Paolo Milizia

Paolo Milizia serves as Full Professor of Glottology and Linguistics at the Department of Asia, Africa and the Mediterranean of the University of Naples "L'Orientale" since July 15, 2024. Previously, he held positions as Associate Professor at the same institution (2020-2024), Assistant Professor at the University of Naples "Federico II" (2018-2020), and Assistant Professor at the University of Cassino (2008-2018).

His educational background includes a PhD in "Glottology and Philology" from the University of Milan (2003), a degree in Literature with honors from the University of Rome "La Sapienza" (1998), and a postgraduate course at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (2004-2005). He obtained National Scientific Qualifications for both first and second bands in the competitive sector 10/G1 "Glottology and Linguistics" in 2017 and 2014 respectively.

Milizia's research focuses on Indo-European linguistics with particular emphasis on Old and Middle Iranian, Old, Middle, and Modern Indo-Aryan, Greek, Coptic linguistics, and Italo-Romance dialectology. His scholarly work addresses complex issues in etymology, diachronic phonology and morphology, and the history of writing systems, as well as general morphological theory and the history of linguistic thought. His recent publications demonstrate a sustained interest in morphological complexity, language contact phenomena, and historical reconstruction across diverse linguistic traditions.

His current research output shows strong continuity with his long-standing interests in Indo-European linguistics while expanding into computational approaches and cross-linguistic comparisons, particularly evident in his recent work on Coptic morphology, Sanskrit metrics, and Ancient Greek reduplication patterns. The publications reflect methodological diversity spanning historical-comparative, typological, and computational approaches.

• National Scientific Qualification for first band in sector 10/G1 "Glottology and Linguistics" (2017)
• National Scientific Qualification for second band in sector 10/G1 "Glottology and Linguistics" (2014)

Milizia actively supervises undergraduate and master's theses at the University of Naples "L'Orientale" and has served as doctoral thesis supervisor since 2013. He participates in several major research projects including PRIN 2022 PNRR "The beginning of the Armenian, Syriac, and Arabic grammatical traditions and the classical Greek grammar," PRIN 2020 "Metalinguistic texts as a privileged data source for the knowledge of ancient languages," and PRIN 2017 "Ancient languages and writing systems in contact: a touchstone of linguistic change." He also serves as a reviewer for journals including the "Journal of Historical Linguistics" and the "Atti del Sodalizio Glottologico Milanese."

He is a member of the scientific committee of the journal «Storia, antropologia e scienze del linguaggio» and participates in academic community building through conference organization, including the Language Documentation Summer School 2023. His teaching encompasses General Linguistics, Glottology, and Coptic language across multiple degree programs at the University of Naples "L'Orientale."