Giovanni Piantanida

Giovanni Piantanida is an Assistant Professor and Research Collaborator at the Chair of Italian Linguistics, University of Basel, since August 2025. He previously worked as a doctoral student (2020–2024) on a Swiss National Science Foundation-funded project and as a Research Fellow at Ca' Foscari University of Milan (2024–2025) on the DIA project (Dictionary of Academic Italian). His research focuses on textual linguistics, pragmatics, and the clarity of Italian texts in institutional contexts.

• Bachelor's degree in Literature, University of Milan
• Master's degree in Theoretical, Applied, and Modern Language Linguistics, University of Pavia

His expertise spans legal/administrative language, punctuation in contemporary Italian, and linguistic diversity in the Italian peninsula. He collaborates with the Seminar für Italianistik, contributing to doctoral programs and joint courses in Italian literature and linguistics.