Vincenzo Faraoni

Vincenzo Faraoni is an Associate Professor at the Department of Modern Literature and Culture, Sapienza University of Rome. His academic work focuses on phonetics, morphology, etymology, dialectology, and sociolinguistics, particularly within Italo-Romance vernaculars and Romanesco dialects.

• Research Interests: Phonetics, Morphology, Etymology, Italo-Romance dialects, Mixed languages, Language of politics
• Academic Appointments: Rita Levi Montalcini Researcher (2017-2020), Junior Fellow of Scuola Superiore di Studi Avanzati (since 2022)

Faraoni co-directs the Atlante grammaticale della lingua italiana delle Origini (AGLIO) project and collaborates on the Grammatica storica del dialetto capitolino project with Zurich researchers. His recent publications explore Italo-Romance linguistic phenomena, including gender distinctions, plural formations, and semantic shifts in Roman dialects.

• 2025: Analysis of indefinite article gender distinctions in Italo-Romance
• 2023: Studies on phonosyntactic doubling and allocutive constructions in Roman dialect
• 2020: Etymological and phonetic analysis of Romanesco vocabulary

His teaching includes advanced courses in Italian Dialectology, Historical Grammar of Italian, and Italian Linguistics for graduate programs. He also oversees special exam procedures for master's students requiring linguistic prerequisites.