Short bio

– 1980-87 Studies in Romance and Germanic Languages,
U Zurich, Trieste, Bielefeld;
— PhD 1992 U Zurich
— assistant then deputy Prof. and 'professore a contratto' in U Zurich, U Basel and U Bergamo
– research grant 1995-99, Swiss national Foundation
— 1999 Habilitation U Basel
— 2000-0 full Prof. U Saarland
— since 2004 full Prof. of Linguistics (L-LIN/01), Free University of Bozen
— guest prof.: Middlebury (USA), Mannheim, "Michel Clyne-Chair" Munich (LMU), Göttingen, Erlangen, Regensburg
— Rector 2004-08 and Director Language Study Unit 2004-16
– Editor VOX ROMANICA (2001-2016), since 2017 President of the Curatorium
– Editor of LiLi (2001-17)

Research interests: sociolinguistics, language contact, code-switching,  language acquisition, neurobiology of multilingualism, conversational analysis
 

Main Research Areas

Languages and multilingualism in South Tyrol

- textual competences
- multilingualism in elderly
- language biographies
https://www.unibz.it/de/home/research/competence-centre-language-studies/
 

Info

more thna 200 publications,
for the total list see  plattform BORIS at unibz