Tenured full professors | Germanic Linguistics
Birgit Alber
Courses
Comparative Grammar of German and Italian
12415C · L-LIN/14 · 5 year master degree in Primary Education - German section · DE
German Linguistics
12405A · L-LIN/14 · 5 year master degree in Primary Education - German section · DE
German Linguistics (Lab.)
12405B · L-LIN/14 · 5 year master degree in Primary Education - German section · DE
Language and media comunication
17327 · L-LIN/14 · Bachelor in Communication Sciences and Culture · DE
Main Research Areas
- the phonology of German and its varieties
- description and analysis of the Germanic varieties of Northern Italy (Tyrolean, Mòcheno and Cimbrian), compared to their Romance contact varieties
- theoretical phonology in the framework of Optimality Theory (the analysis of linguistic typologies)
- analysis of the stress patterns of the world's languages
- prosodic morphology (the typology of truncation)
- description and analysis of the Germanic varieties of Northern Italy (Tyrolean, Mòcheno and Cimbrian), compared to their Romance contact varieties
- theoretical phonology in the framework of Optimality Theory (the analysis of linguistic typologies)
- analysis of the stress patterns of the world's languages
- prosodic morphology (the typology of truncation)