Università Roma Tre

Typology, Universals and the Brain: Foundations of linguistic typology, with special reference to morphological and syntactic typology. Typology and Universals. Biological conditions for language.

Diachronic linguistics: history of comparative linguistics, comparative method, indo-europeistic reconstruction (phonetics, morphology), comparison between genetic, areal and typological classification; linguistic change (at different levels), its motivations and diffusion.