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. Currently, Carlotta Viti is Full Professor at the Research Center for History and Culture of Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai Campus, China.

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); 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.

Research

• Research project on Tamil poetry
• Grant of the German Academic Exchange Service for a research stay at the University of Jena
• start-up fund of the University of Zurich
• Grant of the “Zürcher Universitätverein” for the organization of a conference
• Grant of the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences for the organization of a conference