tre, Roma, Italy;
  • Director: Prof. Raffaele Simone;
  • Dissertation: “Syntactic Nominalization in Mandarin Chinese”.
• 17 September 2010
  • M.A. (Laurea Specialistica) in Theoretic and Applied Linguistics (cum laude); University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy;
  • Director: Prof. Gianguido Manzelli;
  • Dissertation: “Development of Derivational Morphology and Disyllabic Lexicon in Chinese: the case of -子 e -儿”.
• 5 November 2008
  • B.A. (Laurea Triennale) in Intercultural Communication (cum laude); University of Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy;
  • Director: Prof. Ada Valentini;
  • Dissertation: “Adverbs in Mandarin Chinese”.
• 25-28 January 2016
  • Winter school Triple: “La parola nelle lingue. Formati e struttura”, University Roma Tre, Roma, Italy.
• 29 April- 3 2013
  • MayEACL (European Association of Chinese Linguistics) 8th Spring School in Chinese Linguistics, University Karlova, Prague, Czech Republic.
• September-December 2012
  • Visiting Student at Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France.
• 11-16 September 2012
  • EALing Ecole d’Automne de Linguistique: “Linguistic theory and grammar based approaches to cognitive studies”, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France.
• June-August 2012
  • Summer school in Chinese Language, Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing, China.
• 23-27 January 2012
  • Winter school Triple: “Parts-of-speech: models, typologies, computation” (23-27 January 2012), University Roma Tre, Roma, Italy.
• 19-25 September 2011
  • First Pavia International Summer School for Indo-European Linguistics, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
• 6-13 April 2011
  • EACL (European Association of Chinese Linguistics) 6th Spring School in Chinese Linguistics, Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France.
• 24-28 January 2012
  • Winter school Triple: “The organization of lexical information”, University Roma Tre, Roma, Italy.
• August 2007
  • Summer school in Chinese Language, University Nanjing, Nanjing, China.
• August 2006
  • Summer school in Chinese Language, University Nankai, Tianjin, China.

 

Working experiences

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• 1 June 2016 – 31 May 2017
  • Assegnista di Ricerca (Post-doc researcher); Università di Firenze;
  • Project: Adattamento del corpus Lablita agli standard Coral-Rom.
  • Director: Prof. Massimo Moneglia.

 

• 1 June 2015 – 31 May 2016
  • Assegnista di Ricerca (Post-doc researcher); Università di Pisa;
  • Project: Realizzazione e analisi di corpora di testi brevi.
  • Director: Prof. Mirko Tavosanis.

 

• 1 September 2014 – 31 January 2016
  • Lexicographer for a corpus-based combinatory dictionary of Italian (PRIN: Combinazioni di parole in italiano: analisi teorica e descrittiva, modelli computazionali, studio di un layout lessicografico dedicato e realizzazione di un dizionario di combinazioni); Università Roma Tre;
  • Director: Prof. Raffaele Simone.

 

Teaching

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• 15 April 2015 to present
  • Teacher of Italian on Italki.com
  • Main activities and responsibilities: One-to-one online teacher
  • http://www.italki.com/teacher/2104748

 

• 5 December 2014 – 30 May 2015; 1 November 2015 – 20 May 2016
  • Chinese Language teacher
  • Main activities and responsibilities: Elective Course in Chinese Language for High School students.
  • Liceo Scientifico Leonardo Spallanzani, Via Rivellese, 1- 00019 – Tivoli – Roma- Tel. 06121128165.

 

• 15 February 2012 – 10 June 2012; 12 February 2013 – 28 May 2013; 04 October 2013 – 10 June 2014; 10 October 2014 – 30 October 2014.
  • Chinese Language teacher
  • Main activities and responsibilities: Curricular Course in Chinese Language for High School students.
  • Istituto Professionale per i Servizi Alberghieri e Ristorazione Leonardo Pisano, Via De Sica- 00012 – Guidonia Montecelio – Roma. Tel. 0774.378212.

 

• 22 July 2013 – 6 September 2013
  • Italian Language teacher to Chinese Marco Polo students
  • Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing
  • Beijing International Studies University, Beijing

 

• 15 February 2012 – 10 June 2012
  • Chinese Language teacher
  • Main activities and responsibilities: Course in Chinese Language for High School students.
  • Istituto Professionale per i Servizi Alberghieri e Ristorazione Ugo Tognazzi, Via Salvo D'acquisto 61 – 00049 – Velletri – Roma.

 

• 1 September 2010 – 31 December 2010
  • Chinese Language teacher
  • Main activities and responsibilities: Course in Chinese Language (40h) for adult beginners.
  • Istituto Comprensivo Petteni, Via Buratti, 2 – Bergamo – Italy. Tel. 035 342094

 

• 18 March 2010 – 10 June 2010
  • Chinese Language teacher
  • Main activities and responsibilities: Course in Chinese Language (30h) for adult beginners.
  • Scuola Media Statale Plana, via Dante, 3 – 27058 – Voghera (PV) – Italy. Tel. 0383 41757.

 

Tutoring

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• 26/03/2014 – 31/07/2014
  • Italian language tutor to Chinese students (Marco Polo project)
  • Main activities and responsibilities: Assistance to Chinese students in individual learning of Italian
  • Centro Linguistico di Ateneo, University Roma Tre, via Ostiense, 131 – 00154 – Roma
  • Referent: prof. Elisabetta Bonvino.

 

• 01/10/2009 – 30/09/2011
  • General Linguistics tutor
  • Main activities and responsibilities: Assistance to students in learning Linguistics. Assistance to professors during exams.
  • University of Bergamo, Via Salvecchio, 19 – 24129 – Bergamo – Italy. Tel. 035 205 2111.
  • Referent: prof. Giuliano Bernini.

 

• 04/12/2007 – 04/12/2007; 12/09/2009 – 30/07/2010
  • Chinese to Italian tutor and Italian to Chinese tutor.
  • Main activities and responsibilities: Assistance to Chinese students in learning Italian, cataloguing of learning resources.
  • University of Bergamo, Via Salvecchio, 19 – 24129 – Bergamo – Italy. Tel. 035 205 2111.
  • Referent: prof. Maurizio Gotti. 

 

Journalism

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• 01 April 2008 – 31 December 2012
  • Columnist for a local newspaper
  • Main activities and responsibilities: Apprentice for two months in the editorial staff, and then columnist.
  • La Provincia di Lecco spa, Via Raffaello Sanzio 21, Lecco – Italy. Tel. 031 582311.
  • Referent: Mr. Ernesto Galigani.

 

Presentations at conferences

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• 23 January 2012
  • Poster: “Adjectives in Mandarin Chinese: a class of Verbs”.
  • Winter School Triple “Parts-of-Speech: models, typologies, computation”, Roma, University Roma Tre.

 

• 05 September 2012
  • Speech: “The information structure of [NP + shì… de] sentences”.
  • Conference EACS (European Association of Chinese Studies), Paris, Inalco.

 

• 26 September 2012
  • Speech (with Prof. Edoardo Lombardi Vallauri): “Parts of speech: problems of conceptualization with particular reference to Chinese and Japanese”.
  • Conference Codisco (Italian Ph.D. Association of Cognitive Sciences), Roma, University Roma Tre.

 

• 29 November 2013
  • Speech: “Cognizione lessicale e grammatica: dati dal cinese”
  • Conference Codisco (Italian Ph.D. Association of Cognitive Sciences), Noto, University of Messina.

 

• 29 May 2014
  • Speech: “La nominalizzazione sintattica in cinese”
  • Linguaggio a Roma Tre, Roma, University Roma Tre.

 

• 11-14 September 2014
  • Speech (with Valentina Piunno): “Infinitive patterns in Italian and other Romance Languages”
  • SLE (Societas Linguistica Europaea) Conference, Poznań.

 

• 22-24 October 2014
  • Speech: “Syntactic nominalization and parts-of-speech in Modern Standard Chinese”
  • Verbs, Clauses and Categories Symposium, La Rioja.

 

• 25 September 2015
  • Speech (with Raffele Simone and Valentina Piunno): “Le categorie lessicali preesistono ai dati o originano dai dati?”
  • Workshop “Dati empirici e Risorse Lessicali”, SLI (Società Linguistica Italiana) Conference, Malta.

 

• 26 September 2015
  • Speech: “Chinese dummy (and not so dummy) objects in typological perspective”
  • SLI (Società Linguistica Italiana) Conference, Malta.

 

• 26 January 2016
  • Poster (with Laura Tramutoli): “Tratti di processualità sugli aggettivi. Un confronto fra il cinese e il creolo della Guadalupa”.
  • SIT (Scuola Invernale Triple), Roma

 

• 4-6 April 2016
  • Speech (with Mirko Tavosanis): “L’influenza della L1 negli elaborati universitari di studenti con un livello di italiano L2 pari o superiore a B2.”
  • XIV Congresso della SILFI. Acquisizione e didattica dell’italiano, Madrid

 

• 14-16 April 2016
  • Speech (with Valentina Piunno): “Formati di parola inediti: dati emersi dal dizionario CombiNet”
  • Gli orizzonti dell'Italianistica: tradizione, attualità e sfide di ricerca, Cracovia

 

• 28-30 September 2017
  • Speech (with Alessandro Panunzi): “La maniera dell’azione: lessicalizzazione dei concetti azionali in italiano e cinese mandarino”.
  • SLI (Società Linguistica Italiana) Conference, Napoli.

 

• 28-30 September 2017
  • Speech (with Pan Yi): “Sviluppo di abilità pragmatiche in italiano LS: un esperimento didattico in apprendenti sinofoni”.
  • SLI (Società Linguistica Italiana) Conference, Napoli.

 

• 11-14 October 2017
  • Speech “Strategies of repetition in dialogic negotiation”.
  • International Association for Dialogue Analysis (IADA) Conference, Bologna.

 

• 18-19 October 2017
  • Speech (with Edoardo Lombardi Vallauri, Doriana Cimmino, Viviana Masia, Laura Baranzini, Claudia Coppola and Giorgia Mannaioli) "The Outskirts of Linguistic Persuasion: Measuring Implicit Presentation of Questionable Information"
  • Linguistics Beyond And Within 2017, The Outskirts of the Regular, John Paul II Catholic University, Lublin.

 

• 7-9 February 2018
  • Speech (with Edoardo Lombardi Vallauri, Laura Baranzini, Claudia Coppola, Giorgia Mannaioli, Doriana Cimmino): "Implicit communication: a measuring model"
  • 2ème Colloque Argumentation et Langage ARGAGE.  Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano.

 

• 7-12 May 2018
  • Speech “The ICoN Corpus of Academic Written Italian (L1 and L2)”
  • LREC 2018, Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Miyazaki (Japan).

 

Academic publications

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Books

• Cominetti, Federica (accepted). La nominalizzazione sintattica in cinese standard. Milano, Franco Angeli.

 

Articles

• Cominetti, Federica (2013). «Animals, Humans, Machines. The Whereabouts of Language. A Report of CODISCO 2012». In Caffo, Leonardo & Bruni, Domenica, New Perspectives for the Philosophy of Cognitive Science. Methode 2, pp. 252-260.

• Adornetti, Ines & Cominetti, Federica (2013). «Introduction». In Adornetti, Ines & Cominetti, Federica (eds.) (2013) Humans, Animals, Machines: The Whereabouts of Language. Atti del VI Convegno Nazionale del Codisco. Roma, Corisco, pp. 11-30.

• Cominetti, Federica & Lombardi Vallauri, Edoardo (2013). «Parti del discorso: questioni di concettualizzazione con particolare riguardo al cinese (e al giapponese)». In Adornetti, Ines & Cominetti, Federica (eds.) (2013) Humans, Animals, Machines: The Whereabouts of Language. Atti del VI Convegno Nazionale del Codisco. Roma, Corisco, pp. 125-142.

• Cominetti, Federica (2015). «Cognizione lessicale e grammatica: dati dal cinese». In Chiera, Alessandra & Ganfi, Vittorio (eds.) Immagine e pensiero. Bilanci nelle scienze cognitive attuali. Roma, Corisco.

• Cominetti, Federica (2016). «Dummy (and not so dummy) objects in Modern Standard Chinese». Studi e Saggi Linguistici, LIV, 1, pp. 71-88.

• Cominetti, Federica & Piunno, Valentina (2016). «Patterns of infinitives in Italian and other Romance languages». Faits de langues 48 (2016), pp. 227-246.

• Cominetti, Federica & Simone, Raffaele (2017). «Encoding dot-like events in Modern Standard Chinese». Language Sciences 62 (2017), pp.1-16.

• Cominetti, Federica (2017). «Veri e falsi oggetti in cinese: sintassi e semantica della transitività». In De Santis, Cristiana  & Grandi, Nicola (eds.) CLUB Working Papers in Linguistics Volume 1. Bologna, CLUB – Circolo Linguistico dell'Università di Bologna, pp. 19-35.

• Cominetti, Federica & Piunno, Valentina (2017). «Formati di parola inediti: dati emersi dal dizionario CombiNet». Studia de Cultura 9(3), 114-123.

• Cominetti, Federica (2018). «I “falsi oggetti” del cinese moderno nel continuum parola-sintagma». In Brincat, Giuseppe & Caruana, Sandro (eds.), Tipologia e “dintorni”. Il Metodo Tipologico alla Intersezione di Piani d’Analisi. (Atti del XLIX Congresso internazionale di studi della Società di Linguistica Italiana, Malta, 24–26 settembre 2015). Roma: Bulzoni, pp. 27-44.

• Cominetti, Federica & Tavosanis, Mirko (2018). «The ICoN Corpus of Academic Written Italian (L1 and L2)». In Proceedings of LREC 2018, Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, pp. 4077-4083.

• Cominetti, Federica (2018). «Syntactic nominalization and parts-of-speech in Modern Standard Chinese». Proceedings of the 2014 VCC Symposium, La Rioja, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 000-000.

• Cominetti, Federica & Pan Yi (2018). «Abilità pragmatiche tra spontaneità e didattica nell’italiano LS di apprendenti sinofoni». In Atti del LI Congresso Internazionale della SLI, pp. 167-186.

• Cominetti, Federica & Tavosanis, Mirko (forth.). «L’influenza della L1 negli elaborati universitari di studenti con un livello di italiano L2 pari o superiore a B2». In L’italiano, lingua di apprendimento: nuovi apprendenti, nuove riflessioni teoriche e uno sguardo storico. Atti del XIV Congresso della SILFI. Acquisizione e didattica dell’italiano.

• Lombardi Vallauri, Edoardo, Baranzini, Laura, Cimmino, Doriana, Cominetti, Federica, Coppola Claudia, Mannaioli, Giorgia, & Masia, Viviana (submitted), “The outskirts of linguistic persuasion: measuring implicit presentation of questionable information”, Kongressakten Linguistics Beyond And Within 2017, The Outskirts of the Regular (18.-19.10.2017), John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin.

 

Translations

• Deacon, Terrence (2013 [2010]). «Sull’umano: ripensando la selezione naturale del linguaggio umano». In Adornetti, Ines & Cominetti, Federica (eds.) (2013) Humans, Animals, Machines: The Whereabouts of Language. Atti del VI Convegno Nazionale del Codisco. Roma, Corisco, pp. 33-42.

 

Other

• Editing of the exercises, with Sara Berlanda, Giulia Bossaglia and Valentina, Piunno in Lombardi Vallauri, Edoardo (2013 [2007]). La linguistica in pratica. Bologna, Il Mulino.

 

Invited lectures

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• 30 November 2015
  • “Falsi (e non così falsi) oggetti in cinese standard”
  • Università di Bologna

 

• 30 March 2016
  • “ICoN: un corpus di italiano L2 di apprendenti avanzati”
  • Università di Pisa

 

• 31 March 2016
  • “L’apprendimento degli articoli in italiano L2”
  • Università di Pisa

 

• 26 May 2016
  • “Linguaggio formulaico e lessico multiparola nelle produzioni scritte di apprendenti avanzati di italiano L2”
  • Università di Pisa

 

Research projects

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• 2015-2016
  • PRIN: Scritture brevi.
  • University of Pisa, CNR
  • Referent: Prof. Mirko Tavosanis.

 

• 2014-2015
  • PRIN: Combinazioni di parole in italiano: analisi teorica e descrittiva, modelli computazionali, studio di un layout lessicografico dedicato e realizzazione di un dizionario di combinazioni.
  • University Roma Tre
  • Referent: Prof. Raffaele Simone.

 

• 2009
  • BGCINITA (Project on the acquisition of the Italian language by native Chinese speakers).
  • Main activities and responsibilities: transcription of the interviews to the speakers with CHILDES software.
  • University of Bergamo
  • Referent: Prof. Giuliano Bernini.

 

• 2011
  • Typologically Distant L2 Acquisition (Project on the acquisition of Chinese, Japanese and Arabic by young native Italian speakers).
  • Main activities and responsibilities: registration of the first interactions in Chinese, Japanese and Arabic of young Italian speakers.
  • University of Bergamo.
  • Referent: Prof. Giuliano Bernini.

 

Organizing and scientific committee

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• 18-20 June 2009, 22-24 June 2011, 21-22 June 2012.
  • Organizing committee of the yearly conference of CERLIS (Center of Research on Specialized Languages).
  • University of Bergamo, Via Salvecchio, 19 –  24129 – Bergamo – Italy. Tel. 035 205 2111.
  • Referent: prof. Maurizio Gotti.

 

• 9-11 June 2011
  • Organizing Committee of the XI Conference of AITLA (Italian Association of Applied Linguistics).
  • University of Bergamo, Via Salvecchio, 19 –  24129 – Bergamo – Italy. Tel. 035 205 2111.
  • Referent: prof. Giuliano Bernini.

 

• 24-26 September 2012
  • Organizing Committee of the VI Conference of Codisco (Italian Ph.D. Association of Cognitive Sciences).
  • University Roma Tre, via Ostiense 169 – 00154 – Roma – tel. 06 57330002.
  • Referent: prof. Edoardo Lombardi Vallauri.

 

• 2-5 December 2014
  • Organizing and scientific Committee of the VIII Conference of Codisco (Italian Ph.D. Association of Cognitive Sciences).
  • University Roma Tre, via Ostiense 169 – 00154 – Roma – tel. 06 57330002.
  • Referent: prof. Edoardo Lombardi Vallauri.

 

• 10-12 December 2015
  • Organizing and scientific Committee of 12th Annual Conference of the Italian Association for Cognitive Sciences (AISC).
  • Università di Genova
  • Referent: prof. Edoardo Lombardi Vallauri.

 

• 29-30 January 2016
  • Organizing and scientific Committee of the International Conference “Word formats and lexical combinations”.
  • Università Roma Tre
  • Referent: prof. Raffaele Simone.

 

Languages

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Italian: native speaker

English: C1

Chinese: B2

French: B2