Emanuele Banfi

Emanuele Banfi is a Full Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Milan-Bicocca's Faculty of Education, where he founded the Degree Course in Intercultural Communication (2001-2005). His career includes roles as a researcher and professor at the University of Trento (1970-1999) and leadership as Dean (1995-1998). He specializes in Indo-European, Greek, Latin, Chinese, and Japanese linguistics.

• Education: Classics degree (University of Milan, 1970); diplomas in Arabic, Russian, Chinese, and Japanese linguistics
• Research: Comparative historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, language acquisition, and typological analysis of European, Ural-Altaic, and Sino-Tibetan languages

His work spans diglossia, bilingualism, and the evolution of linguistic systems, with a focus on Italian, Greek, and Balkan languages. He has collaborated with institutions in Berlin, Paris, New York, and Tokyo.

Notable awards include election to the Academia Ambrosiana (2011) and leadership roles in the Italian Linguistic Society and CIPL.