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CLIEO
- Center for theoretical and historical Linguistics: Italian, European and
Oriental languages
The Center is based on the confluence into a single research and higher education entity of different institutions
previously active in Florence in the field of Linguistics: University structures
(Department of Italian
Studies; Department of Middle
Age and Renaissance Studies; Department of
Linguistics; Inter-Universitary Center for the Geolinguistic Study of
Proverbs), the Accademia
della Crusca, the Opera del Vocabolario Italiano - Italian Dictionary (OVI, a CNR Institute), and the
Institute of Legal
Information Theory and Techniques (ITTIG, a CNR Institute). Florence, more than any other Italian city, can rely today on a concentration of institutes, workshops and
research entities specifically devoted to linguistic research. The richness of Florentine linguistic research represents a specificity of
this University, strongly connected with the historical and cultural events of a
city that for centuries had the pivotal role of linguistic capital in a politically fragmented and dispersed
nation.
The
project of the Center has been endorsed by Italian
and International Institutions and researchers.
The Center actively promotes theoretical historical and descriptive linguistic research concerning Italian, Italian
dialects, other European languages and Oriental languages both through studies devoted to single languages or to groups of related
languages. These studies may have as their object different languages and linguistic
groups, wide-ranging grammatical and lexical phenomena considered both diachronically and
synchronically, linguistic theories of present and past. Attention
is also devoted to the applications of these researches, which have a potentially high relevance not only in the field of
education, but also for various productive sectors, including
publishing, communication and the industry of language teaching.
Concerning
education, the Center's activity ia at the level of Doctorate, post-Doctorate and other tipologies of advanced
studies. Such activity is strongly related to the Doctoral
School in Linguistics of the University of Florence. The structure also organizes and cures higher
education courses and several national and international projects
involving young researchers through research fellowships.
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