Alfonsina Buoniconto

Alfonsina Buoniconto is a Researcher in the Department of Humanities at the University of Salerno, Italy. Her academic work primarily focuses on linguistic typology, motion events encoding, and educational linguistics. She maintains regular reception hours on Wednesdays from 12:00-14:00 at the Fisciano Campus, Building D3, Third Floor, Room 015.

Dr. Buoniconto's research interests center around linguistic typology, particularly the encoding of motion events in Romance languages. Her work investigates the continuum between verb-framed and satellite-framed languages, with special attention to boundary-crossing events and covert encoding strategies. Her research employs corpus-based methods, diachronic analysis, and cognitive linguistics frameworks to examine how languages express motion phenomena. She has developed the Modeg (Motion Decoding Grid) annotation tool for motion event analysis and has conducted comparative studies between English and Italian, as well as Ancient Greek and Latin.

Her recent publications reveal a strong focus on motion events encoding across Romance languages, with particular attention to Italian. The research shows consistent patterns in how Romance languages handle boundary-crossing events, often displaying hybrid characteristics between verb-framed and satellite-framed typologies. Her work also extends to educational applications, particularly in teaching linguistic cohesion to improve reading comprehension among secondary school students.

Dr. Buoniconto has collaborated with researchers across Italy on educational projects like LeCo (Leggere e Comprendere), which focuses on enhancing reading and text comprehension skills for high school students in Salerno and Avellino provinces. Her research bridges theoretical linguistics with practical educational applications.