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Forschungsgebiete:

• Sprachtheorie
• Kontrastive Linguistik, Sprachvergleich, Sprachtypologie
• Grammatik, Grammatikographie
• Phonetik, Phonologie
• Morphologie
• Wortbildung
• Lexikologie, Lexikographie
• Phraseologie
• Syntax
• Ältere Sprachstufen
• Sprachgeschichte, Sprachwandel
• Dialektologie
• Orthographie
• Computerlinguistik

Besondere Forschungsgebiete:

• Sprachkontakt
• Sprachinseln

Monographien in Auswahl:

• Lineamenti di grammatica tedesca, Roma: Carocci, 2017.
• Quando i verbi compaiono come nomi. Un saggio di morfologia naturale, Milano: Franco Angeli, 2002.

Aufsätze und Beiträge in Auswahl:

• “Loanword formation in minority languages: lexical strata in Titsch and Töitschu” (mit Marco Angster), in Pius ten Acken & Renáta Panocová (eds.), The Interaction of Borrowing and Word Formation, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020, 215-236.
• “Remotivating inflectional classes: an unexpected effect of grammaticalization”, in Bridget Drinka (ed.), Historical Linguistics 2017. Selected papers from the 23rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, San Antonio, Texas, 31 July – 4 August 2017, Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2020, 205-227.
• “English as a Bridge: An L3-Approach to Contrastive Linguistics”, in Michalis Georgiafentis, Giannoula Giannoulopoulou, Maria Koliopoulou & Angeliki Tsokoglou (eds.), Contrastive Studies in Morphology and Syntax. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020, 26-44.
• “Anti-relevant, contra-iconic but system-adequate: on unexpected inflectional changes”, in Michela Cennamo & Claudia Fabrizio (eds.), Historical Linguistics 2015: Selected papers from the 22nd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Naples, 27-31 July 2015, Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2019, 172-184.
• “Diachrony as a Source of Asymmetric Coding: Using the Past to Explain Naturalness”, in Irantzu Epelde Zendoia & Oroitz Jauregi Nazabal (eds.), Bihotz ahots: M. L. Oñederra irakaslearen omenez, Bilbao: Universidad del País Basco, 2019, 279-295, 2019.
• “Die Schrecken des deutschen Nomens: Flexionsklassen, Nominalphrasen und Pronomina zwischen Norm und Variation”, in Claudio Di Meola, Joachim Gerdes & Livia Tonelli (eds.), Germanistische Linguistik und DaF-Didaktik, Berlin: Frank & Timme, 2019, 75-88.
• “Conservazione e innovazione nelle varietà walser: i progetti DiWaC e ArchiWals”, (mit Marco Bellante, Raffaele Cioffi und Marco Angster), in Roberto Rosselli Del Turco (ed.), Dall’indoeuropeo al germanico: problemi di linguistica storica. Atti del XVIII Seminario Avanzato in Filologia Germanica, Alessandria, Edizioni dell’Orso, 2019, 141-193.
• “Categorial shift and morphological differentiation”, Language Sciences 73, 2019, 190-199.
• “Stripping paradigmatic relations out of the syntax” (mit Marco Angster), Morphology 29.2, 2019, 249-270.
• "Im Passiv sprechen in den Alpen”, Sprachwissenschaft 43.2, 2018, 221-250.
• “Wie kurz sind die Kurzverben? Morphologische Merkmale in Gressoney und Issime” (mit Marco Angster), Germanistische Linguistik 239-240, 2018, 211-237.
• “Between VP and NN: On the Constructional Types of German -er Compounds” (mit Amir Zeldes), Constructions and Frames 9.1, 2017, 1-40.
• “Valency alternations between inflection and derivation: a contrastive analysis of Italian and German”, in L. Hellan et al. (eds.), Contrastive Studies in Verbal Valency, Amsterdam, Benjamins, 2017, 327-373.
• “Irregularität und Systemangemessenheit”, in A. Bittner & K.-M. Köpcke (eds.), Prozesse der Regularität und Irregularität in Phonologie und Morphologie, Berlin, de Gruyter, 2016, 29-46.
• “How lexical is morphology? The constructicon and the quadripartite architecture of grammar”, in L. Körtvélyessy et al. (eds.), Word-Formation across Languages, Cambridge, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016, 109-146.
• “Co-opting exaptation in a theory of language change”, in M. Norde & F. Van de Velde (eds.), Exaptation in language change, Amsterdam, Benjamins, 2016, 57-92.
• “Evaluative Morphology and Sociolinguistic Variation”, in N. Grandi & L. Körtvélyessy (eds.), Edinburgh Handbook of Evaluative Morphology, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015, 121-133.
• “On decategorization and its relevance in German”, in R. Simone & F. Masini (eds.), Word classes: nature, typology and representations, Amsterdam, Benjamins, 2014, 227-241.
• "Multiple sources for the German scandal construction”, Studies in Language 37.3, 2013, 566-598.
• “Existential constructions: a semasiological perspective”, in E. van Gelderen et al. (eds.), Argument Structure in flux: the Naples/Capri Papers, Amsterdam, Benjamins, 2013, 477-510.
• “Affix ordering and conversion: Looking for the place of zero”, Lingue e Linguaggio 12.2, 2013, 145-170.
• “Deutsche Komposita zwischen Syntax und Morphologie: Ein korpusbasierter Ansatz” (mit A. Zeldes), in L. Gaeta & B. Schlücker (eds.), Das Deutsche als kompositionsfreudige Sprache: Strukturelle Eigenschaften und systembezogene Aspekte, Berlin, de Gruyter, 2012, 197-217.
• “On the viability of cognitive morphology for explaining language change”, in A. Onysko & S. Michel (ed.), Word Formation from Cognitive Perspectives, Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter, 2010, 75-95.
• “The Invisible Hand of Grammaticalization: West-Germanic Substitutive Infinitive and the Prefix ge-”, in W. U. Dressler et al. (eds.), Variation and Change in Morphology, Amsterdam, Benjamins, 2010, 89-105.
• “Polysynthese, Multifunktionalität und die denominalen Adjektive im Deutschen”, in D. Bittner & L. Gaeta (eds.), Kodierungstechniken im Wandel, Berlin, de Gruyter, 2010, 99-121.
• “Synthetic compounds. With special reference to German”, in S. Scalise & I. Vogel (eds.), Cross-Disciplinary Issues in Compounding, Amsterdam, Benjamins, 2010, 219-236.
• “Analogical change”, in S. Luraghi & V. Bubenik (eds.), Continuum Companion to Historical Linguistics, London, Continuum, 2010, 147-160.
• “Inflectional morphology and productivity: Considering qualitative and quantitative approaches”, in P. O. Steinkrüger & M. Krifka (eds.), On Inflection, Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter, 2009, 45-68.
• “La punteggiatura nella lingua tedesca. Dall’Ottocento a oggi”, in B. Mortara Garavelli (ed.), Storia della punteggiatura in Europa, Roma, Laterza, 2008, 423-437.
• “Die deutsche Pluralbildung zwischen deskriptiver Angemessenheit und Sprachtheorie”, Zeitschrift für germanistische Linguistik 36.1, 2008, 74-108.
• “Constituent order in compounds and syntax: typology and diachrony”, Morphology 18.2, 2008, 117–141.
• “Mismatch: Grammar distortion and grammaticalization”, in M. José López-Couso et al. (eds.), Rethinking Grammaticalization. New perspectives, Amsterdam, Benjamins, 2008, 103-127.
• “Überlegungen zum deutschen Plural”, in C. Di Meola et al. (eds.), Perspektiven Zwei, Roma, Istituto Italiano di Studi Germanici, 2007, 65-84.
• “Is Analogy Economic?”, in F. Montermini et al. (eds.), Selected Proceedings of the 5th Décembrettes: Morphology in Toulouse, Cascadilla Press, Somerville, MA, 2007, 20-33.
• “Il Futur tedesco tra temporalità e modalità”, in L. Schena et al. (eds.), Il concetto di futurità nella codificazione linguistica, Milano, Egea, 2006, 183-201.
• “Hilfsverben und Grammatikalisierung: Die fatale Attraktion von geben”, in T. Leuschner et al. (eds.), Grammatikalisierung im Deutschen, Berlin, de Gruyter, 2005, 193-209.
• “Ersatzinfinitiv im Deutschen: Diachrone Überlegungen zu einem synchronen Rätsel”, in C. Di Meola et al. (eds.), Perspektiven Eins, Roma, Istituto Italiano di Studi Germanici, 2005, 149-165.
• “Exploring grammaticalization from below”, in W. Bisang et al. (eds.), What makes Grammaticalization? A Look from its Fringes and its Components, Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter, 2004, 45-75.
• "Umlaut extension in German modals as natural change", Diachronica 19.1, 2002, 1-41.
• "Striving for optimality: output-oriented models of language change", in K. Dziubalska-Kołaczyk (ed.), Constraints and Preferences, Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter, 2001, 101-141.
• "Wege des natürlichen Sprachwandels: Die germanischen Präterito-Präsentia", in A. Bittner et al. (eds.), Angemessene Strukturen: Systemorganisation in Phonologie, Morphologie und Syntax, Hildesheim, Olms, 2000, 207-222.
• "Gradienti di nominalizzazione dell'infinito tedesco: sincronia e diacronia", Archivio Glottologico Italiano 84.2, 1999, 173-206.
• "Italianismi in tedesco: per una dinamica dei processi di integrazione", in L. Agostiniani et al. (eds.), do-ra-qe pe-re. Studi in memoria di A. Quattordio Moreschini, Pisa, 1998, 189-199.
• "Stress and loan words in German", Rivista di Linguistica 10.2, 1998, 355-392.
• "Some Remarks on Analogy, Reanalysis and Grammaticalization", in A. Giacalone Ramat & P. J. Hopper (eds.), The limits of grammaticalization, Amsterdam, Benjamins, 1998, 89-105.
• "The Inflection vs. Derivation Dichotomy: the Case of German Infinitives", in B. Caron (ed.), Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Linguists, Oxford, Pergamon, 1997, Paper No. 0199.
• "Italian Loan Words in the Inflexional Noun System of Modern German", Folia Linguistica 29.3-4, 1995, 407-421.

Dissertation (Titel): La nominalizzazione deverbale: morfologia e semantica, Università di Roma Tre.

Promotionsjahr: 1998

Herausgebertätigkeit in Auswahl:

• Livio Gaeta (ed.), Le isole linguistiche tedescofone in Italia: situazione attuale e prospettive future (Workshop, Torino, 24 febbraio 2017), in Bollettino dell’Atlante Linguistico Italiano, III serie, 41, 2017 [2018], pp. 79-176
• Livio Gaeta & Barbara Schlücker (eds.), Das Deutsche als kompositionsfreudige Sprache: Strukturelle Eigenschaften und systembezogene Aspekte, Berlin & New York, Walter de Gruyter, 2012.
• Dagmar Bittner & Livio Gaeta (eds.), Kodierungstechniken im Wandel. Das Zusammenspiel von Analytik und Synthese im Gegenwartsdeutschen, Berlin & New York, Walter de Gruyter, 2010.
• Livio Gaeta & Maria Grossmann (eds.), Compounds between syntax and lexicon, special issue of Italian Journal of Linguistics / Rivista di Linguistica, 21.1, 2009.
• Claudio Di Meola, Livio Gaeta, Antonie Hornung & Lorenza Rega (eds.), Perspektiven Drei. Akten der dritten “Tagung Deutsche Sprachwissenschaft in Italien” (Rom, 14.-16.2.2006), Frankfurt/Main, Peter Lang, 2009.
• Claudio Di Meola, Livio Gaeta, Antonie Hornung & Lorenza Rega (eds.), Perspektiven Zwei. Akten der zweiten “Tagung Deutsche Sprachwissenschaft in Italien” (Rom, 9.-11.2.2006), Roma, Istituto Italiano di Studi Germanici, 2007.
• Roman Jakobson, Linguaggio infantile e afasia. Nuova edizione ampliata con introduzione di Livio Gaeta, Torino, Einaudi, 2006.
• Livio Gaeta & Silvia Luraghi (eds.), Introduzione alla linguistica cognitiva, Roma, Carocci, 2003.
• Mark Aronoff & Livio Gaeta (eds.), Special Issue on "Morphological productivity", Italian Journal of Linguistics 15.1, 2003.
• Pier Marco Bertinetto, Livio Gaeta, Georgi Jecev & David Michaels (eds.), Certamen Phonologicum III. Proceedings of the III Cortona Phonology Meeting (Cortona, 12-4.4.1996), Torino, Rosenberg & Sellier, 1997.

Verbindung mit wiss. Gesellschaften :

• Mitglied der Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE, Publishing Committee 2004-06, Executive Committee 2012-2015)
• Mitglied der Associazione Italiana di Germanistica (AIG)
• Mitglied der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS)

Weitere Angaben zu Forschungs-, Verwaltungs- und Lehrtätigkeiten:

• Drittmittelprojekte:
• PRIN 2020-23: CLiMAlp: Documenting and safeguarding linguistic minorities in the Alps
• PRIN 2017-20: ArchiWals: A digital archive of the Walser communities
• San-Paolo-Stiftung 2015-17: DiWals: A digital archive of the Walser linguistic heritage
• PRIN 2011-13: Deverbale Abstrakta und verbbildende Verfahren
• PRIN 2005-07: Komposition in einigen europäischen Sprachen

Stipendien: Alexander-von-Humboldt-Stipendium für Erfahrene Wissenschaflter (2009-2010)

Letzte Aktualisierung: Tue Sep 22 17:41:06 2020