Giuseppe Longobardi

Giuseppe Longobardi is an Anniversary Professor at the Department of Language and Linguistic Science, Vanbrugh College, University of York. He serves as Coordinator of the International Research Centre for Linguistic History and Diversity, established in collaboration with the Universities of Campinas, Pennsylvania, and Reggio Emilia. Additionally, he is affiliated with the joint linguistics PhD program of the Università ‘La Sapienza’-Terza Università in Rome.

• Previous Positions: Professor of Glottologia e Linguistica at Università di Trieste (1997-2017), Professor of Glottologia at Università di Venezia (1994-1997), Associate Professor of Linguistica Generale at Università di Venezia (1987-1994), Assistant Professor at Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa (1981-1987).
• Visiting Roles: Visiting Professor at UCLA (2003), CNRS Paris (2003), Harvard University (1997-1998), University of Southern California (1994), Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Wien (1988).

Longobardi’s research spans historical linguistics, phylogenetic syntax, gene-language correlations, and theoretical syntax/semantics. He developed the Parametric Comparison Method for phylogenetic reconstruction of language families and applied it to paleo-anthropological questions linking linguistic and genetic diversity.

Scientific Awards:

• Principal Investigator of the ERC Advanced Grant 295733 LanGeLin (2012-2018).
• Directeur de recherche étranger at CNRS Paris.
• Gastprofessor at Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Wien.
• Fulbright Fellow at UCLA (1994-1995).
• NATO-CNR Visiting Scholar at MIT.

He was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 2022. His work bridges linguistics, genetics, and anthropology, focusing on grammatical variability and syntactic dependencies.