Researcher in Sub-Project 7
Contact
University of Innsbruck
Department for Classical Philology and Neo-Latin Studies
room 06E010 (6th floor)
Innrain 52a (Ágnes-Heller-Haus)
A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
email: veronica.papotti@uibk.ac.at
Biography
July 2000: born in Cremona (Italy)
2014-2019: High School diploma (100/100), Liceo Classico “G. Romani” Casalmaggiore (IT)
2019-2022: Bachelor in Humanities (110/110), University of Bologna (IT)
Program in Classics
Dissertation title: Montale, la musica, la poetica: “l’ingenua pretesa di imitare”. (English title: “Montale, Music, and Poetics: ‘the naïve attempt at imitation’”)
Supervisor: Professor S. Colangelo (University of Bologna)
2022-2024: two-year Master in Italian tradition, European perspectives (cum laude), University of Bologna (IT)
Program in Italian studies
Dissertation title: Una lingua in due tempi: il latino e la latinitas di Andrea Zanzotto, Fernando Bandini, e Antonella Anedda. (English title: One language in two times: Latin and Latinitas in Andrea Zanzotto, Fernando Bandini, and Antonella Anedda)
Supervisor: Professor Stefano Colangelo (University of Bologna), Professor Giovanbattista Galdi (Ghent University)
September 2023 – January 2024: Exchange program Erasmus+ at Ghent University (BE)
December 2025 – May 2025: post-graduate stay at Ghent University (BE)
May 2025 – February 2026: Pre-Doctoral researcher in Latin Linguistics at Ghent University (BE) (advisor: Professor Giovanbattista Galdi). Research project: Between characters and spectators: a linguistic analysis of accommodating interaction in Plautus and Terence.
March 2026 – present: Research associate in the project Kanones of Neo-Latin Texts (PI: Florian Schaffenrath), part of the FWF research initiative Neo-Latin in the Modern Word.
Scientific contributions and engagement
- 2025: member of ΔiaLing – Diachronic and Diatopic Linguistics – Ghent University (BE)
Advanced research training
- July 2025: Summer School in “Methods in Language Sciences”. Ghent University (BE).
- September 2025: 3rd Digital Ancient Near Eastern Studies Conference; Bytes and Bygones – Digital and Computational Analyses of Ancient Cultures.
- October 2025: MAXQDA. Doctoral Course organised by Science Academy.
- January 2026: Bayesian Statistics. Doctoral Course organised by Science Academy.
Research Interests
- Latin linguistics
- Historical sociolinguistics
- Archaic Roman comedy
- Neo-Latin
- Canon formation
- Book history
- Literary traditions
Publications
Conference proceedings
- De-syntagma and its irregular occurrence: the partitive and motion complement in theLex Salica. SUBMITTED. (23rd International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics (ICLL 2025)).
Talks
- April 2025: North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics. 2025 Research Incubator (online). Language and society in ancient comedy: sociolinguistic perspectives on conversational strategies (Pseudolus 574-594, 1246-1270; Adelphoe 88-97).
- May 2025: SIFR, Società Italiana di Filologia Romanza. Lo studio filologico e letterario di un testo oggi: Metodologie e casi di studio,Cagliari (IT). Reframing Plautine comedy through the lens of modern theories: metaphors as adaptive speech.
- May 2025: ΔiaLing – Diachronic and Diatopic Linguistics – Research group in Ghent University (BE). De-syntagma and its irregular occurrence: the partitive and motion complement in the Lex Salica.
- June 2025: 23rd International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics, Udine (IT). De-syntagma and its irregular occurrence: the partitive and motion complement in the Lex Salica.
- January 2026: OIKOS research group Language of Literature – The biennial OIKOS Greek and Latin linguistics conference. Performing Language: interactional strategies in Latin comedy.
- June 2026: Colloque Biennal du Centre Alfred Ernout, Sorbonne Université (FR). Social positioning through personal deixis in Plautus and Terence: comparative insights. – ACCEPTED
- September 2026: 7th International Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change Conference, University of Salzburg (AT). Deixis in Interaction: Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Social Hierarchy in Early Latin Comedy. – ACCEPTED
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