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The intersection between syntax, semantics, and morphology; lexical semantics and conceptualization; lexical categories, especially nouns and the linguistic encapsulation of mental ontology; number and countability; the grammatical and mental representation of proper names; Distributed Morphology and the status of word roots; Irish morphosyntax.
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Modern and contemporary culture, with a particular focus on 20th- and 21st-century Italian literature, theory of the novel, literary stylistics, history and theory of cinema and the cultural exchange between writers and film directors.
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Gender and genre; Italian women's writing, especially nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction (and its critical reception both in Italy and beyond); autobiographical writing; feminist, literary and psychoanalytical theory; the theatre of Luigi Pirandello.
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13th to 17th century Italian literature, history and society; Renaissance and early modern Italian theatre, with a special focus on commedia dell'arte; the social function of theatre; Italian dialectology; the history of the Italian language; translation of dialects.
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Early-modern Italian literature, language and culture, in both Neo-Latin and the vernacular; relationship between literature and visual arts; relationship between literature and religion; Renaissance and Baroque Rome; chivalric and epic poetry; women's writing and the "querelle des femmes"; ethics and conduct literature; art of memory; history of theatre; Renaissance debate on language and grammar; eighteenth-century satirical writings.
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