Carlotta Viti

Prof. Carlotta Viti received her Ph.D. in Linguistics at the University of Pisa (Italy) in June 2003 and her Habilitation in Comparative Indo-European Linguistics at the University of Zurich (Switzerland) in January 2013. She had research and teaching appointments in different Universities of Europe and of Asia, especially in Italy, Germany, Switzerland, France, India and Turkey. Her main research interests are based on historical linguistics; Indo-European linguistics (especially Latin, Greek and Indo-Iranian); general linguistics; comparative syntax and syntactic theory; comparative semantics and semantic theory; pragmatics, information structure, discourse analysis and corpus linguistics; linguistic contact and multilingualism (especially contact between Indo-European and Semitic in the Middle East, contact between Indo-European and Turkic languages in Anatolia and Central Asia, and contact between Indo-European and Dravidian in South Asia, and contact on the Silk Road); translation studies; ancient grammarians of Greco-Roman and Indian traditions; philosophy of language; modern linguistic theories (especially functionalism); linguistic typology (with particular attention to Arabic, Turkish and Tamil); linguistic history of Alexandria and Byzantium.

Monographs

• (2015) Variation und Wandel in der Syntax der alten indogermanischen Sprachen, Tübingen, Narr (written in German, 530 pages), published with the contribution of the Swiss National Science Foundation for support of scientific research.
• (2007) Strategies of subordination in Vedic, Milan, Angeli (written in English, 302 pages).
Papers

• (2021) « The colors of the Atharvaveda, with some comments on Atharvanic language and style », Journal Asiatique 309: 57-91.
• (2018) « Syntax and semantics of modal predicates in Indo-European », Transactions of the Philological Society 116: 257-281.
• (2017) « Semantic and cognitive factors of argument marking in the ancient Indo-European languages », Diachronica 34: 368-419.
• (2016) « Areal distribution of argument marking of Indo-European experience predicates », Journal of Indo-European Studies 44: 1-84.
• (2016) « The morphosyntax of experience predicates in Tocharian », Cahiers de Linguistique - Asie Orientale 45: 26-70.
• (2015) « Reconstructing Proto-Indo-European accent paradigms », Journal of Indo-European Studies 43: 1-40.
• (2015) « On degrammaticalization: controversial points and possible explanations », Folia Linguistica 49: 381-419.
• (2014) « Reconstructing syntactic variation in Proto-Indo-European », Indo-European Linguistics 2: 73-111.
• (2010) « The meanings of coordination in the early IE languages », Revue de Sémantique et Pragmatique 24: 35-64.
• (2009) « Anaphorische und reflexive Strukturen im Altgriechischen und im Lateinischen », Indogermanische Forschungen 114: 143-172.
• (2009) « Pragmatic implications of head and dependent marking », Folia Linguistica 43: 463-485.
• (2008) « From space words to transitive markers: the case of Ancient Greek en ‘in’ », Transactions of the Philological Society 106: 375-413.
• (2008) « Rheme before theme in the noun phrase: a case study from Ancient Greek », Studies in Language 32: 894-915.
• (2008) « The phylogenesis of hypotaxis in Vedic », Diachronica 25: 386-409.
• (2008) « Coding spatial relations in Homeric Greek: preverbs vs. prepositions », Historische Sprachforschung 121: 114-161.
• (2008) « Genitive word order in Ancient Greek: a functional analysis of word order freedom in the noun phrase », Glotta 84: 203-238.
• (2006) « AND in the Early Indo-European languages », Archivio Glottologico Italiano 91: 129-165.