Bianca Basciano

Bianca Basciano is an Associate Professor at the Department of Asian and North African Studies, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, where she has held the Director's Delegate for Research role since 2023. Her work focuses on Chinese linguistics, particularly Mandarin morphology, syntax, and second language acquisition.

• Research Areas: Chinese compounding, reduplication, causative constructions, resultative compounds, and language teaching methodologies.
• Teaching: Offers BA/MA courses in Chinese language and linguistics at Ca' Foscari University.
• Editorial Roles: Member of the editorial boards for Sinica Venetiana and Lingue e Linguaggio.

Research Projects: Principal investigator for the PRIN 2020 project on Italian learners' acquisition of Chinese resultative verbs, with extensive corpus-based analysis. Collaborates with Giorgio Arcodia and other international scholars.

• Key Themes: Event structure delimitation, Vendlerian verb classes, micro-parametric syntactic variation.
• Publications: Over 40 works including monographs with Oxford University Press and Bologna University Press.

Her methodological approach combines theoretical linguistics with corpus analysis, contributing to the understanding of Chinese as both a linguistic system and a second language acquisition challenge. She has also organized international conferences like the 31st IACL Annual Meeting.