Marianna Pozza

Marianna Pozza is an Associate Professor at the Department of Modern Literature and Culture, Sapienza University of Rome. She specializes in Indo-European and historical linguistics, with a focus on phonology, morphology, and cognitive linguistics. Her teaching includes General Linguistics, diachronic linguistics, and interlinguistic studies. She actively participates in international conferences and research projects on language contact and transmission in ancient Mediterranean contexts.

• PhD in Linguistics (University of Pisa, 2003)
• Laurea in Glottology (Sapienza University, 1998)
• National Scientific Qualification as Associate Professor (2018-2024)

Her research spans multiple domains: phonology of Indo-European consonants, case syncretism in Old Latin, cognitive approaches to Greek morphology, Hittite language irregularities, and sociolinguistic dynamics in the Aegean-Anatolian region. She has contributed to etymological studies through a cognitive linguistics framework and explored phonaesthemes as multimodal linguistic units.

Recent publications examine Hittite adjectival typology, etymological fragments related to death (*nek̑-, *mer-, *terh2-), and metaphorical extensions in ancient languages. Her work bridges theoretical linguistics with historical analysis, emphasizing cultural transmission through lexical lists and multilingual environments like Achaemenid Sardis.