formerly L-LIN/01 Glottology and Linguistics

Theoretical, historical, experimental, and typological studies of language and languages; historical linguistics, with reference to theories, problems of linguistic change, and methodologies of description, comparison, and reconstruction, as well as the history of linguistic thought. The field includes the study of phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, lexicon, and pragmatics of natural historical languages and dialects, including applications in medical, clinical, and forensic contexts.
It also encompasses the study of the relationships between languages, ethnicity, and society—such as dialectological, geolinguistic, sociolinguistic, and ethnolinguistic issues—as well as questions related to multilingualism, language contact, identity, and language policies.
Further areas of focus include computational models of natural language, the construction and analysis of corpora of written, spoken, and signed language, research on language disorders, and cognitive, neurolinguistic, and psycholinguistic studies, including those related to language education.
The field also covers linguistic and translanguaging studies applied to Italian Sign Language and its literature; linguistic and philological research on the languages of ancient Italy, Illyria, and Celtic-speaking regions, with particular attention to epigraphic documentation; and studies of the Baltic languages.
All of these areas of research make use of resources, methods, and technologies, as well as digital platforms and environments, for the collection, analysis, processing, and dissemination of linguistic data.